{"id":2229,"date":"2008-07-30T20:41:22","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T20:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/?p=2229"},"modified":"2010-12-22T12:22:41","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T17:22:41","slug":"6475","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/2008\/07\/30\/6475\/","title":{"rendered":"Accidents Claim Lives of Two Young Covenanters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO, IL (July 30, 2008) \u2013 Automobile accidents over the weekend claimed the lives of two young Covenanters, with funeral and memorial services to be conducted over the next several days.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nPaul Tonn, youngest son of Gary and Nina Tonn, died Saturday night in an accident near Richmond, Virginia. Tonn was in Richmond as part an internship program in a golf course management program. His father is pastor of United Covenant church in Clear Lake, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>A funeral service for Tonn will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday at the church, with visitation observed one hour before the service. Visitation also will be observed from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at the church.<\/p>\n<p>A funeral service will be conducted Thursday and a memorial service held on Saturday for former Southwest Minnesota State University men\u2019s basketball player Andy Wiersma who died Sunday afternoon in a two-car accident.<\/p>\n<p>Wiersma was a member of Excelsior Covenant Church in Excelsior, Minnesota. The Thursday funeral service will begin at 10:30 a.m. at the R\/A Facility on the university campus, with the Saturday memorial service to begin at 10:30 a.m. at the Excelsior church, 19955 Excelsior Blvd., according to Kyle Small, associate pastor. Visitation will be observed today (Wednesday) from 4-8 p.m. at the Evangelical Free Church, 2667 County Road 7 (Airport Road), in Marshall, with a prayer service at 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Memorials may be directed to the Andy Wiersma Memorial Fund, 10000 45th Ave. North, #204, Plymouth, MN, 55442.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=2229&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO, IL (July 30, 2008) \u2013 Automobile accidents over the weekend claimed the lives of two young Covenanters, with funeral and memorial services to be conducted over the next several days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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