Stories from Wednesday, December 7, 2005

**Dear Editor, I received this today and I was wondering if you might be able to print the poem in the Gazette. It is simple and expresses how alot of us serving in the Military feel; whether we are Soldier, Sailor, Marine or Coast Guardman. If you can print it please do. Thank you!...

Omaha school posts 38-4 record en route to championship LINCOLN, Ill. -- The state of Nebraska can already boast of one national championship volleyball team. The Grace University volleyball team from Omaha captured the National Christian College Athletic Association Division II Tournament, hosted by Lincoln Christian College, Lincoln, Ill., Nov. 10-12...

Area basketball teams competed in the first round of the McCook Cattle Trail Invite Tuesday. Arapahoe, Grinnell, Medicine Valley and Southwest won the chance to travel up to the next bracket in the girls division. Arapahoe, Dundy County, Hitchcock County and Hayes Center move up in the boys division...

OMAHA -- The No. 1 ranked Nebraska volleyball team makes its shortest road trip of the season this weekend, as it makes the 60-mile drive (59.26 miles according to Mapquest) up I-80 to the Qwest Center Omaha for the NCAA Omaha Regional. One of the largest crowds in NCAA volleyball history is expected, as over 12,500 tickets have been sold for the four-team regional which also features No. 4 Florida, No. 7 Louisville and No. 14 UCLA...

April 2, 1926--Dec. 4, 2005 HOLDREGE -- Mary Louise Freed, 79, died Sunday (Dec. 4, 2005) at the Holdrege Memorial Homes in Holdrege. She was born April 2, 1926, in McCook to Robert B. and Viola (Johnson) Callen. She graduated from McCook High School in 1944. ...

March 26, 1925--Dec. 5, 2005 TRENTON -- Henry James Hubl died Monday, Dec. 5, 2005, at Community Hospital of McCook at the age of 80. He was born March 26, 1925, at Spring Ranch in Clay County, the son of Anton and Bessie (Sochor) Hubl. He grew up in the Lawrence area, where he received his education...

Nov. 1, 1912--Dec. 3, 2005 George A. Foster, 93, died Saturday (Dec. 3, 2005) at Community Hospital of McCook. He was born Nov. 1, 1912, in Gothenburg to Angeloah and Martha (Sikorski) Foster. He graduated from Brady High School in 1931. He was in the U.S. Navy from 1932 until 1936. During World War II he worked in the Mare Island Ship Yard in Vallejo, Calif...

Nov. 24, 1953--Dec. 4, 2005 GRAND ISLAND -- Barbara Esther Thieben, 52, died Sunday, Dec. 4, 2005, at home from an illness. Barbara was born Nov. 24, 1953, to LaVerle and Florence (Wessel) Kesting in Norfolk. She was baptized Dec. 20, 1953, in the Mount Olive Lutheran Church at Norfolk by Rev. B. Meschke...

Dec. 7, 1941 had no real significance for Don Schaaf until 1989 when he visited his daughter in Hawaii and toured the USS Arizona for the first time. The enormity of the 1941 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor "struck me speechless," he told a meeting of Buffalo Commons Storytelling Festival organizers Tuesday night...

One of the McCook Daily Gazette's biggest editions of the year goes out to readers today. It's the Winter Sports Edition, a 34-page broadsheet section featuring pictures and stories about 47 basketball, wrestling and swimming teams in Southwest Nebraska and Northwest Kansas...

Clothes may not make the man, but they certainly do make an impression. One of my favorite pictures of Danny was taken several years ago when he met the kids and me at his mom's house, coming in straight from a job site. Sunburned and not a just little gritty, he was the epitome of a working man. He hates that picture because he's dirty and sweaty in it. I love that picture because he's dirty and sweaty in it. He sees dirt and sweat. I see a hard-working family man. Perspective...