Stories from Thursday, June 11, 2015

A former northwest Iowa teacher and Buena Vista County juvenile court officer may not have to stand trial for a suspected 2008 sex offense as long he meets a series of probation requirements. Trent Prather was charged with third-degree sexual abuse in June 2014 after Storm Lake Police learned that he may have engaged in a sex act with a 14-year-old juvenile female...

April 20, 1936 -- June 5, 2015 Sharon Ann Hruby, the daughter of Mildred (Groves) and Leo Parks, was born April 20, 1936, in Marshall, Minnesota. Her family moved to the Lakes Area in 1937 where Sharon was raised and educated. After completing high school, Sharon graduated from the University of Iowa...

Feb. 14, 1943 - June 5, 2015 A funeral service for Ronnie Heerde, of Milford was held Friday, June 12, 2015, at Turner Jenness Funeral Home in Milford. Burial was at Northlawn Cemetery in Spencer. Ronald Dean Heerde, the son of Earnedine (Schroeder) and Willie Heerde, was born Feb. ...

Nov. 23, 1925 -- June 1, 2015 A Mass of Christian Burial for Lorraine Jungers was held Saturday, June 13, 2015, at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Milford. Interment was at Milford Cemetery in Milford. Lorraine Helen Jungers, previously Lorraine Brandt, 89, of Denver and formerly of Milford, passed away June 1, 2015. ...

Sept. 17, 1913 -- May 11, 2015 Anna B. Marr, age 101, died on May 11, 2015, at the Cuyuna Regional Care Center in Crosby, Minnesota. She was born Sept. 17, 1913 in Luverne, Minnesota to Otto and May (Sankey) Ramus. Anna married Henry A. Marr March 28, 1937, in Des Moines...

Aug. 21, 1931 -- June 7, 2015 A memorial service for Alyce Nielson, of Spirit Lake, formerly of Storm Lake, was held Friday, June 12, at Turner Jenness Funeral Home in Spirit Lake. Visitation will begin at 2:30 p.m. until the time of the service at the funeral home...

Spirit Lake-Okoboji sent a pair of doubles teams to the 2015 State Coed Tennis Tournament, as Hailey Johnson, Will Fuelberth, Ryan Petievich and Tully Reed competed with the best teams the state had to offer. In the first round of competition, the team of Johnson and Fuelberth defeated Cedar Rapids Xavier's Katie Newmeyer and Jon Lansing in straight sets (6-2, 6-3), but Petievich and Reed were knocked out of competition with their loss to Clear Lake's Gretchen Jones and Sam Jones (6-0, 6-2)...

After taking a 7-0 lead through six and a half innings in a road match with MOC-Floyd Valley on Tuesday, June 9, the Spirit Lake baseball team held off a late Dutch rally to win 7-3. The Indians got things started by scoring four runs in the top half of the second...

After opening to a 1-1 ball game against visiting Sioux Central on Tuesday, June 9, the Okoboji baseball team exploded for 12 runs over the next three innings to seal a 13-1 victory over the Rebels. The Pioneers pushed five across in the bottom of the second, one in the third and six in the fourth before holding on for the win in five innings...

A late scoring flurry by visiting West Lyon was enough to push the Wildcats past host Okoboji in a Siouxland Conference softball clash on Tuesday, June 9, in Milford. Earlier in the night, the Pioneers exploded in an 11-run victory over Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire, but their bats went silent in the second leg of the doubleheader, as Okoboji lost to West Lyon 6-2...