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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.
Leota H. Tietz - March 14, 2012
Funeral services for Leota H. Tietz, 87, of West Point, were Wednesday, March 14, 2012, at Zion Lutheran Church, rural Bancroft. Interment was in the Zion Lutheran Cemetery.Leota passed away on Saturday, March 10, 2012 at Colonial Haven Nursing Home in Beemer.
Leota is survived by her daughter, Joyce, and son-in-law Walt Kimmel of Columbus, and her son, Dean, and daughter-in-law Debra Tietz of St. Joseph, MI; grandson, Michael Kimmel and his wife Janis, of Edina, MN; grandson, David Kimmel and his wife, Yoko, of Fort Collins, CO; grandson, Douglas Tietz and his wife, Amy, of Troy, MI; and grandson, Daniel Tietz of Bloomington, IN. Her three great-grandchildren, Logan, Henry, and Genevieve Kimmel of Edina, MN were her delight. She is also survived by her sister, Helen, and her special brother-in-law Lloyd Tietz of Bancroft; sister-in-law Eunice Neuheus of Bennington, and sister-in-law Myra Tietz of McCook.
Minnick Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
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