Church doors closing
WILLOW CITY – Families from Willow City and the surrounding area will gather Sunday in St. Paul Lutheran Church, Willow City, to hold a final worship service, a potluck dinner and a public farewell closing. The days of needing extra seating space for the large attendance at services are over. “It’s kind of a sad thing, but reality is there,” Anna Biberdorf, a longtime member of the church, said. “We don’t have the members any more and the full congregation finally decided we would have to close and join other congregations.” Biberdorf said she had been a member of the church since she was 10 or 11 years old. She was confirmed and married in the Willow City church. Her and her husband’s children were baptized and confirmed there. First service The first worship service was conducted by the Rev. William Ditzen in the early 1920s when people gathered in the Fred Kitzman home in Willow City. St.
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