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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.
Clarence Wegenast - March 16, 2011
Clarence Robert Wegenast, 87, of Grand Island, died Wednesday, March 9, 2011, at Wedgewood Care Center in Grand Island.Services will be 1 p.m. Friday, March 18, 2011, at Messiah Lutheran Church in Grand Island. Interment will be in the Glenvil Cemetery in Glenvil. The Rev. Harvey Johnson and Ryan Wegenast will be officiating. Visitation will be from 4-7 p.m., Thursday at Apfel Funeral Home in Grand Island.
Memorials are suggested to Messiah Lutheran Church or the Gideon Bible Society.
Survivors include his daughters, Jeanette and Kirk Romine of Grand Island, Lisa and Greg Carter of Alliance, and Stephanie and Scott Kurcz of Omaha; sons, Timothy Wegenast of Grand Island, Steve and Sarah Wegenast of Grand Island; 12 grandchildren; and 4 great-grandchildren.
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