Stories from Monday, May 22, 2006

May 20, 1928 - May 18, 2006 Eula Marion Vandegriffe, 77, died Thursday (May 18, 2006), at Rawlins County Hospital in Atwood after a long illness. She was born May 20, 1928, in rural McDonald, Kan., to Dorsey and Ruth (Josepht) Johnson. She attended a country school through the eighth grade and graduated from McDonald Rurual High School in 1946. She spent her entire life in Rawlins County...

Edward Adam Grine Jr. ("Skip"), of Oakmont, Pennsylvania died Tuesday, October 11, 2005. He was 82. He was born May 10, 1923 in Tarentum, Pennsylvania to the late Edward Adam Grine, Sr., and Genevieve (McFarland) Grine. He was a graduate of Tarentum High School, the Mercersburg Academy, and the University of Pittsburgh. ...

Oct. 7, 1922 - May 18, 2006 Myrtle Helen (Dewey) Cole, 82, departed this life May 18, 2006 in Lincoln. Myrtle was the first of six children of the late Charles and Bessie Dewey, born Oct. 7, 1933, south of Culbertson. Myrtle spent her life as a homemaker, a waitress at local restaurants, and she later attended high school under the adult education program and was employed at the gas company for many years...

OMAHA -- McCook's boys track team finished second in the Nebraska Class B state track meet for the third year in a row. The state meet took place Friday and Saturday at Omaha Burke Stadium. "We were a little down in the mouth on Friday," said Bison boys track coach John Gumb. "We had a lot of experience there on Saturday...

Dec. 21, 1980 - May 13, 2006 STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. -- Brett C. Witt, 25, died Saturday ( May 13, 2006) at Detroit, Michigan. He was born Dec. 21, 1980, in Iowa City, Iowa, to Richard and Paula (Puhl) Witt. He attended Hastings Public Schools and graduated from Hastings High School in 1999. He enlisted in the U.S. Army and attended Central Community College after high school...

March 10, 1937 - May 18, 2006 Rosalie Ann "Rosie" Blauvelt died Thursday (May 18, 2006), at McCook Community Hospital, at the age of 69. She was born March 10, 1937, in Gosper County, the daughter of the late Cornelius S. and Clara Emily (Ziebell) Wendland. She grew up on the family farm north of Arapahoe and graduated from Arapahoe High School in 1955...

McCook's Joshua Cherry hugs his coach Tom Sughroue (center) while being congratulated by Tom Lentz (left) and Bill Ramsay (right) after his win in the Nebraska Class B boys 800-meter run Saturday at the state track and field championship at Omaha Burke Stadium. Bison 400 and 1600 relay teams also brought home state gold medals, for a team second...

Do you remember your old car? It probably had its foibles. One of the power windows didn't always work. You had to hold your mouth just right to get it to start. The CD player didn't work anymore, and the button for one of the remote rearview mirrors was missing...

The morning after Nebraska's primary election, I stopped by the desk of the Gazette's editor, Bruce Crosby, and announced, "We've done it again." "What?," Bruce wondered, probably thinking I was about to crack another one of my off-the-wall jokes. "No, really," I said. "This is serious. I am referring to the fact that for the third time in my years with the Gazette, we have endorsed an underdog who has gone on to win a heated race for governor."...

Well, we went to see the highly-hyped movie last Friday night. First off, it was a clever (if not too well-woven) adventure / mystery kind of drama. It was not drenched in sex like many such movies. There was some of the obscenity of violence problem, in illustrating the religious psychosis of the main assassin, the "ghost" monk...

Through the first half of the 20th century, Nursing Homes, as we know them now were a rare commodity in this country. By and large, most folks in need of extra care were housed in the homes of relatives. Large old homes, with lots of rooms were converted to facilities for the elderly, who could no longer live alone, or were too much for the family's care...