๐–ถ๐–พ ๐–ผ๐—ˆ๐—Ž๐—…๐–ฝ ๐—Ž๐—Œ๐–พ ๐–บ ๐–ฟ๐–พ๐— ๐—…๐–บ๐—๐—†๐–บ๐—„๐–พ๐—‹๐—Œ ๐—…๐—‚๐—„๐–พ ๐–ง๐–บ๐—‡๐—‡๐–บ๐— ๐–ช๐–พ๐—†๐—‰๐–ฟ๐–พ๐—‹ ๐—๐—๐–พ๐—Œ๐–พ ๐–ฝ๐–บ๐—’๐—Œ ๐——๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ฎ ๐—๐˜‚๐—น๐˜† ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฎ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ฃ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐˜„๐—ถ๐—น๐—น ๐—ฒ๐˜…๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ถ๐—พ๐˜‚๐—ฒ ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒโ€™๐˜€ ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐˜ ๐˜„๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ด๐—ถ๐˜€๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜€

by Beth Monke, Guest Columnist
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Hannah Kempfer, in 1936, and Beth Monke, who will portray Kempfer in an original drama on July 12, 2 p.m., in downtown Pelican Rapids. Hannah Kempfer represented the Pelican-Fergus Falls-Maplewood area as one of the stateโ€™s first woman legislators.  
By a quirk of history, Beth Monke served the Tonseth Lutheran Church the past year as an interim pastorโ€”the rural Tonseth church is right in Kempferโ€™s โ€œhometownโ€ of Edwards. The two women have something of a connection, despite the span of nearly a century. Kempfer died in 1943, long before Monke was born. Kempfer is buried in the Tonseth Lutheran church cemetery.


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