KAHS Class of 1975 (Kimball, Minnesota)

07/01/2025

Are you coming to our 50th Reunion on August 9? Did you receive an invitation? If not, please give me your email or cell # for a text! Or just use this one to RSVP by JULY 11 (the Prime Rib must be purchased a month ahead of time).

Thanks! We look forward to seeing everyone there!

06/09/2025

We have a plan! Hold the date!

Saturday, August 9
Prime rib dinner + beverages and hors d’oeuvres (veg option too)
$20 per person
Dinner at 5 p.m., with class photo just before that; gathering both before and after dinner
Spouses invited!
And former teachers too!
At the air-conditioned Schiefelbein Sales Arena (east of the Golf Club)

Rick and Cindy Schiefelbein have graciously offered to host our reunion!

This is during Kimball Days, with the parade in the morning, and Kids Zone in the early afternoon. The next scheduled Kimball Days event is usually the Street Dance in the evening.

We will need a head count one month from now (to order the prime rib). I’ll send more info soon for that. And I’ll work on a schedule for the day as well.

We’ll only have ONE 50th class reunion, so let’s do this!

Jean

Jean Doran Matua
cell = (320) 493-3333
jean@matua.com

KAHS CLASS OF '75: IF YOU DID NOT RECEIVE A SEPARATE EMAIL OR TEXT MESSAGE, PLEASE SEND ME YOUR EMAIL OR CELL # SO I CAN SEND YOU AN INVITATION! –JEAN

01/31/2025

What a delightful lunch we had today at SOB. 14 classmates got together to start talking about our 50th reunion this year. (That's about twice as many as showed up for our 40th class reunion!)

PLEASE INVITE YOUR CLASS OF '75 FRIENDS TO JOIN THIS GROUP! IT CAN BE A GREAT WAY TO COMMUNICATE BEFORE THE REUNION.

Here's what we're thinking:

• Hold our reunion during Kimball Days (August 4-9 – I'll verify this date before we lock anything in). Maybe Saturday afternoon, in-between the Kids' Zone at St. Anne's and the street dance in the evening. I'll make sure our reunion does not conflict with any Kimball Days activities. ;)

• I can arrange someone to give us a tour of the high school before we start our reunion. A lot has changed, including the Leo Wirth Gymnasium, a brand-new FACS (Home Ed) space, new secure offices, new library (and new library location), new cafetorium, a robotics room, the science classrooms finally got an update last summer (!), and there's no more Room 200.

• Rick Schiefelbein has invited us to have our reunion dinner at the Schiefelbein Sale Barn for a prime rib dinner catered by Keek's in Watkins. (yay!!) We may want to consider a vegetarian option as well. There was a suggestion of pot-luck desserts, or we could have dessert catered too – at 50 years, we're worth it! Besides the great food, we can stay and "chat" as long as we'd like!

• I gathered contact information from those who were there, and we'll want to get that info from everyone – especially those who may have dropped off the radar. (More on that another day.)

• We will commemorate those classmates who have passed, in some way at the reunion. We believe the count to be 12 from the Class of '75 who have died since graduation:
Joe Adolph
Steve Berscheid
Rick Gregory
Duane Kaskinen
Mary (Konz) Maida
Cynthia (Myllykangas) Arens
Don Nystrom
Terry Schmidt ??
Karen (Sheldon) Marquette
Theresa (Wagner) Schneider
Ray Webb
am I missing someone?

• We'd like to invite teachers and staff who are still around to join us. We just lost Larry Jensen and principal Lou Davis; but there are few left:
Bill Liedman
Kayo Aslagson
Audrey (Bruggers) Taatjes
Lorelle Jones
Patsy (Hall)
Pat Tekavec
Dan Arntsen
Jim Bruggers
Jan Leuer (maybe)
Lois Cobban (maybe)
Judy (Manderfeld) Seckinger (maybe)

–––> Jean (Doran) Matua, you can text me at (320) 493-3333

01/28/2025

HEY, CLASS OF '75! A few of us are getting together Thursday noon, Jan. 30, at Son of a Butcher in Kimball. It's time to start talking about what to do for our 50th reunion this year. If you're reading this, you're invited to join us!!

12/02/2022

Virgil Truenow's mom

Frances Truenow of Annandale died Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022, at Annandale Care Center. She was 92. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6, at Zion Lutheran Church in Annandale with Pastor Tyler LaGrave officiating. Burial will follow at Concordia Lutheran Cemetery in Fair Haven. Visit...

10/01/2022

Mary Konz Maida died Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, at her Little Canada, Minn., home, surrounded by her family. She was diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer in November 2020. Mary has donated her body to further research at the University of Minnesota as part of the Medical School's Anatomy Bequest prog...

09/24/2022

Sad to learn tonight that, earlier today, our friend Mary (Konz) Maida died this afternoon, in her sunroom at home, holding the hands of her two children. Here is a link to the CaringBridge post by her husband Thomas.

https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/marymaida/journal/view/id/632e59f1f33a09c62454c7ce

This is Thomas, Mary loved hearing your support over the last several years, just as much as she cherished the memories and moments that you shared with her. Sadly, Mary passed away today. We were in our sunroom with our kids Mike and Maddi. ...

06/22/2022

Steve Wills' wife

OBITUARY: Cindy Wills died Saturday, June 18, 2022, at her Fair Haven home. She was 59.

Memorial services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, July 23, at St. John's Lutheran Church in Kimball with Pastor David Milz officiating. Visitation will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday. Burial will follow in Fair Haven Cemetery. The service will be live-streamed on the Dingmann Funeral Care website.

https://www.tricountynews.com/articles/cindy-wills-59/

04/20/2022

Karen Marquette of South Haven died Monday, April 18, 2022, at St. Cloud Hospital. She was 65. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.mm. Monday, April 25, at St. John's Lutheran Church in Annandale with Pastor Alex Becker officiating. Burial will follow at Fair Haven Cemetery in Fair Haven. Visitati...

11/10/2021

10/30/2021

12/06/2020

Kevin Lang's mom.

OBITUARY: Alice "Allie Mae" Lang died Friday, Dec. 4, 2020, after a heart attack. She was 91.

Mass of Christian Burial will be at St. Michael's Church in St. Cloud at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 12. Visitation will be two hours before the service; masks and social distancing will be required. Burial will be in St. Anne's Cemetery in Kimball.

https://tricountynews.com/?p=58112&preview=true