Parkers Prairie High School Class of 1967
Darwin Peterson
| Residing In | Broken Arrow, OK USA |
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| Spouse/Partner | Marilea |
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| Occupation? Still working? | Retired after 40 years with GE Healthcare |
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| Children | My daughter Carrie born in 1984. Married to Jacob Everidge, 2 boys. My son Travis born in 1981. More… |
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2024 JOINT PPHS CLASS REUNION: July 17, 2024
Dear PPHS 1966 and 1967 Classmates,
Here are the details for our 2024 joint Class Reunion.
Location: The Old Mill Bar and Grill - Urbank
When: Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Time: 4:00 Social Hour
5:30 Dinner – Cost $ 20.00 per person (including tax and tip)
- Buffet dinner includes salad bar, chicken and ham, scalloped potatoes, glazed carrots and bars.
- Each person will be responsible for his/her own drinks, including soft drinks, coffee and milk.
- Please RSVP by text or email to Gaynell at 218-639-9141 or agratajesak@gmail.com or to Phyllis at 763-228-4226 or phyllishertel@gmail.com
- Payment for dinner must be received by Wednesday, July 8, 2024, so the Old Mill has an accurate number. Please send payment to Phyllis by Venmo (Phyllis Hertel or @Phyllis-Freudenberg) or by check to Gaynell Ratajesak at 123 S Clayborn Ave., Parkers Prairie, MN 56361.
Please pass this information on to any classmates without email. We’re still missing a few. Hope to see you there.
Gaynell and Phyllis
Posted on: Dec 10, 2023 at 8:46 PM
MESSAGE from Bruce Boehne 12-10-2023, Maggie had heart attack earlier today. She went to the hospital and was in the ICU unit. She passed away this evening. I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
Posted on: Feb 24, 2023 at 3:14 PM
Message from Maggie:
Hello, everyone! After much consideration and conversation with people involved with this Class of 66 & 67 reunion, it was decided to continue with the yearly event and at the same place as the last few years. So mark your calendar for 7/26/23 Double Eagle Golf and Grill 31886 Co Rd 3 Eagle bend MN. Cocktails at 4 Dinner at 5 Buffet chicken,ham all the trimmings,salad bar desert & coffee. You are responsible for your alcohol drinks. Amout is 22.50 each same as last year?. RSVP VIA text or email Phyllis Hertel 763 228-4226 email phyllishertel@gmail or Maggie Thoennes 612 849 0589 or email m.thoennes@comcast.net by 7/7/2023 pmt need by 7/14/2023 mail to Phyllis Hertel 2460 119th Unit G Blaine MN 55449.. stay safe, everyone can't wait to see you
Hopefully, we will have a great turnout.
Posted on: Mar 08, 2022 at 3:33 AM
Posted on: Feb 06, 2022 at 5:35 PM
Sad news,
Shortly after his 73rd birthday, Robert Nelson passed away surrounded by his family on January 30, 2022, at Tri County Health Care in Wadena, MN.
Posted on: Dec 11, 2021 at 11:47 PM
Even at 72 I’m learning that you could fill a book with all the things you can’t learn from a book!
Posted on: Nov 15, 2021 at 11:40 PM
Time to repost my “Class of ‘67” song!
30 years ago at 7am on 9-11-1991 I was on a plane headed to Laredo Tx from Houston. We landed safely, but that was the last successful landing of that Continental Flight 2574. It just wasn't my time to go although it ended 14 other lives that fateful day.
Aerial photo of Parkers from bank calendar about 1970
Sharing this PDF from my siblings. The resolution from the scan isn’t the greatest but perhaps some remember the bank calendar from which it came.
From my brother Kim Boyce:
I was looking through some files this morning and came across a print of an aerial photo of Parkers, so I scanned it to a pdf. I believe it came from the front of a promotional calendar from the Parkers Bank. Perhaps you all have this photo. I had not remembered it was in my files.
From my brother Dale Boyce:
I think it was from the 1970 bank calendar. I have the cover but not the monthly date pages so I am not positive of the year. I had it on my dorm room wall at NDSU so it was prior to 1972.
The move( by Ned and Norma and all) from Effington to Horsehead was in June 1972.
Dan Boyce
709 8th St SE
East Grand Forks, MN 56721-2386
Home: 218-773-2672
Cell: 701-741-0665
dboyce@gra.midco.net
There is something that I wish we did more on this website. Please, let us share what we do in our spare time. I know several class members that have hobbies from gardens to building and restoration. I’ll start out by showing a buggy that I dug out of the weeds behind our farm back in the ‘80’s. I bought the spokes from the Amish. The oak wood was purchased for $100 from Dan’s Dad Ned Boyce. The man that lived in a log cabin behind our farm visited our house in the buggy back in the ‘50’s. His name was Jason Allen.
I had a visit from our classmate Dave Krohnfeldt a week ago. He and Mary live in Canyon City, Co. He drove over on his BMW motorcycle and stayed a few days. We talked a lot about the “good old days in Minnesota. As you may remember, he moved with his family to Long Prairie when we were starting our tenth grade. What a good time we had!
Posted on: Dec 28, 2020 at 2:40 PM
Hope all is well thought you would like to know Tom Terfehr mother passed attached is obit Elaine C. Terfehr, age 97, of Urbank died peacefully surrounded by family on Friday, December 25, 2020 at the Alomere Health in Alexandria.
Elaine Cecelia was born on July 22, 1923 to Jeremiah and Mathilda (Weiler) Sullivan in Lisbon, North Dakota. She was the youngest of seven children. She was baptized and confirmed at St. Aloysius Church in Lisbon. She attended the country elementary school just over a mile from the family farm north of Lisbon. Most days she walked to and from school. She attended and graduated from Lisbon High School. During those years she stayed with her Grandmother Weiler in Lisbon because the farm was 6 miles from Lisbon and there was no bus service in those days. She continued her education at the business school in Fargo, North Dakota. Following graduation, she worked as a teller and accountant at The National Bank of Wahpeton, North Dakota.
Elaine lived the simple life of a farm girl during the depression years. She was given a lamb to raise each year then sold and the proceeds used to buy school clothes. She was given a milk pail on her 7th birthday and thereafter assumed duties milking the family dairy cows. She never had a bicycle but had fun riding with her friends who did. Oyster stew was a Christmas food tradition in their Irish household. She remembered her Dad as a kind man who often helped someone in need including boarding some folks at the farm for a time. She once said, “there were some real characters that stayed with us.”
During the five years she worked at the bank she had an active social life including being a member of a bowling league. During that time, she visited her sister who lived in Urbank. On one of those visits she met her future husband Bill Terfehr. Elaine and Bill were married in Lisbon on May 24, 1948. They took over the family farm in Urbank and raised seven children there. During those years she was the host for many family gatherings. She was a great cook. There were also trips to North Dakota to visit her Sullivan family – she enjoyed those very much. She was a life-long parishioner at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Elaine was active in the Christian Mothers organization and prepared her well known chicken recipe for the fall bazaar each year. She worked at various jobs after she and Bill stopped farming including Knute Nelson Senior Living in Alexandria for 26 years. She retired at age 80.
During retirement Elaine enjoyed a variety of leisure activities. She loved old time and country music, playing bingo, and watching the Urbank Bombers and Minnesota Twins baseball with her good friend Caroline Bettin – known by some as the Go-Go Girls. She loved visits to Eagle Lake and pontoon rides on warm sunny summer days. She enjoyed dressing stylishly with complementary jewelry, of course. Her watch collection is renowned. Elaine enjoyed an occasional trip to the casino for a bit of entertainment, dressed well of course. All who knew Elaine remember her bright smile, warm personality, feistiness, and her hugs – wonderful warm hugs.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Bill Terfehr; daughter, Bernadine (Raymond) Schmidt; and son, Jerry Terfehr.
Elaine is survived by her son, Tom (Lisa) Terfehr; daughters, Mary Ann Nunes (Paul Mielke), Lavonne (Chuck) Braunschweig, Lorraine Hausmann and Rosalie (Mark) Hoium; daughter-in-law, Teresa Terfehr; 20 grandchildren and 19 great grandchildren.
Pallbearers are her eight grandchildren, Chad Braunschweig, Shayna Braunschweig, Kathy Hausmann, Tonya Karels, Bob Schmidt, Dawn Terfehr, Emily Terfehr and Jake Terfehr. Honorary pallbearers are her remaining grandchildren.
Our 15th class member passed. Paula Schultz. View the updated obituary.
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