Wieman Land & Auction

After the completion of the barn worship center, Larry mounted the church’s sign with help from his late son-in-law, Donavon Lambertus, and his grandson, Mason Travis.

The story-telling country gospel music used at the church reflects Larry’s approach during services which is informal and conversational. “When I pray, I might be walking back and forth, I might be looking up, I might be looking down, it doesn’t matter – I’m just talking to God when I start off ‘Lord, we’ve got a few things on our heart.’ Even if I mess it up, the Lord knows what I mean.” The conversational tone includes praise reports where those in attendance are asked to share where they saw God at work in their lives in the past week. Larry’s journey to become a preacher followed a roundabout trail. He grew up on a farm near Canton and attended a oneroom country school through the eighth grade. After graduating from Canton High School, he briefly attended college and then enlisted in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War era. He became an aviation electrician. “I went to Vietnam with a squadron on the carrier, USS Ticonderoga. I was over there for six or nine months. You look back and you think ‘That wasn’t the safest place to be.’ We were just kids, for crying out loud.” After Vietnam, he was stationed in Hawaii for three years. He worked for the U.S. Postal Service for four years after exiting the navy. Some co-workers convinced him to join the Air National Guard. He enlisted in the guard and was back in his role as an aviation electrician, this time able to focus on the instruments of the planes. Larry was in the South Dakota Air National Guard for 30 years. Larry and Freida were married in 1995. Freida has four daughters and a son; and Larry has a son and a daughter. Between the two of them, they have 15 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. Freida was born in Kansas, grew up in Colorado, and lived in Colorado and South Dakota. She has worked in the nursing field, as head of cleaning at several hotels, at Good Samaritan in Sioux Falls, and at Leisure Living in Hartford. Even after hip replacement and knee replacement in recent years, she continues to drive school bus for the West Central School District and also works for the U.S. Census Bureau. We have been in the auction business for over 60 years and sold thousands of acres of land, millions of dollars of equipment and much more. There is no job too big or too small, so give us a call and we would be happy to work with you.

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