Stories from Tuesday, December 30, 2003

Bryce Millard Brown died Sunday, Dec. 21, 2003, at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney at the age of 65. He was born Nov. 13, 1938, on the family farm in Hitchcock County, the son of the late James and Letha (Williamson) Brown. Bryce grew up southeast of Trenton, attended a one room country school and graduated from Trenton High School in 1956. He entered the United States Air Force that fall...

Nancy Diehl Gummere, 74, of Littleton, Colo., died (Dec. 17, 2003) at Cherry Park Progressive Care in Englewood, Colo. She was born June 22, 1929, to Norval and Florence (Hertz) Diehl in Stratton. She graduated from Stratton High School and McCook Community College. Then she went to work as a secretary for the Bureau of Reclamation while Swanson Reservoir was being built...

ATWOOD -- Ruth Dee (Cochran) Gregory, 88, died Monday (Dec. 29, 2003) at Rawlins County Health Center in Atwood. She was born Aug. 14, 1915, to William W. and Violet R. (Felker) Cochran in Hastings. On Sept. 5, 1964, she married Woods Wilson Gregory. She lived in Topeka for 10 years and then lived in Denver where she worked in a veteran's administration hospital and rehabilitation center for the state of Colorado. She had lived in Atwood since 1977...

CULBERTSON -- Hilda A. White, 80, died Monday (Dec. 29, 2003) at Community Hospital of McCook. She was born May 19, 1923, to Henry and Katherine (Wriwth) Pruser in Linn, Kan. She grew up in Linn, where she graduated from Linn High School. On Sept. 2, 1944, she married Dewey "Red" White in Clay Center, Kan. ...

Denys Lawson and Marvin Sorrels of Milford announce the birth of a son, Mikah Jacob Sorrels. He was born Sunday (Dec. 7, 2003) at Saint Elizabeth Hospital in Lincoln. He weighed 7 pounds, 2 ounces. Grandparents are Frank Michener and Caroline Lawson of Bartley; Dennis and Donna Lawson of Broken Bow; and Bob and Lawana Cardwell of Pleasant Dale. His great-grandmother is May Lawson of Cambridge...

The family of Dale and Joan (Polak) Stewart of McCook is hosting a card shower in honor of the couple's 25th anniversary, Dec. 30. The couple married in 1978 in David City. Their children are Robert Stewart of Seward and Jared, Lyndsey and Sara of McCook. Cards of congratulations will reach the couple at 618 West B Street, McCook, NE 69001...

The McCook Educational Foundation will enhance its scholarship program with donations to a new endowment fund. Foundation officers anticipate that the new scholarship endowment fund will help the Foundation increase not only the amount of scholarship money awarded, but also the number of scholarships...

A tin-wrapped wooden elevator, owned by Danbury Equity Co-Op, rests on the boom and cab of a Cahoj Earthmoving excavator, and Julie and Greg Cahoj. of Atwood, inspect the cab where Greg was working when the elevator came down earlier than planned Monday. ...

Both Bison teams have reached the semifinals at the GNAC tournament.

Who knows what's on the mind of Steve Pederson? Who knows whether he has made promises about the head coaching job at Nebraska, and, if he has, who he has made the promises to? Because, you see, when it comes to choosing Nebraska's new football coach, the Huskers' first year athletic director has absolute power. Pederson, and Pederson alone, will make the pick...

**Dear Editor, I am a senior citizen of McCook and I am writing in regard to the water situation. My water bill is getting so high, and I'm told that it will go higher. I don't see how we as senior citizens and lots of other citizens in McCook are going to pay our bills...

**Dear Editor, Early in December, it was my pleasure to accompany the well-honed McCook Community Chorus in an Advent-Christmas season concert presented in the Memorial United Methodist Church, playing the church's recently renovated pipe organ in both solo and accompanying roles...

**Dear Editor, I would like to thank everyone who lives here in McCook and who was visiting or passing through over the past week for making this one of the best Christmases I've ever experienced. I never realized what enjoyment I'd give and receive by decorating my pickup for Christmas and driving all around with it lit up and decorated...

It's hard to believe that we're ready to turn the calendar to the fourth year of the new millennium already. Or, if you're one of those sticklers who insisted that the year 2000 was actually the end of the 20th century and not the beginning of the 21st, we're ready for the third year of the new century...

Everyday we hear the economy is in great shape and roaring ahead. If that is the case, why do we have so many Nebraska and nationwide students on free or reduced lunch prices, and how come there is such a widespread increase in homelessness and hunger in the U.S., or don't those people count? I know that most of them don't buy stocks or bonds. The above were from articles in the Gazette, Dec. 13 and 19...

CAMBRIDGE -- Timothy "Tim" Gilpin, 53, died Monday (Dec. 29, 2003) at his home in Cambridge. He was born Jan. 22, 1950, to Roger and Ruth (Cazine) Gilpin in Denver, Colo. He grew up in the Denver, Ft. Collins and Loveland, Colo., area. He graduated from South High School in Denver. He received a bachelor of science degree from Colorado State University in psychology...