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Vergas - 56587
The Vergas Post Office was established in 1904. Bernard Stangeness was postmaster 1904-1928. He had the post
office in
his place of business. He was succeeded by Mrs. John (Milda)
Reiman in 1928 until her death in February, 1933.
At about
that
time the office was moved to the building that is now
Goodman's
Super Market. Ewald Krueger was the third postmaster,
serving
from 1933 until his death in December, 1962. Doris
Krueger was
the part-time flexible clerk and took over as
officer-in-charge
until Lee Davis was appointed postmaster and took charge
on
September 12, 1964, and served until 1979. Jean Doty
served as
officer-in-charge until March 7, 1980, when Adele Schrupp
became
postmaster and served in that capacity until her
retirement on
August 3, 1990. Diane Menz served as PTF Clerk for
Schrupp and
still in PTF Clerk. Lori Bucholz served as
officer-in-charge
from August 4 until October 6, 1990, when Larry Conklin
was
appointed postmaster.
Rural free delivery began in 1907. Carriers from then
until the
present were George Etzell, 1st carrier, Route 1, retired
1924;
Edward Marks, 1st carrier, Route 2, retired 1921; Eugene
Clawiter, temporary carrier, Route 2, 1921-1922; George
Edwards,
carrier, Route 2, 1922-1954; and Lyle Priske, carrier,
Route 1,
1925-1961. Dale Glawe became regular carrier in 1964
until his
death on February 28, 1980. Henry Schrupp and Jon Glawe
were his
subs. Jon Glawe became regular carrier after Dale's
death.
In the early 1980's, a second route was established in
conjunction
with Route 3, Frazee. The Frazee carrier comes into the
Vergas
office and sorts mail for the Sybil Lake area known as
Route 2
and rejoins her Route 3 for Frazee. Don Schroeder was
the
carrier until November, 1984, and Marvin Nieman was his
sub.
Upon Don's retirement Marvin became regular carrier until
his
death in September, 1990. Diane Steeke was the sub and
is now
regular carrier for Route 2.
Other temporary or substitute carriers were Henry Zitzow,
Wayne
Cummings, Earl Alberts, Roger Hanson, Bernard Wischnak,
Rodney
Hanson, Tom Williams, Bob Shields, Jerry Ziegler, and
Sharon
Baumgart who is the present sub for Route 1.
The building that is now the post office was built in
August of
1959. The land was bought from Henry Hanson by Gordon
Sanders
who built the building. It was sold to Elmer and
Jeanette Bruhn
in August of 1971. In 1989, Jeanette Bruhn built on an
addition
to handle the increase of postal service. Handicap
access was
also provided at that time.
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