By Kenneth A. Bartholomew, M.D. As a physician with 45 years of practice, I’ve seen my share of diseases. I have usually been on the physician side of the diagnosis-treatment paradigm. However, knowing the rationale for diagnostic screening tests, I fortunately did not shirk my own.
The 2022 Downtown Summer Movie Series will continue on Saturday, July 30. The free series features family-friendly movies shown outdoors in the Sunken Parking Lot on Central Avenue Saturday nights at dusk in the summertime.
Encouragement from Nebraska City residents Duane and Jackie Smith brought woodworker and Nebraska native Ron Wahl of Derby, Kan., to the Wildwood Art Barn, where his work is currently being featured. Wahl was born and raised in the Western and Fairbury area.
The Otoe County Extension extends a big thank you to everyone who came out to clean up the Otoe County fairgrounds. It takes many hands to get all the work done to get everything ready. Photos contributed
The Morton-James Public Library will host multiple Humanities Nebraska speakers for its fall History Series programming. All programs start at 7 p.m.
The votes are in and the viewers have spoken….viewers of the Nebraska City Tourism and Commerce website where Nebraska City residents could select the town’s Cutest Pet of 2022. Twelve pets were in the running for the title this year: seven dogs, four cats, and one chicken.
Roger Lynn Jun, 79, of Otoe passed away peacefully at the Good Samaritan Nursing Home in Syracuse on Saturday, July 17, 2022. He was born on April 9, 1943 to Golda Marie (Goodheart) and Arnold Jun in Humboldt, NE. While growing up on his grandfather’s farm in the Humboldt area, he attended school in Humboldt and graduated from Humboldt High School in 1960. In 1964, Roger graduated from Milford Community College with a degree in Agribusiness.
Annetta Marie (Roesch) Pickett, 84, of Oklahoma City, OK, passed away July 16, 2022 after a year-long battle with Pancreatic Cancer. She was born July 11, 1938 in Falls City, NE, the oldest of 7 children to Fred “Fritz” Adam and Mabel Francis (Noyes) Roesch. Anne spent most of her childhood in southeast NE living in Falls City, Dawson, Nebraska City, Shubert and other towns. She was attending Otoe High School her junior year when her family moved to Grants Pass, OR where she graduated in 1955 at age 16. Anne returned to Nebraska City after graduation and began working at the Pat A Cake Cafe’ and Foley’s Jewelry Store. It was at the cafe’ where she met and fell in love with Gary Pickett from Nemaha, NE. They were married on May 4,1956 and soon afterwards the start of their family began with the birth of their son in June of 1957. Gary’s 47-year career with Western Union in 1955 moved the little family to Falls City, Tulsa, OK, Little Rock, AR and other towns along the way until he arrived at Tinker Air Force Base in 1962. A daughter was added to the family in 1966. For 60 years the Pickett family would call Oklahoma City and the Mid-Del suburban area their home. During the 1970’s and 80’s, Anne served as homeroom mother and Sunday school teacher in her children’s classrooms and later returned to work as a receptionist at Lee’s RV City where she retired in 1998. Anne was preceded in death by her father, her mother
On Friday, July 15, the Peru State Football Booster Club hosted their annual golf tournament at the Auburn Country Club. This year they had a great turnout of 21 teams in total.
One of America’s greatest civil rights heroes is from Nebraska. Yet nationally, almost nobody knows about him.