A couple years ago, our family had the involuntary honor and unfortunate duty of composing an obituary for Dad, who had lived nearly 84 years. Most of us know that obituaries comprise the ultimate writing assignment: due immediately if not sooner alongside too many other last-minute tasks and decisions, all occurring during a time of …
James Iver Hovland, 83, passed into the hands of his Savior on January 24, 2018. If Jim could speak to us all right now, he would ask us, politely, to stop reading the obituaries and move ahead to more cheerful, educational material, perhaps the comics. In partial honor of his wishes, and because of his …