Western Home Communities

Friendship Village, a true continuum of care retirement community, can accommodate any need no matter your health condition or level of activity. We focus on physical, spiritual, social and mental health. From independent living to needing a little help now and again (assisted living) to dementia or memory-care services to rehabilitative care after surgery to skilled (palliative) care. We individu...

The Evangelical Association determined in 1903 to build a home for aged church members in one of the denomination’s western states. During the next eight years, board members considered and rejected nine sites in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois. Finally, in 1911, an apparent gift from heaven arrived from an Iowa family. Henry Pfeiffer, Jr., and Annie Merner attended the German Evangelical ...