The People Past and Present
Adamson, Florence Neva:
1 Feb 1901 - 4 May 1966, BIRTH: 1 Feb 1901, Angus, NE, DEATH: 4 May 1966, Stratton, Hitchcock Co., NE Source
Abrams, Florence (Cook):
Source: 1-31-01, Obituaries: The Salina Journal
Florence Abrams
MILFORD, Neb. -- Florence Abrams, 86, Milford, died Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2001, at Milford.
Mrs. Abrams was born Florence Cook on Sept. 23, 1914, at Sutton. She was a homemaker.
Her husband, Tom, died in 1989.
Survivors include two daughters, Linda Haney of Ridgecrest, Calif., and Meridel Abrams of Louisville, Ky.; two sons, Thomas of Harvard and Herbert of Lincoln; two brothers, Harold Cook of Monroe and Samuel Cook of Lupton, Colo.; three sisters, Lillian Zoller of Berthoud, Colo., Dorothy Schmier of Canon City, Colo., and Norma Noyes of California; and two grandsons.
The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Little Blue Christian Fellowship, Nelson, the Rev. David Sellers officiating. Burial will be in Edgar Cemetery, Edgar.
Memorials may be made to the Alzheimer's Association in care of Herb Abrams, 519 S. 30th, Lincoln, NE 68510.
Visitation will be from 1 to 8 p.m. Sunday and 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday at Klawitter-Price Funeral Home, 446 S. Main, Nelson 68961
Ahrens, Albert
Source: Nebraska State Journal October 5, 1940
Davenport Thrashes Bladen Eleven.
DAVENPORT, Neb.—Scoring in every period. Coach Walden's Davenport high gridders trimmed Bladen, 41 to 0, here Friday afternoon.
Five Davenport boys shared in
the scoring. Lynn Keim. Davenport quarterback, and Albert Ahrens, fullback, were especially outstanding for the victorious Tigers. Andrews, passing ace, was Bladen's best bet
Ahrens, Albert
Source: Lincoln Sunday Journal and Star May 11, 1941
STATE PREP SUMMARIES TRACK EVENTS
Javelin:
Class C: Won by Roy KIsling, Indianola,
172 feet 10; second, Darle Larsec, Wausa,
165 feet 8; third. Edward Hoevet, Fairfield.
158 feet 10; fourth Albert Ahrens
Davenport. 149 feet 10
Ahrens, Albert & Helen
Glover, TaeRee:
Albert Ahrens is a creationist and Native American historian. While looking for artifacts Albert found the largest small bone fossil bed in the North American Continent. He and his grand-daughter TaeRee Glover dug fossils with UNL along with some of the world's top paleontologists Dr. Voorhies, George Corner, and Dr. Xue Xiang Xu from China. TaeRee found a deer antler of a species never discovered before. The deer was named the "TaeRee deer." Albert and TaeRee were featured on the front page of the Omaha World Herald and in the Nebraskaland's Cellers of Time (Page 72-73) magazine. They were guest speakers at the International College Science Convention.
Albert is the Senior Elder and lead guitarist at Little Blue Christian Fellowship. he and his wife (Helen (of 58 years) reside in Angus, Nebraska. Albert will be the Wagon master and Curt Jensen the Scout for the Oregon Trail and the Albert Ahrens Fossil Site 104 tour on Friday afternoon. The Prairie Bonnet Girls Nichole Sellers and Katie Jensen will be assisting.
Source: Little Blue Fellowship's Missionary Conference july 27-29, 2001 Pamphlet
Little Blue Christian Fellowship
Rt. 2 Box 75
Nelson, Nebraska 68961
AHRENS, ALBERT
SELLERS GLOVER, TAEREE
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Source: The Hastings Tribune Newspaper 05-17-1997
Digging paleontology
Angus man's 'incredible' find spawns interest in Ice Age fossils
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By Rebecca Oltmans
Tribune Staff Writer
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ANGUS - Talk about beginner's luck. When it comes to unearthing history, Albert Ahrens of Angus has plenty.
Two old bones he found in a gully in Nuckolls County in the late 1970s -the ones he thought so little of they lay in his yard for several years -just happened to be markers of what paleontologists call one of the most important North American fossil sites from the Middle Ice Age.
The discovery started a passion for paleontology which continues today and is shared by Ahrens' granddaughter TaeRee Sellers, also of Angus.
Twenty years later Ahrens is no beginner to paleontology. His fossil finds now come from years of hard work as well as luck. The fossil site, named Albert Ahrens site No. 104, continues to produce fossils and Ahrens and Sellers plan to keep digging up history near home and in other parts of the state.
Ahrens' discovery would be enough to jump start anyone's curiosity about fossils, but as a local historian even more so.
Ahrens, a retired custodian at Sandy Creek Junior/Senior High School near Fairfield, said he's been scavenging around on gullies and sandbars since he was a little boy. He discovered the bones while hunting artifacts in a gully near Angus, on land his family at one time leased.
At the time, he said, he "didn't think too much of them." The bones lay around his acreage for several years before a representative with the Nebraska State Historical Society came to look at Ahrens' collection of artifacts in 1986.
"When he saw the two bones that stopped everything," Ahrens said.
A phone call brought George Corner of the University State Museum to the site. Corner then called Mike Voorhies, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the museum, and told him the site was "wall-to-wall fossils," Ahrens said.
The original bones Ahrens found turned out to be the toe bones of a mammoth. Corner and Voorhies took eight sacks of soil from the site to the museum.
"They told us you usually dig all day and maybe find one bone. Here there were bones in every shovelful," Ahrens said.
The site is "just incredible," said Corner, collection manager of vertebrate paleontology at the museum.
It's one of the most important Ice Age sites in North America, he said, and has drawn a fairly steady stream of paleontologists, history buffs and volunteers to help with the digging.
After five digs by museum officials, as well as ongoing work by Ahrens and the rest of the family, the list of species found in the site reads almost like an encyclopedia of vertebrate animals: mammoth, horse, camel, mastodon, muskrat, beaver, mouse, duck, deer, shrew, stork, swan, frogs and so on.
So far, fossils of approximately 200 vertebrate species have come from the one-acre site, Corner said. Even bones from birds, which Corner said are difficult to find preserved because of their hollow structure, have been found.
Museum officials believe a couple of the species may be new, including a deer whose curved antlers are different than other known deer species.
Studies of the remains have led officials to believe the site was once a wooded basin for animals, with marshy, quiet water.
Through the years, Ahrens, Sellers and other family members got a firsthand account of how to find and preserve fossils and have accompanied paleontologists on various digs in Nebraska.
The digs are fun, the two said, but they are also a lot of work. They've shoveled tons of dirt, made countless casts of fossils, mapped their findings, and sometimes even transported fossils from site 104 to the university in the trunk of a car.
Sellers, a junior at Central Community College-Hastings, has been digging fossils since she was a small girl. Although she enjoys her hobby and once considered it as a career, she is now working to be a physician's assistant.
Ahrens and his family donated all their specimens to the museum, except for the original bones he found. The family often makes presentations at schools and libraries, talking about history and, of course, fossils.
Corner said the museum hopes to continue work at site 104 in the future
Basinger, David F:
b. July 7, 1907 d. March 11, 1979 Funeral servies Held Thursday March 15, 1979, 2:00pm ath Church of God Edgar, Nebraska, ; Clegyman The Rev. Forrest E Witt; Music How Great Thou Art" "rock of Ages"; Soloist Mrs. Forrest E Witt; Organist Mrs. Kenneth L. Dohse; Casketbearers, Kenneth Dohse, Albert Ahrens, Byron kinnison, Gene Ferebee, Rollan Johnson, Norland Melvin; Burial Edgar Cemetery Edgar, Nebraska. Source: Funeral Pamphlet
Basinger, Florence E.
Date of Birth October 19, 1899
Date of Death April 24, 1986
Services Held at Marengo United Methodist Church Saturday, 10:00am April 26, 1986
Clergymen Officiating: Rev. David Sellers & Rev. Forrest Witt
Place of Burial: Edgar Cemetery Edgar Nebraska may 1, 1986
Arrangements: Snyder Funeral Director
Source: Funeral Pamphlet
Beavers, Robert
Biltoft, Gerald
Nora resident Gerald Biltoft, 54, died Wednesday, Jan. 10, 1996, at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.
Services are 2 p.m. Saturday at Nelson Community United Church of Christ with the Rev. Royce Buchtel officiating. Burial will be in Nelson Cemetery at Nelson. Visitation is until 8 p.m. today and 9 a.m. until services Saturday at Klawitter-Price Funeral Home in Nelson.
Mr. Biltoft was born Aug. 17, 1941, to Oscar and Wanda (Lowery) Biltoft in Deshler. He graduated from Nelson High School. On June 24, 1962, he married Carol Diane Shipley in Angus.
He was a member of Nelson Community United Church of Christ, Elk Creek Country Club, both in Nelson, Belgian Draft Horse Association of America and Nebraska Draft Horse Association. He was a past member of Nuckolls County Fair Board and Farmers Union Elevator Board.
Survivors are his wife; one son, Todd of Greeley, Colo.; his mother of Superior; one brother, Larry of Ruskin; and four sisters, Nola McCartney of Odell, Connie Nickel and Linda Poppe, both of St. Paul, and Shirley Wegener of Jackson, Miss.
He was preceded in death by one son, Toby Lynn, and his father.
Memorials may be sent to the family at Rural Route 1, Box 92, Nora, NE 68961.
Source: Hastings Tribune Obituary
Brooks, Mrs. Ollie
Source: The Lincoln Evening News Saturday September 2, 1911
Mrs. Ollie Brooks, aged sixty, died in the city this morning. The body is being held awaiting the arrival of relatives from Angus, Neb.
Brown, Alex
Services are 2pm Tuesday at Nelson Community United Church of Christ in Nelson with the Rev. Royce Buchel Officiating. Nelson Resident Alex Brown, 76, died Friday, September 19, 1997 at his home. Burial will be in Nelson Cemetery. Visitation is until 9pm today and 9am to noon Tuesday at Klawitter Price Funeral Home in Nelson.
Mr. Brown was born December 24, 1920, to Ora and Nelle (Coors) Brown in Walker, Mo. He graduated from Davenport High School. He served in the US Marine Corps during World War II from 1945-46 in the Pacific Theatre. On March 17, 1945, he married Lyla McGinness in Mankato, Kan. He farmed Northeast of Nelson.
He was a member of Angus Evangelical united Brethren Church and Angus Church of Christ. He served on the church board at both churches. He attended the Nelson Community United Church of Christ at the time of death. He served on the Oxbow and Nelson Boards of Education and the elevator board. Survivors are his wife; six daughters, Ruth Staley and Doris Brown, both of Kearney, JoAnn Kruse of Omaha, Margaret Rasmussen of Lincoln, Martha Thompson of Hoskins and Barbara Dahlman of Atchison, Kan.; three sons, Robert of Shelton, Arnold of Nelson and Kenneth of Geneva; one sister, Norma Keldsen of Malcolm; 18 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by an infant sister. Memorials may be given to Nelson Community United Church of Christ in care of the family, Rural Route 2, Box 118, Nelson, NE 68961.
Source: Hastings Tribune Obituary
BUERER, LEILA
Edgar Resident, 86; Leila Renza Buerer, 86, of Edgar died Monday, Nov. 27, 2000, at the Memorial Hospital in Aurora.
She was born to Arthur and Ethel (Elliott) Kinnison on June 16, 1914, at Angus. She attended the Angus School. Leila was married to Keith Clarence Buerer on Oct. 3, 1932, in Angus. To this union, nine children were born.
They spent most of their lives farming in the Nuckolls and Clay Counties. He died June 24, 1974. She remained on the farm and then moved into the Edgar community later, becoming a resident of the Rose Brook Skilled Services.
She was a member of the Church of the Plains in Edgar, a lifetime member of the Edgar American Legion Auxiliary in which she was a Gold Star Sister, and a member of the Prairie Dale Women's Club. She was a past president of both organizations.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; three sons, Donald, James and Richard; one grandson; four sisters; and two brothers.
Survivors include three sons, Keith Jr. (Jean) Buerer of Nevada City, Calif., Gean (Marlene) Buerer of Geneva, and Dennis of Clay Center; three daughters, Deloris (Lou) Springer and Nancy (Ken) Overturf, all of Edgar, and Pat (John) Riggle of Columbus; two daughters-in-law, Myra Buerer of Clay Center and Deb Buerer of Fairfield; one brother, Bob Kinnison of Kenniwick, Wash.; 25 grandchildren; 51 great-grandchildren; and four great-great grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m., Friday, Dec. 1, at the Church of the Plains in Edgar with the Rev. Rick Cepris officiating. Burial will be in the Edgar Cemetery. Memorials may be sent to the family.
Source: York News Times Obituary
Bures, Anna E.
Mrs. Anna E. Bures Dies at 92 Years
"Mrs. Anna E. Bures whose home was at 239 east Seventh died Friday at the Mary Lanning Memorial Hospital. She was born 92 years ago in Washington, Ia.
Mr. and Mrs. Bures came to Hastings from the Angus community in 1925 and she was a member of the First Presbyterian Church.
She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Frank Kime of Hastings, five grandchildren, 15 great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren and her sister, Mrs. Etta Swift of Rock Island, Ill.
Arrangements for services will be announced by the Brand Mortuary."
Source: http://www.buresfamily.net/bures/d2.html
Bures, Fern
Source: The Lincoln State Journal August 14, 1921
Fern Bures, a student of Cotner, returned to her home this week from her vacation spent at Angus, Neb.
Bures, Rudolph A.
Rudolph A. Bures, 83, died Wednesday at the Mary Lanning Memorial Hospital.
Bures came at the age of 6 from Illinois to Angus. He later became a merchant and retired in 1925 in Hastings. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church.
He is survived by his widow; a [step]daughter, Mrs. Frank Kime of Saskatchewan, Canada; five grandchildren; two brothers, Richard of Tacoma, Wash., and Alfred of Angus, and a sister, Mrs. Lucretia Cowen of Tennessee.
The body is at the Volland Funeral Home pending arrival of his [step]daughter, when funeral arrangements will be made. She is now en route by air."
(Hastings Tribune, 908 W 2nd St, Hastings, NE 68901-5063, USA.)
Rudolph Ada Bures was born on 24 Mar 1866 in Jersey Co, Illinois, USA, died on 18 May 1949 in Hastings, Adams Co, Nebraska, USA (Mary Lanning Memorial Hospital, 715 N St Joseph Ave, Hastings, NE 68901-4497, USA) at age 83, and was buried in Edgar, Clay Co, Nebraska, USA. Another name for Rudolph was Rudolph Adolphus Bures.
"Rudolph and Louie went into partnership and became the money-makers of the family. They ran threshing outfits, a general store, the grain elevator, the bank and about the whole town of Angus, Nebraska for a number of years. They had the first garage in that part of the state and being natural mechanics they once manufactured an automobile that would actually run long before there was an automobile anywhere. They also built a cornpicker which operated on much the same principle as the McCormick people later successfully placed on the market but their interests were too varied to concentrate on any one thing to they soon dropped both the auto and cornpicker ideas, finding they could make more money running the store, bank, and elevator. Louis at 50 married a girl of 18 and Rudolph at a still later age married a lady who had been his nurse at the hospital where he was taking treatments for rheumatism which he was subject to."
-- Burres, Carla, comp., Pioneers, Preachers, Printers and Professors, (Fayette, MO, 1997), Page 3.
He worked as a storekeeper in Angus, Nuckolls Co, Nebraska, USA, according to the 1910 census
He appeared on the 13th Census of the United States on 15 Apr 1910 in Angus, Nuckolls Co, Nebraska, USA. The census indicates he was a boarder in the home of William Drugee on Edgar Street. The census also indicates he spoke English and was able to read and write
Other Obituary:
Bures Services Are Here and at Edgar
"Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon at the Volland Funeral Home for Rudolph A. Bures who died here May 18. The Rev. Silas G. Kessler officiated and O. L. Goodrich sang, with accompaniment by Miss Ann Goodrich.
Pallbearers were A. J. Theobald, C. W. Roback, O. A. Riley, L. P. Carpenter, H. D. Moreland, all of Hastings, and Gene Kemper of Alliance.
The body was taken to Edgar where graveside services were conducted by the Rev. Mr. Kessler and Mr. Goodrich sang. Pallbearers there were Arthur Jackson, Bruce Merrill, Omen Elifritz, S. Kenly, Ralph Sconce and John King.
Relatives and friends who came from out of town to attend the funeral services include Mr. Bures' [step]daughter, Mrs. Frank Kime of Milestone, Saskatchewan, Canada; Mrs. Merle Burres of Western, Mr. and Mrs. Dale Bures of Lincoln, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Bures of Angus; Mrs. Lucretia Cowan and Grace and Mr. and Mrs. Nichols, all of Geneva; Mrs. Jennie Graham, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bottam, Mrs. Anna Bottam and Mr. and Mrs. William Reid, all of Edgar; Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Wittrig, Mr. and Mrs. Dale Darbyshire, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Schneider and Mrs. Ettein Spinler, all of Washington, Ia.; Mrs. Pat Armstrong of Riverton and Rolland Brock of Omaha."
(Hastings Tribune, 908 W 2nd St, Hastings, NE 68901-5063, USA.)
Source: http://www.buresfamily.net/bures/d2.html
Burkett, Mildred
Mildred S. Burkett Saturday, August 17, 2002. Edgar Resident Mildred Sarah (Peters) Burkett, 87, died Saturday, August 17, 2002, at her home. Services are 2pm Tuesday at Klawitter-Price Funeral Home Chapel in Nelson with the Rev. Arthur Schakat officiating. Burial will be in Nelson City Cemetery in Nelson. Visitation is until 9pm today and 9am to 2pm Tuesday at the funeral home.
Mrs. Burkett was born Aug. 10, 1915 to John and Jennie (Taylor) Peters in rural Edgar. She grew up on the family farm and attended rural country school. On March 30, 1935, she married Roy B Burkett in Belleville, Kan. They lived on a farm near Angus where they farmed and raised cattle, sheep and hogs. She was a caregiver for her mother in law. She lived in Angus, Oak, Geneva and Wauneta. Her husband died March 7, 1991 .
Survivors are one daughter, Phillis Nelson of Hastings; one sister, Donna Rogers of Kennewick, Wash.; one brother, Clyde of Phoenix; five grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren. She also was preceded in death by two brothers and one sister.
Source: Hastings Tribune Obituary August 17, 2002
Landon, Philip R.
P. Parson Bob
Source Nelson Gazette 11-30-1933
Philip R. Landon was born April 15, 1846 on Goat Island, Iowa Territory near where is now Decatur, Nebraska. When but a few months old his mother died, and his father was a military man he was adopted into a Pottowatomie Indian family living near by, who raised him until about ten years of age; When he started out on his own, he went to Omaha City, thence westward over the overland trail to Fort Laramie Wyoming. He was attached to the military post as a helper, and with the assistance of the officers and his own determination he obtained a very limited education. He later was employed by the Government as a Contract Scout, being too young to enlist in that branch of service.
He was under General Custer during the first part of that notable campaign and received serious wounds in a skirmish with the Indians on the 17th day of June 1876. A few days prior to the Custer Massacre he had been relieved of active scout duty and was being returned to Deadwood for hospitalization. A Few days later upon his arrival at that city, he learned of his Chief’s untimely end. He had previously operated on the Oregon Trail as Pony Express Rider, Scout, Guarding transport wagon trains, and was also located as a Scout with outpost near the Little Blue Station. His services as Scout and Civil Officer which extended over a period of 29 years terminated about 1889.
In the middle of October 1889, he was married to Miss Naomi Bishop of Eagleville MO, she accidently shot herself two weeks later and died of the wounds. He later reentered the World’s Faith Missionary Association, Shenandoah, Iowa and was ordained a minister at the place by Rev. C.S. Hanely, May 14, 1890. On May 22, 1893, he was married to Miss Gussie Dodge, near Waupaca, Wisconsin. At the end of 19 months his wife died, leaving an infant daughter who is now Mrs. Zola Carson of Thief River Falls, Minn. On August 31st, 1897, he was married to miss Susanna Case at Tecumseh, Nebr. They resided in Sterling, Nebr for almost 34 years, his wife having died August 24, 1931. Since that time he has visited in different parts of the country with friends and acquaintances.
When life departed him he was a guest at Dana College, Blair, Nebraska where he had been lecturing and investigating early Indian cultures in that vicinity. He received the nickname of Parson Bob after he had offered prayer at the grave of Calamity Jane’s mother who died of wounds received at the hands of the Indians. Calamity Jane received her nickname on the day of her mother’s burial, after one of the mourning troupers, when observing the parentless child sleeping, he sobbed aloud “Well, this is an awful calamity.” thereupon Parson Bob exclaimed: “from henceforth she shall be called Calamity Jane.
Parson Bob was a member of the Knights of St. Galahad, Ancient Order, Knights of Scotland; Member of Council at Furgis Falls Minn., Episcopal Church, June 21, 1932. Also a member of National Council, Boy scouts of America. Served on Courts of Honor at Nebraska City, Auburn, and Falls City, Nebr., and St. Paul, Minn; as well as Staff Officer in various camps throughout the middle west.
He lectured for many years throughout the central states on “the old west” as he knew it, and lived it, for so many years. One might say the was raised on the Oregon Trail. He never left it very far. He now is back , to rest - through the ages - at the place he loved best; near his old Sentinal Outpost at the Little Blue Station on the Old Oregon Trail.
The Funeral Service of Parson Bob Landon was one of the largest ever held in Nuckolls County. It was different. Near the outpost where for fourteen years he was Scout of the Oregon Trail his body now lies at rest. Large crowds from near and far viewed the remains of the deceased as they lay in state in the Scout Cabin, A few feet from his resting place. His was a large group of mourners.
The service was conducted by Rev B. H. Schrader, American Legion Chaplain, the eulogy by President Erland Nelson of Dana College, Rev Schrader was assisted by Rev Rasmussen and Rev Hughes of Edgar. And the sermon was given by Rev WB Zimmerman of Nelson. Doctor Keith of Edgar and Mrs. Eva Follmer of Oak whose husband was the first Treasurer of Nuckolls County, Each gave a brief response. Music was furnished by a male quartet from Edgar Boy Scout Troops, A Drum Corps, a Bugle Corps, Military men and the Indian Death Farewell by Princess Towana added to the impressiveness of the service.
Calamity Jane
P. Parson Bob
Landon, Phillip R.
PARSON BOB CHOSE NUCKOLLS COUNTY
The grave of the famous caravan scout, Indian fighter and foster father of notorious Wild West figure Calamity Jane, Phillip R Landon or Parson Bob, is located on the Little Blue River two miles southeast of Angus. Parson Bob spent his entire life on the Great Plains and had such a powerful affliction for Nuckolls County, he chose to be laid to rest here.
Though everyone agrees Landon was born April 15, 1846, there is a dispute concerning the location of his birth. Some say he was born on Goat Island in the Missouri River near Decatur, Neb., others believe he was born in an Indian camp. Landon's mother died when he was a few months old and his father left him to be raised by local Indians. The Indians taught the white child their language, horsemanship and prairie survival skills. He was returned to his own people at age 10.
Landon's scouting career began when he was 16 years old in 1862. This was period of heavy overland stage traffic across Nebraska. Landon was a government contract scout for 14 years. His knowledge of the physical features lining the Oregon Trail was legendary. He escorted travelers from the Nebraska-Kansas line to Fort Casper, Wyo. Landon established a lookout encampment near Angus, using it from 1870-1880.
While fighting with Gen. George Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876, Landon was wounded in the arm and lost its use. During his scouting career he was wounded 11 times and his body was filled with scars from arrows and bullets.
Although Landon's reputation as Parson Bob lasted because he was known for being and evangelist on the trail and a man of high moral character, his nickname developed for preaching one sermon and saying one prayer during a tragedy.
A boy in his teens, Landon found himself giving a funeral sermon for a young woman killed during an Indian raid. He had no preaching experience, but no one else was available for the duty, so Landon performed the service.
The woman had been married to a soldier who had brought his wife to Fort Laramie against the military's wishes. The soldier was discharged and forced to leave the fort. A baby daughter was born a short time later, named Martha Jane Burke. At the time of the raid, the baby was hidden away and was left unharmed. When the slaughter was discovered, someone looking at the body of the dead mother and the baby nearby said, "What a calamity!" The nicknames given to those who were part of the tragic affair endured. The baby was known there after as Calamity Jane, Landon as Parson Bob, these events are said to be documented by military records.
Landon was so taken with the baby, he cared for her as his own, giving her clothes and taking her wherever he went. At the age of 86 in 1933, while standing atop his lookout point in Nuckolls County, Landon told Oak resident , Eugene Follmer, "here was the happiest time of my life, I had my little girl with me, my little Calamity Jane. I loved her as a father loves his daughter. Yes, she was a good woman whatever men may say."
Landon was friends with many famous Wild West characters including, "Wild Bill" Hickok, Buffalo Bill Cody and "Diamond Dick" Tanner. He lived at Sterling, Neb., for 34 years. Described as tough but not rough, Landon looked the part of a typical frontiersman. he wore long straight hair, a mustache, goatee and heavy clothing made of hides or thick cloth. It is said Landon never drank alcohol and refused to sleep indoors, preferring a tent.
In his later years,. Landon often visited his beloved lookout point near Angus and was acquainted with many area residents. Those who knew him said he hadn't forgotten anything about the area, clearly remembering places, names and events. Landon was a member of the national council of Boy Scouts of America and enjoyed taking youngsters on campouts and nature hikes. Despite his advancing age, those who attended the campouts said Landon did not walk but trotted a fast pace through the woods and streams.
Landon requested he be buried near Angus just prior to his death, Nov. 22, 1933. He died in his room at Dana College, Blair, where he had been doing research on area Indians and lecturing to students on Nebraska pioneer life. An official government burial was given for his years of service and for shedding light on the story of Calamity Jane. Area Boy Scouts had erected a memorial surrounded by an iron gate at the spot Landon requested he be buried. At the time of his death, a key to the gate was found in Landon's pocket.
It is thought Landon was the last surviving government caravan scout.
Source: Hastings Tribune Newspaper Article, Date Unknown
COX, Mrs. Lafe
Source: The Lincoln Star Spetember 2, 1922
Elmwood, Nebr.
Mrs. Lafe Cox, of Angus Nebr., arrived Wednesday for a visit with her monther, Mrs. Reid.
Culbertson, Alice Marie (Bueoy)
Angus resident Alice Marie (Bueoy) Culberston, 89, died Sunday, April 23, 2000, at Brodstone Memorial Nuckolls County Hospital in Superior.
Graveside servies are 3pm Wednesday at the Edgar Cemetery with the Rev. Harold Fox officiating. Williams Funeral Home of Edgar is in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Culbertson was born March 9, 1911, to Clarence V and Etta E. (Palmer) Bueoy in Clay Center. On March 10, 1928, she married Joseph Harry Culbertson. They farmed near Angus. In 1981 her husband died.
Survivors are three sons, Billie Jo of Davenport, Rollan and Gary, both of Nelson; one daughter Bonnie Wicker of Edgar; 12 grandchildren, 28 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by three brothers; one sister; and one grandchild.
Source: Hastings Tribune Obituary 4-23-2000
Culbertson, Ivan
Search for Nelson Youth Fails; Missing 12 days
The search for a missing Nuckolls County boy nears the end of the second weekw ithout success.
Ivan Culbertson, 15 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Culbertson, has not been seen by his parents since he left home Saturday, April 3, to attend a dance in Nelson.
Late that night, a Nebraska highway patrol officer was pursuing a car, thought to be driven by Culbertson when the car went out of control and crashed into a power pole as the driver attempted to turn off Highway 14, three miles north of Nelson.
Officers report the driver fled into the darkness on foot.
Volunteers were summoned and a search of the immediate area was begun. At first it was not known how seriously he may have been hurt in the accident; However, later reports were that he was in Superior Sunday morning.
The car was damaged in the accident but it was driven back into Nelson Sunday morning.
The Culbertsons and local law enforcement officers have pursued numerous leads as to his whereabouts to no avail.
He reportedly was riding around in a car in Superior the next morning but left the car saying he had to meet someone.
His parents describe Ivan as not normally being the type of youth that would run away. However, they say he was worried over a scheduled court appearance in juvenile court and when pursued on the traffic charge probably panicked and ran.
Anyone with information concerning his possible whereabouts should contact the parents.
Source: The Superior Express Newspaper Date Unknown
Culbertson, Joe H.
Born September 10, 1904 Angus, Nebraska
Died: July 10, 1981 Hastings, Nebraska
Age 75 years 10 months
Urbauer Funeral home Edgar Nebraska in Charge of Arrangements
Burial: Edgar Cemetery, Edgar, Nebraska
Source: Funeral Pamphlet
Culbertson Reta
Angus School
Angus School Dist. #23 4-H Soil Toilers Conservation Club of Angus School
Source: The Superior Express (date unknown)
Open House May 2 At Angus School
The 4-H Soil Toilers Conservation Club of the Angus school held an open house Friday afternoon, May 2, from noon to 3 p.m.. A good number of parents, patrons and visitors from Edgar and Nelson were in attendance.
The exhibits were in connection with the science lessons and conservation practices. They were displayed on tables. One was of wildlife, displaying a fish pond showing protection for ducks, geese, and other water fowl. The rabbits also had habitats along the fence row. The next table showed a farm dug - out which furnished water for cattle, the preserving of ensilage in a trench and upright silo. Another table contained potted noxious weeds which the youngsters had dug and pictures of harmful insects were shown. On the outside of the school building, a demonstration was shown representing a farm being irrigated on which the children had planted corn and it was growing. Each student had a station at which they told of the project.
Reta Culbertson was in charge of the guest book.
Ice tea, cookies and wafers were served from a table laid with a rustie green and tan fringed picnic tablecloth and centered with a tractor pulling a trailer loaded with tulips and spring flowers.
Culbertson, William
William Culbertson
Source: Obituary
Old Edgar Resident Dies in Hastings
William Culbertson, Edgar's oldest citizen, died while eating breakast in a Hastings hospital Sunday, March 28. He was 94.
The funeral service was conducted Tuesday, March 30, at 2 p.m., at the Urbauer Chapel in Edgar, with the Rev. Lincoln Justice officiating. Burial was in the Edgar Cemetery.
Survivors include his son, Joe Culbertson, Angus, and daughters, Mrs. homer Mallory, omaha, and Mrs. Edwin Zuelow, Hastings.
Devitt, Marion
Dohse, Kenneth
Wroughton, Wayne
Lindville, Frank
Springer, Bonnie
Overturf, Pansy
Source: Newspaper Article
Sunday World herald, November 8, 1970
By Tom Allan
NEBRASKA VILLAGE THAT AIN't STILL IS
VOTE CUTE RED TAPE
Angus, Neb. -
This tiny Nuckolls County Village that some said isn't any more definitely is.
Mrs. Marion Devitt, Village Clerk, wishes reporters who said Angus voted itself off the Nebraska map in Tuesday's elections would tend to their knitting.
That's what she intends to do.
What actually happened was that all of the 11 eligible voters in this hamlet of 17 voted unanimously to abolish the town's status as an incorporated community.
But please, unless you want to face Mrs. Devitt and her knitting needles, Angus will remain on the map.
Actually, the vote means the folks here were tired of government red tape. Mayor Wayne Wroughton, who took time out from helping harvest milo, and Mrs. Devitt explained. "I'm done being called your honor" his honor said. "It'll be up to the county commissioners from now on.
A RELIEF
"As of Jan 1 we just won't have any more city business to transact," added the white haired city clerk. "It'll all be done over at the county seat at Nelson, 10 miles Southwest. And I'll have more time for my crocheting and knitting. It'll be a relief."
The mayor blamed a population decline from 35 in the 1960 census as well as the government red tape for stepping out of the incorporated ranks. "We don't have a sewer, power, or water system so what difference does it really make?" He said.
It was the way the state kept sending us new forms to fill out, asking us to make estimates of what were we going to do with streets and sewers and the like six years ahead," Mrs. Devitt added "why, for months we don't even have a bill coming in and they want estimates six years in advance.
"It was a headache. Well now the county can grade our gravel streets (her husband operates a county road maintainer). If not, we'll do it ourselves or wade in the mud." Both officials said there was another major factor --no youth.
HUNTING AREA
They said the youngest citizens are 45-50. The board, besides Mayor Wroughton, Mrs. Devitt and her husband, includes Frank Lindville, 85. his wife is city treasurer the sixth member is Mrs. Bonnie Springer.
Mrs. Devitt said she had told the mayor she was going to resign before the election. Then he went down and got together with the county attorney and we put the dissolution of the incorporation of Angus on the ballot," she said. "it was getting to the point where when you are all as old as we are on the board, it was getting nerve-racking." Farmer - General Store Operator, Kenneth Dohse said Angus is definitely on the map as one of the states best hunting headquarter.
Two hunters from Oklahoma moved in Thursday for the pheasant season opening Saturday and he expects 10 to 15 more hunting season residents as well as scores of others who stop off at the store for supplies, his artistry as a licenses shell loader, and hunting tips.
NO FEDERAL AID
Dohse is upset that maybe the voting residents "jumped the gun" in the eelction. he claimed the business people had no vote. He and his wife live outside of town. So does the operator of the only garage and Mrs. Pansy Overtuf, Postmaster.
"We wish they had waited until they had to " Dohse said. "As I understand it, we now are no longer eligible for federal aid funds, low-cost housing and the like and I imagine it will be more difficult for us to get bank loans. I think they out to have waited until they saw what happens when the Angus Dam goes in. That could mean a lot of new people in here.
Angus Dam is part of the Little Blue Project of the Missouri Basin Plan. The proposed dam would be two to three miles upstream from the town. The mayor and Mrs. Devitt concede a touch of sadness over the declining forthunes of the village. The town, named for a Burlington Railroad official, once had a bustling economy.
Neal wehrman 89, the oldest resident, remembers it as a boy when the Burlington first lured settlers.
We used to have a railroad depot, two elevators, lumberyard, blacksmith shop, a hotel, and a bank," Mrs. Devitt said. "we had two churches but they moved ou the united Brethren. now all we have left is the store, garage, post office and the Church of Christ where we voted and a rural school out in the county. Oh, yes we still have our sod house we built for the state centennial three years ago.
Asked about Angus's Future, Mrs. Devitt said she wouldn't tempt to say."
If we don't get young people in and if the old people all pass on I suppose we might just become a spot on the road" she said. "but until we do we are certainly going to be on the map.
Dohse, Alice Deppe
EDGAR TEACHER LEAVING AFTER 13 YEARS...
Source: Clay County Leader, June 3, 1964
Mrs. Alice Dohse wound up 13 consecutive years of teaching in the Edgar Public School Tuesday, May 26. She has accepted a position as teacher of the Angus School for next term.
Mrs. Dohse joined the Edgar faculty in 1951. Mr. Kurt Bowden was the superintendent at that time. She served usually as kindergarten and first grade teacher, but also taught fourth grade one year.
This term Mrs. Dohse had the unique experience of teaching kindergarten class in the mornings, and then driving to Nelson to teach kindergarten classes there in the afternoon.
Mrs. Dohse has seen many changes in the Edgar School during the past 13 years. The kindergarten room itself has been moved into three different locations in the building. When she began teaching in Edgar, the teachers brought a sack lunch, because the hot lunch program had not been begun here.
Mrs. Dohse lives with her husband, Kenneth, and daughter, Ruth in Angus. Next term, when Ruth is a senior in Edgar High School, will be the first year her mother will not be in the same schoolhouse. The Angus School is just across the street from the Dohse home.
Mrs. Dohse will be long remembererd by the many young people whose lives she has touched. She will be greatly missed by teachers and children alike who wish her well in the future.
DOHSE, ALICE MAE DEPPE
Alice Dohse-obituary
Alice May Dohse, 87, the daughter of Henry A. and Hattie (Johnson)
Deppe was born Dec. 7, 1912, at their farm home 3 1/2 miles east of
Glenvil. She died last Wednesday at the Brodstone Memorial Nuckolls
County Hospital in Superior.
She attended Glenwood School, District 56, east of Glenvil. She graduated with the class of 1929 from Glenvil High School. She earned a bachelor degree from Hastings College in 1939 and worked on a master's degree at the University of Nebraska. She had a certificate of life senior professional elementary arts. She taught Old Testament History and was the director of music at Midwest Bible School, Gordon, Neb. She taught history, science, math and music from 1942 to 1944 at Plymouth High School. Alice and her mother moved to a farm one-mile south of Edgar. There she married Kenneth Leland Dohse on Sept. 28, 1944. She taught kindergarten, first and second grades in the Edgar public school from 1951 to 1964 and one year she also taught the fourth grade. Her last year in Edgar, she taught kindergarten in the morning and drove to Nelson to teach kindergarten in the afternoon. She also taught at Angus District 23 from 1965 to 1971 and served as a substitute teacher. Alice and Kenneth farmed together and operated the Angus GeneralStore. She was a member of the First Church of God in Edgar where she was an active worker in the missionary society and was the pianist and organist. Alice had moved from her home in Angus to the Good Samaritan Center in Nelson, in August, 1997. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband on June 29, 1994, and a grandson, Troy Alan McLaughlin in September, 1989. Survivors include her daughter Mrs. Bill McLaughlin (Ruth), Edgar, and a granddaughter, Deana Jo Bischoff of Angus.
Services were held Saturday at the Williams Funeral Home Chapel in
Edgar. Pastor David Sellers officiated. Burial was in the Glenvil
Cemetery.
DOHSE, ALICE
Edgar Eighth Grade History 1958-1959
This years eigth graders started kindergarten in 1959 with Mrs. Alice Dohse as teacher and the following enrollment: Rex Bailey, Ritta Blackburn, Dennis Fitzke, James Horst, Clark Kinnison, John Larson, Danny Lautenschlager, Mike Merrill, David Wacker , Richard Shaw, Rogene Nelson, Kim Harnett, Jimmy Solden, Debby White, Judy Pieden Kenny Stairs and Danny Grummert.
The First grade found Mrs. Dohse as our teacher and we lost Kenny Stairs, Debby White and Judy Piepho and gained Tommy Stanke
Mrs. dohse was again our teacher for the second grade and we lost Jimmy Solden and gained Janice Anderson.
Mrs. Margaret Humbert was our third grade teacher and we lost Ritta Blackburn but gained David Bondegard.
Mrs. Meester was our fourth grade teacher and this year we lost Rogene Nelson, Kim Harnett, Janice Anderson and Tommy Stanke, but did not gain any.
Mrs. Laura Springer was our fifth grade teacher and lost Danny Grummert.
Mrs. Springer was our teacher in the sixth grade and we lost Danny Lautenschlager and gained Therese Brandle
Mr. Darrell Johson was our 7th grade teacher aand we gained Debbie Norman, Ritta Blackburn and Danny Lautenschlager.
Mr. Johhnson was our teacher again in the 9th grade and as the class was so large Mrs. Norgaard of Superior was hired when the class was divided late in the winter.
This year we have gained James Christolear which brings our class roll to 15. The Valedictorian was David Bondegard and the Salutatorian was John Larson. The members of the class are Rex Bailey, Ritta Balackburn, David Bondegard, Therese Brandl, James Christolear, Dennis Fitzke, James Horst. Clark Kinnison, John Larson, Danny Lautenschlager, Mike Merrill, Debbie Norman, Richard Shaw, Jacalyn Shuck and David Wacker
DOHSE, Mrs. Kenneth
Source Newspaper article
Mrs. Kenneth Dohse of Angus, who has taught kindergarten at Edgar the past 13 years, has added to her duties this year-- that of teaching kindergarten at Nelson. She has morning classes in Edgar taking up the same responsibilities in the Nelson school in the afternoon.
Mrs. Dohse has a special interest and reason to attend the junior-senor banquet Saturday evening at Edgar as this was her first kindergarten class 13 years ago.
Mrs. Dohse is shown in the upper photo with the Edgar class, from left, Roger McShane, Debra White, Tim Roper, William Wenske, Todd Deines, Carrie McLaughlin, Kent Kinnaman, David Gunn, Kenneth Kesselberg, jill Larson, Tim Messerli and Claudia Hawley.
The lower picture shows her with the Nelson kindergartners, front row from left, Ricky Mazour, Byron Meyer, Linda Mieth, Tamie Schnitker, Patty Ruhga, Alln Keiser, Jennifer Ashiermeyer, and Roger Biltoft. Back row, Peggy Farver, Peggy Hall, leslie Sherman, Roberta Sole, karen Kotrc, Vickie Culbertson, Jeannie Meyer and Joanne Meyer.
Dohse, Alice
Source : Edgar Sun April 1, 1954
"A COLD BUSINESS"
Howdy Folks--Well...it won't be long now until the school bells will quit ringing for the season.
Those happy days of our life in school -- Especially the honor system--That's an educational plan where the teacher has the honor and the students have the system.
In the school line up Mrs. Dohse is one of the most important. She knows how to make the little things count.
Of course the secret of teaching is pretending that you knew all your life what you learned that afternoon.
A teacher is a textbook wired for sound.
When I went to school it wasn't the school I disliked, it was the principal of the thing,
Anyhow, we know you'll like our fresh line of frozen foods for sale. Edgar Locker. Phone 2-2691.
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Ferebee, Gwen
McClure, Ruth Ann
Johnson, Mrs. Lyndon B
Source: Newspaper, Date origin unknown
LADY BIRD COULDN"T MAKE IT
The Angus School Teacher and pupils were disappointed when they learned that Mrs. Lydon B. Johnson couldn't accept their invitation to attend the school's Mother's Day tea last week.
The president's wife wrote a very nice letter expressing regrets however, and the letter will be framed and hung on the schoolhouse wall. Mrs. Johnson sent greeting s to the children and their guests.
Mothers and grandmothers of the pupils, and other women of the Angus community attended the affair, and Lady Bird's letter was read to the group
Ferebee, Gwen
McClure, Ruth Ann
Johnson, Mrs. Lyndon B
Source: Newspaper Unknown , May 1968
NORTHEAST
The Angus schooolhouse was transformed into a home and lawn scene for the Mother's Tea when the teacher and pupils entertained the mothers of the children who attend the schoo, their grandmothers and other ladies of the district. Some friends outsidet the district were also invited.
The theme carried out during the afternoon was "mother in the Home." A program was presented which included the reading of a letter they had received from the president's wife, Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, in acknowledgement of the inviitation she received to attend the tea. She sent greetings to the children and their guests. Both children and guests were greatly impressed by the letter which has been framed and will hang on the schoolhouse walls.
Lunch of cupcakes, baked by the children, nuts and mints were served the guests in the make-garden. The school year will close May 21 with the school picnic in the evening at the schoolhouse. Two young ladies will be graduating from the eigth grade from the school. They are Ruth Anne McClure and Gwen Ferebee. They will receive their diplomas at the eighth grade graduation service at Nelson on May 20, 1968.
Fitzgerald, Josephine
Source: Obituary
Christian biography of Josephine M. Fitzgerald
Josephine Mary Fitzgerald, the daughter of Joseph and Verda (Demaray) McGinness, was born on January 18, 1926 on a farm near Alexandria, Nebraska. She passed away on May 23, 2009 at the Good Samaritan Society Village in Hastings, Nebraska at the age of 83 years, 4 months and 5 days.
Josephine attended schools at Alexandria and Nelson, Nebraska and attended Kearney State College where she earned her teachers certificate. She was united in marriage to Donald Fitzgerald on December 22, 1956 at Angus, Nebraska. She taught school before her marriage and worked part time at the Brodstone Memorial hospital. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Superior, the ABW Ministries and Christian Women.
She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband Donald on December 31, 2006, sisters, Twila Carlson and Eunice Brooks and brothers, Eugene and Donnivan McGinness.
She is survived by her three children, Teresa Hammond of Eagle, Nebraska, Darrel Fitzgerald and wife Sharon of Lincoln, Nebraska and Joyce Hamilton and husband Kenneth of Glenvil, Nebraska, seven grandchildren and 1 great-grandson, sisters, Lila Brown of Nelson, Nebraska and Jennie Mae Scoville of Rising Star, Texas along with a host of nieces, nephews other relatives and friends.
Funeral services were held on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 11:00 AM from the Megrue-Price Funeral Home Chapel in Superior, Nebraska with Rev. Floyd Richardson officiating. Music was “I’ll Fly Away” and “Unclouded Day” with Stephanie Thayer as soloist and Betty Schott as organist.
Pallbearers were Jordan Fitzgerald, Gabriel Fitzgerald, Daniel Conway, Jim Fitzgerald, Arnold Brown, and Shannon Wagner. Honorary pallbearer was Fred Huffman.
Interment was in the Evergreen Cemetery at Superior, Nebraska.
Memorials may go in care of the Good Samaritan Society, Perkins 300 Wing of Hastings, Nebraska.
Condolences may be sent to Megrue-Price Funeral Home, PO Box 282, Superior, NE 68978 or in care of www.pricefuneralhomes.com
Megrue-Price Funeral Home of Superior, Nebraska was in charge of the
arrangements.
Fitzke, Dorothy
Source: Hastings Tribune Obiturary 07-06-01
Dorothy M. Fitzke
Wednesday, July 4, 2001
Edgar resident Dorothy M. (Burkett) Fitzke, 78, died Wednesday, July 4, 2001, at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney.
Graveside services will be 9 a.m. Saturday at the Edgar Cemetery with the Revs. Jack Eske and Debra Rippe officiating. Visitation is until 8 p.m. today at Williams Funeral Home in Edgar.
Mrs. Fitzke was born May 12, 1923, to Gilbert and Ruth (Bush) Burkett near Oak. She grew up in the Oak and Angus areas. She worked in Washington, D.C., and then returned to the Angus area where she taught rural school. On March 17, 1945, she married Clarence Fitzke in St. Francis, Kan. They farmed in Edgar. From 1965-76 she owned and operated the Moon Drive-Inn in Edgar.
Survivors are her husband; three daughters, Mary Fitzke of Kearney, Sharon Floth of Sterling, and Dee Ann Krull of Riverside, Calif.; two sons, Dennis of Omaha and Dale of Devils Lake, N.D.; nine grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
She was preceded in death by two brothers.
Memorials may be given to the Edgar Fire Department or the Edgar Rescue Squad
Fuller, Rev M. R.
Source: Nebraska State Journal June 1 1901
Edgar, Neb. May 31 - Memorial services were held in the opera house yesterday afternoon. After a short program consisting of patriotic songs and recitations, Rev. M. R. Fuller of Angus, delivered a stirring and patriotic address. After the address, the post and corps formed in procession and marched to the cemetery, where the soldiers' graves were decorated.
Gass, Lorene M.
Lorene (Fitzke) Gass died Monday, September 15, 2008 at Perkins Pavilion in Hastings Nebraska. She was 83 years at the time of her death. Lorene was born to Arthur and Clara Lena (Wehnes) Fitzke September 19, 1924 west of Clay Center, Nebraska. ·She lived there for 5 years and in 1929 her family moved south and east of Clay Center, NE.
She received her 8th grade education at Prairie Date Country School.
In the fall of 1938 she entered Edgar High School graduating with the class of 1942. She taugbt country school for two years and then in 1944 she married Byron Gass at the home of her parents north of Edgar.
They lived on a farm southwest of Edgar where they farmed unti11954. They then moved into Edgar and she taught in country schools at Angus and Sedan. Lorene taught at Edgar from 1964 to 1968 and then at Harvard for 23 years. She attended summer sessions at Kearney State College during the 1960's graduating with the class of 1970.
She retired from 40 years of teaching in 1991. '
She was a life-long member of Zion Lutheran Chureh, being baptized in infancy and confrmed in 1938.
She is survived by a brother, Elden Fitzke and wife Evelyn of Fairfield and a. sister Blanche Werner and husband Ed of Beatrice.
She was preceded in death by her patonts; husband Byron and twinsister Irene Fitzke and brother Clarence Fitzke.
Memorials can be given to Edgar Rescue Squad or Zion Lutheran of Clay Center.
Funeral services were held Monday 10:3S AM, September 22, 2008 at Zion Lutheran Church at Clay. Center, NE. Pastor Stanley Floth and Debra Rippe PMA were officiants.· Burial was held in the Edgar Cemetery, Edgar, NE. Williams Funeral Home of Edgar, NE was in charge of the arrangements. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.wmsfh.com
Hinds, Sophia
Sophia Hinds
Source: Hastings Tribune
Sophia Hinds
NELSON, Neb. -- Sophia Hinds, 79, Nelson, died Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2000, at Good Samaritan Center, Nelson.
Mrs. Hinds was born Sophia Blanchard on Jan. 2, 1921, at rural Coon Rapids, Iowa, and was a former resident of Iowa, Virginia, Edgar and Angus. She was a member of Methodist Church and a member and past president of Golden Age Club, Nelson.
She was preceded in death by a daughter, Jacqualine Gail Casey.
Survivors include a daughter, Shirley A. Saar of Edgar; three sisters, Leila Theda of Glidden, Iowa, Lucille Lansman of Rippey, Iowa, and Shirley Williams of Leadville, Colo.; two brothers, Russell Blanchard of Sioux Falls, S.D., and Arden Blanchard of Nelson; seven grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.
The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Klawitter-Price Funeral Home Chapel, Nelson, the Rev. Jim Rodehorst officiating. Burial will be in Nelson Cemetery.
Memorials may be sent to P.O. Box 248, Edgar 68935.
Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home, 446 S. Main, Nelson, NE 68961
Iliff, Wanda
Devitt, Mrs. Marion
Source: Nebraska State Journal May 27, 1943
Angus girl suffers
fatal oil burns
ANGUS, Neb. UP}. Funeral services
will be held here Thursday for
a 15 year old Angus girl, "Wanda
Iliff, who died in a Superior hospital
from burns suffered in an
explosion at her parents farm
home near here last. Friday eve-;
.
Her mother, Mrs. Marion Devitt,
also was burned and the Devitt
home partially destroyed after
tractor fuel used in Starting a
kitchen fire exploded.
Jensen, Lillian
Christian Biography of Lillian Jensen
Lillian Elizabeth Jensen, the daughter of Ray and Geneva “Belle”(McComas) Fitzwater, was born on June 25, 1914 at Richmond, Missouri. She passed away on March 25, 2009 at Brodstone Memorial Hospital in Superior, Nebraska at the age of 94 years and 9 months.
Lillian came to Nuckolls County with her parents at an early age and lived on the Simic Ranch near Angus, Nebraska with her parents and siblings.
She was preceded in death by her parents, one brother Cecil and three sisters, Opal Kubicek, Florence Kubicek and MaeBe Milligan.
Survivors include two daughters, Beverly Westerberg and husband Doug of Lincoln, Nebraska and Maxine Terrill of Superior, Nebraska; five grandchildren, Diane Nelson and Celeste Nelson both of Superior, Nebraska, Patricia Jones and husband Tom of Omaha, Nebraska, Leslie Brown and husband Mark and Tim Westerberg all of Lincoln, Nebraska; five great-grandchildren, Duncan and Alex Brown of Lincoln, Taylor
Jones of Omaha, Kim Edwards of Omaha and Christopher Edwards, presently serving in Iraq; nieces, nephews, other relatives and a host of friends.
Memorial Services at: Nelson Good Samaritan Society, Nelson, Nebraska
Time of Service: Sunday, March 29, 2009 at 2:00 PM
Clergy: Missy Wilt
Burial: Nelson Cemetery, Nelson, Nebraska
Memorials to: Memorials may go in care of the family Condolences may be sent to Megrue-Price Funeral Home, PO Box 282, Superior, NE 68978 or in care of
www.pricefuneralhomes.com
Visitation: There is no visitation the body was cremated
Funeral Home: Megrue-Price Funeral Home, 750 N. Commercial, Superior, NE 68978
Kane, Timothy
Source: The Lincoln Evening News Wednesday April 17, 1910
According to the Denver news, Manager Jack hendricks is suing for a shar of a million dollar estate. The News prints this New York Dispatch. Manager jack hendricks of the Denver baseball team is one of the plaintiffs in the suit over the $1,000,000 estate of margaret A Bence, widow of George Bence, the millionaire tobacconist, which will be staged in the surrogate court tomorrow. mrs. Bence, who was upward of seventy years old, died last February, leaving one third of her property o her daugher, Mrs. Elizabeth healy, and two thirds to her niece, Mrs. katherine Kane Donahue.
The other members of the family who were out off with practically nothing prepared to fight for a share of the property. Mrs. margaret Kane Fredel, a niece of Mrs. Bence, who resides in Seattle, Wash., received a power of attorney from the rest of the family, and arrived in New York ten days ago with her father, Michael kane, an eighty year old farmer of Pocatello, Idaho. She engaged quarters at the Cadillac hotel and retained Attorney john M. Gardiner.
Gardiner says he will charge undue influence on the part of Judge Healy, mrs. Healy and Mrs. Donahue.
Mrs. Fredel, when seen today at the Cadillac, seemed very much disheartened by what she termed the desertion of her father, the aged Michael kane.
"My Father, Mrs. Bence's brother, is the next of kin and came on with me to fight the will. she said, "but I don't know what to make of his actions lately. A Week ago he went to visit Mrs. Donahue, my sistter, who is occupying with Judge and Mrs. healy the Bence Mansion on Seventy second street and he has since remained there."
Mrs. Fredel said that the Bence mansion, finely furnished is worth $125,000, and the stocks and bonds and other property left by Mrs. Bence she estimates to be worth at least $1,000,000. She added that she represents a dozeen relatives of the dead woman, among whom are hendricks, mrs. Johanna L Ahearn of Smithville, South Long Island, half sister to Mrs. Bence: Timothy kane of Angus, Neb., half brother to Mrs. Bence; Mrs. Ellen Greene of Stone City, Iowa, niece to Mrs. Bence; John Kane, a nephew and other relatives in Ireland and Massachusetts.
Kinnison, Don
Source: Obituary The Salina Journal June 19, 1999
Edgar, Neb. Don Kinnison, 83, Edgar, died Thursday June 17, 1999, at Integrated Health Services in Edgar.
Mr. kinnison was born Aug 26, 1915 at Angus and lived in Nebraska since 1996, moving from California. he was an Army veteran and authored and published a genealogical history of the Kinnison family. he was a lifetime member of disabled american veterans and anational charter memboer AMVETS.
Survivors include a sister, Lola Peters of Nelson.
The service will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at Edgar Cemetery. Pastor Harold Fox officiating.
Visitation will be from noon to 9pm Sunday at Klawitter Price Funeral Home 446 S main nelson 68961
KRUEGER, RUTH
Ruth E. Krueger, 96, of Charles City, died Monday, September 30, 2013 at Cedar Health.
Ruth Evelyn (Skyrme) Krueger was born March 22, 1917, in Angus, Nebraska. Her family moved to Charles City, Iowa, in 1929, when her father, D.J. Skyrme, became treasurer of Dr. Salsbury's Laboratories. Dr. Salsbury was D.J.'s brother-in-law. Ruth graduated from Charles City High School in 1934. On June 25, 1937, she was married to Lester Otto Krueger, who died on December 1, 1973. Ruth was a bookkeeper for Krueger Oil Company until 1946 and then became bookkeeper for Farm Service Co-op and worked there until her retirement. Ruth was involved in many various forms of senior volunteer work and also very involved in her church. She helped with the Wa-Tan-Ye Club, the Treasure Chest and Meals on Wheels. Ruth started going to the Wesleyan Church in the late 1930's and eventually became church treasurer and served in that capacity for over 40 years. She also had a very good singing voice and was involved in the church choir for many years. Ruth loved the Lord and lived for Him.
Living family members include her only son, Lester Dean and wife Martha of Rio Rancho, New Mexico; two grandchildren: Thomas I. Krueger of Frankfurt, Germany and Sandra Jean Krueger of Albuquerque, New Mexico; and five great-grandchildren.
A private family graveside service was held at Riverside Cemetery in Charles City.
Landon, Phillip R
Parson Bob
Source: The Lincoln Star November 21, 1933
Parson Bob is Dead at Blair
Body of Philip Landon, Plainsman Preacher, found in room.
Blair, Neb. Nov 22 (AP)
When Philip R (Parson Bob) Landon, Indian fighter and plainsman revealed ten days ago that he carried the key to his burial plot in his pocket, he exressed the hope that the lock would grow rusty before there would be need to use the key.
But the luck he hoped for wore thin, and early today, the 87 year old plainsman preacher, who was reared by an Indian tribe, was found dead in his guest room at Dana College here. They extracted the key from his pocket.
Landon, member of the National Boy Scout council, will be buried at the foot of a memorial near Edgar Neb. Around it is an iron fence with one gate. It was the key to that gate that he carried with him.
Born on Goat Island, in the Missouri river near Decatur, Landon was left an orphan early and was adopted by a tribe which taught him the Indian Language before returning him to his own people 10 years later.
Then followed 14 years service as a caravan guard from the Nebraska line to Fort Casper, Wyo. While with Custer in the Big Horn country of South Dakota, he was wounded seriously by arrows and rifle bullets. He was reputedly the last survivor of the caravan scouts. For 34 years a resident of Sterling, Neb., Parson Bob had been traveling throughout the middle west since the death of his wife two years ago.
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Source The Lincoln Star November 23, 1933
Parson Bob Landon is Interred in Memorial plot on Oregon Trail
Edgar, Neb. Nov 24 - AP, Funeral services were held here this afternoon for Phillip R (Parson BOob) Landon, followed by burial of the colorful plainsman in the little memorial plot dedicated to him at the site of the famous Little Blue Station, relay post on the old Oregon trail.
Parson Bob died at Dana college near Blair yesterday.
Nuckolls County, where the grave is located, will pay the burial costs. Boy Scouts and American Legion members were in charge of the funeral.
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Source: The Lincon Star Tuesday May 5, 1931
Boy Scouts to Place Markers at THree Historic Locations
(special to the star)
Hastings, Neb. May 5 - Boy Scouts of this section of the state will mark two historic spots and unveil a monument at a third next Sunday.
They will have as their guests two men versed in the history of the Oregon Trail - "Parson Bob" Phillip Landon, Black Hills Pioneer and Principal JG Masters of Omaha, who has studied the trail and its history for years. AM Brookung, curator of the Hastings museum and one of the most interested men in the state in seeking historical locations and data, will also be a speaker in the three dedication ceremonies.
The first of the three will be at the massacre site six miles south of Hastings, where eight men were slain by Sioux during the uprising of 1864 and were later buried in a single grave after their bodies had lain in the burning August sun for four or five days before being found by government troopers.
Junction of Trails.
The second site to be visited by the Boy Scounts and their guests will be at the junction of the Ft. Riley and Oregon Trails about four miles southest of Spring Ranch, where the Clay County Commissioners have erected a monument.
The third place will be at the Little Blue Stage Station, known now as Camp Kane, four miles northwest of Oak, where two men were slain and three women were taken prisoners on the same day that the eight were massacred.
At the two places the Boy Scouts are going to mark they will dig holes four feet square and about a foot deep, and into these holes they will pour concrete into which they will inscribe the simple facts and dates of the massacres.
The idea for thus marking the sites putting the concrete slabs a bit below the surface of the surrounding pasture land so that the farmer may mow his hay without danger to either his machine or his horses xxxxx Mr Brooking's , who feels that time is fast amassing when first hand knowledge of such places may be obtained.
Souts Join Forces
The Boy Scouts were quick to catch his ideas and troops at Edgar, Clay Center and Hastings decided to join in the events of a single day, Daughters of American Revolution, an organization that has been active in marking pioneer history places will also be invided to join in the dyas activities.
"Parson Bob" was given his title when he preached the funeral service of Calamity Jane, one of the most picturesque figures the Black Hills ever knew Since that time he has frequently been called upon to say the last rites for men and women who knew him when the Hills County was a battleground for Indians and whites.
During the winter of 1862-3, Parson Bob, with a friend, camped in a dugout at a spring a quarter of a mile west of the Little BLue Stage Station, trapping many fur bearing animals along the stream in that section.
After the ceremonies Sunday, parson Bob will go into camp at the Clay County Boy Scout Cabin at the site of the old stage station, and remain there for two weeks visiting with the boys and telling them tales of the day way back when.
Slain Men Freighters.
The eight men who were massacred south of Hastings were freighters who had stopped on a prairie rise to spend the night. It was in the early monrning of Augus 7 , 1864, that the Sioux came upon them and a short time later eight scalpless bodies were scattered about amid the ruins of the wagon train. It was there that Captain Edward B Murphy of the government Indian troops found them dseveral days later. He gave them the best burian possible in view of their condition and went on to the stage station where he found two others had been killed and Mrs. Eubanks, Mrs. Julian and Miss Roper had been taken prisoners by the Indians.
After many months during which hope for the women was abandoned they were traded back to the whites by the Indians. They had not been harmed.
The first even to fthe day's program will be at the massacre site south of Hastings at 1 pm at 2 o'clock the party will leave for the junction where the monument will be unveiled at 3'o'clock four miles southeast of Spring Ranch.
At 4:30 o'clock the final event will be held at the stage staiton near Oaks
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Source: The Hamburg Reporter Hamburg, Iowa October 15, 1931
"Parson Bob" Landon Here
Parson Bob Landon, the last of the Oregon Trail scouts, paid his annual visit to hamburg on Tuesday of this week, and was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. WH Keegan. The parson is among the few remaining scouts and plainsmen of the early days, and knew all the old characters who had a part in the settling of this country. he makes his home at Sterling, Nebr., and travels out from there about a hundred miles each year.
We never knew until Tuesday that our own Billy Keenan could be numbered among the pioneers, although we knew that he had been in construction work in the west for many yeas. He and "Parson Bob" have known each other for forty years and Billy says the first time he saw the parson was in a railroad camp when he came out to preach to them, Buffalo Bill was at one time a butcher for one of Billy's camps, and as we understand it, part of the duties was to go out and kill buffalo. Billy and the parson were having such a good visit that the inquiring report could hardly get a word in edgewise, but we are going to get Keenan off by himself some of these days and have him tells us about some of the famous characters of frontier days so well known to him.
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Lemonds, Leo "Doc"
Source: Hastings Tribune 1-19-2010
Faces of Tribland: Leo "Doc" Lemonds
RETIRED VETERINARIAN LIVES LIFE OF SERVICE
John Huthmacher
Service and Commitment have long defined the life of Hastings resident Leo "Doc" Lemonds.
Lemonds, who turns 87 Wednesday, was honored for his 60 year affiliation with the local Kiwanis Club during the club's regular meeting at OK Cafe Jan. 14. The Surprise tribute was attended by Several members of his family, including his wife, marcella, and several of their children, grandchildren and great - grandchildren.
A native of Angus, he is the third of four children born to farmers Bill and Lora Lemonds. He was an avidathlete at College View high School (now Lincoln Southeast), where he competed in football, baseball, track and baseball.
As luck would have it, the family relocated to Iowa just in time for Lemonds to be accepted into Iowa State Veterinary School in the mid - 1940s. It was there he met marcella at a dance at the Sigma Chi house. They married in September 1945, and will celebrate 65 years of marriage this year.
After graduating from veterinary school in 1949, he and Marcella moved to hastings, where he started a practice that would span 34 years. it was but a short few months after landing here that he was invited to join the Kiwanis Club by ray Thompson, a Sunday School teacher at First united methodist church.
Thus began his 60 year membership in the club. Through the years, he has recruited 60 members, including two daughters, a grandson and two great grandson. All because Thompson happened to be a kiwanian.
"I mentioned to him that I should belong to a service club, so he said 'Well, come to kiwanis next Thursday,'" Lemonds said. "If he had been a Rotarian or an Optimist, that's probably what I would have been. I've always been glad that he was a kiwanian because i've enjoyed these 60 years."
highlights of his lengthy stint with the club include service as club president and distric Lieutenant governor, with international convention trips to France, Canada and Austria. But iit has been his involvement in multiple service projects for children that has brought him the most satisfaction, he said.
"Kiwanis is a big thing for kids" he said. ""Our Kids Against Hunger is probably in many ways our best project. We've packaged over 250,000 meals.
An avid story teller, he has written 11 books - the majority of them dealing with his experiences as a veterinarian. in 1995, he complied a 75 year history book detailing high lighlights of the local club from it's inception.
His many friendships forged through club activites have reinforced his belief that kiwanians are a special breed, set a part by their honesty and desire to serve others, he said.
"they're super people," he said.
Former Kiwanian lt. Gov. darrell nelson has known Lemonds for more than 30 years.
"He's a real people person, someone who is really dedicated to his community," Nelson said. "it's just been a real pleasure to know Doc through the years."
Daughter jackie Lemonds has supported her father's involvement in kiwanis for decates, both as a member and personal proof reader of his 75 year history project. her fondests memories of him included watching him mix with this many friends at the annual kiwanis pancake Feed fundraiser with her siblings.
"we were so proud to find dad there," she said. "And when they would say, "hi doc,' we could have been any prouder. our buttons would be bursting with pride.
"When Dad got us to join, we finally realized why he as so proud of Kiwanis. the people are such good, honest people."
Lemonds' reason for joining a service club dates back to his college years and some words of wisdom spoken by one of his college professors.
"He said, 'When you go out from here, you'll want to support the town you're in,' " he said. "one of the ways he said was to join a service club. I practiced here for 34 years and got to give something back for all the good in my life that has happened"
Marshall, J. C.
Source: The Lincoln Evening News September 20, 1902
J.C. Marshall has a Job's Conforter on his leg and lef this week for his home at Angus until he can jar loose from it.
McClure, Gary
Christian Biography of Gary Wayne McClure
Gary Wayne McClure, the son of Wayne and Edythe (Rutledge) McClure, was born on November 8, 1945 at Red Cloud, Nebraska. He passed away on July 26, 2008 in Nelson at the age of 62 years, 8 months and 18 days. He was baptized April 21, 1946, at the Methodist Church in Inavale, Nebraska. He was a former member of the Evangelical United Bretheran Church at Angus, Nebraska. Gary grew up in Angus and lived in Nelson, Superior and other surrounding communities. He graduated from Edgar High School with the Class of 1964. Gary was united in marriage on December 28, 1970, to Marlys Honeycutt in Smith Center, Kansas. To this union three sons were born: James Gary, Jeremy Lee and Christopher Curtis. Gary had various jobs. He raised hogs, he worked at the Blue Cross Serum Plant in Superior, he worked at the Mid American Dairy cheese plant in Superior and for several local farmers in the area. Gary was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes at age 8. He faced many medical challenges during his life including the loss of his vision in his mid 20's and kidney failure in 1993. Gary had to undergo kidney dialysis. Gary was named the National Kidney Foundation of Nebraska Patient of the Year Award in 2007. Gary had a very strong faith and never gave up. He always was pleasant to all he came in contact with and always accepted his health challenges with dignity. He always used to say the, Lord never gives us more than we can handle. Gary was a stay at home dad most of his married life. He did a fine job raising his sons and was proud of the men that they have become. He was preceded in death by his parents, Wayne and Edythe McClure. He is survived by his wife, Marlys McClure of Nelson, Nebraska; sons, James McClure of Lincoln, Nebraska, Jeremy McClure and Christopher McClure both of Nelson, Nebraska, brother, Allen McClure and wife Tracie of Hastings, Nebraska; four sisters, Jayne and husband Ken Durfee of Cordova, Nebraska; Ruth and husband, Tom Watts of Fairfield, Nebraska; Betty Kilmer of Hastings, Nebraska; and Kay McClure-Kelly and husband Bill of Lincoln, Nebraska; nieces, nephews, other relatives and a host of friends.
Funeral services were held on Wednesday, July 30, 2008 at 10:30 AM from the Nelson Community United Church of Christ in Nelson, Nebraska with Rev. Dr. Stephen Berry officiating. Music was “It Is No Secret” and “How Great Thou Art,” with Tom Jensen as soloist and Carlita Erickson as organist.
Pallbearers were Preston Nitz, Dillon Nitz, Troy Lammers, Joe Honeycutt, Marcus Gonzles, and Steve Honeycutt. Honorary Pallbearers were Marlan Watson, Jim Rilling, Dennis Melvin, Michael Melvin, Joey Henry and Royce Gonzales.
Interment was in the Nelson Cemetery at Nelson, Nebraska
Memorials may go in care of the family.
Condolences may be sent to Megrue-Price Funeral Home, PO Box 282, Superior, NE 68978 or in care of www.pricefuneralhomes.com
Klawitter-Price Funeral Home of Nelson, Nebraska was in charge of the arrangements.
Melvin, Carol
Carol Melvin, 77, of Nelson died Tuesday Dec. 30th at Perkins in Hastings after a three month battle with cancer. She was born Dec. 15th, 1931 in Nelson, NE. the daughter of Wanen C. and Pearl Eno Hall. Carol was united marriage to Norland "Red" Melvin in 1952 at Lakewood, CO. He died Nov. 13, 2003.
Carol received her education in Nelson and a teaching certificate from Colorado Women's College. She was a lifelong musician starting with band and becoming the main accompanist on the piano in high school and college. She directed choirs at Nelson UMC, UCC and Salem Lutheran Church.
She decided when their children were grown to become a librarian for 20 years. She had been active in Eastern Star for almost 59 years. She was also active in Extension, Friendship FCE Club, from the early 60's on. She could always be found listening to the Huskers football or any football game.
She touched many lives through 1 st Place; After 5, Stonecroft studies and Red Hats. She and Red took to camping with the Sod Busters enjoying many good times.
Carol was involved with many Bible Studies and loved God and studying His word. Carol stayed on the farm after Red's death. Carol was a devoted homemaker, wife, mother and grandmother.
She blessed her children with love and conversation. Carol will be missed by her children; daughter, Chris (Duane) Meyer of Hudson, IA; son, Steve, (Cindy) Melvin of Curtis, NE.; and son, Barry Melvin of rural Nelson. Six grandchildren and one great grandson.
Preceded in death by, her parents, husband Red; 2 daughters Brenda Sue and Tina Melvin, one grandchild Megan Meyer.
Services 2:00 Friday, January 2, 2009 at United Community Church of Christ, Nelson with burial in Nelson cemetery. Rev. Dr. Stephen Berry will be officiating. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.wmsfh.com. Williams Funeral Home of Superior, NE is in charge of the arrangements.
Melvin, Brenda Sue
Melvin, Tina Marie
Source: Lincoln Evening Journal, August 15, 1973
Brenda Sue Melvin (14) and Tina Marie Melvin ( 1), Angus, died Sunday in an auto accident north of Nelson. Survivors: Parents Mr and Mrs Norland Melvin Angus; brothers Steven, Barry, both home; sister Chrstine home.
Melvin, Douglas
Hastings Daily Tribune Tuesday Jan 10 1950
Services at Angus For Melvin Infant
Edgar Funeral services were conducted the past weekend at Angus for Douglas Melvin, the 7 month-old son of Mr and Mrs Garth Melvin. The child died Thursday morning from complications following a cold. The Melvins live on a farm near Angus. Burial was at the Edgar Cemetery.
Mesropian, Dr.
Source: The Lincoln Evening news, February 12, 1903
Will recover from Beating. Lawrence, Neb. Feb 12, Dr. Mesropian, a gentleman of Armenian Birth, residing at Angus, this county, is thought to be recovering from the terrible beating given him. It is charged, by Fred Brooks, of the same town, some two weeks ago. The doctor and Brooks engaged in an altercation over some trifling quarrel the children of the two familes had had and the physician was given decidedly the worst of it injuring him so greatly that he lay at the point of death several days last week. Brooks, fearing the consequences, departed for unknown parts. Meantime a warrant is in the hands of the authorities for his arrest as soon as found.
Moore, B.H.
Source: Lincoln Daily Nels, June 4, 1913
The damage suite of B. H. Moore against the Burlington Railroad was dismissed in the federal court today. The railroad company agreeing to pay the plaintiff $6,000. Moore was injured at Angus, Neb., on May 4, 1912, when a telegraph pole on which he was working fell to the ground and broke Moore's leg and mangled on arm, crippling him for life, the plaintiff contended. moore was transferring wire from the old poles to a string of new ones and the one on which he was working when hurt had been buried but eighteen inches in the ground, according to the plaintiff's petition. He contended that the pole should have been set deeper in the ground and that it was the negligence of the company that caused him to be injured.
Moore is twenty eight years of age and the suit was brought on the basis of his expectancy. That is, the plaintiff's earning power at the time of the injury was figured by the number of years of expectancy of life and it would have been up to the jury to decide the amount. if they had allowed the full amount according to the table of expectancy the verdict would have been about $43,000.
Overturf, Billy
Christian Biography of Billy L. Overturf
Billy Lynn Overturf, the son of Maurice and Pansy (Grossman) Overturf was born on April 28, 1925 on a farm near Angus, Nebraska. He passed away on January 21, 2009 at the Edgewood Vista Sr. Living in Hastings, Nebraska at the age of 83 years, 8 months and 24 days.
Billy was educated in a country school near Ong and graduated from Edgar High School. He was united in marriage to Ellen Maxine Kubicek on February 20, 1949 in Ong, Nebraska. This union was blessed with two children.
Billy lived in the Oak and Angus area through out his lifetime. He served on the Board of Directors for the Friends of the University of Nebraska Lester F. Larson Tractor Museum, and the Nuckolls County Museum and was a lifetime member of the NRA.
Billy was a long time enthusiast of Case tractors as well as all things collectible.
Due to his health Billy entered the Edgewood Vista in Hastings on November 23, 2008, where he lived until his passing.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
Survivors include his wife Ellen of Superior, Nebraska; daughters, Pamela Lynn Pearson and husband Randall of Davenport, Nebraska and Kay Ilene Knutson and husband Richard of Alma, Nebraska; four grandchildren, Scott Pearson of Lincoln, Nebraska, Reese Pearson and wife Chaaron of Alexandria, Virginia, Beth Schweitzer and husband Jason of Atlanta, Georgia and Kara Knutson of Arvada, Colorado; and two great grandchildren, Ava and Braylin Schweitzer; other relatives and a host of friends.
Funeral services were held on Saturday, January 24, 2009 at 11:00 AM from the Megrue-Price Funeral Home Chapel in Superior, Nebraska with Pastor Dorthea Fairbanks officiating. Music was congregational hymns “Amazing Grace,” and “How Great Thou Art,” with Betty Schott as organist.
Pallbearers were Randall Pearson, Richard Knutson, Jason Schweitzer. Scott Pearson, Reese Pearson, and Mitchell Kubicek.
Private family interment was in the Nelson Cemetery at Nelson, Nebraska.
Condolences may be sent to Megrue-Price Funeral Home, PO Box 282, Superior, NE 68978 or in care of www.pricefuneralhomes.com
Megrue-Price Funeral Home of Nelson, Nebraska was in charge of the arrangements.
Peters, Mr & Mrs.
Source: The Lincoln Evening news January 26, 1903
Edgar, Neb. Mr & Mrs. GW Rouse held a family reunion at their home yesterday. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. A G Wiggins and Ed Rouse of Oklahoma, and Mr. and Mrs. Peters of Angus Neb. Dinner was served at 2:30 and the party that surrounded the table constituted every member of the Rouse family, except the wife of Ed Rouse, who remained in Oklahoma in care of her children.
Peters, Raymond Leo
Source: Lincoln State Journal September 1, 1938
PETERS KILLED IN SPAIN
Nuckolls County Youth in Abraham Lincoln Brigade
OMAHA (AP) The World Herals Said Senator Burke has learned through the Spanish Embassy in Washington that Raymond Leo peters, 28, of Angus, Nuckolls County, was killed July 7, 1937, while fighting with government forces in Spain.
The report ended a long search by his parents, who sought the senator's aid last April. The Spanish government's report said peters was a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and was seriously wounded in the Brule sector. He died later.
Mrs. Peters said she received regular letters from her son until March, 1937. Two months later she received a card from Paris saying "Ray O Peters" and two others died in action.
Peters was reared near Angus. he left home in 1930 to become a sailor. The peters have four other children.
Ringer, Dale Emory
Ringer, Dale Emory, 77, of Huntington Beach, passed away on October 21, 2008. He was born in Angus, Nebraska on October 9, 1931 and graduated from USC in 1962. He is survived by his children, Alan, Reanna, Kelly, and Karen and his grandchildren, Adam and Quinn. A Celebration of Life will be held at The Pacific Club in Newport Beach at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, November 2. Donations can be made to The Pacific Club IMPACT Foundation.
Source www.legacy.com
Shipley, Laverle O.
Nelson Resident Leverle O. Shipley, 86 died Friday October 13, 1995, at his home. Services were to be at 10:30am today at klawitter Price Funeral Home chapel in Nelson with the Rev. Royce Buchtel officiating. Burial was planned in nelsonn cemetery near nelson.
Mr. Shipley was born July 24, 1909 to clause and Grace (Adams) Shipley in Oak. he attended Oak School. On May 20, 1937, he married mable Dunken in Smith Center, kan. He farmed in the Angus area, later moving to a farm northwest of Nelson. in 1964, he moved to Nelson. he worked for nuckolls county Maintenance department for 22 years. his wife died marhc 8, 1994. He was a past member of the Independent order of Odd fellows of Nelson. Survivors are four daughters, Judith kubicek of schuyler, Carol biltoft of nora, Coleen Meyer of Lexington and Susan shuck of Angus; one son, Michael of Monument, Colo; seven grandchildren, and tw great grandchildren. He was also preceded in death by a sister, a grandchild and a great grandchild.
Shuck, Gordon
GORDON SHUCK ELECTED TO STATE HALL OF FAME
Source: Hastings Tribune August 28, 1999
Dale Miller
Hastings Tribune
If it weren't for a coincidence, Gordon Shuck's Auto Racing Career may never have happened. In 1947, the Edgar resident ran a body shop when he and his friends became interested in competing in the Nebraska Hot Rod Association.
They built a car, a 1929 Plymouth coupe, but when it came time to race the driver backed out.
Shuck stepped in and began a successful 11 year racing career.
His accomplishments on the racing track earned shuck a spot in the Nebraska Auto Racing Hall of Fame. Shuck will be inducted Wednesday at State Fair Park in Lincoln.
"I was elated when I found out I was elected into the Hall of Fame," Shuck said. "It is quite an honor. I never thought I would receive this."
Shuck had plenty of success on the track. He won NHRA Championships in 1949 and '50, won the United motor Contest Assoication sprint car title in '51, and won the UMCA title and was named the sportman driver in '53. In '54, Shuck began racing modifieds and late models, and he won season titles in hastings in '55 and '56.
But Shuck doesn't take all the credit for his success... "Me and the crew worked together as a team," he said. "We figured out little things that made us run better. We had to do it that way, since we were short on money."
Shuck has many personal highlights of his career. one of his favortie performances was his final race, which came at Sunset Speedway in Omaha.
"It was like the car knew it was its last race," Shuck said. "We won every race that night. In the feature race, we started 33rd. There were a couple of crashes, adn we took the lead after 16 laps. That was the most satisfying race I ever had."
One off the track accomplishment Shuck is proud of was earning the UMCA Sportsmanship Driver award while also winning the Championship in '53. "When you win, you often aren't very well liked," he said.
Shuck wasn't like by everyone, though. In the middle of the racing season on year in Lincoln, a new owner bought the track and cancelled all the points for the season.
One night Shuck led a boycott with a big crowd waiting for the races until the owner gave in. Shuck was then banned from racing at the track the next year. "So the night of a big race, I parked my race car outside the track," he said. "I told the guy at the gate that when the trophy dash came, he was going to have to use the rest room. "The cars came around the corner, and I drove through the gate and went through the pits to the opposite corner. "I was six laps behind in a six lap race, bu I caught every car except one. Everyone came out of the stands onto the track and cheered me." The next year, a sheriff was waiting for Shuck. "he asked me if I knew how many problems I was causing," Shuck said. But with the crowd demanding Shuck be allowed to race, the owner offered him $100 just to show up and race the next year.
Shuck is one of nine inductees into the Hall of Fame. Tickets for the event are available by calling State Fair park at (402)-473-4104.
Former Race Driver Gordon Shuck of Edgar Poses with some of the 129 tropies he won in the 1940s and 1950s. He is holding his favorite, a 1953 Sportsmanship Trophy, voted on by his fellow drivers. He has been elected to the Nebraska Racing hall of Fame.
Shuck, Shirley R.
Shirley Shuck the daughter of Clinton and Nettie Stewart Lindberg was born March 5, 1927 at Clay Center, Nebraska. She departed this life on Friday, March 20, 2009 at the Mary Lanning Memorial Hospital in Hastings, Nebraska at the age of 82 years.
Shirley was united in marriage to Gordon Shuck on February 6, 1946 at Mankato, Kansas. This union was blessed with the birth of two children, one son and one daughter. Shirley was devoted wife, mother and homemaker. She had been a long time member of the Church of the Plains in Edgar.
She is preceded in death by her parents and husband Gordy on February 10, 2001.
Survivors include her son Dr. David Shuck of The Villages, Florida; daughter Jennifer Bondegard of Edgar, Nebraska; sisters: Cherole Trainor; Gwen Hoagland and JoAnn (Bill) Johnsen; 5 grandchildren; 10 great grandchildren; other relatives and a host of friends.
Funeral services will be held this Monday 11:00 a.m., March 23, 2009 at the Church of the Plains in Edgar, Nebraska. Rev. Stephen Price Gibson will be officiating. Burial will be held in the Edgar Cemetery, Edgar, Nebraska.
Visitation will be held Sunday, 9:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. at the Williams Funeral Home in Edgar, and Monday, 9:00 a.m. to service time at the Church of the Plains.
Condolences may be sent to the family at www.wmsfh.com.
SKYRME, DICK (died October 4, 1963)
Richard (Dick) F. Skyrme, 48, a resident of 314 2nd Ave. died Friday morning at Cedar valley hospital where he had been a patient two days. He had been an invalid most of his life, for many years using a wheel chair and for the past four years was bedfast.
He graduated from the Charles City High School in 1935 and attended Miltonville College in Miltonville, Kan. for two years. He was a member of Wesleyan Methodist Church.
Richard Frederick Syrme was born Oct 30, 1914, in Angus, Neb., the son of Dave J and Edna Frederick skyrme. he came to Charles City with his parents in 1929 and had lived here since. He never married.
Surviving are his mother, two brothers and two sisters, Wayne Skyrme and Mrs. Ruth Krueger, both of Charles city, Mrs. Wallace Steele of Minneapolis, Minn. and Gerald Skyrme of Burleson, Texas. His father Dave J. Skyrme died in 1951.
Funeral services will be Monday at 1:30 pm in Wesleyan Methodist Church. rev. Ronald Rhoades will officiate. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery. The Hauser Funeral home has charge of services.
SKYRME, Wayne E
Source: http://ncigs.org/obituaries/clearlake/2004/august.htm#Wayne E. Skyrme
Wayne E. Skyrme, 81, 20 Sunset View Dr., Clear Lake, died Thursday, Aug. 19, 2004, at Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit, Mason City. A funeral service was held Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2004 at the First Congregational Church, Clear Lake, with Pastor Thom Christians officiating. Interment was held at Memorial Park Cemetery, Mason City. Military Honors were provided by the Clear Lake V.F.W. Memorials may be given to the Wayne Skyrme Memorial Fund.
Wayne was born March 12, 1923, in Angus, Neb., the son of Davies A.J. and Edna L. (Frederick) Skyrme. After high school he enlisted in the Army in 1943 and served during WWII until 1946. He married Mary Jean Deist McGreevey in 1946. He lived in Charles City, Iowa, working at Citizens Bank, later for Prudential Ins. Co. He later moved to Mason City and worked for the Prudential Life, and was the director of the Frances Lauer Juvenile Home.
Wayne married Clarice "Mike" Nelson on Sept. 11, 1979 at the Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa. He then worked at Handicap Village (Opportunity Village) for 25 years as a house parent and Cottage Director. Wayne enjoyed photography and traveling. He was one of the organizers and a member of the Arrowhead Club in Clear Lake. Wayne was awarded both the Melvin Jones Award from the Lions Club and the Employee of the Year at Opportunity Village.
Wayne is survived by his wife, Clarice "Mike" Skyrme, Clear Lake; daughter, Terri Jambor and her husband, Robert, Lake Geneva, Wis.; son, Charles McGreevey and his wife, Karen, Mason City; stepchildren, Linda Ferguson, Ventura, Iowa, Craig Nelson and his wife, Tricia, Creede, Colo., and Kim Thompson and her husband, Larry, Clear Lake; two sisters, Genevieve Steele and her husband, Wallace, Ham Lake, Minn. and Ruth Krueger, Charles City, Iowa; step-grandchildren, Lesley Bush and her husband, Jeff, Jeff Ferguson, Coleman Nelson, Caleb Nelson, Cameron Nelson, Gregory Thompson and Lindsey Thompson; step-great-grandchildren Landon and Larrisa Bush; and five nephews.
Wayne was preceded in death by his parents; first wife, and two brothers, Gerald and Richard.
Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, Clear Lake, was in charge of arrangements
STEELE, O. GENEVIEVE
Ona Genevieve Steele, 94, of Ham Lake, went to be with the Lord on Oct. 27, 2007. She was born July 5, 1913 in Angus, Neb. Genevieve loved her Lord, her family, music and missions. She was active in her church as pianist, organist, Sunday School and Bible School teacher. She was Wallace’s accompanist when he sang at different churches. She gave piano lessons for many years. She was mission’s director at church for a number of years. For the last 36 years she has been book keeper for the Wallace Steele Co. In her spare time when she wasn’t preparing meals she liked to read. She was a real Biblical scholar and would read either Biblical or missions books.
She is survived by her husband of 66 years, Wallace; sons, Duane (Dixie), James (Esther) and Brian (Jacqueline); grandchildren, Diane/Lida, Dan(Amy), Maria, Hannah, Winston, Austin (Katie), Lincoln, Savannah, Dinah, and Briannah; four great- grandchildren; her sister, Ruth Krueger; nieces and nephews.
Funeral service Saturday 11 AM, Nov. 3, at Waite Park Wesleyan Church, 1510 33rd Ave NE. Visitation one hour prior to service at church and 4-7 PM Friday at: Washburn-McReavy Northeast Chapel 612-781-6828 2901 Johnson St. NE. Interment is at Hillside Cemetery in Minneapolis. Memorials preferred to Global Partners (Wesleyan World Missions)
WEHRMAN, CORELIOUS F "NEAL"
Source: The Lincoln Star, September 25, 1971
Oldest Nuckolls Native is Dead
Angus - Funeral services were held here Friday for Cornelious F Neal Wehrman, 91, retired farmer and lifetime resident of this vicinity.
Honored earlier this year by the Nuckolls County Centennial Committee as the oldest native of Nuckolls County still living in the county. He was born in a dugout north of Angus.
Surviving are his wife, Beulah; son, Clair of Hastings; Daughter, Mrs. Norma Melvin of Edgar; four grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.
Wroughton, Wayne
Source: Lincoln Journal 6-22-1949
Wayne Wroughton of nelson entered his name in the record books, eclipsing the old 15 pound carp standard set by Mrs. Edna Page of Lincoln. Wroughton's carp, tipping the Fairbanks at an even 18 pounds, pushed Page's catch into second and runnerup Al Fischer's 13 1/2 pounder into the also-ran category. Wroughton also hooked two other carp - one 10 pounds and the other eight.