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  • RHHS track at Beloit Relays Friday

    May 6, 2021

    The Rock Hills High School boys and girls track and field teams visited Beloit Friday to compete at the Beloit Relays. The Boys team finished in 12th place, with 19 points, in the 19 team field. The girls were in 13th place, with 18 points. Schools competing at the meet were St. John’s, Osborne, Republic County, Tescott, Pike Valley, Logan, Smith Center, Lakeside, Clifton-Clyde, Washington, Lincoln, Saline, Marion, Sacred Heart, Bennington, Sylvan United, Tipton, Thunder Ridge and Wilson. Pike Valley did not enter a team in the girls events. T...

  • RHHS golf team hosts Invite

    May 6, 2021

    The Rock Hills High School golf team hosted the Rock Hills Invitational at the Mankato Country Club sand greens course last Tuesday. The Grizzlies finished in fifth place, with a team score of 381, in the five team field of Lakeside, Tipton, Riley County and St. John's. The four lowest individual scores are used to compile the team score. Ethan Kenworthy was the low scorer for the Grizzlies with a round of 90. Karrigan Dunstan carded a round of 94. Jacob Barry left the course with a round of...

  • SHS golf plays at Blue Hill Invite

    May 6, 2021

    The Superior High School golf team played the Blue Hill Invitational Cyndi Pell Scramble at the Red Cloud Golf Course lastTuesday. Superior finished in fifth place in the six team field. Other teams competing were Blue Hill, Lawrence-Nelson, Deshler, Red Cloud, Silver Lake and Bruning-Davenport-Shickley. The Wildcats finished with a team score of 276. The match was played in the scramble format. Unlike matches where individual scores are tallied, the scramble format is a two-person team event. Each player hits a tee shot. The two team members...

  • SHS golf team at St. Cecilia Invite

    May 6, 2021

    The Superior High School golf team took to the Southern Hills Golf Course in Hastings, Thursday, for the Hastings St. Cecilia Invitational. The Wildcats finished in 15th place in the 15 team field with a team score of 490. The four lowest individual scores comprise the team total. Other schools at the match were Grand Island Central Catholic, Doniphan-Trumbull, Sandy Creek, Lawrence-Nelson, Adams Central, Fillmore Central, Thayer Central, Franklin, Hastings St. Cecilia, Fullerton, Wood River, Hastings High School junior varsity, Sutton and the...

  • L-N golf at Blue Hill Invite at Red Cloud

    May 6, 2021

    The Lawrence-Nelson High School golf team took part in the Blue Hill Invitational Cyndi Pell Scramble at the Red Cloud Golf Course last Tuesday. The Raiders finished in third place, with a team score of 283, in the six team field of Red Cloud, Superior, Silver Lake, Deshler and Bruning-Davenport-Shickley. The match was played in the scramble format. Unlike matches where individual scores are tallied, the scramble format is a two-person team event. Each player hits a tee shot. The two team members decide which shot they like better. They then...

  • L-N golf at St. Cecilia Invite at Hastings

    May 6, 2021

    The Lawrence-Nelson High School golf team played at Thursday’s Hastings St. Cecilia Invitational at the Southern Hills Golf Course at Hastings.The Raiders finished in 11th place in the 15 team field with a team score of 432. Grand Island Central Catholic, Doniphan-Trumbull, Sandy Creek, Superior, Adams Central, Fillmore Central, Thayer Central, Franklin, Hastings St. Cecilia, Fullerton, Wood River, Hastings High School junior varsity, Sutton and the Hastings St. Cecilia junior varsity team. The four lowest individual scores make up the team s...

  • SHS FFA banquet

    May 6, 2021

    The Superior High School chapter of the FFA held their annual banquet, Thursday, at the Superior Elementary School gymnasium. The banquet had been cancelled last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 45 chapter members were joined by family and friends for the event. The chapter president, Kiki Mikkelsen, called the banquet hall to order. Each officer responded as to their presence and what their duties were as the vice-president called the roll of officers. The presence of honored guests,...

  • Dale Mueller

    May 6, 2021

    Hastings resident Dale Edward Mueller, 86, died Thursday, April 29, 2021, at Mary Lanning Health- care, Hastings. His funeral was at 2 p.m., Tuesday, May 4, at First St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Hastings with Pastor Joel Remmers officiating. Burial will be at a later date at Salem Lutheran Churchyard Cemetery near Superior. Book signing was 1 to 4 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Dale was born May 13, 1934, in Nelson, Neb., to Carl and Elsa Anna Maria (Eilers) Mueller. He graduated from Nelson...

  • Marcus Skinner

    May 6, 2021

    Marcus L. Skinner died April 6, 2021, at his home near Edgar. He was born April 9, 1955, in Superior and was the eldest child of Morris and Joan (Johnston) Skinner. Marc was later adopted by Jack Skinner. The family lived on a farm in the Edgar area. Marc attended grade school in Oak and transferred to Nelson in 7th grade where he graduated with the class of 1973. Marc married Bobbie Samsula in 1974. To this union were born Michael, Mary and Haley. In 1995, he married Nicole Burdick and had two children, Brittney and Brandon. In 2017 he...

  • Naomi Storsteen

    May 6, 2021

    Naomi "Tommie" Esther Storsteen died April 25. She was born March 25, 1925, in Nuckolls County, and grad- uated from Superior High School in May of 1942. Naomi next attended nursing school in Omaha, where she met the love of her life. On Dec. 8,1945, she married Dr. Kenneth Storsteen in Abdal Lutheran Church, Abdal, Neb. Naomi and Kenneth moved several times until 1953 when they moved to Duluth, Minn. She was a member of First Lutheran Church. She sang in the church choir for 38 years, taught...

  • Ralph Baker

    May 6, 2021

    Ralph "Bud" Baker was born in Oak, Neb., on Sept. 30, 1924, to Ralph and Lillie Baker. He had four sisters, Betty, Hazel, Ilamae and Sandra; and four brothers, Robert, Fred, Stanley and Roger. After graduation from Nelson High School. He joined the army. Ralph was a weapons instructor before going to England. After climbing up from the beach into France, he joined the 7th Armored Division Co. "B" 23 BAT. and fought in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. He was wounded in Holland. He was a...

  • Eugene Boner

    May 6, 2021

    Eugene Harold Bonerwas born Nov. 20,1943, to Harold and Verla (Gouldie) Boner in Red Cloud. Although a farming accident unexpectedly took his life on April 29, Gene was doing what he loved. Gene resided in Line Precinct all of his life and attended Red Cloud public schools. He was united in marriage with Serena Hansen in September ,1963. They established their family farm southwest of Red Cloud. To this union were born two daughters, Martha and Marie. Gene grew up in 4-H and FFA and so began his lifelong passion for Hereford cattle. After...

  • Lucille Henry

    May 6, 2021

    Lucille R (Kaenel) Henry, 77, died Sunday. She was born Sept. 20, 1943. Her funeral is at 10:30 a.m., Friday, at Christ Lutheran Church, Davenport....

  • Don Nickerson

    May 6, 2021

    Don A. Nickersonwas born Dec. 3, 1943, in Belleville, to Donald O. and Lorene A. (Macy) Nickerson. After graduating high school in 1961, Don joined the U. S. Navy. During his 20 year career, Don served as a combat medic in Vietnam and ended as a chief petty officer in hospital administration before retiring in 1981. Don returned to Kansas to be near family, retiring as a rural mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service. On Jan. 3, 1969, he was united in marriage to Mary E. “Betty” Desroches. Don was preceded in death by his parents; and his sis...

  • Don Anderson

    May 6, 2021

    Don W. Anderson, 86, of Mankato died Tuesday, April 27, at the Jewell County Hospital. He was born on Feb. 14, 1935, in Manhattan, Kan., to Lewis and Tracy (Johnson) Anderson. He was a 1952 graduate of Cleburne High School, Cleburne, Kan. Don received his bachelor's degree in secondary education from Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kan. Don met the love of his life, Gay M. Westbrook, while attending Bethany College. Don and Gay were united in marriage on Aug. 18, 1957. To this union, three...

  • Karol Bonicamp

    May 6, 2021

    Karol Lynn Bonicamp, daughter of Dale and Treva Mahaffy of Mankato, Kan., was born in Beloit, on Oct. 15, 1942. She died at the Collier Hospice in Wheat Ridge, Colo., on April 18, after a long illness. After graduating from Mankato High School, Karol received her license in cosmetology in Wichita, where she owned and operated her own shop before moving to take a management position at the High County Lodge in Breckenridge, Colo. After the lodge was sold, she enrolled in travel agency school and was employed by Voyageurs International in Wheat R...

  • Leona Korb

    May 6, 2021

    Leona (Margaret) McCutcheon Korb was born on May 9, 1935, on her family’s farm near Webber Kan. and died Feb. 28, 2021, in Merriam, Kan., with family and friends by her side. Margaret looked back on her youth with fond memories of growing up on the farm with her parents and brother, Richard “Dick” McCutcheon. She married Tom Korb Feb. 9, 1958. They have one son, Mark Korb. They made their home in Bladen, Neb., and later moved to Superior. For several years, their family held evangelistic services in churches throughout the Midwest and then...

  • Delvin Moeller

    May 6, 2021

    Delvin Dean Moeller, 86, the son of William and Leona (Rogge) Moeller, was born on Sept. 1, 1934 in Republic County, Kansas. He died April 27, 2021. Delvin was a lifelong member of St. Peter Lutheran Church rural Byron. He rarely missed church and prayed for everyone in their joy and sorrow. He attended Prairie Dell School until the sixth grade. He didn't like school. He started skipping school and hiding under a bridge. After being discovered, he quit school and became a farmer and stockman...