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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 Ann Bliemeister - September 19, 2012
Mary Ann Bliemeister, 85, of Hooper, died Monday, Sept. 10, 2012, at the Hooper Care Center.Survivors include her five daughters, Connie and husband Tom Coe of Hooper, Linda and husband, Dean Maule of Bloomfield, Sandy and husband Dan Tucker of Nickerson, Nancy and husband Greg Tomrdle of Hooper, Betty and husband Cal Tigges of Carroll, Iowa; son, Dan and wife Kelly of Cimarron, Kan.; son-in-law, Ron Schlickbernd of Dodge; 14 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; two sisters-in-law, Darlene Wortman of West Point and Liz Bliemeister of West Point.
A memorial service was Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012, at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Hooper. Rev. Damien Wee officiated. Private family committal was at St. Michael’s Catholic Cemetery in West Point.
Memorials are suggested to Odyssey Hospice and the Hooper Care Center.
Ludvigsen’s Hooper Funeral Chapel was in charge of arrangements.
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