100 Years Ago: 1923 One of the large Hallowe’en parties will be held in Heth’s dancing academy, Lisbon street, on Monday evening, when the Abbott Brothers have the annual party. Elma W Abbott is chairman of the committee in charge, and the affair promises to be unusually pleasant. There will be a number of charming […]
Judy Maureen Willard, daughter of Irvin and Evelyn Niemoth, was born October 18, 1941, in Grand Island, NE. She passed from this life into eternity with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, on August 23, 2022. After graduating from Falkner High School in Chicago, IL, and working for Social Security, she went north to Oak Hills Christian Training School in Bemidji, MN where she earned an associate’s degree in Biblical Studies. She met the love of her life, Kenneth Willard, at Oak Hills. They married on July 25, 1962, and settled back in Chicago where she became a mother and homemaker. Family became her life. They raised their own 4 children and her young siblings after losing her parents in a car accident in 1968. In 1972 the family moved back north to Solway, MN, where they farmed near Kenneth’s family. Judy became a farmer’s wife and became active in gardening, canning, freezing, and in the leadership of the activities of their children, such as PTA, 4-H, VBS, and Pioneer Girls Cl