Stories from Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Oct. 12, 1950-July 26, 2009 HOLBROOK -- Charlotte J. Gipe, 58, died Sunday (July 26, 2009), at her home in Holbrook. She was Oct. 12, 1950, at Sterling, Colo., to Marvin and Betty (Innis) Brown. The family moved to Arapahoe where she attended school...

March 1, 1927-July 26, 2009 WAUNETA -- Marion Clyde Long, 82, died Sunday (July 26, 2009), at Heritage of Wauneta Nursing Home. He was born March 1, 1927, in Riverton, to Winifred Haskel and Hazel Edna (North) Long. He entered the U.S. Navy on April 25, 1945, and served during World War II. He was honorably discharged on May 18, 1946...

March 27, 1931-July 27, 2009 FORT MADISON, Iowa -- Kenneth Eugene Bower, 78, died Monday (July 27, 2009), at his home in Fort Madison, Iowa. He was born March 27, 1931, at McCook, to Walter Garfield and Sophia (Schuetz) Bower. In 1958, he married Judy Dredge. They later divorced...

OBERLIN -- Modern Woodmen Camp 611 of Oberlin put the community's new Sunflower Cinema closer to its fund-raising goal with the presentation of a check for $5,215 on July 23. Marie McKisson, secretary for the Oberlin camp of Modern Woodmen of America, said that a community raffle in June raised $2,715, and the Modern Woodmen home office matched that amount with $2,500. Winners of the raffle were Beth Sebaugh, $100; Duane Dorschorst, $50; and Laurie Wasson, $25...

It's always a challenge to select slogans for community activities, and some fall a little short. But this year's Red Willow County Fair has hit the nail on the head with "Pride of the Past, Promise of the Future." Fair time, after all, is a tradition that stretches to the Middle Ages and came across the ocean with the earliest European settlers...

He lived a tragic life. Such could be the epithet of far too many in this day and age. While watching the myriad news accounts of Michael Jackson's death, all I could see was tragedy, in the life he lived and in the death he died. I saw the same sorrowful image when Anna Nicole Smith died in 2007, under the same dark cloud of drug abuses and overdoses...