Guess who?

Could it possibly be Dick and Leslie?

This guy visited our bird feeder tonight!

Mary Ann Wildeman's Obituary

MARY ANN WILDEMAN, January 26, 1931- May 15, 2014. After 83 years Jesus saw that our dear mother was growing tired and decided that it was time to take her home to be with her husband and heavenly family. She was a caring loving mother, grandmother and great grandmother who always put her family first. We will miss you so much and all the words of wisdom and lessons that you taught us. Beautiful memories of you will live forever in our hearts.
Mom was born at home in Round Lake MN to Herman and Marie Posorske.  She attended Round Lake public school and graduated in 1949. After school mom worked at an office supply store for a short time, and then at the A & W Root Beer stand; where she met the love of her life.
Mary Ann was united in marriage to Arthur Wildeman on September 2, 1951 at St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church in Worthington. After their marriage the couple farmed in Ransom Township. Later, after she had raised her children she worked for Sather’s candy company for 12 years.  
Mom and Dad enjoyed many things together such as bowling, square dancing, roller skating, fishing trips to Canada, gardening, and canning. For 20 years they had a second home in Texas where they met many new friends who they considered their second family. This is where they acquired their favorite board game, joker, which has been passed on to us kids and grandkids. Mom was also very active in her childrens’ lives bringing them to school and church activities.
  Mom was also a member of the Bigelow Auxiliary and the PTA.  She was a very dedicated wife, mother and grandmother. Her greatest joy in life was spending time with her husband, children and family. She was a former member of St. Matthew Lutheran Church and currently a member of the Solid Rock Assembly Church in Worthington
   Mary Ann is survived by her children, Jim (Rhonda) Wildeman, Olive Branch, MS; Jerry (Janet)  Wildeman, Sibley, IA; Debbie Kunkel, Little Canada; Lori (Doug) Nau, Worthington; Greg (Patti) Wildeman, Lake Park, IA; Paula (Denny) Engesser, Worthington and Scott Wildeman, Bigelow; 18 grandchildren, Marc, Brandon, Cody, Chris, Craig, Bradley, Tracy, Tim, Jenny, Kimberly, Kirsten, John, Eric, Jessica, Jimmy, Jason, Michael and  Britney; 14 great grandchildren;  and one sister, Myrna Bisch, Pipestone.
   She was preceded in death by husband, Arthur, on November 26, 2012, her parents, one brother and two sisters. 

Eula Henderson writes:

I have been thinking of you all since the 1st of April. The weather has been cool and wet. As you all know I had a  rough winter at Magnolia and when we got home I was immediately hospitalized with congestive heart failure and pneumonia so spent a week there, then transferred to a nursing home for rehab, then an apartment where I waited my turn for an assisted living bed so yesterday the family came and moved me again- this time I hope I don’t have to move again. Makes me realize I did the right thing selling my trailer because I sure couldn’t come down now.  Enjoy the news etc. and will always have fond memories of my Magnolia friends.
Eula

Bloody Mary Steak

Bloody Mary Steak
1 cup tomato juice
1/2 cup vodka
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1 tablespoon Worcestershire
2 teaspoons kosher salt
1 teaspoon prepared horseradish
1/4 teaspoon celery seed
1 beef flank steak (about 1 1/2 lbs.), fat trimmed
4 large red onions, cut crosswise into 3/4-in.-thick slices
In a bowl, whisk together tomato juice, vodka, lemon juice, Worcestershire, salt, horseradish, and celery seed. Add flank steak and red onions to marinade and chill at least 4 hours and up to 16 hours.
Prepare a hot charcoal or gas grill. Grill steak and onions, turning once and basting halfway through cooking, until onions are browned (6 to 8 minutes) and meat is done the way you like it, 10 to 12 minutes for medium-rare (cut to test). Makes 4 servings.

From Tuffy Wolfrom

Char has been very ill since they returned to Michigan. Low hemoglobin and other blood issues have been the problem. Things have now started to turn around for the better but they still need our love, support and prayers.

Mary Ann (Posorske) Wildeman Passed Away

Mary Ann (Posorske) Wildeman

Born: Mon., Jan. 26, 1931
Died: Thu., May 15, 2014
Visitation

5:00 PM to 7:00 PM, Mon., May. 19, 2014
Location: Dingmann Funeral Home (Worthington MN)

Funeral Service

10:30 AM Tue., May 20, 2014
Location: Solid Rock Assembly Church

CLAYTON JOHN HAHN Obituary

CLAYTON JOHN HAHN Clayton John Hahn of Donna, went home to be with the Lord on Wednesday, May 14, 2014 at Doctors Hospital at Renaissance in Edinburg. Clay was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado April 29, 1939. He received his education in Boon, Colorado. At age 15 he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served with a honorable discharge. Clay lived and worked as a dairy farmer and retired from Borden Milk Company in Lubbock, Texas.

After retirement, he enjoyed collecting coins and being a vendor in flea markets. In earlier years, he and his wife traveled as vendors in fairs and festivals. He was a wonderful grandfather and great-grandfather. He is survived by his wife, Pat Hahn of Donna, his daughter Lynn Rodes, Charlene Smith, Darlene Jones; sons, Tim Hahn and Larry Hahn. Also surviving him are 27 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren and many extended family and friends.

Memorial services will be held at First Baptist Church of Donna, 1009 Hester Ave. on Friday, May 16, 2014 at 11 a.m. Officiating the service will be Pastor Stacey Proctor. Funeral services are under the direction of Hawkins Funeral Home in Donna. Please sign the guest book at www.hawkinsfh.com 

You can also send condolences to:

Pat Hahn
Lot# 328 Cottonwood
3707 E. US HWY 83
Donna TX 78537

CLAYTON JOHN HAHN Clayton John Hahn of Donna, went home to be with the Lord on Wednesday, May 14, 2014 at Doctors Hospital at Renaissance in Edinburg. Clay was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado April 29, 1939. He received his education in Boon, Colorado. At age 15 he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served with a honorable discharge. Clay lived and worked as a dairy farmer and retired from Borden Milk Company in Lubbock, Texas. After retirement, he enjoyed collecting coins and being a vendor in flea markets. In earlier years, he and his wife traveled as vendors in fairs and festivals. He was a wonderful grandfather and great-grandfather. He is survived by his wife, Pat Hahn of Donna, his daughter Lynn Rodes, Charlene Smith, Darlene Jones; sons, Tim Hahn and Larry Hahn. Also surviving him are 27 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren and many extended family and friends. Memorial services will be held at First Baptist Church of Donna, 1009 Hester Ave. on Friday, May 16, 2014 at 11 a.m. Officiating the service will be Pastor Stacey Proctor. Funeral services are under the direction of Hawkins Funeral Home in Donna. Please sign the guest book at www.hawkinsfh.com Sign the guest book at www.themonitor.com/obituaries

Published in The Monitor on May 15, 2014

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For Mobile owners

There is more info about the tax increase on the Rio Valley Estates blog. You can check it out here:
http://donnasramblingsatrve.blogspot.com/

Clayton Hahn services

Services will be held Friday morning at 11:00AM in the Baptist Church of Donna Texas with Pastor Stacey officiating. A celebration of Clayton's life will be held in Magnolia Park next Fall. Date will be announced later.
Clayton's obituary will be posted as soon as it is available.

Clayton Hahn Passed

From Jan McIntyre:

Clayton Hahn passed away this morning May 14th at around 3 A.M.

From Kay Voss

  We were so pleased to have Betty and Dean Lewis stop and share a
meal with us today!  They were returning from a vacation in Colorado
and Utah.  Our girls were also home for the weekend, so we all had so
much fun visiting!
 Kay

Tax increase

The following letter was posted on Rio Valley Estates Blog. I am posting it because the info may be useful to Magnolia Park mobile owners also.
From Rio Valley Estates:

A note from John Norris Posted: 05 May 2014 07:19 PM PDT I have been gathering data on fair market value of Mobile Homes in Rio Valley Estates as you know. After talking to the Appraisal District and other I would like to make the following recommendation. We all use a Tax Consultant from McAllen who has been used in the past by a owner in Rio Valley Estates successfully. The firm is Wilkins and Co. Mr Wilkins will only represent Mobile Home Owner as a group where they are in one location. Because of the time remaining he request one person head up our group and provide him with the name and address of each person requesting him as their agent. His fee is 40% of the tax savings he can provide. Ex. If your tax for 2013 was 400 and the 2014 tax is 800. If he gets the tax reduced to 600 you would owe him $80.00. If he doesn't save you anything you don't owe anything. Once he has the name he will prepare all the forms required with data filled out and send them to each person at there home mailing address. He said he would not represent anyone who has filed a protest already, although if you have filed the protest he can provide a form to withdraw your protest and file a new one in the group. He stated that it was much easier to have all the protest together to allow him to use the same data to get the fair market value reduced.   I will act as the one who forwards all the names of Mobile owners who would like to pursue this approach. Any amount he gets the tax reduced will be for more than one year unless the tax district tries again next year, and with his 40% and our tax for the year we will be out the same money this year and less next year. I will not be paid anything as a referral fee, I will just act as a go between. If you would like to join in this group please contact me by email by next Monday May 12 in order to get the names to Mr Wilkins. If you know anyone who does not read this blog, please contact them to pass this information along. John Norris Lot 171 jdnorris811@att.net

Fairy Tale endings

I copied and pasted these picture into this post. I previewed it and it seemed okay but sometimes when I do it this way it does not work. Also if you rely on email to read the posts it may not work well and in that case you may want to try going to www.brooker3.blogspot.com and see what it looks like from there. If none of these things work, let me know and I will take it off. It is cute though.


Cinderella is divorced.

Snow-white has not been so lucky Little-Red-Riding-Hood hasn�t seen the Wolf since Sleeping Beauty is still asleep     The Little Mermaid has met a sad fate       Barbie celebrated her 50th Birthday, this year   Little Tweety is 60 years old   So is Superman Wonder Woman is menopausal As for Batman and Robin they�re living it up at the Nursing Home And Spider-Man is attached to different threads

Hello to all! from Kay V

  

I found a "new to me" use for the stack of t-shirts I brought at ropa!!!  Go to

 http://www.supernaturale.com/articles.html?id=70   

I am going to try this sometime this summer...should be no problem for me as I used to sew underwear all the time and might still have my patterns here somewhere.....I have the t-shirts all unpacked and stored by color in a cupboard.  Kay

From Marie Flood

I know you probably wont remember the Davis's. They owned the park a few years back. There are still some here who will remember them and I wanted to let those who did that Bill passed away at 9:15 this morning. For those of you who wish to send a card, Mary's address is P.O Box 8157, Weslaco, Tx 78597.  Thank you for posting this.  Marie Flood