Stories from Monday, October 27, 2003

DENVER, Colo. -- Joseph "Joe" G. Nemeth, 79, died Sept. 20, 2003, in Denver, Colo. He was born May 6, 1924, to Joseph and Elizabeth (Kuebler) Nemeth in Herndon. He was raised on a farm near Herndon. He attended Herndon schools and graduated from there. He continued to live in Herndon for a while after graduation, but eventually moved to Denver...

OBERLIN -- Alice M. Clark, 85, died Sunday (Oct. 26, 2003) at Decatur County Hospital in Oberlin. She was born Dec. 8, 1917, to Andrew M. and Elizabeth (Schiessler) Wurm in Traer. She was raised on a farm near Traer in Decatur County. She attended Traer Grade School and graduated from Decatur Community High School in 1935. After graduation she moved to Denver, Colo...

ATWOOD -- Florence Caroline (Peterson) Learned, 80, died Friday (Oct. 24, 2003) at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney. She was born June 11, 1923, to Albert and Florence Peterson in Gassville, Ark. The family moved to Ottawa, Kan., shortly after her birth. She attended Ottawa Public Schools...

Grace Marie Dack died Monday, Oct. 27, 2003, at McCook Community Hospital. She was 86 years old. Grace was born on March 10, 1917 at Oxford, to August and Mary (Wolfram) Grafel. She graduated from Herndon High School. On May 13, 1942, she married Clyde F. "Bud" Dack. They farmed southwest of McCook until 1960, at which time they moved to McCook. Grace was employed as a sales clerk and later became manager of Fashion Fabric for many years...

ARVADA, Colo. -- Pauline (Brenning) Trupp was born Feb. 23, 1913, to Jacob and Elizabeth (Miller) Brenning in McCook. She passed away at her home in Arvada on Oct. 19, 2003, at the age of 90 years, 7 months and 26 days. She grew up in the German immigrant community and was baptized and confirmed in the Westside German Congregational Church in McCook. She was employed by the J.C. Penney store in McCook...

GOTHENBURG -- Lillian M. Kuhlman, 90, of Gothenburg, died Saturday, Oct. 25, 2003, at Hilltop Estates in Gothenburg. She was born Nov. 14, 1912, at Cozad to Martin and Alma (Fickenscher) Block. On April 4, 1934, she married John "Jack" Kuhlman at Christ Lutheran Church in Gothenburg. They lived on their farm north of Gothenburg where they raised four children...

Tom and Vicki Chance of Atwood announce the engagement and upcoming wedding of their daughter, Heather, and Jeff Hawpe, the son of Dean and Janice Hawpe of Hays, Kan. The bride-to-be is a 1999 graduate of Atwood High School. She is serving as a biomedical technician in the Army Reserves. ...

Kelly Lynn Hitt and Bryan Lee Regier announce their engagement and upcoming wedding. Parents of the couple are John and Lois Hitt of McCook and Russell and Nancy Regier of Henderson. Grandparents of the couple are Mike Shanks of Newport Richie, Fla., the late Emily Shanks, the late PC and Oma Hitt, Arthur and Evelyn Thiessen of Corn, Okla., and Martha Regier of Henderson and the late Walter Regier. ...

The family of Chuck and Joan Gufford is hosting a card shower in honor of the couple's 50th anniversary, Oct. 31. Cards of congratulations will reach the couple at PO Box 368, Cambridge, NE 69022.

The family of Gerald W. and Rose E. Geihsler of McCook is hosting a card shower in honor of the couple's 50th anniversary, Oct. 30. The couple married in 1953 in Ardmore, Okla. Children of the couple are Gene and wife, Darlene Geihsler of Indianola, Rosetta and husband, John Jensen of McCook and Kevin and wife, Roxann Geihsler of McCook. The couple has eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Cards of congratulations will reach them at Route 3 Box 79, McCook, NE 69001...

The children of Buck and Sharon Caton, formerly of McCook, are hosting a card shower in honor of the couple's 40th anniversary Nov. 2. Their children are Tom and Veronica Sorenson of Lowell, Ark. Chris and Lisa Caton of Omaha, Aaron and Alicia Vap of Minneapolis, Minn., and four grandchildren and a fifth due in March 2004. Cards of congratulations will reach the couple at 12 Halifax Lane, Bella Vista, AR 72714...

The family of Mildred Miller is hosting an open house in honor of her 90th birthday, Nov. 1, 2-4 p.m., at the Trenton Community Room (TCDC) in Trenton. Cards of congratulations will reach her at PO Box 486, Trenton, NE 69044.

The family of Chuck Anderson of McCook is hosting a card shower in honor of his 75th birthday, Oct. 31. He was born in 1928 in Trenton. His wife is Z. Jean Anderson. Cards of congratulations will reach him at 810 East G, McCook, NE 69001.

The family of Verna Anderson of Wauneta is hosting a card shower in honor of her 85th birthday, Nov. 1. Cards of congratulations will reach her at PO Box 203, Wauneta, NE 69045.

Kelli Brummer and Craig Neuhaus announce their engagement and upcoming wedding. Parents of the couple are Dennis and Vicki Brummer of Blair and Dob and Kay Neuhaus of McCook. The bride-to-be is a 1998 graduate of Blair High School, a 2002 graduate of the University of Nebraska at Kearney and is attending the University of North Carolina, where she is studying to become a physical therapist. ...

While the weather Friday and Saturday could have been a little more cooperative, Sunday morning's balloon launch went off without a hitch. High winds kept the balloonists grounded Friday night and only three pilots and their passengers made it up at Saturday morning's launch during the third annual High Plains Freedom Flight...

On their way to a National Championship, on Thanksgiving Day, 1971, the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team defeated the Oklahoma Sooners in what has been billed as "The Game of the Century." The game was of special interest, and pride, to the people of McCook because one of the stars of that game was Jeff Kinney, a former quarterback and defensive standout for the McCook Bison, and one of the finest players ever to come out of McCook...

Starting in the early 1960s, McCook and surrounding communities have been enriched by students from foreign lands. The program started with American Field Service students at McCook High School and has since spread to schools throughout Southwest Nebraska and Northwest Kansas...

**Epicurean swine Dear Editor, My fellow Americans: There can be no price put on freedom. That is why it costs so much money. Many billions of dollars and thousands of lives have been lost in Iraq. Why? Democracy. They will be allowed to vote. But not too soon. Because the bad guys might still be alive, hiding somewhere...

COZAD -- The Republican Valley volleyball team, ranked No. 1 in Class D1 by the Lincoln Journal Star and third by the Omaha World Herald captured the Cozad Invitational Staurday with a 3-0 record. The Mustangs, now 19-1, defeated Gothenburg 16-14, 15-10 in the championship match...

For thousands of years, social change was slow and gradual. The world parents were living in was essentially the same world their children would inhabit. So the values, norms, attitudes, and morals taught by parents to their children would serve their children well because they essentially would be living in the same world...