Ron Smith

Happy birthday to Kathie Dobberstein Jordan !!! See you at the reunion.

Congrats to Marcene. as well.

Sad about Greg Brandt (71) passing.Another Kenwood kid and part of our old neighborhood gone too soon.

Marcene Niedt (Joy)

Thank you everyone for your good wishes. We are really looking forward to May 21. 
we need a real lift after this past & present year! It is exciting decorating a house again! I didn't realize how much I had collected over tge years until I started packing boxes. I still haven't touched the garage. It needs to be halfway decent to pack boxes & leave the car set outside. In Holdrege we have a garage with carport but looking to add a 2nd 2-car garage. My dogs will enjoy running in the backyard. They've been leashed since 2011.

Anna Sobotka (Schroeder)

          Have a awesome day !!!!

Ron Smith

A very happy birthday to my all time favorite next door neighbor. CWC

Anna Sobotka (Schroeder)

       HAPPY BIRTHDAY    Shelley Weeks Koogle

Anna Sobotka (Schroeder)

Thoughts and prayers to Warren Wilken and his family on the passing of his sister ( Charlotte Wilken Webb ) !!!

Ron Smith

Condolences to Warren also on the passing of his sister Charlotte (67).

Happy birthday to Jerry O. One of the good guys.

Anna Sobotka (Schroeder)

Congratulations to Chuck Salestrom on the release of his book ( North Platte's KEITH BLACKLEDGE )  written by Carol Lomicky & Chuck Salestrom

Sue Wise (Divan)

Condolences to Warren Wilken in the loss of his sister Charlotte Wilken Webb.  She was such a sweet person and will be missed by those who knew her.  Gone too soon.

Congratulations to Chuck on his book!  Chuck may not be able to attend our reunion this year but will be in Kearney for a Timberline concert in October.  He sent this information:  I do want to pass on that brother Jim and I along with former drummer Craig Link and others will be host a Timberline 50^th Anniversary Reunion Concert in Kearney at the Merriman  on Friday Oct 1.  Further details will be announced at a later date.

Reminder to get registered for our reunion by clicking on the 50+1 Reunion link on the left!  Plans are coming together and we are looking forward to seeing everyone in August!

Gary Martin

Sue - The check is in the mail for the reunion. We just made our flight and car reservations a couple days back.  Looking forward to a good turnout for the 50+1.

Summer finally arrived in the desert today...98 degrees and the triple digits sometime next week. As soon as the pool hits 80 (this weekend), it will be official:)

Happy belated birthday to Rhonda K!!!

Sue Wise (Divan)

If you registered for the reunion last year, you will still need to register for this year's reunion!  Use the 50+1 link on the left side of the page.  If you have scrapbooks or old memorabilia you would like to share, we will have a table you can leave them on for the evening and people can reminisce about the good old days.   We hope to see lots of you back in Kearney in August.

Ron Smith

Condolences to Cindy and Jerry Foote on the passing of her father Bob Hauver Sr. Bob was a 3 sport star at Kearney State earning 4 letters in both football and track as well as 3 letters in basketball. He coached cross country and track from 1959-1988 as well as wrestling at KSC and was a long time teacher.  He was also inducted into several halls of fame.I got to know Bob a little better when he was a volunteer assistant wrestling coach at Elm Creek and I was reffing.

He also served during World War II from 1943-1949. 

Anna Sobotka (Schroeder)

    HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY !!!

Leanna Fritz

A Zion classmate passed away on Sunday. Also a 1970 grad. Carol Petersen Franzen, who has a brother Craig, also in our class. I think there were only seven of us in that class: Craig and Carol, Norman Heiden, Jerry O, Danny B, Karolyn and me. So we had many very good hours  together. Carol was a very sweet young girl, always with a smile no matter what. They lived down the block from Zion, and we would sometimes pick them up for school. I had no idea she lived in Kearney all of these years, and worked at the hospital. I have thought about her over the years, and just wanted to acknowledge her passing.

Anna Sobotka (Schroeder)

   Leanna   thanks for the info on Carol ( I didn't relize she went to Zion ) Carol was in alot of my classes in jr. high. She was always a cheerful person in our classes.

    I'm looking forward to seeing you at the class reunion !!!!

Leanna Fritz

Me too Anna!  It’s just around the corner now, and we know how fast time goes. Hopefully we will all enjoy summer first, and get rested up for the end of August! 

Jerry Ohlmann

Leanna, thanks for the post about Carol Peterson's passing.  Over the last few months I was thinking about our Zion classmates and wondered whatever happened to Craig and Carol.  I remember Carol being quite athletic in grade school and gave the boys some competition. I hope Craig comes to the reunion.

Ron Smith

Are you on your honeymoon Marcene?

Frank Schickedanz

To All  -  Sorry I haven't been on the Posting side of the Forum  -  I've been reading and watching it all from afar and just have not had drive to write something down.  I have had alot of things happen that I wanted to share but for some reason I just didn't and I have always enjoyed participating in the Forum. That being said  -  Congrats to Marcene on your Wedding  -  Condolences to the Peterson Family  -  Carol was a very Nice Girl.  I spoke to Dan Blanton and he was talking about the Group of you guys at Zion  -  must have been fun growing up in that Hood.  

We got our pool running but they had to plumb around the heater because there are no replacement parts for that equipment  -  it'll just have to wait until the Sun does the heating  -  fortunately and unfortunately we've had so much rain that the the temperature is not moving very much without the Sunshine.  We also went skiing in Colorado in March  -  i fell for the 1st time in forever and jacked my shoulder up  -  the hardest part was standing up  -  I didn't know how so I had to take my skis off and crawl up to stand up (pulling a muscle in my back) and step back into my skis -  I can make a longer story of this but I'm OK  -  just dealing with the shoulder and  "this too will pass".  Just so you know  -  I may be unable to attend the Reunion because Dane's Wife is supposed to give birth on August 15th and if it later than that by 6 or 7 days I will have to miss.  And  "OH BY THE WAY"  -  there is going to be  2  (Yes I Said TWO) Grandbabies  -  and it's not because Haley is having twins  -  YES  -  that's right  -  Aaron's Wife is expecting the end of October.  Carol has been waiting for almost 5 years since Aaron & Jenna got married to be a Grandmother and now she is going to have 2 within a couple of months of each other.  Well  -  now you are caught up on the lives of the Frank Schickedanz Family  -  I'll try to be better about posting.  Talk to you later.

FLS  (Schick)    

Anna Sobotka (Schroeder)

Frank  it was great to hear from you !!!  Glad you're feeling better !!! CONGRATS on the grand babies !!!!!

       FRIENDSHIPS ARE THE SUNSHINE OF LIFE 

Marcene Niedt (Joy)

Happy birthday Lisa

Frank Schickedanz

Anna  -  Thank You  -  Carol is ecstatic over it as well as I am.  We'll find out the Gender of Aaron & Jennas's this weekend.  

We went to Oklahoma this past weekend for Memorial Day  -  I still have two Aunts up there  -  One is 88 and the other is 93  -  Great long lives for both of them.  I played Tapps on my Bugle at 3:00 on Memorial Day  -  I'm not so good at it but I gave it my best  -  I'll practice a little more next year.  We are finally drying out a little bit  -  we've had quite a lot of rain (and FRANKly  -  I'm getting kind of tired of it  -  but as they say "Be careful what you ask for").  Better go to work  -  I still have a job.  Talk to you later.

FLS  (Schick)

Joann Stengel (Tumbleson)

Marcene Niedt (Joy)

We had a wonderful wedding even moving to Holdrege has been easier than we thought. 
still getting organized but that's to be expected!!  Lol

it doesn't seem long to drive to Kearney except the gas prices don't make up.The house is small but cheaper than Kearney.  See you all in August 

Kathy Loschen