Reception with Monsignor Joseph Senger

Velva School and Public Library
Velva, North Dakota
November 8, 2002

Photographs by Iris (Dockter) Swedlund, Velva, ND and Michael M. Miller, Fargo, ND

Iris (Dockter) Swedlund, Director of the Velva Library, and Monsignor Joseph Senger, Minot, ND.	Left to right: Monsignor Joseph Senger and library student assistants, Amanda Pierce, Joey Myers and Emily Schiele.
David Peterson, Velva girls basketball coach, state champions, and Monsignor Joseph Senger.	St. Cecilia's Christian Mothers co-hosted the reception; left to right: Betty Jane (Tuhy) Boeshans, Tina (Ankenbauer) Wobbema and Andrea (Heilman) Irmen.
German-Russian wedding Kuchen at the reception. Kuchen made by Tina (Ankenbauer) Wobbema.	Pastor Mary Schave, Oak Valley Lutheran Church, Velva, and Monsignor Joseph Senger. The black shawl belong to Iris (Dockter) Swedlund's grandmother, Katherina Feickert (born April 9, 1886, Neudorf, Glückstal District, South Russia (today in Moldova and near Odessa, Ukraine; died October 25, 1966, Mandan, ND), wife of Aloph Dockter, rural Tuttle, ND. Katherina at age three in 1889 immigrated from the village of Neudorf to the United States first coming to Eureka, SD, and then to rural Tuttle, ND. Harold and Katherina (Feickert) Dockter has 10 children and nine were born in a sodhouse. The shawl was brought to America by Katherin Dockter's mother in 1889, the year North Dakota became a state.
Monsignor Joseph Senger autographing videotape sleeve for Lina (Piatz) Ganje, Velva, and her grandson, Brandon Rudnick.	Monsignor Joseph Senger with twins, Cassidy and Christopher Peterson, Velva first graders, children of David and Renee (Wilson) Peterson.
The Senger family; left to right: Nick Senger, Christine (Senger) Axtamnn, Monsignor Joseph Senger, Anton Senger, Regarda (Lacher) Senger, Elizabeth (Senger) Burgad and Thomas Burgad.	Left to right: Hinnerk Gerigk, foreign exchange student from Germany; Father Daniel Mrnarevic, St. Cecilia's Parish, Velva; and Michael M. Miller, Fargo.
Left to right: Gerry Florence, Dr. Jerry Florence and Monsignor Joseph Senger.	Left to right: Michael M. Miller, Iris (Dockter) Swedlund, Monsignor Joseph Senger, Alysa Anderson and Erica Heisler.
Left to right: Irene (Vogel) Colby, DeAnn (Selzler) Sullivan and Andrea (Heilman) Ermen.