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Edmund StotzMITCHELL — Edmund Stotz,

78, of Mitchell died Friday (April 9,2010) at Avera Health and Rehab,Mitchell.

Funeral services are at 10:30a.m. Tuesday at ResurrectionLutheran Church, Mitchell.Military graveside services will bein Servicemen’s Memorial

Cemetery, Mitchell. Visitation is 6-8 p.m. today

(Monday) at the church. Arrangements are under the

direction of Bittner FuneralChapel, Mitchell.

The family requests thatmemorials be directed to AveraBrady Health and Rehab, 500South Ohlman, Mitchell, SD 57301.

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Marlen BurbachHARTINGTON, Neb. — Marlen

Burbach, age 77 of Hartington,Nebraska, died on Friday, April 9,2010 at the Avera Sacred HeartHospital in Yankton.

Mass of Christian Burial will beon Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at 10:30am at Holy Trinity Catholic Churchin Hartington with Rev. JefferyLoseke and Rev. David Fulton offici-ating. Burial will be in the St.Michael’s Cemetery in Hartington.

Visitation will be on Mondayfrom 3:00 to 8:00 p.m. with a vigilservice at 7:00 p.m. at the church.Visitation will begin one hour priorto services on Tuesday at thechurch.

The Wintz Funeral Home inHartington is in charge of arrange-ments. To share a memory or toview the video tribute, please visitwww.wintzrayfuneralhome.com.

Pallbearers will be his grand-sons, Adam Burbach, StevenBurbach, Andrew Goodenberger,Aaron Goodenberger, Brent Albers,and Jeffrey Burbach.

Marlen was born on September12, 1932 at Hartington to Adam and

Mary (Schmidt)Burbach. He grewup on a farm westof Hartington andgraduated fromHoly Trinity HighSchool in 1950. Hemarried Hilaria“Dickie” Maly onJune 19, 1957 inCrofton, Nebraska.He farmed on the

home place west of Hartington,moving into Hartington in 1998while he continued to enjoy his loveof farming. Marlen was a member ofthe Holy Trinity Catholic Churchand was one of the firstExtraordinary Ministers of theEucharist. He was a member of theKnights of Columbus and liked togarden, fish, play cards and spendtime with his grandkids. He and hiswife loved to travel and enjoyedmany trips together.

Marlen is survived by his wife,Hilaria of Hartington, 9 children andtheir spouses, Raleigh and ChristieBurbach of Hartington; David andKim Burbach of Green Bay,Wisconsin; Marlene and PaulGoodenberger of McCook,

Nebraska; Joan and Doug Albers ofRandolph, Nebraska; Rodney andLinda Burbach of Edwardsville,Illinois; Dale and Vicki Burbach ofLee’s Summit, Missouri; Dean andLisa Burbach of Hartington; Dianeand Mark Williamson ofGreenwood, Missouri; Linda andKeith Gobel of Lee’s Summit,Missouri; 34 grandchildren, 1 greatgranddaughter, a brother, Bernardand Helen Burbach of Neligh,Nebraska; and a sister, DorothyKremer of Hartington.

He was preceded in death by hisparents, an infant daughter, a grand-daughter, Jordyn Gobel, 4 brothers,Alphonse, Jerome, Harold, andRaymond Burbach and a sister,Theresa Pinkelman.

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Vernet Hein MENNO — Vernet V. Hein, age

74, of Menno, SD, died on Friday,April 09, 2010 at the Menno-Olivet Care Center, Menno.

Funeral service will be 10:30a.m. Tuesday, April 13, 2010 atGrace Lutheran Church, Menno,with Rev. Brad Danielson officiat-ing. Burial will be in MennoCemetery.

Visitation will be 5-8 p.m. onMonday, April 12, 2010 at GraceLutheran Church, Menno, withfamily present at 6:00 p.m.Visitation will resume one hourprior to the service at the church.

A isenbrey -Opsahl -Koste lMemorial Chapel, Menno is incharge of the arrangements.

Vernet Vee was born to Marvinand Annabel (Steffen) Cox onFebruary 26, 1936 in Scotland, SD.She was baptized and confirmedat Olivet EUB Church and latergraduated from Menno HighSchool. Vernet married Max Heinon February 26, 1956 in Olivet, SD.Together, they farmed most oftheir married life and retired toMenno in 2001. She was active inthe Unity Lutheran Church until

closing and thenattended GraceLutheran Church.

Her memorywill be cherishedby her daughters:Skye (Dale)Thomsen ofBrandon, SD andKim (Tim) Flint ofViborg, SD; fourgrandchildren:

Heath (fiancé Heidi) and ZacharyThomsen and Jamie and DakotaFlint; sister, Latitia (Wes) Jordanof Mount Lake Terrace, WA andsisters in law: Bea Hein; DelphineLaber and Rita (Milton) Handel.

Vernet was preceded in deathby her husband, Max; parents,four brothers in law, one sister inlaw and one granddaughter.


Charles StappertBOW VALLEY, Neb. —

Charles Stappert, age 79 of BowValley, Nebraska, died on Friday,April 9, 2010 at the Golden LivingCenter in Hartington, Nebraska.

Mass of Christian Burial willbe on Monday, April 12, 2010 at10:00 am at Holy Family (Sts.Peter and Paul) Catholic Churchin Bow Valley with Rev EricOlsen officiating. Burial will be inSts. Peter and Paul Cemetery inBow Valley with military honorsprovided by the WynotAmerican Legion Post 31.

Visitation will be on Sundayfrom 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. with avigil service at 7:00 p.m. at thechurch. Visitation will be onehour prior to services onMonday at the church.

The Wintz Funeral Home inHartington is in charge ofarrangements. To share a memo-ry please visit www.wintzrayfu-neralhome.com.

Pallbearers will be his grand-sons, Preston Stappert, AndyStappert, Justin Zahn, DillonStappert, Kristopher Stappert and

Jacob Stappert.Charles was

born on April 15,1930 at BowValley to Hugoand Matilda( S u d b e c k )Stappert. He grewup in the BowValley area andgraduated from

Holy Trinity High School inHartington in 1948. He served inthe U. S. Army from 1951 to 1953.He married Claudette Becker onMay 4, 1954 at St. Helena,Nebraska. He farmed in the BowValley area and in 1975 beganworking for the Wynot Locker inWynot, Nebraska where he didfor about 10 years. He thenworked at Prince Hydraulics inHartington for 10 years retiringin 1995.

Charles was a member of theHoly Family (St. Peter and Paul)Catholic Church in Bow Valleyand the Wynot American LegionPost 31. He loved to play cardsand visit with his friends.

Charles is survived by his

wife, Claudette of Bow Valley; 7children and their spouses,Roxanne and Scott Stanard ofOmaha; John and Janie Stappertof Norfolk; Michael and LindaStappert of Basehor, Kansas;Carol Spetman of Scottsdale,Arizona; Karl and RobynStappert of Skiatook, Oklahoma;Ron and Claudia Stappert ofPalm Harbor, Florida; JosephStappert of Omaha; 21 grand-children, 5 great grandchildren,2 sisters, Norma Dendinger ofColeridge and Genevieve Katholof Hartington.

He was preceded in death byhis parents and a brother, JimmyStappert.


Marie ChristensonMarie C. Christenson, age 99

years, 8 months, and 18 days,passed away early Friday, April 9,2010, at the Tyndall GoodSamaritan Center, Tyndall, SD.

Funeral services will be 1:30PM, Wednesday, April 14, 2010 atthe Opsahl-Kostel MemorialChapel, Tabor, SD with Rev. DavidWildermuth officiating. Burial willbe in the Elm Grove Cemetery,rural Tabor, SD.

Visitations will be 7 to 9 p.m.Tuesday, at the Opsahl-KostelMemorial Chapel, Tabor, and thenone hour prior to the service at thechapel. Pallbearers will be JimBarger, Keith Christenson, SashaChristenson, Christian Haunton,Jeffrey Haunton, and LarrySchmidt.

Marie was born to Andrew andMary Schmidt on July 23, 1910, inrural Tabor, SD. She attendedschool at Elm Grove School andTabor High School. She marriedLowell Christenson in 1935. Theywere employed on a ranch inMontana and farmed near Meckling,SD until 1941, when they moved toBlair, NE. While raising a son andtwo daughters, Marie worked as atelephone operator and later as acare giver at the Blair GoodShepherd Home. Lowell passedaway in 1977. Two years later Mariemoved to Omaha where sheremained until 2007. She thenmoved to Tyndall Good SamaritanCenter, Tyndall, SD. She beautifiedthe world around her with the flow-ers she grew and the paintings shecreated. She received much enjoy-ment out of her family.

Her memory is cherished by herson Lowell Keith (Judy)Christenson of Tabor, SD and herdaughter Gladys (C. Jeffrey)Haunton of Omaha, NE. 7 grandchil-dren and 14 great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death byher parents; daughter ThelmaChristenson; husband Lowell;brothers George, Jim, and PeteSchmidt; Sister Anne Schmidt; andtwo great grandsons Jesse Rocholtzand Garret Schaffer.


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MIDWEST DIGEST6,000 More Sandbags Filled At Lake Poinsett

SIOUX FALLS (AP) — Volunteers continue to fight the rising watersof Lake Poinsett in eastern South Dakota.

Another round of sandbagging took place on Saturday, with morethan 100 volunteers coming from across the state. Eight truckloads ofsand from a nearby state park were used to strengthen flood barriers.

By day’s end, 6,000 sandbags were filled, bringing the total holdingback the lake to more than 90,000.

Steve Foss, director of the United Methodist Church camp at thelake, says it’s possible those sandbags will need to stay in place fortwo years. He expects continued high water this year and floodingagain next year.

$200,000 Powerball Ticket Sold In S.D.PIERRE (AP) — South Dakota Lottery officials say a winning

Powerball ticket worth $200,000 in Saturday night’s drawing was soldin Sioux Falls.

The ticket matched the five white balls but not the red Powerballnumber.

The winning Powerball numbers for the Saturday drawing are: 21,22, 49, 52 and 58; the Powerball is 34 and the Power Play multiplier is 2.

Powerball is played in 41 states, the District of Columbia and theU.S. Virgin Islands.

The odds of winning the $200,000 prize are 1 in 5.1 million. It’sbeen won three times in South Dakota so far this year. A Rapid Citygroup won in the March 31 drawing, and workers from MinnesotaRubber’s Watertown plant won March 17.

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S.F. ShootingSuspect Had

Threatened HerEx-BoyfriendSIOUX FALLS (AP) — A

woman suspected of fatallyshooting a Sioux Falls man she’dcasually dated before committingsuicide had served prison timefor threatening to kill an ex-boyfriend, according to courtdocuments.

Kari Jo McFarlane, 45, ofHarrisburg spent almost fouryears in the South DakotaWomen’s Prison in Pierre foraggravated assault, having plead-ed guilty to the charge in 2005.She was released in February2009.

McFarlane pulled a gun onher former live-in boyfriend andthreatened to kill him, accordingto court records.

On Tuesday, police say, sheshot 28-year-old Clint Vanderpoelwith a high-powered rifle in hisSioux Falls home, then drove to afriend’s house and killed herselfwith the same gun.

Officers investigating her sui-cide found Vanderpoel’s body thenext day. Police were tipped tohis slaying by one of McFarlane’srelatives, who found a threaten-ing note at her house after herdeath and contacted the depart-ment.

In the 2005 incident,McFarlane visited her ex-boyfriend in Sioux Falls andtalked him into her car, thenpulled a gun on him, courtrecords said. He took the weaponand fled. Later, she said she hadplanned to kill him and officersfound a note in her home detail-ing her plan, court records said.

BY MARGERY A. BECKAssociated Press Writer

OMAHA, Neb. — WhileRepublican Rep. Lee Terry hasrebuffed challengers to his re-elec-tion bids in recent years, that couldprove a more formidable task downthe road.

Congressional redistricting inTerry’s 2nd District could erode theGOP advantage he’s relied on, mak-ing his seat more vulnerable to aDemocratic takeover.

The lines defining the state’sthree congressional districts arereviewed every 10 years after thecompletion of the Census, which isbeing conducted this year.

And, if the third 3rd District losespopulation, the lines will have to beredrawn to make sure each districthas approximately the same popula-tion.

The task of redrawing those linesis left to the state Legislature, which

could shave off thenorthern portion ofSarpy County cur-rently in the 2ndDistrict — also thepiece that carries alarge chunk ofRepublican voters.

Without thatregion, the 2ndDistrict would like-ly have more regis-

tered Democrats thanRepublicans.

At latest count, Douglas Countyhad 125,211 registered Democrats,119,750 Republicans and 64,787independent voters. The section ofSarpy County within the 2nd Districtheld 21,603 registered Democrats,31,839 Republicans and 16,804 inde-pendent voters.

While it might seem geographi-cally logical to put all of SarpyCounty within Nebraska’s 1stDistrict, currently held by GOP Rep.

Jeff Fortenberry, don’t count on theprocess being that simple, saidRandall Adkins, a political scienceprofessor at the University ofNebraska at Omaha.

“The Supreme Court has deter-mined time and time again that youcan draw districts for political rea-sons. They’re quite OK with that,”Adkins said.

The issue of redistricting has his-torically been a contentious oneacross the country, and Nebraska isno exception. In 2001, Saline CountyDemocrats unsuccessfully sued tochallenge their county’s move intothe Republican-dominated 3rdCongressional District.

The Nebraska Legislature’sExecutive Board will appoint a spe-cial redistricting committee in the2011 session to oversee the redraw-ing of district lines. One lawmakerfamiliar with redistricting, Sen. ScottLautenbaugh of Omaha, plans tomake a case for being appointed to

the committee.Lautenbaugh is a former Douglas

County election commissioner, andin 2001, he sued the state to chal-lenge the constitutionality ofredrawn political boundary lines forstate senators. Lautenbaugh allegedthat newly drawn districts inDouglas County violated theNebraska Constitution because theydid not follow county lines.

The lawsuit was later dismissed.State lawmakers are elected

through a nonpartisan election, butmost declare a party affiliation. Andthe majority of the state’s 49 law-makers are Republicans — includingLautenbaugh.

He’s not ready to predict howlines might be drawn, butLautenbaugh said he stands behindthe basis of his 2001 lawsuit.

“Our mission and our directive isto follow county lines wheneverpracticable,” Lautenbaugh said.

BY NICK HYTREKSioux City Journal

LAUREL, Neb. — The war in Vietnamended years ago.

But not for communities like Laurel thatnever were able to welcome all of their sonsand daughters home. Hundreds of U.S. per-sonnel remain unaccounted for from thatwar.

For more than 44 years, Laurel residentsknew that Don Grella more than likely haddied when the Army helicopter carrying himand three crewmates went down in heavyjungle on Dec. 28, 1965.

But an empty burial plot in the town’scemetery remained. A monument stood as amemorial to him in the cemetery, and aMissing Man Table display signifying his

missing status was erected in the libraryshared by the community and the Laurel-Concord Public School District.

All were a reminder that Grella nevercame home, and that a family, a community,still missed one of its own.

Verneal Gade watched how it affectedGrella’s mother, Alberta Sutton, as the twoworked together for 20 years in Gowery’sGrocery.

“She always believed he’d be found. A lotof people in town were hoping the same,”Gade said. “She always hoped and prayedshe could get closure before she died.”

It wasn’t to be. She died in 2006, justafter learning that searchers had found thesite where the helicopter carrying Grella andhis mates had crashed.

But it would be three more years before

the site could be excavated.In July, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting

Command notified Grella’s sister, ShirleyHaase, who had spent years pressing thegovernment to keep investigating her broth-er’s case, that some of the remains recov-ered at the site belonged to her brother.

Grella finally returned home in October,when his remains were buried between hismother and father in Laurel.

That burial was a step toward closure.The final step came Friday. Some of theremains recovered from the crash site could-n’t be identified, so they were buried togeth-er Friday in a grave at Arlington NationalCemetery near Washington, D.C. Gade wasamong the 36 family members and friendsthere to pay tribute to Grella. He decided toattend out of respect for Grella’s mother.

“The final closure will be heartfelt to meand a lot of people,” Gade said earlier thisweek before leaving for Washington.

After years of hoping and praying thathis high school classmate and huntingbuddy would someday be found, Bob Dickeysaid it’s great to have him home.

But his long absence still hurts.“For some of us, it will probably linger on

a little longer, but it’s nice to bring closureafter all these years,” Dickey said.

Dickey, who was instrumental in havingthe Missing Man Table display installed atthe library, said the memorial would remainin its spot next to the main entrance so thateveryone, especially the younger genera-tions, is reminded of the sacrifice made by a25-year-old man from their home town.

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