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If you take two pictures a month of your child, when they leave home at 18, you will be able to send with them 432 photos of their growing years

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Photo of city park on a summer night showing the new lights for the square. photo by Peggy Vermillion

Memories continue to be made in Villisca - just simple memories - swimming at the pool, spending time in the city park, participating in school activities, Heritage Days. The quality of living in Villisca continues but at a cost.

If you have memories of days in Villisca, you are invited to help see that others have the same experiences by contributing to important projects.

For information about contributing to ongoing services of the Interchurch Council go to the Church Directory page
The Villisca All-School Graduate Book, which lists graduates from Villisca through the decades is available from City Hall for $3.00. It has been updated to include 2005 graduates.

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Preserving Memories

Gloria Gaither suggests saving memories in baby food jars. She suggests after you've cleaned the jars and removed the labels, you take the jars with you on a vacation or a day trip (I'd keep one or two in the glove compartment for those impromtu moments). If you go to the beach, put some sand in the jar; if you go to a pumpkin patch, bring home a pumpkin and put washed pumpkin seeds in the jar; if you go to the mountains, grab some dried leaves from the ground, crush them up and put them in the jar or perhaps you may want to preserve some fall colored leaves and put them in the jar; or you may just grab up some soil from where you are and put them in the jar - you'd be surprised by the variety of soil you would collect from different parts of the county. Paint the lids of the jars, label with where the content came from, tie some ribbon or raffia on the jar and create a display of your memory jars.

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Wedding Planning Tips

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Wednesday, March 01, 2006
"What One Person Can Do" - could also be headed - "What Can Happen in One Small Town When One Person Doesn't Leave". click here to go to Jack Schultz's BoomtownUSA blog and click on the "What One Person Can Do" on the right hand column

Order your Villisca
tee or sweatshirt

and support the V-Park Booster and the new playground equipment in the City Park.

Contact City Hall for prices and sizes available
712-826-2282
318 S. 3rd Ave.
Villisca 50864

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2006 Lars Enarson Family Reunion
There were around fifty-five people from all across the USA and from Canada in attendance
on what was a very meaningful day.

Pictured are those of the 4th generation descended from Lars Enarson attending the Lars Enarson Family Reunion:
(left to right)Elaine Enarson-Hering, Manitoba, Canada; Jane Thorson, Glenwood; Tom Enarson, Villisca; Merlyn Prentice, Arlington, VA; Elaine Gillespie, Iowa City; Richard Enarson, Corning;
Marcia Steffensen, Council Bluffs; Barbara McIntosh, Irwin; Judy Wagner, New Port Richey, FL;
Marcia Burgett, Plymouth, MN; Marta Novotny, Lincoln, NE

In 1862, Lars Enarson came from Tjronjhen, Norway to America. He moved west working for the railroad, and he and his wife, Ingeborg Hawkins Enarson came to Montgomery Co Iowa in 1869. They bought a farm five and one-half miles NE of Villisca and built a cabin there. His obituary states that there was only one house between there and Red Oak at the time.

Lars and Ingeborg had six children who grew to adulthood and all remained in the Villisca area until after their father's death. Their only daughter Martha, and sons, Ed, Louis, Henry, Martin and John. Son John later moved to New Mexico for health reasons.
In 1903, Lars and Ingeborg had moved from the farm and were living in the city of Villisca when Ingeborg died in 1911, Lars died four years later, in 1915.

Sunday, May 28, the Lars and Ingeborg Enarson descendents gathered at the Villisca Methodist Church for a potluck dinner, reminiscences and picture taking. The families of Ed, Louis, Martin and John were represented.

Following the dinner, the group traveled out to the site of the original homestead which is located on land now owned by Carol Peterson. They talked about how they lived as they stood in the pasture where the original cabin was before they built a larger house on the hill. The next stop was Arlington Cemetery where Lars and Ingeborg and many of their descendents are buried, for more time of reminiscing and picture taking.

There were around fifty-five people from all across the USA and from Canada in attendance on what was a very meaningful day.

 

 
Class of '48 Float in the 2005 Heritage Days Parade

 

 

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