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Saturday, June 10, 2017He attended the University of Nebraska where he met Iva, and on May 22, 1955, they were married. K.D. managed Blue River Bank and sold insurance in McCool Jct., retiring in 1993.They wintered in Coolidge, Ariz., where they enjoyed snowbird friends, 4-wheeling in the mountains, playing and singing music. K.D. loved the Sandhills, music, hunting, fishing, wood building projects, and a good joke. He was a member of the McCool United Methodist Church, York Masonic Lodge, American Legion, and the York County Cattleman's Association.He is survived by his wife, Iva, of Lincoln, daughters Carolyn Newton, of McCool Jct., Jan (Dan) Bolin, of Lincoln; son-in-law, Dave Smith, of Lincoln, grandchildren: Eric (Christine) Newton, of Omaha, Brandon (Megan) Bolin of Lincoln, Melissa (Alex) Kumm, of Gretna, Danielle (Greg) Shur, of Hershey, Jessica (Billy) Johnston, of Eaton, Colo., Michelle (Tim) Newton, of Geneva, Shannon Smith of Lincoln, great-grandchildren: Will and Aspen Johnston, Raelynn and Emily Kumm, Paxton and Natalie Suhr, Dylan Bolin, Paityn Peppie and Levi Newton, brother, Leroy (Beverly) Patitz of Hastings. K.D. was preceded in death by his parents, and daughter, Kathy Ann (David) Smith.Memorial services will be 10 a.m. Monday, June 12, at McCool United Methodist Church in McCool Jct. Cremation. No visitation. Inurnment in Greenwood Cemetery, York. His family will greet friends and neighbors from 2-4 p.m. Sunday at Metz Mortuary, York. Memorials: McCool ...
Monday, February 20, 2017He is survived by wife, Jena LaBine of Rush City; two children, Nolan, 12, and Meranda, 9, LaBine, both of Rush City; his father, Michael LaBine of Keewatin; mother, Suzanne Erickson of Coolidge, Ariz.; his grandmother, Theresa LaBine of Hibbing; and two nephews, Devin Eskeli and Caleb Hunt.He was preceded in death by grandfather, Dennis LaBine; grandmother, Jean Jensen; and grandfather, Mason Kirk.Funeral: Services for Ryan will be held at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, at Dougherty Funeral Home of Hibbing. The Rev. Richard Johnston will officiate.Visitation: Will be held from 10 a.m. until the funeral service Thursday at the funeral home.Arrangements are with the Dougherty Funeral Home of Hibbing. To leave an online message of condolence, please visit our website at www.doughertyofhibbing.com.
Monday, August 29, 2016Singer Wayne Osmond (The Osmonds) is 65. Actor Daniel Stern is 59. Olympic gold medal figure skater Scott Hamilton is 58. Actor John Allen Nelson is 57. Actress Emma Samms is 56. Actress Jennifer Coolidge is 55. Movie director David Fincher is 54. Actress Amanda Tapping is 51. Country singer Shania (shah-NY'-uh) Twain is 51. Actor Billy Boyd is 48. Actor Jack Black is 47. Actor Jason Priestley is 47. Olympic gold medal swimmer Janet Evans is 45. Actor J. August Richards is 43. Rock singer-musician Max Collins (Eve 6) is 38. Actress Carly Pope is 36. Country singer Jake Owen is 35. Country singer LeAnn Rimes is 34. Actress Kelly Thiebaud (TV: "General Hospital") is 34. Actor Alfonso Herrera (TV: "The Exorcist") is 33. Actress Sarah Roemer is 32. Actor Armie Hammer is 30. Rock singer Florence Welch (Florence and the Machine) is 30. Actress Shalita Grant (TV: "NCIS: New Orleans") is 28. Country-pop singer Cassadee Pope (TV: "The Voice") is 27. Actress Katie Findlay is 26. Actor/singer Samuel Larsen is 25. Actor Kyle Massey is 25. Actress Quvenzhane Wallis is 13. Reality TV star Alana Thompson, AKA "Honey Boo Boo," is 11.Thought for Today:"One starts to get young at the age of 60 and then it is too late." - Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist (1881-1973).
Monday, June 06, 2016The mountain was dedicated for the project on Aug. 10, 1927. Newsreel footage shows President Calvin Coolidge handing a set of drill bits to Borglum. Fourteen years later, several months after Borglum’s death, his son Lincoln (now there’s a coincidence!) Borglum oversaw the work’s completion. The final drilling took place on Halloween 1941.The carving process, detailed in the film and in a couple of on-site galleries, took 6 1/2 years total as winter weather and funding hiccups idled the site for the balance of those 14 years. Hundreds of men, mostly locals, earned 30 cents to $1.50 per hour for their labors, much of which they performed in swing-set-like chairs that dangled over the mountaintop. They used dynamite to remove half a million tons of rock, which is haphazardly piled beneath the memorial.How safe was that work? Allow me to quote from my tray table in Mount Rushmore’s cafeteria, once I set aside my plate of fried potatoes to read the script:“The drillers had respirators, but they did not always wear them because they plugged up with dust. The workers did not have hard hats or steel-toed boots and a wad of cotton was the best ear plug of the time. There were many bumps and bruises and some close calls, but no fatalities.”21The length of the George Washington sculpture’s nose, in feetThat clean safety record is impressive. And the finished product is impressively popular, not just in classrooms where American history is taught, but also in popular culture (Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 thriller, “North by Northwest,” rather absurdly climaxes there) and, of course, in tourism. According to the National Park Service, Mount Rushmore National Memorial drew 2.44 million visitors in 2015, ranking 36th in the NPS domain – one spot above Glacier National Park in Montana, and one behind Rock Creek Park. (I had not heard of that latter site; perhaps you have, if you have encountered it inside the Washington, D.C., beltway.) The Brokaw-narrated visitors center film ends with soaring, upbeat verbiage. It lacks any hint of disapproval, but as old-time radio man Paul Harvey used to say, now for the rest of the story.Stone-cold controversyThe Black Hills, a small mountain range that tops out at 7,242 feet, for thousands of years was home to American Indians. In 1868, the Fort Laramie Treaty between native peoples and the U.S. government (Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman was on the negotiating team) essentially promised th...
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Saturday, June 10, 2017He attended the University of Nebraska where he met Iva, and on May 22, 1955, they were married. K.D. managed Blue River Bank and sold insurance in McCool Jct., retiring in 1993.They wintered in Coolidge, Ariz., where they enjoyed snowbird friends, 4-wheeling in the mountains, playing and singing music. K.D. loved the Sandhills, music, hunting, fishing, wood building projects, and a good joke. He was a member of the McCool United Methodist Church, York Masonic Lodge, American Legion, and the York County Cattleman's Association.He is survived by his wife, Iva, of Lincoln, daughters Carolyn Newton, of McCool Jct., Jan (Dan) Bolin, of Lincoln; son-in-law, Dave Smith, of Lincoln, grandchildren: Eric (Christine) Newton, of Omaha, Brandon (Megan) Bolin of Lincoln, Melissa (Alex) Kumm, of Gretna, Danielle (Greg) Shur, of Hershey, Jessica (Billy) Johnston, of Eaton, Colo., Michelle (Tim) Newton, of Geneva, Shannon Smith of Lincoln, great-grandchildren: Will and Aspen Johnston, Raelynn and Emily Kumm, Paxton and Natalie Suhr, Dylan Bolin, Paityn Peppie and Levi Newton, brother, Leroy (Beverly) Patitz of Hastings. K.D. was preceded in death by his parents, and daughter, Kathy Ann (David) Smith.Memorial services will be 10 a.m. Monday, June 12, at McCool United Methodist Church in McCool Jct. Cremation. No visitation. Inurnment in Greenwood Cemetery, York. His family will greet friends and neighbors from 2-4 p.m. Sunday at Metz Mortuary, York. Memorials: McCool ...
Monday, February 20, 2017He is survived by wife, Jena LaBine of Rush City; two children, Nolan, 12, and Meranda, 9, LaBine, both of Rush City; his father, Michael LaBine of Keewatin; mother, Suzanne Erickson of Coolidge, Ariz.; his grandmother, Theresa LaBine of Hibbing; and two nephews, Devin Eskeli and Caleb Hunt.He was preceded in death by grandfather, Dennis LaBine; grandmother, Jean Jensen; and grandfather, Mason Kirk.Funeral: Services for Ryan will be held at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, at Dougherty Funeral Home of Hibbing. The Rev. Richard Johnston will officiate.Visitation: Will be held from 10 a.m. until the funeral service Thursday at the funeral home.Arrangements are with the Dougherty Funeral Home of Hibbing. To leave an online message of condolence, please visit our website at www.doughertyofhibbing.com.
Monday, August 29, 2016Singer Wayne Osmond (The Osmonds) is 65. Actor Daniel Stern is 59. Olympic gold medal figure skater Scott Hamilton is 58. Actor John Allen Nelson is 57. Actress Emma Samms is 56. Actress Jennifer Coolidge is 55. Movie director David Fincher is 54. Actress Amanda Tapping is 51. Country singer Shania (shah-NY'-uh) Twain is 51. Actor Billy Boyd is 48. Actor Jack Black is 47. Actor Jason Priestley is 47. Olympic gold medal swimmer Janet Evans is 45. Actor J. August Richards is 43. Rock singer-musician Max Collins (Eve 6) is 38. Actress Carly Pope is 36. Country singer Jake Owen is 35. Country singer LeAnn Rimes is 34. Actress Kelly Thiebaud (TV: "General Hospital") is 34. Actor Alfonso Herrera (TV: "The Exorcist") is 33. Actress Sarah Roemer is 32. Actor Armie Hammer is 30. Rock singer Florence Welch (Florence and the Machine) is 30. Actress Shalita Grant (TV: "NCIS: New Orleans") is 28. Country-pop singer Cassadee Pope (TV: "The Voice") is 27. Actress Katie Findlay is 26. Actor/singer Samuel Larsen is 25. Actor Kyle Massey is 25. Actress Quvenzhane Wallis is 13. Reality TV star Alana Thompson, AKA "Honey Boo Boo," is 11.Thought for Today:"One starts to get young at the age of 60 and then it is too late." - Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist (1881-1973).
Monday, June 06, 2016The mountain was dedicated for the project on Aug. 10, 1927. Newsreel footage shows President Calvin Coolidge handing a set of drill bits to Borglum. Fourteen years later, several months after Borglum’s death, his son Lincoln (now there’s a coincidence!) Borglum oversaw the work’s completion. The final drilling took place on Halloween 1941.The carving process, detailed in the film and in a couple of on-site galleries, took 6 1/2 years total as winter weather and funding hiccups idled the site for the balance of those 14 years. Hundreds of men, mostly locals, earned 30 cents to $1.50 per hour for their labors, much of which they performed in swing-set-like chairs that dangled over the mountaintop. They used dynamite to remove half a million tons of rock, which is haphazardly piled beneath the memorial.How safe was that work? Allow me to quote from my tray table in Mount Rushmore’s cafeteria, once I set aside my plate of fried potatoes to read the script:“The drillers had respirators, but they did not always wear them because they plugged up with dust. The workers did not have hard hats or steel-toed boots and a wad of cotton was the best ear plug of the time. There were many bumps and bruises and some close calls, but no fatalities.”21The length of the George Washington sculpture’s nose, in feetThat clean safety record is impressive. And the finished product is impressively popular, not just in classrooms where American history is taught, but also in popular culture (Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 thriller, “North by Northwest,” rather absurdly climaxes there) and, of course, in tourism. According to the National Park Service, Mount Rushmore National Memorial drew 2.44 million visitors in 2015, ranking 36th in the NPS domain – one spot above Glacier National Park in Montana, and one behind Rock Creek Park. (I had not heard of that latter site; perhaps you have, if you have encountered it inside the Washington, D.C., beltway.) The Brokaw-narrated visitors center film ends with soaring, upbeat verbiage. It lacks any hint of disapproval, but as old-time radio man Paul Harvey used to say, now for the rest of the story.Stone-cold controversyThe Black Hills, a small mountain range that tops out at 7,242 feet, for thousands of years was home to American Indians. In 1868, the Fort Laramie Treaty between native peoples and the U.S. government (Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman was on the negotiating team) essentially promised th...
