Stories from Thursday, December 2, 2010

March 14, 1933--Nov. 30, 2010 LEWELLEN, Nebraska -- Donna "Irene" Fiesterman, 77, died Tuesday evening (Nov. 30, 2010), at the Garden County Nursing Home in Oshkosh, Nebraska. Irene was born on March 14, 1933, in Oshkosh to Arlie and Alta (Richards) White. She grew up in Idaho where she received her education and graduated from high school in Pocatello, Idaho in 1951. She then attended nursing school in Pocatello and received her L.P.N. After school, she worked at the hospital...

Jan. 16, 1921--Nov. 30, 2010 NORTH PLATTE, Nebraska -- Richard Otis Cowles, 89, died Tuesday (Nov. 30, 2010), in North Platte, Nebraska. He was born Jan. 16, 1921, to Otis and Selma Riedler Cowles in Thurston, Nebraska. He grew up in Thurston County and had fond memories of working on the farm for Ed and Marg McQuistan...

Aug. 12, 1919--Nov. 22, 2010 McCOOK, Nebraska -- Eugene R. Lyon, 91, died Nov. 22, 2010, in McCook. He was born Aug. 12, 1919, in McCook to Eugene C. and Hazel (Rouch) Lyon. He received all of his education in the McCook public schools, graduating in 1937...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Like many residents of Southwest Nebraska and Northwest Kansas, Lorie Prestes, director of the McCook Humane Society, has followed the "Hero Dogs from Afghanistan" stories with interest. Interest turned to outrage and sorrow when Prestes learned that Target had been accidently euthanized at an Arizona animal shelter...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Don Schaaf, retired web master of a signature Pearl Harbor website will be the second offering in the Buffalo Commons Storytelling Festival "First Tuesday" storytelling gatherings at the Bieroc Café, 7 p.m. this Tuesday, Dec. 7. In honor of Pearl Harbor Day, "The day that will live in infamy," the Buffalo Commons Storytelling Festival invites all veterans to gather at the Bieroc Café for remembrance of service to our country. ...

If the cold weather and just-enough snow isn't enough to let us know Christmas is coming, then this weekend's events should do the job. They start tonight with the McCook Community College Theater production of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," adapted by Lynn Stevens, at 7:30 p.m. ...

December looks like it will be an interesting month astronomically. First, five of the visible planets are making a showing in the early evening skies during the first weeks of December. Fleet Mercury will make a brief appearance in the evening sky in the first week and Mars, although fading away, can still be glimpsed just after sunset if you know where to look...

Grandma Moses began as a famous folk-art painter when she was in her 70s. The creativity bug can bite at any time. Talent and creativity are often closely tied. Very few of us will ever become a Michaelangelo in art, an Ernest Hemingway in literature, an Enrico Caruso in opera or a Thomas Edison in the field of great inventions...