Stories from Wednesday, May 19, 2004

June 8, 1922-May 14, 2004 Doris A. Lehr, after a giving life of 81 years, passed away May 14, 2004. The daughter of Charles and Leona (Reinhold) Stauder, she was born June 8, 1922, in Los Angeles, Calif. Doris spent her early and teenage years in McCook. ...

U.S. Army Cpl. Mitch Fahnholz of Fort Hood, Texas, told McCook Junior High students Tuesday his worst days in Iraq were the holidays back home. His funniest was watching a fellow soldier fly a kite built from two ponchos in 80-90 mile-an-hour desert winds. "Ross was 6-1, 6-2, 250 pounds ... he was huge," Fahnholz said. "He held on to his kite string, sat down and just skipped across the desert (on his backside)."...

The family of Densel and Barbara O'Dea are hosting a card shower in honor of their 50th wedding anniversary. They were married May 22,1954 in McCook. They have four children, ten grandchildren and one great granddaughter. Cards of congratulations will reach them at 701 West L Street McCook, NE 69001...

COLBY -- The 18-year-old prisoner who shimmied down a rope of sheets and ran from the Decatur County jail in Oberlin Tuesday morning faces more charges following his capture in Colby. Decatur County Sheriff Ken Badsky said Dustin Cole (AKA Dustin Rhodig), of the Norcatur-Oberlin area, was arrested by Colby police at 11:38 a.m., and he is back in jail in Oberlin...

The Red Willow County commissioners' jail task force will continue its fact-finding mission despite the McCook City Council's decision Monday not to include city law and emergency response in the study. Task force members met Tuesday evening to determine their next move as they examine costs associated with transporting and housing county prisoners in out-of-county and out-of-state jail facilities, and whether it would be more cost effective for the county to build its own jail...

The neatest thing about the expanded Heritage Senior Center in McCook is the tremendous volunteer effort which turned the project from a dream to a reality. "Don't forget the troops in the trenches," said Ken Martin, the president of the Heritage Senior Center advisory board. "Without them, this project would never have happened."...

Daytime television viewers of some significant years will no doubt recall the debut of the ongoing soap opera"All My Children." I first saw the program when I was 11 and living on Kidder Drive in Denver. My neighborhood friend Lynn McManus watched it faithfully every day, and when I could, I joined her in front of the set...

EDITOR'S NOTE -- Cpl. Jeff Tidyman has been activated with the U.S. Marine Corps and has agreed to share occasional columns on his experience. A reservist with a Des Moines, Iowa, unit, he is the son of Larry and Carla Tidyman of Benkelman and a civil engineer in civilian life...