Stories from Tuesday, September 6, 2011

June 15, 1955-Sept. 2, 2011 MINDEN, Nebraska -- Janice Doreen Paxton Avary, 56, of Minden Nebraska, departed this life at home Sept. 2, 2011, after a six-year battle with cancer. She was born on June 15, 1955, to Donald and Eunice (Wendland) Paxton in McCook, Nebraska. She grew up in Holbrook, Nebraska with her three brothers and one sister and attended Holbrook Public School where she graduated in 1973...

Sept. 1, 1929-Sept. 4, 2011 McCOOK, Nebraska -- Stanley Lee "Ole" Ohlson died Saturday, Sept. 4, 2011, at the McCook Community Hospital in McCook, Nebraska at the age of 82. He was born Sept. 1, 1929, in Bartley, Nebraska, the son of the late Carl and Lillian (Bede) Ohlson. Stan grew up in Bartley where he attended Bartley High School...

Nov. 30, 1944- Sept. 3, 2011 McCOOK, Nebraska -- Barbara Ann Frisch, age 66, of McCook, Nebraska passed away Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011, at the Community Hospital in McCook. Barbara was born Nov. 30, 1944, in O'Neill, Nebraska to Sam and Clara (Grothe) Banks. She was one of six children...

Sept. 22, 1953-Sept. 3, 2011 CAMBRIDGE, Nebraska -- Terry D. Young, age 57, of Cambridge, died on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011. He was born in McCook, Nebraska on Sept. 22, 1953 to Warren and Helen (Dyke) Young. Terry went to school in Indianola and graduated from Republican Valley High School in 1973. He continued his education attending Northwest Kansas School of Technology in Goodland, Kansas, studying communications. He graduated in 1975...

Special projects editor Jeremy Blomstedt is putting the finishing touches on a special edition to be published Thursday, "Why We Remember," in advance of Sunday's 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. As an afternoon paper, we were able to publish the news of the day as it happened, and the special edition includes a reproduction of our front page as well as personal recollections attempting to put the last 10 years into perspective...

Pigs have flown! Hell is frozen solid! Barack Obama has "bowed" to Speaker John Boehner! -- or so the headlines report. How shocking to progressive sensibilities! However, is this not the same man who without hesitation bows before foreign potentates? Oh, but they are not his "subjects."...

This has been a summer of family reunions, large, small and mine. First was a Trail reunion held in Wichita, Kansas. It was a hot dry August day like the whole summer has been in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas this year. Some 60 of us gathered inside in a nice cool church hall and the atmosphere was warm and friendly. A Trail reunion means food aplenty and there was that too...

McCOOK, Nebraska -- With the hot summer sun and 90 degree temperatures finally making their exit, the cooler weather this week reminds us that the chill of winter and the glisten of December snow will soon be upon us. Be sure to catch the spirit of the holiday season by partaking in the "Christmas on the Plains" Holiday Home Tour" held by the McCook Economic Development Corporation...

Nebraskans are among the most patriotic Americans I've ever met. We always remember meaningful days in history. September 11, 2001 is one such day. It marks that terrible moment in history when America came under attack and 3,000 innocent people were killed in an attack by terrorists...

Oct. 29, 1929-Sept. 6, 2011 INDIANOLA, Nebraska -- Johnny Charles Sis, 81, was called home to meet his Lord on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011 from the Golden Living Center-Lakeview at Grand Island, Nebraska. He was formerly from Indianola, Nebraska. Johnny was born on Oct. 29, 1929, to Mary Rose (Sterba) and Anton Method Sis in Rawlins County, Kansas, south of Stratton, Nebraska. He grew up in the Stratton, Nebraska/Atwood, Kansas, area on the farm there. On May 19, 1945, he graduated at Atwood, Kansas, from the Rawlins County Public School.