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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1971
Page
6
Visitors describe Nebraska’s Children’s Zoo as a well landscaped, interactive park where children feed rabbits and chicks, watch birds, and ride the Iron Horse Railroad for 15 cents. The writer also notes the nearby Nebraska State Capitol and recommends a full day.
Osceola High School band announces start of practice with sessions Monday August 16 at 8 30 p m. All band members and new freshmen to report to the auditorium. Practices run each evening that week except August 17 for a football meeting.
Msgr L F Obrist 63 dies after long church service and military work. Funeral services at St Vincent Osceola and St Anthony Steinauer with burial at St Anthony Cemetery. He served as pastor of St Vincent Osceola since 1966 and held multiple church and national roles. William R Stegeman 79 dies in Osceola after farming and policing career. Survived by wife Ethel, four children, two stepchildren, siblings, and many grandchildren. services at Kepner Roberts Chapel and interment at Blue Ridge Cemetery Gresham.
The West Island 4-H Club hosted its annual picnic at Osceola Park on Tuesday August 3. Members and families roasted hot dogs and marshmallows with special guests Freddie Nichols Judy Hofeldt and Jo Anne and Gene Schacker attending.
The list outlines August events across nearby towns with lodge visits, club meetings, church programs, and civic gatherings. Highlights include Rebekah lodges in Rising City and Shelby, AF & AM Maple Leaf Club activities, Cen. Book Comm. sessions at City Cafe, and a Polk County WCTU meeting at St Paul Lutheran Church.
Albert A Gabriel and wife celebrate 40 years of marriage with a Sunday dinner at Chances R in York. Attending were Henry and Ebel of David City. George Ebel of Bellwood. Leonard Hiemer Ray Abbott and John Tomaszewicz of Shelby. Alfred Bernt and Albert W Gabriel of Osceola. A further family dinner will be held next Sunday at the same cafe.
Health updates show Don Baer returning to Vets Hospital Grand Island after 10 days at home and transfer to Omaha for consultation. Lisa Davis recovers at home after a fall injury. Local hospital admissions include Mrs. Larson surgery in Annie Jeffrey Hospital and Mrs. Dunn’s two week stay in Omaha care. Several families visit relatives and attend events across Lincoln, Mullen, Rising City, and nearby towns as residents travel for care, weddings, and 4 H tours.
Judith Dash and Robert Leon Morrow exchanged vows at St. Lawrence Catholic Church in Silver Creek at 12 30 p m Saturday. Rev. Stanley Mitera officiated with music by Mrs. Merle Schott and Howard Smith. The bride wore white silk organza with lace and a cathedral mantilla. Five hundred guests attended the reception at Pioneer Ballroom before the couple’s Yellowstone National Park trip and a Lincoln residence arrangement.
L T C Richard L McCormick and his family were weekend guests of his mother Mrs Julius Johnson in an open house hosted by the Johnsons on Sunday. Relatives traveling distances included the Willard McCormick family of Atlantic Iowa and Eileen and Dennis Carson of Oakdale. McCormick is on leave from Vietnam and will complete a year of duty in December.
Myron H. Whaley and Dr. S. O. Whaley arrived in Polk County in March 1871 and took claims near Osceola. They endured blizzards that produced two marriages, a severe cold spell in November, and started a school in a dugout. The piece notes county seat politics, early meat scarcity, a buffalo mince pie Christmas, and life with Judge Query and neighbors.
Lincoln Nebraska reports that largemouth bass have been stocked in farm and ranch ponds with bluegill and channel catfish fingerlings to follow. The joint effort by the Game and Parks Commission and the U S Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife requires applications by April 15 and will inspect ponds for water, size, depth, fencing, and overflow.
Mr and Mrs Calmar Herrmann of Osceola announce the engagement of their daughter Linda Jane to Sp 5 Dennis Dean Bortis son of Mr and Mrs Darell Bortis of Fairfield Nebraska. Linda, a University of Nebraska senior majoring in Home Economics Education and Extension, and Dennis a Nebraska alumnus and Army member recently returned from Sinop Turkey and will be stationed at Homestead Air Force Base Florida. An early spring wedding is planned.
A daughter was born August 7 to Mr and Mrs Leon Fiala in Grand Island weighing 7 pounds 1 ounce. The couple has three other children. Maternal grandparents are Mr and Mrs Thomas Hofbauer of Grand Island.
Local church notices list August schedules across Calvary Lutheran Swede Home St Mary Osceola St Andrew St Vincent Catholic and United Methodist churches. It lists worship times, masses confessions and August 22 Holy Communion with pastors and speakers named.
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