This aerial photo from the 1960s was taken by Willard Waltner, is looking to the north and features the St. Paul Lutheran church not long after it was built. The property in the lower left corner was home to Dr. Irvin Kaufman and is currently occupied by the Mike and Emily Andersen family. The original wing of the Freeman Hospital is partially shown on the far left, with Sixth Street running across the top third of the image. The building identified by the No. 2 was Pine Hill Printery, the Palace Bowl is behind it and Freeman's baseball field is at the very top.  

Mrs. Doris De Hoogh, age 89, of Orange City, Iowa, passed away on Saturday, April 15, 2023, at the Orange City Area Health System, surrounded by loved ones. A funeral service was scheduled for Tuesday, April 25 at the First Reformed Church in Orange City, with the Rev. Mark Haverdink and the Rev. Timothy Breen officiating. Interment followed in the West Lawn Cemetery in Orange City.

Students at Freeman Academy examine a sapling being shown by kindergarten instructor Lynnelle Hofer during a special visit from members of Freeman's branch of Tree City USA Friday morning, April 21. The classroom visit by Lance Edwards, Charly Waltner, Micah Graber and Mark Harberts, who all have an association with ecology in the Freeman community, was designed to inform the children about the importance of trees and the management of trees in conjunction with Arbor Day, which will be observed next Friday, April 28.

Those wondering if that antique clock or that rare tool or that obscure lamp fixture that’s been sitting in their attic is worth anything will have the opportunity to find out when an Antique Road Show comes to the Big Red Barn on the Pioneer Acres grounds on the north side of Menno next week Sunday, April 30. The event will be free and open to the public and will begin at 2 p.m. the final Sunday of the month. Those wishing to have items examined and assessed by a panel of experts may start lining up at 1:30 p.m.

How do you measure a life well lived? Is it by service in the military before marriage and the 14 months he spent on a Navy ship in World War II without once setting food on land? Or what about all those quilts she made years later, first for their three children and then for their eight grandchildren, sometimes staying up until 1 a.m. threading the needle, long after he had gone to bed?

Nora Miriam Aisenbrey, age 103 of Menno, S.D., passed away Thursday, April 13, 2023 at the Menno-Olivet Care Center. A funeral was held Wednesday, April 19 at Peace Christian Reformed Church, Menno, with Rev. Ryan VanderWees officiating, with burial in the Menno Cemetery.

Dorothy Jane Miller, daughter of Lydia (Bender) and Simon J. Miller, was born March 11, 1931 in Gulfport, Miss. She grew up in Gulfport graduating from Lyman High School in 1950. She attended one year of college in Goshen, Ind. She held various jobs around Gulfport after college. Unsure of what she wanted to do she decided to volunteer with MCC. She chose to go to Brooklane Farm in Hagerstown, Md. While there she met Robert Thomas who was also a volunteer. They were married on Dec. 14, 1956.

This was the view of the Merchants State Bank front entrance from The Courier office Thursday morning, as a wet morning turned from rain to snow. The cold, windy and wet weather was expected and prompted Freeman Public to cancel its Flyer Invitational scheduled to begin today at 1 p.m.

Because of the wet, windy and cool weather, the Flyer Invitational scheduled for Thursday, April 20 has been canceled.

A group of golfers gets ready to tee off from the fifth hole at Valley View Golf Course north of Freeman on Wednesday. The Cornbelt Conference junior high meet it is town and is expected to continue through much of the afternoon. Freeman Public is along the teams taking part.