Grace People

Governor’s Volunteer Award to Veryl Buchholz

Congratulations to Veryl Buchholz, long-time member of Grace Lutheran Church, on receiving a Governor’s Volunteer Award from Governor Kim Reynolds during a ceremony on June 25, 2024. Veryl has volunteered at UnityPoint Allen Hospital in Waterloo for 17½ years.

According to Veryl, he retired from his full-time job at the end of 2006, and began volunteering at Allen Hospital at the beginning of 2007. Veryl’s wife Marlene, who passed away a couple years ago,

I’m A ‘People Person’

“Having grown up in the Buck Creek area, I went to parochial and country school, so it was quite a change when my folks moved to a farm west of Tripoli,” said Pauline Frahm. “By that time, Wilbert and I had gotten married, and Dad and Mom started going to Grace, so they picked me up and I went with them to church at Grace. I didn’t know anyone at Grace except for my family,