Stories from Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Edna Keiser April 16, 1929 - July 31, 2015 IMPERIAL, Neb. -- Edna Lela (Legg) Keiser, daughter of J.C. (Jack) and Harriett (Shafer) Legg was born April 16, 1929, in Wichita, Kansas. She passed away on July 31, 2015, at the Imperial Manor in Imperial at the age of 86...

Violet Lucille Foster March 2, 1922 -July 31, 2015 JENNINGS, Kan. -- Violet Lucille Foster, 93, died Friday (July 31, 2015), at Norton County Hospital in Norton, Kansas. She was born March 2, 1922, in Jennings to Frank J. "Ted" and Della (Van Sickel) Dodson Jr. ...

Paul T. Welter May 23, 1924 - Aug. 2, 2015 OBERLIN, Kan. -- Paul T. Welter, 91, of Dresden, Kansas, died Sunday (Aug. 2, 2015), at North Point Skilled Nursing Center in Paola, Kansas. He was born May 23,1924, in rural Dresden to Peter and Maltida Welter. ...

George Carl Sayer Sept. 20, 1936 - July 31, 2015 LEXINGTON, Neb. -- George Carl Sayer, 78, of Lexington, Nebraska, passed away Friday, July 31, 2015, at his home in Lexington. He was born Sept. 20, 1936, in Cambridge, Nebraska, to Thomas and Hazel (Moore) Sayer. He graduated from Cambridge High School in 1955...

Rev. Monsignor Raymond B. Hain Aug. 3, 1923 - Aug. 2, 2015 LINCOLN, Neb. -- Rev. Monsignor Raymond B. Hain, 91, of Lincoln died Sunday, Aug. 2, 2015, He was a retired priest. He was preceded in death by his parents; brothers, John and Bohumil; and sister, Marie Devlin...

McCOOK, Neb. -- The City of McCook budget received first round approval Monday although several critical items are still up in the air. The city-wide employee wage increase has yet to be finalized and water and sewer rate increases are still an unknown, in addition to the increasingly popular practice of waiting until the final reading to announce allocations for uncommitted community betterment and sales tax funds...

Moving the Nebraska State Fair to Grand Island has been a success as far as attendance goes, with the exception of last year, when foul weather dropped attendance by 25,000 on the second Sunday, which traditionally has some of the heaviest attendance...

Late on some evenings we would sit around and tell stories as flight crews often did while pulling nuclear war alert. Especially memorable one night one of my KC-135 crew commanders was relating things that happened while he was a "guest" of the North Vietnamese in the infamous Hanoi Hilton. ...

BEAVER CITY, Neb. -- Furnas and Harlan county sheriff's officers arrested four Holbrook, Arapahoe and Oxford residents last week on drug and weapons charges. After executing search warrants, Furnas County officers arrested Troy Kruger, 41, of 303 Putnum Street in Holbrook and Greg Jones, 29, of 511 Elm in Arapahoe. ...

BARTLEY, Neb. -- The new air-conditioned "Indianola's Old Settlers Expo" on Saturday will feature the creative talents of area crafters, including those of expo coordinator Sheri Sughroue of rural Bartley and her 16-year-old son, Kaleb. Sheri says that this is the first year that the Old Settlers' celebration craft show has been inside -- with air conditioning for the comfort of shoppers...