Northwest of Durham: Redger celebrates 75th years ago
Durham correspondent
This community received an abundance of rain on Wednesday and Thursday. The totals varied from about four to at least nine inches of rain. There appears to be a lot of erosion to the land and the newly planted wheat, as the rain came very hard at times.
Those that went to the wedding of Marcel Unruh and Wendy Classen at Settler, Alberta, Canada, last weekend have all returned this past week. Harry and Lela Wedel and Harvey and Madelene Jantz made the trip together. The Merlin Wiebes and the Harlan Koehns went by plane. Harry and Sheryle Rhodes, Mike and Michilene Rhodes, Wayne and Loralee Wiebe, and Ruthann Jantz went by van. Mitch and Carol Unruh and the Warren Unruh family also went. Jeff Ratzlaff drove up with Marcel and then returned with the Harry Rhodes. Harry reported that it was a good and beautiful trip of about 26 hours. It is beautiful cattle country with a lot of ranches and open spaces. While there they had their first snow fall, and they also encountered snow on the return trip at Casper, Wyo.
Melvin and Vera Dirks were Sunday dinner guests of the Bruce Dirks family.
Clayton and Betty Wiebe invited Dave and Chris Redger and family and Wayne and Loralee Wiebe to be their Friday evening supper guests.
Some from here attended the Wednesday memorial services for Mrs. Florene (Wenley) Bergman, 70, at the First Mennonite Church in Newton. She lived in the community many years ago.
Dora Unruh accompanied Doris Schmidt and Darlene Unruh on Thursday to attend the Kansas Friends of MCC meeting and South Hutchinson Mennonite Church.
Guests of Ken and Sandy Wiebe Sunday for supper were Wendell and Linda Wedel and the Doyle Wiebe family.
Sunday dinner guests in the home of the Richard Wiebes were Gerald and Eva Davis, Roy and Nadine Davis and family, Harold Davis, Troy and Marla Wiebe and family, and Dalton and Lorna Koehn. This was to help Eva celebrate her birthday.
Nelson and Bev Wiebe invited Troy and Marla Wiebe and family, Jerald and Rhonda Koehn and family, Ken and Shelly Giesbrecht and family to be their supper guests on Sunday.
Ron and Dora Unruh, Mark and Barb Unruh, Katelin and Sarah, Warren and Anita Unruh, Nathan and Kyle, Jim and Brenda Enns and Darren went to the home of the Lon Hieberts Sunday afternoon to surprise Deb Hiebert on her birthday which was Sunday. They enjoyed a lunch and birthday cake together.
Many went to the Durham Community Building Saturday afternoon to help Dallas Redger celebrate his 75th birthday. It was hosted by Kate, Judy, and David. Congratulations.
Sunday, Clayton and Betty Wiebe were dinner guests with others of the Dave Yosts family near Hesston.
Ken and Sandy Wiebe and Teresa attended the Schmidt reunion at the Sunflower School near Moundridge.
Palmer and Lucille Base visited the Butterfield family on Monday evening. They went especially to welcome their new baby boy, who was born on Tuesday.
Going to the home of the Clayton Wiebes Sunday evening to be their supper guests were the Louis Rivera family and the Bruce Dirks family.
Tonya Kroeker and Kendra, Sage, and Katryn of Enid, Okla., came Thursday to spend the night with her aunt, Barb Unruh. Barb kept the girls Friday while Tonya met her husband, Brent, in Wichita, where they attended the Tabor alumni banquet that evening. On Saturday, the Mark Unruh family and the Kroekers attended the Tabor homecoming football game, where they met Barb's brother, Gordon and Elaine Stutzman, Chelsea, and friend of Buhl, Idaho. They all came to watch their son Chad play football. Another niece of Barb's, Shawn Stutzman, was a homecoming candidate. They all returned to their respective homes after the game.
