Stories from Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Jon Leroy Neiman Nov. 15, 1917 - Nov. 5, 2011 SUTHERLAND, Nebraska -- Jon Leroy Neiman, 93, of Sutherland, formerly of Thedford, Nebraska, died Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011, at the Sutherland Care Center in Sutherland. Jon was born Nov. 15, 1917, at Haxtun, Colorado, to Elmo L. and Esther Virgie Williams Neiman. He grew up in the Haxtun area and in his teen years the family moved to the Neiman Farm south of Curtis, Nebraska...

From the south she came, tentative and alert. She a whitetail doe kept looking back telling me that there were more to come. Then her partner, an even larger doe, appeared accompanied by a half grown fawn. Each deer would pause to graze on the manicured blue grass lawn then head held high would look and listen for danger. ...