Pastor Joseph Hu never hesitated asking the question to anyone - “Are you a Christian?” He was always eager to share Jesus with whomever he met because his life-long passion was spreading the Gospel, an urgency that was instilled in him by his lay minister grandfather who was led to the Christian faith by Swedish Lutheran missionaries in Luoyang, China, where Joseph was born. In 1949, after being chased out of his own country by the communist insurgence, Joseph escaped to Hong Kong

Funeral services will be held March 2, 2019 at 10:00 AM at Zion Lutheran Church in Hay Springs, with Pastor Allan Wierschke officiating. Interment will be at Hay Springs Cemetery. 

Trudy Walgren, age 96, died at the Chadron Community Hospital in Chadron, NE on February 23, 2019. She was born on Sunday April 2, 1922, the youngest child of Bernhard and Lydia (Jungck) Petersen. 

Trudy was preceded in death by her husband Gene, her parents, three brothers, three sisters, and sons Stuart

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                Jerry Larson came into this world 5/27/1942 in Omaha NE.  The son of Carl E. & Amy A. Larson.   He served in the Air Force from 1961-1965 during the Cuban Missile Crisis.   In 1965 he started work with the Omaha Fire Dept. where he achieved the rank of Fire/Paramedic Captain until he resigned in 1981. While working with the Omaha

Carol May Petersen Brakeman passed away peacefully on February 8th, 2019, at her home on Downing Street in Denver, Colorado, 73 years old. She was born on August 11, 1945 

in Gordon, Nebraska, just a few minutes after her twin sister Carmen Kay Petersen, daughters of Andrew Peter and Bernice Lea Hare Petersen. Carol grew up on the family cattle ranch in the Sandhills of Western Nebraska. Carol graduated from Gordon High School in 1963. She worked as a soda fountain girl at

Over a century ago, a baby girl named Mary Ruth Freeman was born to Chris and Salina Susan Freeman in a small house near the Brazos River in Brazos County Texas. The year was 1917 and the date was October 22. She passed away on February 13, 2019, at her home in Gordon, Nebraska. She was 101 years, 3 months and 23 days old. 

At the age of 3, Ruth moved with her family to north central Texas and then on to Crosbyton, a small town in the Texas panhandle. It was here she spent her adolescent

Donna Ann Mills, 86, of Gordon, passed away February 16, 2019, at her home on the Niobrara river with her family by her side.

She was born to the late Daniel and Ruth Walters, April 5, 1932, in Chadron, Nebraska.   Donna spent the majority of her life in Gordon, Nebraska, after moving to Gordon at the age of 4.  She attended and graduated as Salutatorian of her class from Gordon High School in 1950 and attended Chadron State College.

Donna married the late Gordon Mills, September 5

Ellen Jane Madsen, 91, passed away on Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019, at Bella Vista Care Center in Rapid City.

Ellen was born on July 9, 1927, to Jay and Louella (Taylor) Talbot, north of Rushville, NE. She married Lloyd Earl in 1946 and to that union two children were born, Danny and Bonnie.

In 1964, she married Don Madsen. They farmed and ranched near New Underwood until Don’s death in 2003. She was a member of the New Underwood UCC and VFW Auxiliary for many years. She loved singing and was

Kathryn Ann Johnson, 83, of Gordon, passed away Tuesday, January 29, 2019, at Gordon Countryside Care.    She was born June 3, 1935, on the Olds family farmstead northwest of Gordon, Nebraska.  She was the only child of Lester I. and Verna S. (Johnson) Olds. Kathryn attended Lone Pine rural school near her home through the 8th grade, along with farmstead cousins, Marilyn and Carmen Olds.  She boarded in town with the Bill Davis family during her freshman year. Then