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Ida R. Gygax
(Obituary ~ 12/11/03)
NORTH PLATTE -- Ida R. Gygax, 101, died Monday (Dec. 8, 2003) at Centennial Park Retirement Village in North Platte. She was born May 10, 1902, in Hayes Center to Henry and Dorothea (Wall) Hofman. On April 13, 1947, she married Albert Gygax. She moved to North Platte in 1989...
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Lena Lois (Dowling) Brenning
(Obituary ~ 12/11/03)
DENVER -- Lena Lois (Dowling) Brenning, 90, died Tuesday (Dec. 9, 2003) in Denver, Colo. She graduated from McCook High School in 1931 and attended the Los Angeles Bible School in Los Angeles, Calif. She returned to McCook and worked for the McCook Telephone Company...
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Eugene Leonard Stout
(Obituary ~ 12/11/03)
BIGFORK, Mont. -- Eugene Leonard Stout, 77, died Tuesday (Dec. 9, 2003) at the Kalispell Regional Hospital in Kalispell, Mont. He was born April 8, 1926, to Stanley Thomas and Grace Lucille (Young) Stout at Longford, Kan. He grew up in the Longford area and following high school graduation, he enlisted in the United States Air Force. He flew many missions over Germany and the south Pacific...
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Phyllis J. Smith
(Obituary ~ 12/11/03)
OBERLIN -- Phyllis J. Smith, 74, died Monday (Dec. 8, 2003) at Cedar Living Center in Oberlin. She was born Nov. 28, 1929, to E. George and Emma A. (Luedtke) Siegfried on a farm west of Traer. She was raised in Traer and graduated from Decatur Community High School in Oberlin...
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Linda Sue Brown
(Obituary ~ 12/11/03)
GRANT -- Linda Sue Brown, 57, died Tuesday (Dec. 9, 2003) at Perkins County Hospital in Grant. She was born June 16, 1946, to Harry and Mattie (Redden) North, southwest of Imperial. She grew up in Imperial and graduated from Chase County High School in 1965...
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Rolland Greinke 'Ron' Lange
(Obituary ~ 12/11/03)
IMPERIAL -- Rolland Greinke "Ron" Lange, 75, died Monday (Dec. 8, 2003) at Imperial Manor Nursing Home in Imperial. He was born Nov. 28, 1928, to Walter H. and Emma (Greinke) Lange in Chase County. He attended school in Imperial and graduated from high school in 1946. He entered the Army shortly after graduation and was stationed in Japan. After his discharge Jan. 9, 1948, he attended Hastings College...
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Schools stake out site preferences
(Local News ~ 12/11/03)
CULBERTSON -- The Culbertson school board favors a Hitchcock-Dundy merger with K-12 facilities in Benkelman and Culbertson and elementaries in Stratton and Haigler. Trenton and Stratton boards want a junior-senior high in Trenton and elementary schools in Stratton and Culbertson...
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Officer of the Year
(Local News ~ 12/11/03)
Sheriff Gene Mahon is honored by the McCook Eagles Aerie.
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Negligent trapper puts dog through ordeal
(Local News ~ 12/11/03)
Dudley owes his life to the neighbor boys who know every inch of the Republican River southwest of the Perry Elevators. Dudley is Con and Marty Fielding's lovable, red-haired golden retriever whose leg was caught in a trap that was ignored by its owner for at least five days...
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Medicare reimbursement one of year's success stories
(Editorial ~ 12/11/03)
It's still hard to believe, but one of the success stories of the 2003 session of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives was approval of additional Medicare reimbursements for seven rural hospitals in Nebraska, including Community Hospital of McCook...
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More quakes ahead
(Letter to the Editor ~ 12/11/03)
**Dear Editor, In reply to Todd McCarty's letter to Open Forum about earth quakes: Earthquakes are indeed prophesied to take place with greater frequency in the Last of the Last days in Biblical prophecy. Please read my Guest Editorial in Friday's paper for thorough documentation of this phenomena and for the part earthquakes will play in the soon coming Great Tribulation (the last 3 1/2 years of the seven-year Tribulation)...
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A man who took a chance
(Column ~ 12/11/03)
Six years ago I had just gone through a divorce, lost my sister to breast cancer and was looking for a job. Things had never looked worse. I saw the ad in the paper for someone to help out in the production department of the McCook Daily Gazette. I guess I was feeling a little gutsy, because I picked up the phone and made an appointment to come in and talk to the production manager...
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