Stories from Thursday, October 27, 2005

The McCook Community College volleyball team lost its final home match Wednesday night at True Hall Gymnasium to the Air Force Prep junior varsity. The final score was 30-11, 30-16, 30-14. Five sophomores played their final regular-season match at home -- Kayla Laird, Hayes Center; Sarah Loecker, McCook; Kelsey Wyatt, Wright, Wyo.; Bronwyn Skaritka, Indianola; and Hannah Schlosser, Goodland, Kan...

Sarah Pavan, Christina Houghtelling help NU overcome pesky Kansas LINCOLN (NU SPORTS INFO) -- All-American Sarah Pavan had 12 kills, while Nebraska overcame a sluggish start to sweep Kansas, 30-23, 30-20, 30-19 in front of a sellout crowd of 4,133 Wednesday...

McCook Daily Gazette The Mid-Plains Community College board of governors ratified an agreement Wednesday to settle a question over donated funds. Under the agreement, approved in a meeting at the Hormel Center in McCook, certain funds will be transferred from the college to the Area Foundation...

By Connie Jo Discoe McCook Daily Gazette McCook seventh grader Amberette Burkey knows that McCook has a house designed by the world-famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright. And she knows that Nebraska's senator, Ben Nelson, grew up in McCook and that Nelson's boyhood home sits between the Frank Lloyd Wright house and her own home on Norris Avenue...

Oct. 15, 1912--Oct. 25, 2005 NORTH PLATTE -- Celia Lawyer, 93, died Tuesday (Oct. 25, 2005) at the Great Plains Regional Medical Center. She was born Oct. 15, 1912, in Cozad to George Joseph and Hattie Purdy Bodell. She married George Marquette on June 27, 1929, in Julesburg, Colo. She married Leonard Lawyer in Sterling, Colo., on June 14, 1972...

Aug. 7, 1923--Oct. 25, 2005 KEARNEY -- Alvina Becker Wyrick, 82, died Tuesday morning (Oct. 25, 2005) at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney following a battle with heart failure. She was born Aug. 7, 1923, in Mandan, N.D., the eldest of three children. A strong believer in education, she went to work as a secretary immediately after high school and worked to put her brother and sister through college, although she gave up that opportunity for herself...

LINCOLN -- Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning announced Wednesday that a Benkelman man has been sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison for manufacturing the illegal drug methamphetamine, a Class III felony, by Dundy County District Court Judge John Batershell...

Give the people of the McCook area credit. They treasure McCook Community College, and they will do everything possible to help the college and the area be a leader in education. That spirit of pride and support was demonstrated again Wednesday, when a crowd of 51 business people, community leaders and college officials gathered at the McCook College Student Union. ...

There're only two more days before the pheasant season officially opens in Nebraska. I realized how close it was Wednesday night when I saw a group of about six guys at the local retail store stocking up on groceries and refreshments. They were all dressed in brand new Mossberg, and Cabella's T-shirts and talking about the type of meal that will get them out into the field the fastest...

May 2, 1914--Oct. 26, 2005 OBERLIN -- Mary Eiler, 91, died Wednesday (Oct. 26, 2005) at the Cedar Living Center in Oberlin. She was born May 2, 1914, in Indianola to George W. Perkins and Mary Mae Kubic. She went to school in McCook. She married Floyd C. Eller on June 8, 1952. The couple made their home on a farm near Oberlin before moving to Oberlin. She was a homemaker...

March 8, 1908--Oct. 26, 2005 Bessie Mae Vandervort died Wednesday (Oct. 26, 2005) at the Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook at the age of 97. She was born March 8, 1908, at Quick in Frontier County, the daughter of Alfred and Mary (Shepherd) Drake. She grew up north of Perry and graduated from McCook High School in 1926...