Wednesday, January 14, 2015

C'mon, Admit It..........You Missed Us

     Computers are wonderful, they're marvelous.........BUT when they go wacky, $#$%%$##@@
     Yes, we had a problem and it has taken some time for repairs.
     But now, we're off....... like a dirty shirt.
     Be patient.....it may take awhile to "catch up".
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     The Kornerman would be very remiss if we didn't acknowledge the fact that a few folks seemed very concerned about our absence. Mike Loehrer said, "it makes me nervous when I don't see the Korner on schedule." Kathleen Wheelock wrote, "I hope everything is O.K. at your house. Hope all is well. Missed your blog. Take care and keep well. We need you. Blessings to you both." Roger and Lou Oxenford wrote, "We've missed your Saturday article. We hope you aren't sick. This cold weather has put a lot of people down, including us. Your blogs are the bright spot in our Wednesdays and Saturdays. Hope to see it again soon."
     Then too, Dick Chamberlain, Max Moore and Mark Tompkins, among others, wondered?
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     Some quick hits: We're hoping many Korner viewers will bombard Chuck Lovin with best wishes on his 95th birthday, which is Friday. 112 W. 4th St. #147, Boone, Iowa 50036. By the way, his daughter, Shelly Lovin Dannatt has a birthday that very same day.
     Then, some sad news. Former resident Connie Lindmark passed away in Kennewick, WA at age 92 this week. The last the Kornerman heard, her service will probably be held in Boone this coming summer.
     We had heard from Connie's son, Larry Lindmark, recently and had been featuring some of his Boone recollections..........and we have more that will be shared as time passes.
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     Dave Oppedahl wants us to make a correction but we're not sure one is needed. He wrote, "Larry Lindmark's father and MG Tim Orr's mother were not sisters but brother and sister respectively."
     The Kornerman has poured through recent writings and can't find where that sisters, brother/sister thing was ever stated by me or anyone.
     Karen Anderson agrees with Dave. She wrote, "it was Larry's father, Bob, and Tim's mother, Jeannine, who were related....brother and sister."
      In the last edition, we quoted what Dave had written, "Larry is also a cousin to MG Tim E. Orr, their mothers are sisters??"
     Whatever will be, will be and whatever was.....was.
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     Mark Tompkins wrote from Dubuque where he was visiting a son. "How cold did it used to be in Boone back in the day when we had to walk, uphill, both to and from school......barefoot? You need to know that the Korner has been successfully read these last five months of my travels in Scotland, Belgium, France, Death Valley and assorted other wide-spots-in-the-road, wherever the old smart phone can hook up. So, here's a topic for the Korner. What's the most remote spot on earth where someone has linked up to the Korner? I'll submit Mallaig on the west coast of Scotland and Furnace Creek deep within Death Valley."
     The Kornerman recalls receiving word from Thailand when Mike Harris was living there and it seems to me we have heard from.........Sweden or somewhere in Europe a time or two.
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     Tom Matt wrote, "I remember lots of "cold" evenings after supper when my mother would take a car load of us kids to the skating pond and, I believe, Ron Hopkins was part of that group. Mom would be back about 8:30 p.m. to pick us up. You could skate to the music played out of those big horn shaped speakers or you could hear the loud bass voice of Roy Coffman calling your name to stay off the snow banks along the outside of the pond. The "old" pond was at least three times as big as it is now and Roy kept it clean as a whistle and it would upset him to have snow drug back down on the ice. He moved all that snow, on skates, by pushing a shovel ahead of him to the outside and then throwing it up on the bank."
    Tom added, "I bumped into Roy just before Christmas and he is still that big, tall gentleman. Roy lost his wife, Marilyn, last summer and he has moved to Ogden. We talked about McHose Park and the skating pond. He kidded me about causing snow to fall on the ice. I said I remembered the whistle he wore around his neck to blow when the kids needed some attention. He said his dad wore the whistle and that he had a loud enough voice to cause the kids to listen. What great memories and what a great man to keep that pond open for all of us to have so much fun."
    He concluded, "I would suggest a card shower on Roy Coffman as a "thanks for the memories," giving so many of us all those nights of fun at the skating pond. Send him a card at 244 SW 6th Street, Ogden 50212."
    Good idea! How about it you "old" skaters? Don't forget the 95th birthday wish to Chuck Lovin either.
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     Darrell Crouse mentioned Fred Cornmesser's sale of fireworks. Sounds like a subject for a future day.
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     Boone Area Deaths: John Kleinschmidt, 88, Ames. Boone area survivor, son Jim of Madrid........Norma Oliver, 94, Boone. Moved to Boone in 1975. Boone area survivors include niece Anita Clayberg of Boone...........Sara Smith, 56, Boone. Boone area survivors include her parents, Earskin and Cleo Davidson, companion Tim Lindahl and sister Yvonne Tucker all of Boone...........Mark Anderson, 64, Boone. BHS-68. Worked in various auto body shops. Boone area survivors include his wife,  Beverly, son Kelly, brother Brian and sister-in-law Janis Anderson all of Boone, daughter Michaelle Kirton of Ogden and his mother, Gladys Anderson of Madrid.........Ken Skjordal, 54, Gilbert. Boone area survivors include brothers, John and Paul of Gilbert..........Richard Carlson, 69, Ankeny. Born in Fraser. Firestone retiree...........Karin Hickcox, 60, Stratford. BHS-73. Boone area survivors include her mother, Donna Robinson of Stratford and daughter Stacy Burns of Grand Junction.........Jerry Blair, 79, Dayton. Operated sanitation service. Drove truck for Becker Gravel of Stratford.........Maynard "Dutch" Holland, 82, Boone.
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