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Saturday, August 9, 2025 – Spencer Park 9:00am – 9:00pm (CDT)
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Nominations for the Grand Marshal have ended
Check back here by June 15th to learn who was chosen to be the 2025 Grand Marshal!
Previous Years’ Grand Marshals
| Year | Grand Marshal | Citizen of the Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Harold “Hap” Haberlin Jim Hart | Linda Duttlinger |
| 2023 | Peggy Michelin | Gene DeYoung |
| 2022 | Heather Tokarz | |
| 2019 | Sharon Colee | |
| 2018 | Friends of DeMotte Parks | |
| 2017 | Dr. Gerrit & Dianne DeVries | |
| 2016 | Norm Chappell | |
| 2015 | Robert Guerrero | Kay Spurgeon |
| 2014 | Char Groet | Kathleen Van Der Molen |
| 2013 | Dan Ryan | |
| 2012 | Peg Nick | |
| 2010 | Robert Kaper Jr. | |
| 2009 | Tim Belstra | |
| 2008 | Don Goetz | |
| 2007 | Andy Andree | |
| 2006 | Casey Pekala & Pat Kopanda | Elmer Liebbe |
| 2005 | Bill Arnold | Earl Walton |
| 2004 | Wilbert Hamstra | Barbara Jane Reed |
| 2003 | Jeanette Roorda | American Legion & Women’s Auxillary |
| 2002 | Jack Fagen | Fire Department |
| 2001 | Dr. Roy E. Kingma | Char Groet |
| 2000 | Bob Kaper Sr. | Becky Osborn |
| 1999 | Gerrit VanKeppel | Bob Fase |
| 1998 | Gilbert Schultz | Good Neighbor Food Pantry |
| 1997 | Joan Whitaker | Fred Boissy |
| 1996 | Don Fieldhouse | Larry Sakel |
| 1995 | Virgil & Marvin “Corky” Barker | Lena Goematt |
| 1994 | Vern Blankenbaker | Ruth Zwart |
| 1993 | Albert “Bud” Belstra | |
| 1992 | John & Pat Price | |
| 1991 | Bernard “Bernie” Tysen | |
| 1990 | Art Lageveen Jr. | Joe Kopanda |
| 1989 | Jack Stellingwerf | Wayne Kleinman |
| 1988 | Helen Watson | Katie Gedda |
| 1987 | Evelyn Hoeppner | Evelyn Roorda |
| 1986 | Fern Traster | |
| 1985 | Frances Erwin | |
| 1984 | Char Groet | |
| 1983 | Otto DeYoung | |
| 1982 | Paul Bauman | |
| 1981 | Charles Halleck | |
| 1980 | Don & Evelyn Roorda | |
| 1979 | Bruce Todd | |
| 1977 | Chuck DelVecchio |
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