SMALL WORLD

By Nancy Karnes

This spring I was at my grandson’s baseball game at Osceola High School. They were playing in a tournament in Osceola against SVHS and Elmwood. I got to visit with the bus driver from SVHS and he told me Helen Holerud had knee surgery but would drive again in the fall, etc.

I was sitting near my grandson’s girlfriend, whose name is Amber Hogen. I said I had ridden one of the SVHS buses, etc. and she said, “My Grandpa was from Spring Valley.” I did not connect “Hogen” at first and then a light came on. Her father’s name is Al Hogen. So I asked her all the questions…Bev, Mary, sisters, etc. and the answer was yes to all. So Al Hogen, Sr. was her Grandpa!

So I gave my old yearbooks to her and she took them home to her dad. They enjoyed that and kept them to share with Al’s widow this summer. Al Sr. had written in it, too. What a small world!!