Time capsule contains history of former Avera Rosebud Country Care Center

The first item Hospital and Nursing Home Administrator Tony Timanus removed from the sealed copper box found at the nursing home was a trowel. It had been used by Mrs. Martha Faust to lay the cornerstone.

Louie Pochop and Mrs. Martha Faust, the two major donors who laid the cornerstone of the nursing home, are shown here in a photo from the July 12, 1962, Gregory Times-Advocate breaking ground for the new facility.