Stories from Wednesday, May 28, 2008

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Weather caused the postponement of a number of baseball and softball games Tuesday. Both McCook American Legion baseball doubleheaders were postponed. The McCook National Bank Seniors have rescheduled their doubleheader at North Platte for June 7 while the First Central Bank Juniors will travel to Hastings for their make-up doubleheader Thursday...

Sept. 3, 1921 - May 27, 2008 LaMoine Thomas McConville died Tuesday, May 27, 2008, at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook. He was 86 years old. On Sept. 3, 1921, he was born in Indianola to Thomas Patrick and Lillian C. (Colling) McConville. He graduated from Havana High School in 1940. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II...

Feb. 3, 1925 - May 26, 2008 Velma Ruth Warnock died Monday May 26, 2008, at Community Hospital in McCook, Neb., at the age of 83. She was born Feb. 3, 1925, in Hitchcock County, Neb., the daughter of the late John and Amanda (Wendele) Coyle. She grew up in Hitchcock County and graduated from high school at the Nebraska School of Agriculture at Curtis, Neb...

Nov. 3, 1926 - May 26, 2008 GRAND ISLAND -- "Charlie" Charles McBride, 81, of Grand Island, died Monday, May 26, 2008, at his home with family by his side. Services will be 10 a.m. Friday at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church. The Rev. Francis Curran will officiate. Burial of ashes will be in the Westlawn Memorial Park Cemetery with full military honors...

CAMRIDGE -- Theada R. Hill age 60, of Cambridge died at the Good Samaritan Hospital on May 23, 2008. She was born in Hazard, Kent., to Norman B. and Arty Ruth (Burrell) Hill. The family moved to Michigan in 1952, where Theada attended school and graduated from Ortonville High School. She moved to California and attended Deanza College...

The family of Howard Baumbach is hosting an open house and card shower in honor of his 90th birthday. The open house will be Sunday, June 1, 2008, from 2-4 p.m., at the Indianola Community Building. Cards of congratulations will reach him at 1205 Nelson St., Apt. C10, Cambridge NE 69022...

Burdell Thurston of McCook will celebrate his 85th birthday. He was born May 29, 1923. Family includes his wife, Jeanie Thurston, daughters Jannace and son-in-law Darwin Harris of Lafayette, Colo. and Barbara Thurston of Arvada, Colo. and grandson Michael Harris of Lafayette. Cards of congratulations will reach him at 109 Sioux Rd, McCook NE 69001...

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Mom couldn't see past the end of her nose. Well, actually, she could, but she definitely couldn't see past the hood of the car. Her one driving lesson, given by a boyfriend who preceded Dad, ended with her putting his car straight into a ditch. Maybe it was the hood ornament that distracted her. ...