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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.
Phyllis Cary - April 27, 2011
Funeral services for Phyllis Cary age 82 of Wisner, were held Thursday, April 21 at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Wisner with interment in the Pilger Cemetery.PPhyllis passed away on Sunday, April 17, 2011 at the Wisner Care Center.
Survivors include daughter Barbara and husband Richard Rabe of Wisner, and family, Jerry Rabe of Watertown, MN and sons Cole and Kade, Ryan Rabe of Wisner and sons Koston and Mason, Julie and husband Ramiro Andrade of Lincoln, and daughters Carmen, Adriana and Mariana, son Scott and wife Merridith Cary of Buda, TX and daughters Megan Cary of Austin, TX and Faith Cary of Houston, TX, son Bill Cary of Dickinson, TX and family, Chaise Cary of Dickinson, TX, Kelsea Cary of Dickinson, TX and children Raymond and Breanna Whitney, Logan Cary of Dickinson, TX; and sister Donna and husband Ronald Heller of Wisner.
Phyllis was preceded in death by her parents, Orville and Edna Thompson, husband, Wallace Cary, brother, James Thompson, son, Richard Cary, and grandson, Scott Richard Rabe.
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