Pleasant Prairie: Dec. 14, 2020

Ervin Longnecker celebrated his 102nd birthday Dec. 3. Birthday greeters at the farm were Cory and Tammy Longnecker and granddaughter Kinlee and Charlotte Koepplin, Merle and Sandy Longnecker and Eric and Lisa Longnecker and family. The afternoon found others including Dale and Diane Rosenberg and Todd and Karen Koepplin sharing a birthday toast at Hanson’s Bar and then a family supper at Merle and Sandy’s. Ervin also enjoyed phone calls from niece Marla Peters from Ketchikan, Alaska and his sister Lucille Saldivar from Anaheim, Calif.

One afternoon Margie Anderson stopped in at the Ryan and Laura Hager home to get acquainted with new great-grandson Jamison Allen.

Wednesday found Charlotte Koepplin and Candy Jensen in Devils Lake where Charlotte got good news following an eye appointment. The gals did a little shopping and enjoyed a McDonald’s treat on the ride home.

Ervin Longnecker and Dale Rosenberg helped Bill Zeigler Saturday pick up Santa and Mrs. Claus in his horse-drawn buggy and took them to the Rockford Theater where they met many as all celebrated Santa Day in New Rockford.

Charlotte Koepplin checked out the sausage-making Saturday at the Martin and Janelle Koepplin home. Got there just in time to do some sampling. Pretty good stuff.

Margie Anderson enjoyed recent phone chats with Marry Ellen Turcott of Minneapolis and granddaughter Joanna Larson of Bremerton, Wash. All are doing fine.

Cory Jorgenson enjoyed a cup of coffee and a morning chat at the Ervin Longnecker home Monday.