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A private family service for Leona G. Wacker Holmes will be held on Saturday, June 17, 2023, with inurnment at Pleasant View Cemetery in Hartley.

Leona Gertrude Wacker Holmes, daughter of Charles and Sadie (Philiph) Centner, was born April 8, 1921, near Melvin. She was baptized and confirmed at St. John’s Lutheran Church in May City. She spent her youth in the Melvin vicinity where she received her early education, graduating from Melvin High School with the Class of 1938.

Leona was united in marriage to Wilbur Wacker on March 30, 1941, at Ocheyedan. To this union two children were born:...