Word: agnese
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The speaker is a retired furniture dealer, not a preacher or philosopher. As chairman of the Kossuth County Hospital in Algona, Iowa, he is welcoming some 700 townspeople to a cookie-and-punch open house at the just-completed John and Agnes Dreesman Memorial Addition.
Occasional disputes divide the town. The argument about widening Highway 169 from two to four lanes where it passes through the business district sputtered on for 25 years. The staunchest supporter of the status quo was John Dreesman, millionaire farmer, a director of the Interstate Bank and a former city...
For the Dreesmans, as for most farm families whose children scatter, the Christmas holidays meant a time of reunion. So it was that on Dec. 30, 1987, Agnes Dreesman, a superb cook and flower arranger who frequently contributed culinary and horticultural creations to church and garden-club benefits, readied their...
When the family sat down to begin the midday meal, however, Robert was missing. Agnes left his plate warming in the kitchen. Two hours later, police found the family's bullet-riddled bodies still seated around the food-laden table. There was so much blood it had seeped into the...
"This kind of tragedy crashes into our world without warning, a cruel uninvited guest," sermonized Father Hartz at the memorial service for Marilyn and her children. (A Lutheran service was held for John, Agnes and Robert.) "We can neither anticipate it before the fact, nor understand it after the fact...