New Year

 

Zoom Link to Bonnie Froseth's Memorial Service this afternoon at 5:30

 Here is a Zoom link to Bonnie's Memorial Service this afternoon. Just click on it and it should take you right there. It will be available when the service starts.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89657925898?pwd=Vkswak13cVZwMEdQTUQrT0dHbzQzdz09

 

Bonnie Froseth

 Bonnie Froseth, 90, received her angel wings on December 26, 2021 surrounded by her family. 

Bonnie was born October 24, 1931 in Pipestone, MN to Ann Knutson.  She grew up in Pipestone, the oldest of five children, and graduate from Pipestone High School.

Bonnie married Arden L. Froseth on June 12, 1951 in Pipestone, MN.  They farmed near Garretson for thirteen years.  The couple moved to Brandon, SD in 1964.  Bonnie resided in Brandon until 2016.  While in Brandon, she drove #4 school bus for twenty-three years.

Bonnie was a loving mother.  She was a doting matriarch of her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Bonnie loved to play games with her close friends and family.  She was a card shark, always winning and always lucky! Bonnie and Ardy were avid dancers and danced every week.

Bonnie and Ardy enjoyed twenty-six winters in McAllen, TX. There they made many lifelong friends.  They were married fifty-three years before Ardy passed away in 2004. She is preceded in death by her mother, Ann; husband, Ardy; sisters, Barbara, Jackie, and Vicky; and brother, Dean.

The words often used to describe Bonnie are genuine, loving, and caring.  She was the Best Grandma Ever! She was loved by many.

Bonnie is survived by her four children: Terry Froseth, Brandon, SD; LuAnn (Mike) Willman, Ames, IA; Judy (Robert) Woodbridge, Sioux Falls, SD; and Jason (Misty) Froseth, Hot Springs, SD.  She is also survived by five grandchildren: JoEllen, Josh, Ashley, Timothy, and Sierra; and eight great-grandchildren: Kayne, Tyler, James, Trevor, Berkley, Evan, Noah, Zoey, and one on the way.  She will be greatly missed by her friends at Royal Oak and her special friend, Fred.

A visitation memorial service will take place at Heritage Funeral Home on Thursday, December 30, 2021, from 4:00- 6:30 p.m. with a prayer service to begin at 5:30 p.m. 

If you would like to sent Terry a card his address here in Weslaco is: 

Terry Froseth

629 Trinidad

Weslaco TX 78596

 

 

Bits of our former life

 I was cleaning out some old papers I had acquired from the time we were in Magnolia Park. One of which I had been looking for; remember S.C.A.N.? It was proposed that whenever a new idea came up that it needed to be SCANned before making the presentation to the membership. It was great because it saved so much time at the monthly meetings. 

Here is the checklist. First off, approach your idea with your friends to find out the 4 questions below. The more people backing your idea the more likely it will be met with approval.

1. Need or Want?

2. Cost?

3. Affect?

4. Support?

And then propose the SCAN to the general membership by sharing your findings

S-Support

C-Cost

A-Affect

N-Need

It still works! If all these areas are thought out and addressed it is likely to make it through with a positive vote in almost any situation. 

Now, this may seem like a strange thing to post however, I did think that our scattered Magnolia folk could possibly use this method in the new situations they find themselves in.

Throughout my life when I have met with resistance to an idea I always find a way around it. I was explaining this to my son and he said it sounded like our family motto should be 'No Simply Means a Detour". I agree! In fact, if I have a gravestone it should be on it.

And on a lighter note, I found a poem I used one time at Magnolia.

Trashy

Trash must be carried out,

After each hall event,

So odors and rodents,

Don't pay us rent.

Trash cans abound in Allen Hall,

3 of them big, one of them small.

Fill up the small one first if you will,

Then each of the big ones in turn gets the swill.

When everyone leaves and you're 

Last in the hall,

Take the refuse with you,

Cuz that's a good call.

We Thank you, We Thank you,

For this service rendered,

Couldn't think of a good line

To have this thing ended!

Christmas Greetings

 Donna Stevens sends Christmas Greetings to the Magnolia Family and I have heard from Deral Rogers who is spending Christmas in Nebraska with family. It is always good to hear from former Magnolia residents.

We will be eating Christmas dinner in the main hall here in Trails End along with most everyone else in the park. The Magnolia Group is once again sitting together at two different tables which can seat 12 each. There will be a couple others at each table who are not from Magnolia and that is good because it gives us more of a chance to meet and chat with people we may not know well yet.

The stores are crowded and the shelves are getting empty or so it seems. We are only a block away from a Neighborhood Walmart which is incredibly handy as we can walk up there.

If you haven't read Barb's blog they have purchased a Park Model over at Trophy Gardens and are looking forward to something different for the next season. It seems our minds have been traveling in the same direction as Barb & Butch and Jim & I are just about the same age and it is getting to be a chore to drag our 5th wheel down and back. We don't use it in the summer so it just sits there waiting to come back down here. We have been looking at mobiles here in Trails End and finally found one we both like so we too have purchased something here in the park and will be selling the RV and pickup after we get back home. Like Barb and Butch we will not take possession until after the current owner returns home and home to her is Nova Scotia Canada. Our site rent was paid up front when we arrived and it would seem mean to tell her we wanted possession now. We will stay right here for the rest of this season and already are looking forward to next year.

As far as I know, I think most of the Magnolia crowd over here are doing okay although we certainly are all getting older.  We have a few who will arrive after the holidays and we wish them safe travels.

From our house to yours we wish you a very Merry Christmas. Stay safe and enjoy this very special time of the year!

Good News

 I heard from Elaine Misfelt today and she told me that LeRoy's valve replacement went very well and he was home from the hospital the next day. He can't drive or lift more than 10 pounds for four weeks. Modern medicine is certainly wonderful and we wish LeRoy a speedy and uneventful recovery.

We were over at Home Depot here in Weslaco this morning and we ran into Ray and Lil Droogsma as well as Dick and Leslie Cleaveland. They haven't been down here very long, in fact Ray and Lil flew and they said their car was arriving shortly. Apparently someone is driving it down. Both Ray and Lil have had covid even though they are fully vaccinated and they were quite sick. I wonder what the outcome would have been if they had not been vaccinated. It is certainly something to think about.

It has been terribly hot and humid down here for a while now but a cold front will arrive tomorrow which will make things much more comfortable, at least for a while. Back home "up north" there is a huge snow storm but I looked ahead and it said Wednesday it will be 61 degrees. That seems a bit hard to believe especially if there is a lot of snow on the ground which makes it harder to warm up. Time will tell.

Hope all is well with everyone and if you have news to share, please let me know

More news from Misfelts

 I had a note from Elaine Misfelt today telling me that LeRoy is going to get a new Aorta Valve on Tuesday, December 7. This is a fairly new procedure in that they go through the groin and set the new valve inside the old one. He should be home the next day and the procedure is called TAVR.

Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers for a full and speedy recovery for LeRoy. Modern medicine has come such a long way just from a few years ago when the whole process would have been done much differently.