The Holy Family Parish was organized in 1894. Father Salvator Lehman planned to erect a church in Lindsay since a great number of parishioners missed Mass due to the distance and bad roads to St. John’s and St. Bernard. The first Mass was celebrated on December 9, 1894 in the John Freschauf home.

On September 9, the first bricks of the church were laid by John Freschauf and Bernard Hauck. The new church was dedicated on Thanksgiving Day, 1895 and the sermon was given in both English and German.

The school was opened in September of 1900 with the Franciscan Sisters of Charity of Manitowac, Wisconsin. The enrollment was 51 students. In 1904 it was decided to build a new 36 by 76 foot school because the old school was too small. It was to be a brick structure, three stories high, with a basement 10 feet high. It would have two classrooms on each of the first two floors and an attic on the third floor. Cost: $19, 218.69. Classes were opened in the new building on Jan. 9, 1906. There were 130 families in the parish.

In 1917, a new 40 by 60 foot addition was added on to the school. It included two more classrooms on the first and second floors. Cost: $19,626. Eleventh and twelfth grades were added that year. In 1919, the first graduates of the Twelfth Grade—Sarah Rausch and Gertrude Hau—received their diplomas.

In 1931, the parish numbered 167 families. Three sisters taught in the high school, five taught in the grade school, one taught music, and one cooked lunch/meals thus equaling a total of 10 nuns. Thirty-two students attended high school and 164 attended grade school.

In 1961, the St. Bernard School was closed and the Holy Family School gained several new students. To accommodate them, the attic and the basement of the school were remodeled to make additional classrooms. In 1964, there were 106 students in high school and 261 students in grade school. Due to the growing enrollment, a new grade school was erected in 1965.

In 1980, there were 250 students in grade school and 86 students in high school. There were 350 families in the parish. Seven nuns taught, as well as 12 lay teachers, were part of the school system.

In the fall of 1985, a $168,000 addition was added to the gym which included a new music room, weightlifting room, locker room with showers, athletic offices, storage rooms, and an expanded stage area.

In 1995 was the first year Holy Family didn’t have nuns teaching in the school building. Also, a four-classroom addition was added to the back of the elementary building, which connected to the existing high school building.  This allowed for all elementary classes, grades 1-6 to be held in the newer building with grades 7-12 in the original school building.  The music room by the gym was moved to the new addition and the old music room became the library.  A computer lab was also incorporated in the new addition to expand the technology program.  Wi-Fi access points were installed in 2010 and updated in 2014 and will again be updated in the summer of 2019.  Holy Family applied and received an “e-rate grant” in 2016 and installed fiber-optic cable onto the Holy Family campus during the summer of 2016.  In 2016, Holy Family implemented a grades 7-12 1-to-1 Google Chromebook program with the entire school staff and students utilizing Google Technology.

September of 2011, Holy Family School started the first preschool class offering classes to four- and five-year-olds year olds on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings and to three- and four-year-olds on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. The preschool has evolved into a Monday, Wednesday, and Friday preschool for our 4 year old preschool students.   In 2012, Holy Family Parish installed a daycare on campus that fosters infants, toddlers, and preschoolers with structured classroom settings and religious education. 

Also in the 2011-2012 school year, Holy Family started an FFA chapter and in 2016 combined FFA chapters with Newman Grove Public Schools.  In the spring 2012, Holy Family FFA built a greenhouse to sell flowers and vegetables to the community of Lindsay.  An addition onto the greenhouse was built in the spring of 2017 to expand the plant science growing program and flowers and vegetable offers to the public.  During the 2015 school year, the science department and FFA program designed and built a hydroponics plant growing program, while continuing to expand and evolve the program.  During the 2018-2019 school year, the FFA program and science department designed and built a school garden adjacent to the greenhouse to continue expanding the plant science program while offering new opportunities for these respective programs. 

During the summer of 2015 Holy Family was able to get fiber optic cable network installed to the entire Holy Family campus.  During the same summer, all new wi-fi routers throughout the entire campus.  All wi-fi routers were updated again during the summer of 2021.  Student devices were also updated in the summer of 2021 with new Chromebook and iPad devices distributed throughout the entire student body.  Holy Family’s students had a long history of excelling, not only in academics but also in extra-curricular activities like speech, One-Act, FFA, and various athletics. 

In January of 2022, the Omaha Archdiocese announced it was dissolving Holy Family High School and Holy Family Junior High to form a consolidated Catholic 7-12 school in Humphrey, Nebraska.  On May of 2024, Holy Family High School and Holy Family Junior High articles of incorporation were formally dissolved and now Lindsay is only operating a PK-6 Catholic elementary school for the 2024/2025 school year.  As it has been, is now, and will be in the future, Holy Family’s mission is to educate the whole person – spiritually, morally, scholastically, physically, and aesthetically.