Stories from Friday, November 30, 2001

Anne Metzger and Brian Wiemers of Fort Collins, Colo., announce their engagement and upcoming wedding. Parents of the couple are Gary and Cindy Dicenta, and Kim and Jan Wiemers, all of McCook. The bride-to-be is a homemaker. The prospective bride-groom is employed as the manager at Fazoli's. Both are graduates of McCook High School. They are planning a Jan. 12, 2002, wedding at the home of Kim and Jan Wiemers...

Roger and Jamie Werkmeister of Indianola announce the birth of their daughter, Paige Noelle, on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2001, at Cambridge Memorial Hospital. She weighed 6 pounds, 15 1/2 ounces. Grandparents are Mike and Millie Cuellar of Indianola, and Roger and Janet Werkmeister of McCook...

Mike and Jodi Taylor of Stamford announce the birth of their daughter, Emmali Jenae on Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2001, at Community Hospital of McCook. She weighed 7 pounds and 3 ounces. She has one sister, Jordan Renae. Grandparents are Steve and Karen Lyne of McCook, Richard Taylor of Beaver City and Donna Taylor of Hastings...

LINCOLN -- Brenda Sue Fisher and Mark Damon Deterding were united in marriage on June 16, 2001, at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Lincoln with Msgr. Pleskac officiating. Parents of the couple are Raymond and Patsy Fisher of Indianola, and Mike and Sherry Deterding of Gothenburg. Honored guests at the ceremony were the grandparents of the bridegroom, Bill and Phyllis Witt and Marie Deterding...

OMAHA -- Tricia Lyn Knaub and Dwight David Bishop were united in marriage on July 21, 2001, at the Evangelical Bible Church in Omaha with the Rev. Don Pahl officiating. Parents of the couple are Mark and Patty Knaub of Omaha, and Dave and Marilene Bishop of Milford. Grandparents include Mr. and Mrs. Densel O'Dea of McCook...

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa -- Stacee Wieser of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Duncan Patterson of Bellevue were united in marriage on Sept. 22, 2001, at the Queen of Apostles Church in Council Bluffs with the Rev. Tom Crowley officiating the double ring ceremony...

Willard 'Willie' Leon Lorimer Willard "Willie" Leon Lorimer, 64, of McCook, died Thursday (Nov. 29, 2001) at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney. He was born March 24, 1937, at McCook to Elmer Edward and Virginia Ellen (Troxell) Lorimer. He attended McCook Public Schools and graduated from Milford Community College in 1962...

Ida Mary Brown OBERLIN -- Ida Mary Brown, 85, died Thursday (Nov. 29, 2001) at the Decatur County Hospital in Oberlin. She was born May 31, 1916, in rural Decatur County to Ora Leroy and Minnie Lois (Kettels) Montgomery. She attended Rural Liberty Grade School...

Joe Erwin Singletary Joe Erwin Singletary, 81, died Thursday (Nov. 29, 2001) at Great Plains Regional Medical Center in North Platte. He was born May 4, 1920, at Beckville, Texas to Joe and Parlee Singletary. He graduated from Beckville High School and attended the University of Maryland...

Dear Editor, Somewhere, sometime, in our educational endeavors, most of us have learned about the remarkable exploratory journey of Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) and William Clark (1770-1838). They departed the spring of 1804 from St. Louis, Mo., to the Pacific Northwest with a selected group of adventurers, plus a large Newfoundland dog...

The McCook Daily Gazette's "Winter Sports Preview" is always a major project, but it was an especially daunting task this year. The challenge emerged at the end of football season when the sports editor, Candis (Cook) Olsen, announced she was leaving the newspaper to join Wells Fargo Bank...

Whether as massive and distant as the September 11th terrorist attacks, or as personal and recent as the tragedy recounted in Mike Hendricks' column on this page, the pain of the loss of friends or loved ones is especially sharp as the holiday season approaches...

Let's get this straight from the start. Raising four children is not the same as raising three children, just as rearing three is not the same as two and two is more work than one. At some point during the past five years of my child-rearing experience, someone told me that once you have three children it doesn't matter how many more you have. It's all the same amount of work...

A Marine captain and a Navy Lieutenant knocked on my door at 6 a.m. Monday morning to tell me my beautiful 29-year-old son had died in his sleep at 1:38 a.m. Sunday morning of undetermined causes in San Diego while serving as a corpsman in the Navy, attached to the Marines at Camp Pendelton. He was living in an apartment off base and was found by one of his Navy buddies...

The photo with my column last week of the Cambridge flood has been identified as a part the 1935 disaster. A letter from Pauline Walburn explained that her father, Clint John developed film and printed pictures in the basement of the John Drug on Cambridge's Main Street. He used pen white ink to identify his pictures and most of the time he was much more specific in marking the exact location of a photo...

Jeremy Dean Hunkins TRENTON -- Jeremy Dean Hunkins, 17, died Thursday (Nov. 29, 2001) at his home in Trenton. He was born Feb. 5, 1984, to Gary D. and Jeanne L. (Hanes) Hunkins at Benkelman. He had lived his entire life in Trenton. He was a senior at Lakeside Central High School...