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difference. We did good work,” said the graduate of South Dakota State University. During the deployment, technology provided a means for Ivory and Evan to regularly communicate. “We got to know each other without the pressure of actually having to date right away. It was a fun four months,” Evan said. When he returned, they dated for several months before he asked her parents, Dennis and Jackie Niewenhuis, for permission to marry Ivory. “I cried, her dad cried, we all cried – it was a good time.” A decade after they first met at a church event for high schoolers, Evan and Ivory were married on June 12, 2021. “I should have married her a long time ago, but I wasn’t ready yet. The Lord had not done enough work on me to be worthy of her,” he said. While Evan had considered a longterm career in the Air Force, he felt called to return to farm with his parents, Ken and Lynn Wintersteen, of Olivet. “Dad was very supportive with my plans to come home and start farming while simultaneously serving in the Air Guard. It’s a good deal. I get to do a job I love for 28-29 days a month, and then I get to go put on the uniform and do something else cool on a weekend once in a while.”

FAMILY TIES

The Wintersteens have a stock cow operation, background cattle up to about 1,000 pounds, and grow corn and soybeans. Ken and Lynn also own and operate Menno Livestock Auction.

Ivory grew up near Corsica on her parents’ farm, where they dairied for a time before transitioning to beef cattle. “I got to do the fun things like the bottle calves and just hanging out on the farm. It's a little bit different now because I have to pay attention to how farming actually works,” she said. Her parents have since moved strictly to being corn and soybean growers. After graduating with a degree in communications from Dordt University in Sioux Center, she lived in Colorado. She ended up shifting away from her college major and became a dental assistant instead. “I found out I really enjoyed it.” After a year, she was able to secure a dental assistant position closer to home at Platte. Now she works at a practice in Freeman. Evan and Ivory are expecting a baby in December. “We absolutely have the rest of our life figured out and everything is in order and nothing is ever weird,” Evan said facetiously. “Some days I feel like I’m treading water, right? But here, hold on to this baby.”

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