Dan Bechtold/Winner Advocate Photo The Winner High School class of 1975 held its 46th reunion at homecoming. Pictured in front from left are Karen (Calhoon) Long, Omaha, Neb.; Connie (Ulmer) Blazina, Ottumwa, Iowa; Barb (Bartels) Olson, Platte; Cindy (Mayes) Peterson, Winner. Second row from left are Kathy (Jensen) Klein, Mission; Linda (Soles) Brunmeier, Winner; Brenda (Tuttle) Ernst, Hamill; Shirley (Dice) Bingen, Ideal; Nancy Turgeon, Winner; Susan (Wiley) Engel, Hamill; Zenda (Strain) Haase, Valentine, Neb. In back from left are Russ McCormick, Mitchell; Roger Burkinshaw, White Lake; Lorin Dobbin, Reliance; Jeff Walton, Harlan, Iowa; Darnell (Ducheneaux) Swanson, Clearfield; Ken Engel, Hamill; Jim Flynn, Clearfield; Jeff Kirksey, Seattle, Wash. Not pictured are Rob Curtis, Allen Schwandt, Georgianne Bear, Chris Novotny, Jerry Paulson.
Submitted Photo The Winner High School Class of 1986 held their 35th reunion at homecoming. Pictured in front from left are Mel Williams, Winner; Chris Phillips, Chamberlain and James Mathis, Winner. Two of the men in front are holding pictures of classmates who died Randy Condon and James Schmit. Second row from left are Lana (Pajl) Stickland, Winner; Todd Pravecek, Winner; Toni Vavra, Cheyenne, Wyo.; Jill (Giessinger) Langer, Gettysburg; Jane (Mechaley) Moser, Winner; Marty Pederson, Winner and Jean (Brown) Clark, Winner. In back from left are Amy (Steppat) Meinen, Gregory; Troy Best, Ideal; Ben Risseeuw, Plankinton; Laura (Schramm) Goodhope, Sioux Falls; Sam Goodhope, Sioux Falls; Wayne Hopkins, Arlington; Jason Jares, Pierre and Dr. Tom Covey, Winner.
Dan Bechtold/Winner Advocate Photo The sophomore class won the prize for best use of parade theme in the Winner High School homecoming parade on Friday. The parade theme was Disney.
Submitted photo The 1971-72 Wood basketball team held its 50th reunion Sept. 18. Pictured in front from left are Tom Kauer, Jeff Hanson, Casey Bridgeman, Tom Toman and John Koskan. In back from left are Rob Koskan, Wade Tucker, Bill Gardner, Scott Gardner, Bob Gardner, Jack Arthur and Roger Bridgeman.
Tripp County had one new confirmed
positive case of COVID-19 on Monday.
There are 26 active cases in the
county.
Statewide, there were 287 new cases on
Monday with 96 probable.
Recently, the S.D. Department of Health
reported 10 South Dakotans have died due to COVID-19. That is the most virus
deaths reported in a single day since February.
The number of statewide active cases
has remained steady at 7,700.
New COVID-19 hospitalizations also
remain steady and there are currently 184 persons hospitalized with the virus.
South Dakota’s death toll stands at
2,125.
South Dakotans have increasingly sought
to get vaccinated against COVID-19. In the past month, 29,000 people have
gotten an initial vaccine shot.
About 51 percent of the state’s
population is fully vaccinated
A booster shot from Pfizer has been
approved and will be available to persons over the age of 65 and high risk
groups in the state.
Approval is still waiting for the
Moderna and Johnson and Johnson booster shot.
Services for Joyce Hermsen, 95, of Norfolk,
Neb., will be at Immaculata Monastery in
Norfolk, NE. The Rev. Allan Stetz O.S.B. officiated for the funeral Mass at
Immaculata Monastery in Norfolk on Saturday, Sept. 25 at 11 a.m. Graveside services were Monday, Sept. 27 at
11 a.m. at the Colome Cemetery. A luncheon followed at St. Isadore’s Catholic
Church basement, in Colome.
Joyce died on Sept. 22, 2021, at Faith Regional Services in Norfolk, NE. Brockhaus-Howser-Filmer Funeral Home in Norfolk is in charge of arrangements.
Joyce was born in Colome, S.D. on July 26,
1926, to Leon and Hilda (Stockman) Rehberg. She passed to eternity on Sept. 22,
2021, in Norfolk, NE.
Joyce graduated from Colome High School in 1943 and was married to
Albert Hermsen Jr. the same year. Joyce and Al made their home in Winner, S.D.
and had three children, Garry (deceased as an infant), Gayle (Sister Kevin) of
Norfolk and Gregory of Seattle.
Joyce was known as a great cook and
meticulous housekeeper. She and Al traveled extensively during their marriage,
visiting several countries in Europe and Asia. Al died in 1997 and Joyce
continued to live in Winner until 2014 when she moved to the Meadows senior
living facility in Norfolk, NE. She enjoyed having Sister Kevin closer and Greg
visited often from Seattle.
She is preceded in death by her husband Al;
infant Garry; her parents; and her two sisters, Shirley Mitchell and Mary
Olson. Joyce’s mother Hilda died while Joyce and her sisters were still small
children. They were raised by their maternal aunt, Clara Dedlow and her husband
Ed on a farm near Colome. Their cousin Earlean Dedlow was a special “big
sister” to them.
She is survived by her daughter, Sister
Kevin of Norfolk; her son, Greg of Seattle, WA; two granddaughters, Marissa Hermsen
of Seattle and Monica (John) Wisniewski of Bellingham, WA; three
great-grandsons, Elijah, Ashton, and Ezren Wisniewski.
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