08/11/2026
August 8, 2026–Another successful Newell Historical Society cemetery walk!!!
I would like to thank the following people for all their work! Without them the cemetery walk doesn’t happen!!
First, a huge THANK YOU to Denise Bond, Alicia Bohlke and Marty Olsen for helping me research and write scripts used by the presenters! Ty ty tysm!
Second, our presenters…
Kurt and Beth Olson( Buford and Harriet McClurg), Ron Day ( J.T.Redfield), Alicia Bohlke ( Cecil Rogers), Tom Olsen ( Richard Warden), and Jack Olsen (Peter A.M.Jensen). All of you were amazing presenting our selected individual/couple!
Third, our Entrance director Danis Thompson and our awesome tour guides Melissa Witzke, Bobbie Westergaard, and Diane Johnson! It means so much to me to have you help take groups around the cemetery!!!
Fourth, a big thank you to those who brought golf carts!
Fifth, and certainly not last the 50 plus people who attended the walk! Ty for coming and making the NHS Annual cemetery walk such a great success!
A special ty to Jim Christiansen for cleaning the Veterans headstones and repainting the white crosses every year! A shout out to the Newell City employees who made the Newell Cemetery look perfect and let us use their orange cones!!
Hope to see you all next year!
Suana Wessendorf, Chair
