2022 July18 St Thomas News

Fr. Roger Hessian will be having masses at St. Thomas over the summer. The Dates are as follows:
All SATURDAY MASSES AT 5:00 pm on July 23rd and August 13th.

St. Anne’s Catholic Church in Le Sueur will have masses with Father Chris Shofner: Saturdays at 5:15p. m. and Sundays at 8 a. m. and 10:30 a. m.

Happy 52nd wedding anniversary on the 17th to Gary and Kathy Hoen Dauk of Cleveland.. The wedding was at Sacred Heart Church in Waseca and Kathy’s sweet little sisters were in the wedding. How things change over 52 years.

Wedding Bells will be heard once again in Derrynane Township! Jim Walker asked Margaret Drentlaw for her hand in Holy Matrimony, and she accepted! The wedding will be celebrated on September 10 in St Thomas! Congratulations to a great couple.

Le Sueur High classmate Dan Meyer died peacefully on July1, 2022, in Tulsa, OK. He was 73. A native of Le Sueur, MN, he graduated with this writer in 1967 from Le Sueur High School and in 1978 from Mankato State University. Dan honorably served his country in the United States Army in Vietnam. After a stint in Michigan, he spent his remaining years in Tulsa where his children were born and raised. Sympathies to Dan’s family including his sister Ellie and Joe Doherty from St Thomas. Dan was preceded in death by his parents Clair “Bunny” and Rosamond Meyer.


Phyllis Pelowski grew up on the Lexington side of St Thomas and attended country school at the Halloran School. In recent years her friendly smile and personality could be found in her old home church, the Lexington church on the Pioneer Power Showgrounds. Phyllis managed the church during the Pioneer Power Show for many years. A kind, gentle, friendly soul, she was laid to rest in the St Joseph’s Cemetery in Lexington



Lucas Graham and Julia Scheffler were married Saturday July 16 at the farmplace occupied for many years by Lucas’s great grandparents Ralph and Mildred Burns Graham. Julia’s parents are Rachel and Joe Scheffler and Lucas is Becky Beauchaine and Danny and Tammy Graham’s lad. A huge tent in the yard had room for all the guests, great food and music. Brought back memories of 1966 when Danny’s aunt Kathleen Nye celebrated her wedding at the farm.


Greetings to Libby Libby Libby Sasse Boesl an old Emma Krumbees Apple Orchard workmate.

Keep praying for rain.