A Orlando 'Lonnie' & Grace Stovern Story

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Lonnie Stovern (O.B.) was very active in sports: foothall, baskethall, basebaH, always interested in Hunting and Fishing. When they returned to New Effington in 1926 he and his father owned a hatchery and meat market. Lonnie has worked as a butcher for Red OwI in Huron, S. D. and Madison , Mn. This is where Lonnie married his sweetheart Grace Katherine Fuller on October 12, 1929 at the Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa. Their first daughter was born Katherine Helen Stovern. She passed away right after birth. Their second child, Lonnetta Jean was born on March 26, 1936.

In 1940 they moved to St. Paul and Lonnie became a Postal railroad clerk on the railroad. In 1946 they moved to Willmar and he held a part-time position as a butcher and baseball Umpire. Grace passed away April 19,1962 in Willmar, Mn. She is buried in Rosholt S.D. On September 1964 he married Hildi Hydean in Willmar. He retired from the mail service on July 30,1970.

During his retirement he drove school bus for 13 years. Lonnie got involved in trap shooting so he and Hildi did a lot of traveling in the U.S. He was named the Veterans Champion at the Grand American in Vandalia, Ohio in 1971. Lonnie was named to the Trap Shooters Hall of Fame recently.

They traveled to Norway in 1984 and met many Stovern relatives and visited the Stovern homestead but never were able to see any Dravland homesteads or relatives. Hildi passed away on September 14, 1997. Lonnie lives in Willmar in his Apartment and is in Good Health at 94. Still drives everyday!
Editors note: The Dravland Farm in Norway is now the Heggland Farm. Bernt Heggland was a brother to Kristen Dravland.

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