Friday, May 24, 2013
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Where there’s smoke...
First truck was good investment
Cemetery directories completed for Memorial Day
Fantastic finish
Where there’s smoke...
Beemer’s Volunteer Fire Department made use of a perfect day Sunday for a practice burn. Firemen set an hold house on fire at the farm place of the late Marcella Belling, located on County Road 15, about 3.5 miles from Beemer. Basic fire practice, including entering a burning house, was conducted during the controlled burn.
First truck was good investment
By Bev Wieler West Point News Reporter /
Seventy-seven years ago Eddie Doescher took a chance and sold the only vehicle he owned and bought a truck. It marked the beginning of Doescher Transfer Company, located in Beemer.
Doescher’s family acknowledges that his initial investment proved to be a good one.
Doescher’s family acknowledges that his initial investment proved to be a good one.
Cemetery directories completed for Memorial Day
By Bev Wieler West Point News Reporter /
Lance Parsons searched for several years to find where his father was buried. He had lost contact with him through the years and knew he had died.
At about the same time as he was searching, Lance was also doing work on a directory for Mount Hope Cemetery in West Point.
At about the same time as he was searching, Lance was also doing work on a directory for Mount Hope Cemetery in West Point.
Fantastic finish
It wasn’t by chance, but rather hard work and dedication that Bluejay senior Emily Petz evolved into a star sprinter.
It was also her love for the sport that allowed Petz to place a giant exclamation mark on her Central Catholic track career with four medals in four events at the 2013 state track and field meet held this past weekend at Omaha Burke.
It was also her love for the sport that allowed Petz to place a giant exclamation mark on her Central Catholic track career with four medals in four events at the 2013 state track and field meet held this past weekend at Omaha Burke.
Mary Ellen Issler - February 27, 2013
Funeral services for Mary Ellen Issler were held on Friday, Feb. 22, 2013, at the Prince Of Peace Lutheran Church in Geneva. Pastor James Sells officiated. Interment was in the Pilger Cemetery, Pilger.She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Susan and Jim Bombard of Worcester, MA; son, John Schellpeper of Lincoln; stepsons, Randall Issler and wife Jean of Holdrege, and Rick Issler and wife June of Lincoln; her buddy Jack; and six grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
Mary was preceded in death by her parents; her sister Elizabeth Tinning of Norfolk in 1998; her first husband Marvin Schellpeper, originally from Stanton, in 1976, and her second husband Louis Issler of Geneva, in 1993.
Farmer & Son Funeral Home of Geneva was in charge of the arrangements.
Memorials are directed to the donor’s choice.
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