Stories from Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Did you notice? The UN projected that the world population, we humans, reached 8 billion souls on November 15th, just 14 days ago. No celebration just a noteworthy fact. Now consider that the population at the time of Christ was around 200,000 for the entire world. Gee there have been some changes made in those 2000 years passing in time...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook Public School District outpaced its peers and the state in nearly all categories in the 2021-22 assessment results released Nov. 23 by the Nebraska Department of Education. Data from the Nebraska Student-Centered Assessment System (NSCAS) included district results as well as results from MPS schools...

Lela Deloris Fortkamp Nov. 27, 1934 - Nov. 26, 2022 BIRD CITY, Kan. — Lela Deloris Fortkamp went home to her maker on Nov. 26, 2022, at Bird City, Kan., in her second home, her beloved motor home, while celebrating the holiday and her birthday with family...

Lester “Les” N. Snowden March 16, 1929 - Nov. 23, 2022 McCOOK, Neb. — Lester “Les” N. Snowden, age 93, lifelong resident of McCook, passed away at Community Hospital in McCook on Nov. 23, 2022. He was born on March 16, 1929, to W. W. (Bill) Snowden and Denicie (Olmsted) Snowden. Les attended school in McCook, graduating in 1948...

Donna Lee Brewster March 7, 1939 - Nov. 25, 2022 HASTINGS, Neb. — Donna Lee Brewster, age 83, passed away Nov. 25, 2022, at the Good Samaritan Village in Hastings.  Donna was born March 7, 1939, in Cameron, Wis., to Lee Kenneth Hill and Madge Merna (Fleharty) Hill.  She graduated from Arapahoe High School in Arapahoe, Neb., with the Class of 1957...

Georgia J. “Jody” Kirby Sept. 12, 1935 - Nov. 25, 2022 McCOOK, Neb. — Georgia J. “Jody” Kirby, age 87, passed away at Community Hospital of McCook on Nov. 25, 2022. She was born to Perry and Arietta (Hughes)Doak in the family sod house at St. Francis, Kan., on Sept. 12, 1935...

Doris A. (Shormann) Oliver March 11, 1937 - Nov. 22, 2022 McCOOK, Neb. — Doris A. (Shormann) Oliver, 85, of McCook, died Nov. 22, 2022, at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook. She was born March 11, 1937, in Kearney, Neb. She was preceded in death by her husband, Benny Ray Oliver; parents, Elmer and Ruth (Puttergill) Shormann; brothers, Charles (Kathy) Shormann and Clarence (Sue) Shormann; sister, Shirley (Lonnie) Todd; plus numerous family and friends...

Loran Terrell McDanield July 27, 1928 - Nov. 21, 2022 FAIR GROVE, Mo. — Loran Terrell McDanield, 94, passed away at his home in Fair Grove, Missouri on Monday, Nov. 21, 2022. He was born July 27, 1928 to Georgia Mercedes (Thomas) McDanield in St. Paul, Minn. His mother later married Friend Bosser “Boss” Greene, and Loran and his family grew up in Eminence, Mo...

Blake Lucas Bruner Nov. 9, 2001 - Nov. 21, 2022 SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — My beautiful son, Blake Lucas Bruner of Sioux Falls, took his own life at his apartment on Monday, Nov. 21, 2022, turning 21, only 12 days earlier. Blake’s Grandpa Gary, who Blake joined in heaven on Monday, had given him a St. ...

David Harley Rye March 27, 1944 - Nov. 17, 2022 GEORGETOWN, Texas — David Harley Rye was born in Omaha, Neb., March 27, 1944, the second son of Leafton Nutter Rye and Arnt John Rye. He grew up in Omaha, where he graduated from Omaha South High School in 1962...

The lineup of Arapahoe-Cambridge Unified bowlers who have placed third or higher during all six touranemnts this season as a team. From left, front row: Haiden VanHoutan, Jacob Moore, Nolan Garey, Patrick Rathbun and Ander Wasenius. Middle row: Lauren Moore, Brooke Lenz, Anna tenBensel, Leigha Odell, Courtney Eidson, Juliana Hanzlick and Molly Elliott. ...

OMAHA, Neb. — Though Clarkson-Leigh won Class D-1, the Omaha World-Herald conceded no team featuring eight players was likely better than Hitchcock County this fall. “Hitchcock County and Howells-Dodge might well be the two best eight-man teams in the state regardless of class,” W-H prep writer Stu Pospisil oberved. “And they sit at the top of the deepest class in Nebraska.”...

Dear Editor I would like to make a few comments in regard to the two-page article about the Genoa, Neb., Indian boarding school. The finding of the unmarked graves of the Indian children would be a good thing. A bill in the House of Representatives is to fund a project to help find these graves...