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For the first time in more than 12 years, the Rock Hills High School girls basketball team played a meaningful post season game Friday. The Grizzlies, because of their wining record over the course of the season, received a bye into the semi-final round of the sub-state 1A-D1 game. A win and they would be off to the state tournament while a loss eliminated them from state tournament contention. Rock Hills took on the Washington County Tigers at Clifton-Clyde High School, Clyde, Friday. Try as...
Moderating weather conditions have allowed the Suprior High School golf team to begin preparations for the upcoming 2022 season. Kirk Utecht, head coach and Super ior Country Club superintendent, has the players working on form. The course was recently reopened to play after the sprinkler system was started and the course watered. The extended drought conditions had led to the closure of ther course. Unlike last year, there will be no girls playing as they formed their own team. Last season...
The Bruning-Davenport-Shickley Eagles saw their dream of a state championship evaporate with a 47-33 loss to Archbishop Bergan at Lincoln Southwest High School Tuesday. The loss ended their post-season run. They finished the season with a 23-5 record....
Marsha Poppe Koster was born on June 3, 1955, in Marion, Kan. She died Feb. 27, 2022. Marsha had many qualities. She first exhibited these skills as an athlete at Centre High School as she led the Cougars in their inaugural season to a second place finish in the IA state basketball tournament. She then took her talents to Kansas State University where she was a four-year letter winner on the Wildkittens basketball and track programs. She was one of the leading rebounders and scorers on the team and helped them to a sixth-place finish in the...
George Allen Coon, 92, of Overland Park, Kan., died Feb. 26, in Kansas City, Mo. George was born on May 10, 1929, to Dorothy M. Richards and John H. Coon in Red Cloud. His mother, Dorothy M. Richards, died after givingbirth to George. He was raised by his grandparents and then eventually his father and step-mother, Alyce Coon. After George graduated from Cowles High School in 1949, he worked as a farm hand on the family farm. In 1951, he joined the Navy. He was a telegraph typewriter operator on the U.S.S. Norton Sound. He was in the Navy for f...
Marcella Maria Kniep, 94, of Byron, died March 1, at Parkview Haven in Deshler, Neb. She was born May 23, 1927, on the family farm near Byron to Henry and Edna Peters. She attended school until the eighth grade at St. Johns Lutheran Church. She was united in marriage Oct. 5, 1947, to LaVern A. Kniep by Pastor K. J. Graf. They made their home northwest of Byron where they raised their children, Paul and Margie. Along with the daily life of being a farm wife, she developed an talent of creating cakes for all occasions. She became known as the...
Norma Belle Bargen, the daughter of Thomas P. and Estella Harkins McKeown, was born on May 4, 1926, on a farm near Webber, Kan. She died March 4, at the Brodstone Memorial Hospital at Superior, at the age of 95 years, 10 months. Norma was a Superior High School graduate. She was a 75-year member of the Salem Lutheran Church and was employed at the Nuckolls County ASCS office in Nelson until her retirement. She was united in marriage to Donald Bargen on Oct. 19, 1947, at the Methodist Church in...
James (Jim) Rial Decker was born Sept. 4, 1946, in Denver, Colo., to his parents, James Edward and Beverly (Schwab) Decker. He died March 3, 2022 at Mary Lanning Hospital, Hastings, surrounded by his family. Jim's parents were divorced when he was very young with Jim living with his mother in Denver during the school year and spending the summers with his dad. The courts let him decide where he wanted to live when he was 12, and he chose his dad. He never saw his mother again. Jim attended Burr...
A funeral honoring the life of Vicki Morehead, 43, is planed for 2:30 Saturday afternoon at the Megrue-Price Funeral Home. The Rev. Robert Hopkins will officiate. Burial will be in the Nelson Cemetery. Visitation is from to 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home....
Carl R. Figgins, age 76, succumbed to his 18 month battle with pancreatic cancer on Jan. 9, 2022, surrounded by his loving family in Mankato, Kan. Carl was born at the family home on Feb. 24, 1945, to Cecil R. and Gladys Irene (Bisbee) Figgins. He graduated from Burr Oak High School in 1963 and attended Hutchinson Community College. Carl was united in marriage to Karen Garman on March 30, 1968, at the Baptist Church in Mankato. To this union a daughter, Jennifer, was born. Carl enlisted in the National Guard in November of 1965 and was...
Dorothy Buescher Funeral March 5 The funeral was held Saturday, March 5, 2022 at the Sacred Heart parish church for Dorothy L. Buescher, lifelong area resident of the Lawrence area. Dorothy was born Sept. 15, 1927 and died Feb. 25, 2022. The service was started with a Rosary led by Mrs. Vernon Himmelberg. The Mass of Christian Burial was concelebrated by Pastor, Reverend Corey Harrison, Rev. Bernie Kimminau and Rev. Michael McCabe. Assisting with the service were: Deacon Duane Karman Lector; the Reading were given Dorothy’s sons: Gary, Doug and...
