About Us

Welcome to Pioneer Heritage Insurance! Here you will find information about our agency, staff, and the services and coverage we offer. Please feel free to contact any of our helpful staff for an insurance proposal or additional information about specific coverage.

Pioneer Heritage Insurance was established in 2003, from the merger of Pioneer Associates of Spicer, Heritage Insurance & Financial, and Green Lake Agency. Since that time, the company has grown to include four locations in Willmar , Pennock, Raymond, and Spicer, Minnesota , making Pioneer Heritage Insurance one of the largest independent agencies in the area. We represent a variety of highly respected insurance companies to assure you that your policy will be placed with a sound, competitive market. We are proud of our experienced staff who will personally work with you to meet all of your insurance needs.

Our agency in Pennock is located in the Heritage Bank building, just one block north of US Highway 12. Kevin Crowley is the agency branch manager with over 25 years of experience in the insurance business, specializing in crop and multi-peril insurance as well as farm coverage. Wanda Woltjer and Danell Johnson are fully licensed agents and CSR's who handle the service work for the Pennock and Willmar offices in addition to writing all lines of new business.

Jim Tetzloff is the agency branch manager at our Willmar office, located in the Heritage Bank building on the corner of First Street and Litchfield Avenue. Jim has over 20 years experience as an agent, and carries the CIC (Certified Insurance Counselor) designation. He handles a book of personal and commercial lines insurance and is responsible for keeping our web-site and computers up and running.

In 2004, Pioneer Heritage Insurance acquired the former Farmers State Agency in Raymond, located in the newly remodeled Heritage Bank building, just one block north of MN Highway 23. Agent Kent Gjerde specializes in multi-peril and farm coverage.

Our Spicer office is located one block west of MN Highway 23 in the newly built Heritage Bank complex, which houses our agency, Heritage Bank, and Deidre's Espresso Café & Bakery Shop. All three businesses are connected by common doorways for your one-stop shopping and dining convenience. Ken Ohl is the President/General Manager of Pioneer Heritage Insurance who carries the CIC (Certified Insurance Counselor) designation and has over 30 years experience as an agent. Lori Holmberg, fully-licensed full-time agent, has over 20 years experience in the insurance industry, and specializes in personal and commercial property/casualty coverages. Ronda Habicht and Berni Schwaegerl are both fully licensed agents and CSR's who handle the service work for the Spicer office, in addition to writing all lines of new business. Nancy Sondrol is our Bookkeeper who oversees accounting and payroll functions for our four locations, and Verona Thompson is our Receptionist with over 35 years of insurance experience who will cheerfully greet you when you call our office. Cindy Ohl, also fully-licensed, is a commercial CSR and handles the service work on business accounts.

Pioneer Heritage Insurance, a Trusted Choice Agency, is dedicated to you and is committed to treating you as a person, not a policy.  All Trusted Choice independent agents agree to a Pledge of Performance, designed to assure quality service that enables them to offer you competitive prices, a broad choice of products and valuable advocacy.  You can be sure you are dealing with a Trusted Choice independent agent when you see the following Trusted Choice logo.


On behalf of Pioneer Heritage Insurance, thank you for visiting our web-site. We hope we can visit with you soon about all of your insurance needs!

For more info, contact our Willmar office at (320) 214-5523, our Spicer office at (320) 796-2169,
our Pennock office at (320) 599-4251, or our Raymond office at (320) 967-4241.

Products and services offered through Pioneer Heritage Insurance are not insured by FDIC, are not a deposit or other obligation of, or guaranteed by, the depository institution, and are subject to investment risks including possible loss of the principal amount invested.