June Taylor, 87, of Lexington, died July 16, 2012, at Lexington Regional Medical Center. Services will be at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, July 18, at Lexington Christian Church with Pastor K.C. BeDunnah officiating. Burial will be at the Greenwood Cemetery at Lexington. Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m., Tuesday, July 17, at the Reynolds-Love Funeral Home in Lexington. Memorials are suggested to Lexington Christian Church or the donor’s choice. Reynolds-Love Funeral Home in Lexington is in charge of arrangements. Forward online condolences to the family through reynoldslovefuneralhome.com.
Month: July 2012
Sheri Lee Jamison
Sheri Lee Jamison, 71, of Ashby, died July 13, 2012, at Brighton, Colo.
Sheri, one of twin girls, was born Jan. 20, 1941, at the Hoyt Ranch to Buddy and Barbara (Bump) Hoyt north of Whitman. She attended country school No. 151 through eighth grade. She then attended UNSA at Curtis for high school. She attended beauty school in Alliance from 1958-59.
She married her high school sweetheart, Beryle Jamison in Hot Springs, S.D., on Jan. 26, 1959. They worked at the Peterson Ranch south of Alliance and the Spade Ranch north of Ashby, finally moving to the family ranch north of Ashby where they presently resided. Born to this union were two children, a son Monte and a daughter Barbie.
Sheri loved being a ranch woman and was involved in every aspect of ranch life. She had a good eye for choosing horses and cattle and loved watching cattle and horse sales. She loved attending her children and grandchildren’s events in school, 4-H, team roping and rodeo, etc. She and Beryle enjoyed going to the stock show at Rapid City, NFR in Las Vegas and visiting with family and friends. She had accepted Christ as her savior and they attended a country church, Faith Lutheran, north of Hyannis and Pleasant Point Community Church south of Gordon. She was a loving, caring wife, mother, grandmother, sister and aunt.
Preceding her in death was her mother and father and mother-in-law and father-in-law.
She will be greatly missed by her husband Beryle; son, Monte (Lisa) and their children Savanna, Brook and B.J., all of Ashby; daughter, Barbie (Eric) Meyer and daughter Megan, of Lochbuie, Colo.; twin sister, Vicki Peden and special friend Roger Loibl, of Kearney; sisters, Becky Younkin, of Ainsworth, and Karen McGrinn, of Banning, Calif.; brother, Gary (Carolyn) Hoyt, of Mullen; brothers-in-law, Puzz, Bob (Helen), Dean (JoAnn) Jamison, Bud Smith and sister-in-law Shirley Smith, of Mitchell; numerous nieces, nephews and other family and friends.
Services will be at 10 a.m. (MDT), Wednesday, July 18, at the Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church at Hyannis. Inurnment will be at the family ranch north of Ashby. Visitation will be at the church from 7:30 a.m. until time of service.
Memorials are suggested to Tri State Cowboy Museum, Grant County Fire & Rescue and Sandhills Lutheran Ministry. Mullen Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Man kills girlfriend, hides body in window seat, receives 16 years in prison
DAKOTA CITY, Neb. (AP) — A South Sioux City man will spend up to 16 years in prison for killing his girlfriend, whose body was found stuffed in a window seat of their home.
The 54-year-old John Baker was sentenced on Monday to 11 to 16 years in prison for manslaughter and concealing the death of another person. He pleaded guilty in May in Dakota County District Court.
Baker was charged in the death of 47-year-old Kelly Alspach in October 2011.
Baker was later arrested in North Dakota. He was originally charged with second-degree murder but pleaded no contest to the lesser charges.
Grants from NOAA help state affected from tsunami
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says it will provide $250,000 in grants to five states 
affected by debris from last year’s tsunami in Japan.
The agency said Monday that Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California and Hawaii will each receive up to $50,000 toward debris removal. Money could be made available as early as this month.
U.S. Sen. Mark Begich of Alaska quickly deemed the amount “woefully inadequate.” The Democrat says $50,000 isn’t enough to even clean up one beach.
Begich says the tsunami created a “slow-motion environmental disaster that will unfold over several years.”
He has requested at least $45 million in funding.
Temps in the high 90s Weather Outlook
Today: Mostly sunny and hot, with a high near 100. Light south southeast wind increasing to 5 to 9 mph in the morning.
Tonight: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 68. South wind around 5 mph becoming light and variable.
Wednesday: Mostly sunny and hot, with a high near 98. North northwest wind 6 to 9 mph becoming east in the
20 miles of road work scheduled means pilot cars, waiting…even being late to work!
BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — Pavement projects are expected to disrupt traffic on U.S. Highway 136 in southeast Nebraska.
The Nebraska Roads Department says the work is scheduled for next week. The projects begin at milepost 175 on the western edge of Beatrice and extend west for nearly 20 miles.
Lane closures expected and pilot cars and flaggers will be deployed to guide motorists.
The work could take up to seven days to complete.
Omaha Public Power District is holding a meeting concerning a shutdown nuclear power plant. Better safe than sorry
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The public can learn more about the Omaha Public Power District’s troubled nuclear power plant Tuesday.
The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold another public meeting in downtown Omaha to discuss Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant.
Fort Calhoun, which is about 20 miles north of Omaha, has been offline since April 2011. It was initially shut down for refueling maintenance, but flooding along the Missouri River and several safety violations forced it to stay closed.
OPPD officials have said they hope to restart the plant in September.
But regulators say they won’t let the plant restart until they’re confident it’s ready. And the Sierra Club of Iowa asked regulators to revoke the plant’s license because of past safety problems.
The meeting at Omaha’s Doubletree Hotel will begin at 6 p.m.
What’s Up?
KATY PERRY AND RUSSELL BRAND OFFICIALLY DIVORCED: Katy Perry and Russell Brand are officially no longer a married couple. According to E!, the court-sanctioned end to the marriage happened on Monday (July 16).
JENNIFER LOPEZ HEADED BACK TO MOVIES?: Jennifer Lopez may have finished her stint onAmerican Idol for good — but that doesn’t mean she has all the time in the world. The entertainer is currently co-headlining a tour with Enrique Iglesias — but she did admit to the Huffington Post that she’d love to get back into movies sometime soon. She said, “I do miss doing films. I feel like the last two years with `Idol,’ I’ve really, really focused on, you know, my music. … It was all kind of very synergistic, it worked really well together. But film is something that I really loved, it’s how I kind of started in this business, and it doesn’t leave you. I am an actress, I need to do that, too.”
NEW ‘BACHELOR PAD’ ROMANCE? Bachelorette reject Kalon McMahon has reportedly managed to find love through the show — just not with Emily Maynard. Kalon landed on Bachelor Pad 3 after getting dumped, where he’s reportedly dating Lindzi Cox, the runner-up from Ben Flajnik’s season. GossipCop.com reported that the two are “pretty much” a couple.
UMA THURMAN WELCOMES DAUGHTER: Uma Thurman is a mom for the third time. The 42-year-old actress welcomed a baby girl on Sunday (July 15th) with her longtime boyfriend Arpad Busson. The actress already has a daughter Maya, 14, and son Levon, 10, with ex-husband Ethan Hawke. Busson has two sons with his ex-fiance Elle MacPherson.
‘NEWSROOM’ COSTARS ARE DATING: There’s a romance brewing on the set of Newsroom. The New York Post reported that Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy and Thomas Matthews have started dating since production began. They were recently spotted holding hands at a benefit party in NYC.
‘SKY KIDS’ STAR DIVORCING: Spy Kids star Alexa Vega is getting divorced. The 23-year-old former child actress is pulling the plug on her marriage to producer Sean Covel after less than two years of marriage. Covel, who worked on Napoleon Dynamite, is 13 years her senior.
‘BREAKING BAD’ PREMIERE BREAKS RECORDS: The fifth season premiere ofBreaking Bad was the most-watched episode in the history of the series. 2.9 million people tuned in on Sunday night — marking a 34% increase in the all-important 18-49 demo over last year’s premiere. 3.5 million people then viewed the night’s repeat episode.
‘IDOL’ ONLY LOOKING FOR ONE-YEAR JUDGES: American Idol producer Nigel Lythgoe said that he is not looking for long-term judges to fill the vacant seats on Idol, explaining that like was the case for Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler — it’s hard to uproot a major star. He told Ryan Seacrest on Monday, “[T]here are so many names coming at me at the moment. I joke about it and say, ‘Oh, I’m looking for the Three Stooges or Jerry Lewis.’ But at the end of the day, I think what we’ve seriously got to talk about is just using people for a year…If we do want these big stars, and we do, you cannot take them away from what they do. That’s depriving the public of a star for a start and stopping them from earning a lot of money.”
CHARLIE SHEEN DONATING $1 MILLION TO U.S.O: Charlie Sheen is donating $1 million to the U.S.O (United Service Org.) — marking the largest single contribution the USO has ever received from an individual. The actor said he will donate 1 percent of the profits from his Anger Management earnings to the organization, with a minimum of $1 million and an unlimited cap. He explained in a statement, “It’s an honor for me to be able to give back to these men and women of the military who have done so much for all of us. They put their lives on the line for us every day, and I’m just happy that my work on Anger Management can bring a little bit of relief to the troops and their families.”
‘GMA’ OFFICIALLY BEATS ‘TODAY’: The official numbers are in and Good Morning America squarely beat Today during Savannah Guthrie’s debut week on NBC. Nielsen confirmed that GMA beat its rival by 357,000 viewers.
July 17
1889 Writer Erle Stanley Gardner (he created Perry Mason) is born. He dies in 1970.
1899 Actor James Cagney (The Public Enemy, Angels With Dirty Faces, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Mister Roberts, Ragtime) is born. He dies in 1986.
1917, with their country at war with Germany, the British royal family changed their name from the Germanic Saxe-Coburg Gotha to Windsor.
1936, the Spanish Civil War began with an army revolt led by General Francisco Franco.
1941, Joe DiMaggio‘s 56-game hitting streak came to an end, as the New York Yankees outfielder failed to get a hit.
1945, President Harry Truman, Soviet Premier Josef Stalin, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill began meeting at Potsdam in the final Allied summit of World War II.
1955, Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California, a year to the day after construction began.
1968, the Beatles’ animated film Yellow Submarine premiered in London.
1984, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill giving states until October 1st, 1986, to raise the legal drinking age to 21, or face a five percent cut in federal highway funds.
1996, a TWA 747 jet bound for Paris exploded shortly after takeoff from New York City and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off Long Island. All 230 people on board were killed.
1997, Woolworth Corporation announced it was closing its 400 remaining five-and-dime stores across the country, ending 117 years in business.
Happy July 17th Birthday!
- Lucie Arnaz (actress, daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz) (61)
- Diahann Carroll (singer-actress) (77)
- David Hasselhoff (actor Baywatch and Knight Rider) (60)
- Camilla Parker-Bowles (Prince Charles’s wife) (65)
- Phyllis Diller (comedian and actress) (95)
- Donald Sutherland (actor, Dirty Sexy Money, JFK, Backdraft. The Dirty Dozen, M*A*S*H (the movie), Klute, Ordinary People) (77)
- P.J. Soles (actress, Carrie, Halloween, Rock ‘N Roll High School, Stripes) (62)
- Geezer Butler (bassist, Black Sabbath) (63)
- Spencer Davis (’60s rock musician) (73, although he initially claimed to be much younger)
- John Ventimiglia (actor, Artie Bucco on The Sopranos) (49)
- Angela Merkel (Germany’s Chancellor) (58)Mike Vogel (actor, The Help, Pan Am, Cloverfield, What’s Your Numer?) (33)