Saturday, November 28, 2015

Boone Connected Deaths

     Boone Connected Deaths: John Myers, 79, Arizona. Boone area survivor is a son, Matthew Myers of Boone............John Bob Burt, 87, Ogden. OHS-46. Worked for Northern Natural Gas for 40 years. Boone area survivors include his wife, Betty, of Ogden, son John of Pilot Mound and daughter, Pat Peterson of Dayton..........Roger Zunkel, 77, Ogden. OHS. He and his wife, Jo, farmed near Ogden. Boone area survivors include his wife, Jo, of Ogden, and sons, Steve and David Van Pelt, both of Ogden..........Maxine Silvey, 83, Boone. Formerly of Stratford............Harriett Thede, 94, Boone. Worked several years for the Iowa Department of Transportation as a financial secretary. Was a well known gospel singer and music songwriter. Boone area survivors include her sons, William of Boone and Jerry of Ogden..........Ron McNeil, 87, Boone. BHS-46. Worked for the U.S. Postal Service for 40 years. Raised Black Lab Retrievers. Boone area survivor is his wife, Marjorie, of Boone.........Roger Hartung, 86, Des Moines. Active at the Des Moines Y Camp near Boone. Started attending the Y camp as a child and later, took his family to the camp. Served on the Des Moines Y camp board for many years.
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Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Have a Wonderful Thanksgiving

     The Korner would like to think not, but this may be a "once in a lifetime" so enjoy it. Especially you proud out-of-towners, get out that Hawkeye, Cyclone, Panther garb and display it proudly for all to see.
     Son Chris who lives in Overland Park, KS says that there are probably an equal number of Hawkeye and Cyclone flags that fly in that area, especially when things are going great like they are now. Daughter Jody is searching her closet to retrieve some Hawkeye shirts to display in the Parker, CO. area.
     We've never seen anything like it.......Iowa football undefeated and among the top three or four rated teams in the country. Then too, the Iowa State men's basketball team rated among the four or five top teams in the nation and both the ISU and Iowa women's teams also rated in the top 25 in the nation.
      The Panthers? All the Northern Iowa men's basketball team did was defeat the nation's number one rated team, North Carolina, the other day.
      What a magnificent run for all of those Iowa based athletic teams. It's a great time to be a Hawkeye, a Cyclone or a Panther or all three like the Kornerman and many others are.
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     There's been a three-part story in the Des Moines Register in recent days about the 1985 crash of an Iowa State University plane that was returning to Iowa from Milwaukee. The plane, carrying some coaches and runners who had just finished second in the NCAA cross country championships, went down in a Des Moines neighborhood, killing the occupants of that plane, two coaches, a trainer and three runners.
     Two other planes returned the remainder of the party safely and one of those runners who survived was Tami Colby Prescott, BHS-85, who was a freshman member of that team. In the Register story Tami is quoted quite often in recalling that terrible event. She finished 32nd, individually, in the NCAA meet after winning numerous honors as a Toreador runner during her high school days.
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     Congratulations to Jason Blomgren, BHS-92, who has been recognized with the Four Under Forty award by the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors-Iowa. Each year, NAIFA-Iowa selects four well-rounded professionals who excel in their field while giving back to the industry and their community.
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     Boone Connected Deaths: Roger Zunkel, Ogden, 77...........Everett Derry, 99, Bayard. Two of his surviving sons are Michael Derry of Boone and Lanny Derry of Woodward.
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Saturday, November 21, 2015

Boone Connected Deaths

     Boone Connected Deaths: Richard Ross, 75, Boone. Came to Boone in 2000. Owned Heritage Transport until his retirement in 2014. Boone area survivor is his wife, Shirley............Charles Denton, 48, Salem, WI. Was a military veteran, then a Deputy Sheriff and Federal Officer. His wife, Virginia Gina Mowrer, survives. Boone area survivors include his mother-in-law Betty Mowrer, his aunt Pearl Cole and uncle Don Cole..........Carol Dodge, 76, Ankeny, formerly of Boone. Moved to Boone in 1975 when her husband, Jim, became manager of Arnold Motors in Boone. Boone area survivors include her son, Mark Dodge and his wife, Pam, the former Pam Creasman of Ankeny, both formerly Boone residents...........Lois Brown, 87, Johnston. Previously lived in the Boone and Grand Junction areas.........Jerry Free, 70, Des Moines. Raised by foster parents, Joe and Dorothy Boresi of Madrid..........Donald Huntley Sr., 81, Ogden. Worked at Osmundson's Manufacturing of Perry for 25 years, then as a truck driver, operator of a small ice cream shop in Ogden, at CDS and at the Boone County 4-H camp. Was a musician. Boone area survivors include his wife, Dee, daughters, Debbi Huffman and Destine Peterson, and sons, Donald Jr., David and Darren all of Ogden.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Mark Your Calendar

     Boone's own Jamie Kelley is booking a special fundraising concert for April 23, 2016. It will be held at the Boone High School auditorium and will be another of several local fundraisers that Jamie has organized.
     General admission will be $20 with a limited number of reserved seats and a special bonus for those who buy those tickets.
     Complete plans will be announced in the near future.
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     Boone Connected Deaths: Donald Carhill, Ogden............Brent Hein, 44, Boone. BHS-89. A  Boone resident his entire life. Worked at Fareway warehouse. Boone area survivors include his brother, Lance, niece Hailey Hagge, grandmother Delores Hein and uncle David Hein all of Boone...........Zachary Monthei, 27, Slater. South Hamilton grad. Worked at Camp Dodge as a technician. His wife, Krista, of Slater survives as well as his grandparents, Sheryle and Ronald Lester of Ogden............Doris Hagge, 86, Cedar Falls. Formerly of Boone and Ogden. Perry HS-46. She and her husband, Gene, farmed near Ogden. Doris was office manager and personal secretary to Dr. Thomas Kane for 25 years and worked at several secretarial positions, including at Boone State Bank. Boone area survivor is a sister, Eleanor Alex of Grand Junction.............Lillian Lind, 91, Boone. Born in Ogden. Attended BHS. She and her husband, Maynard, lived in Pilot Mound until 1958 when they moved to Boone. She worked at Bourns in Ames. Boone area survivors include her husband, Maynard, daughters Dianne Eppert and Lori Wildeman, brothers Gary and Duane Anderson and sister, Helen "Peg" Bielfelt all of Boone.........Jerry Pepper, Boone..........Verlaine Spurgeon, 81, Boxholm. Boone area survivors include daughters Pam Wingfield of Boone and Lori Spurgeon of Boxholm.
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Saturday, November 14, 2015

Another BHS Success Story

     Congratulations to Delbert Hank Harris, BHS-61, CEO of Harrisvaccines of Ames. That firm is selling itself to Merck & Company for the purpose of general expansion of both as a partnership. In 2014, Harrisvaccines became the first company to ever receive approval for a vaccine to help protect piglets from the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus that killed millions of pigs in more than 30 states including Iowa, the country's largest pork producer.
     Harrisvaccines also will be supplying the U.S. Department of Agriculture with a vaccine to help prevent poultry from getting the bird flu virus that was evident in Iowa and 14 other states this year.
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     Thanks to Barb Fosdick, BHS-63, for sending the Korner some pictures taken during the October 24 reunion of that famous Boone High School marching band of 1963 that appeared in the Rose Bowl parade.
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     Boone Connected Deaths: Charles Jones, 88, Ames. Born and grew up in Ogden. Became a longtime educator. Taught for a time in Boxholm and later, served on the United Community School Board.........Bobby Ugolini, 56, Madrid. Born in Boone.........John Gannon, 92, Emmetsburg. Was a longtime educator. Served as Superintendent of Schools at both Pilot Mound and South Hamilton in this area. Was a 10-year member of the Iowa High School Athletic Association Board of Control based in Boone.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Many Thanks to all Veterans

    Boone Connected Deaths:  James McCasland, 59, Slater. Boone area survivors include a sister, Evelyn Lewiston of Ogden..........Sarah Lass, 92, Boone, formerly of Pilot Mound. Pilot High-39. Sarah and her husband, Donald Sr., farmed in the Pilot Mound and Dayton areas. Boone area survivors include a son, Jeff, of Pilot Mound and a grandson, William Myers of Boone................... Fenner Stevenson, 71, Boone. After moving to Boone, worked for the Boone Shopping News and as Director of the Boone Chamber of Commerce. In 1996, became General Manager of the Boone and Scenic Valley Railroad. Was also a Boone City Council member and a big booster of the city of Boone and surrounding area. Boone area survivors include his wife, Evie, a son, Travis, and a daughter, Jennifer Stevenson all of Boone.........Ivan Burkheimer, 91, Madrid. Owned several businesses and was a commercial real estate agent. Boone area survivors include a son, Gary, of Madrid and a sister-in-law, Marilyn Burkheimer of Ames, formerly of Boone.

Saturday, November 7, 2015

Thanks Ross

     In response to a post last week from Larry Lindmark, BHS-63, regarding the KWBG jingle of the 1960's, Ross Hanson, BHS-74,  wrote, "Hi Mo, I saw the post about KWBG. The call letters were Keep Watching Boone Grow and I remember what the phone prefix of 432 stood for, GE2-#### as for General Eisenhower.
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     Boone Connected Deaths: Larry Brown, 79, Boone. Moved to Boone in 1960. Was self-employed as a refrigeration, air conditioning and heating specialist. Also worked for Fareway, 1984-92. Boone area survivors include son Craig of Boone, daughter Barb Weigel of Nevada, daughter-in-law Kelli Brown of Boone and Coleen Brown of Boone...........Sara Lass, 92, Boone. Formerly of Pilot Mound.

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

KWBG Memories

     Larry Lindmark, BHS-63, wrote, "in the early 60's, KWBG had a promotional jingle that went like this, "K-W-B-G has fun, that's why we're number one." It seems there was a second line and then it concluded with,"K-W-B-G." Do you remember more words to the jingle and how many years it might have been used? Also, there was a morning quiz question sponsored by Linderblood Bottling Co.. The quiz winner received a six pack of Coke. It was always fun to see if the winner was someone we knew. Any idea how many years the quiz question was used?"
     Larry, you've got the Kornerman stumped on the jingle. Don't remember that at all and I was working there at the time.........$85 big ones a week........just back from my Army  time. I do, of course, remember Quiz Biz. I  hosted that many times.
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     WOI-TV, West Des Moines, spent many hours, with their cameras rolling, following the Boone County Freedom Flight activities. Now, we understand they have put an entire program together and will be airing it on their 10 p.m. news on November 9 and 10 with a similar showing on the "Good Morning" show from 5 to 7 a.m. on November 10 and 11.
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     Boone Connected Deaths: Larry Brown, 79, Boone..........Mike Frazier, 67, Ogden. BHS-66. Truck driver and national guardsman. Boone area survivors are his wife, Lucretia Chiles Frazier, and daughter, Samantha, both of Ogden and his mother, Doris of Boone..........Bobby Buckley, 51, Dayton. Military veteran. Boone area survivor is a sister, Brenda Nitsch of Ogden..........Jean Nelson, 86, Boone. She and her late husband, Frank, formed a well traveled military family until eventually settling in rural Boone. In 1999, Jean moved to Boone. Boone area survivors include sons, Chris of Des Moines, Kim and Kirk of Boone.
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