Stories from Wednesday, January 2, 2002

Is Nebraska on its way to another shared national championship? If we beat Miami, the Nebraska Cornhuskers will receive an automatic title from the coaches' poll as winner of the Bowl Championship Series title game. Sportswriters are not bound by such an agreements, however, and could easily vote Oregon as national champion...

Dear Editor, Janet Mosher has done a fabulous job of preparing dolls for the "Toy Box" Christmas give away. She makes new clothes, washes and irons used clothes, washes and sets the dolls' hair and provides dozens of clean babies for little girls to receive at the "Toy Box."...

I heard the sirens one night just as I was drifting off to sleep, and said to my husband, "Uh oh, another storm just broke somewhere." In this case, the word storm did not refer a meteorological event, but rather, an unexpected, and oftentimes devastating, turn of events in a person or a family's life...

Pat A. Turner AURORA, Colo. -- Pat A. Turner, 65, of Aurora, formerly Danbury, died Tuesday (Jan. 1, 2002) at the VA Medical Center in Denver, Colo. He was born July 28, 1936, at Glendale, Ariz., to Cora and Ernest Turner. His younger years were spent in Oklahoma before the family moved to the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado. He attended school there...

Keith T. Bowen FRIEND -- Keith T. Bowen, 74, died Monday (Dec. 31, 2001) at the Friend Manor. He was born March 12, 1927, on a farm near Beverly to James Fulton and Grace (Skelton) Bowen. He attended school at Trenton, graduating in 1945. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II from Dec. 21, 1945 to Jan. 28, 1947...

George W. Norman ORONOCO, Minn. -- George W. Norman, 72, died Saturday (Dec. 29, 2001) at his home in Oronoco. He was born Aug. 8, 1929, at Wauneta to Frank Melvin and Anna Meta (Christenson) Norman. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1947 to 1951. On May 8, 1953, he married Eunice L. Kohmetscher at McCook. He was a police officer in Rochester, Minn., for 21 years, and retired in 1980. He was also a security guard at the Marquette Bank for 17 years, and a greeter at Wal-Mart...

Dorothy Pauline Boyd CURTIS -- Dorothy Pauline (Walter) Boyd, 73, died Monday (Dec. 31, 2001) at Sunset Haven Nursing Home in Curtis. She was born June 25, 1928, at McCook to George and Marie Katherine (Lesser) Walter. She was baptized in 1928 and confirmed in 1943 at the Westside First Congregational Church. She attended grade school and high school in McCook. She worked briefly for the Northwestern Bell Telephone Company prior to her marriage...

Donald 'Bounce' Ray Herbert PALISADE -- Donald "Bounce" Ray Herbert, 43, died Saturday (Dec. 29, 2001) at his home in Palisade. He was born Dec. 1, 1958, at Stratton to Charles and Marcella (Worske) Herbert. He was baptized into the Christian faith and attended school in Palisade. During high school, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps at San Diego, Calif...