Mark Reps tells a few of his favorite stories about growing up in Spring Valley.
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Chuck Healy was the youngest of six boys in a family of educators.
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Marlys and Marion played women’s fast pitch softball together.
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Corene Hamre and her twin sister were farm hands for the Masonic Farms in Iowa.
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Margie Peterson baked her first cake when she joined 4-H for a year and needed something for the fair.
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Elaine Horsmen started waitressing 39 years ago in the cafe she now owns.
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Herb Baker and Dean Potter made a quick decision about which branch of the military they wanted.
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Going to school in town was a big change for Marilyn.
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Larry Christenson loved playing fast pitch softball and played for 30 years with the Ostrander team.
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Maggie Ricabaugh was a seamstress and an accommodating mother when her son asked for a baby sister.
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Ernest and Carol Jean Meyer both tell the story of how they met.
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Bob and Maxine Jahn tell stories about motorcycles and fishing. Maxine doesn't like motorcycles much.
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Bill and Connie wanted to go to the prom, but Bill was stationed in Owatonna.
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Jerry and Marlene had lots of adventures together when he was in the service.
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Melvin Eickhoff was a mechanic in Germany during the war.
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Dale Wondrasch was drafted in the army in 1953 and served the VFW for more than 50 years.
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Marlys Reiland always made it to school, even when it snowed.
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Lamont Meyer asked to be put at the top of the list when he registered for the draft.
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Geneva Kidd has played the piano at weddings her whole life. She could write a book.
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Carol Westphal Daugherty was always a first grade teacher. Her SV upbringing set her up for success.
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