Truro Area News
I did receive sad news on Friday evening a week before Christmas. I learned that Marret Edwards had passed away suddenly. Marret and his wife, Pat, lived in Truro for many years. Marret had worked for Reeds before going out on his own selling storage bins. Several years ago they moved to Osceola. Our deepest sympathy goes to Pat, his wife, and to his four children. The funeral was held at the Osceola Methodist Church on Wednesday, Dec. 23. Memorials may be given to the Truro Public Library or the Osceola Methodist Church.
On Christmas Eve around 3 p.m. the electricity went off in Truro and surrounding area. I, like other families, was trying to cook in preparation for the Christmas dinner. I had just gotten home from work and was just getting started making pies when wham, the lights went out. Now I had to go to plan B. I lit A LOT of candles and proceeded to wrap more Christmas presents. The electricity was off around two hours and I never found what caused the outage.
Once again Iowa was hit with a snow and ice storm but this time on Christmas Eve. I felt so badly for the people who were traveling to try to get home for Christmas with the weather conditions we were having. We had a daughter traveling to Oklahoma from Colorado and the weather was just awful for her, too. Thankfully she reached her destination safely on Christmas Day.
I don’t know about anyone else but our Christmas was very different this year and, of course, the weather had a big part in it. This year we had Christmas in our daughter and her husband’s, Nancy & Todd Hagan, new home. We had a great time but a few people were absent from the festivities. Todd’s folks, Robert & Jeanette Hagan, who live in Des Moines, were unable to attend and also our oldest daughter and husband, Christy & Mark and Colby, also couldn’t make it. Todd’s grandmother was ill and in the hospital and Todd was at work and had been since 3 a.m. so it was just me and Dean, Nancy and Connor, Nicholas and Lauren. It was quite a bit different than most Christmas dinners in the past. We did have a wonderful time and it was quite a job getting food and presents into the house from the pickup because of snow drifts but we made it and it was nice to be warm and dry again and we all sat down and enjoyed a delicious meal. Lauren, our 9 year-old granddaughter, was anxious to open gifts. Todd did come home while we were still there so we were glad he could take part in some of the festivities of the day.
Special thanks to all the county and state guys and our own city personnel who were out on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day clearing our roadways and making them as safe as they could for the rest of us to travel. They were taken away from their families during Christmas, too, and I just want them all to know that we appreciated all their labor and sacrifices.
The home formerly owned by the late Ward & Nellie (Porter) Parker was jumping once again with Porters’ celebrating Christmas Eve in it. Chad & Jenny Porter and children Seth, Sadie, Wade & Wyatt had Christmas Eve with Chad’s parent, Steve & Elaine Porter and his sister and husband, Jennifer & Jimmy Tibben, and sons Noah, Jonah & Micah. It gave me a warm feeling to know that the house wasn’t empty for the holidays and once again either a Parker or a Porter family filled the house with love, warmth and laughter for Christmas.
Dean Parker visited with Ralph and Betty Vasey outside of Winterset on Friday in their new home. The Vasey’s formerly lived north of Peru on a farm for many years and are now living on acreage. Dean said their new home was very nice and Betty & Ralph invited me to stop in to see their new home.
The Truro Fire & Rescue Department and their Association will hold a potluck banquet for all members at the Truro Lion’s Hall on Jan. 9.
A spaghetti fundraiser will be on Feb. 7 at the Truro Lion’s Hall. It will be sponsored by the Truro Fire & Rescue Association. More information as to times next week.
The first City Council meeting of the year will be held on Monday, Jan. 4, at 7 p.m. (weather permitting).
The first computer class of the year will be held on the second Tuesday of January. These are classes the I-35 Communication Systems are sponsoring and are free to all their patrons. The class starts at 7 p.m. at the telephone office. Let’s hope the weather will cooperate!
The Madison-Warren Ecumenical Association is planning a breakfast on Saturday, Jan. 23, at the St. Charles Parish and a soup supper at the Peru United Methodist Church on Friday, Feb. 19.
The children from I-35 are out on Christmas break and with all this snow are out with sleds so please be careful as you are driving around town.
With the holidays falling on the days they did and everyone being so busy, I really didn’t have much news so I hope you don’t mind hearing about our family Christmas festivities. I’m looking forward to hearing from others what they did this past Christmas especially with all the bad weather we had.
