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William F. Dodds was engaged in carpenter work and farming throughout his lifetime. Politically, he was affiliated with the Democratic Party. The Dodds Family attended the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Dodds was a member of Baker Post Number 9, G.A.R.
Raymond Lee Dodendorf was born on November 12, 1896 at Crowell, Nebraska, the son of A. A. Dodendorf, of Columbus, and Katie V. Roemer Dodendorf.
His mother was born in Giesen, Germany, January 12, 1873, of French and German parentage, and received her education in German schools and in Paris. She came to America with her parents in 1888, and was married to Mr. Dodendorf in West Point, Nebraska, on June 27, 1895. She died in Columbus, on December 29, 1925.
Raymond L. Dodendorf has one brother, Marvin, of Grand Island, Nebraska.
As a boy, Raymond lived with his parents at Crowell, Verdigree, Meadow Grove, and Humphrey, Nebraska, where his father was employed in station service with the Northwestern Railroad. From 1905 to 1912, he lived at Boone, Nebraska, where his father was engaged in the banking business. In December, 1912, the Dodendorf family moved to Columbus, where Mr. Dodendorf became assistant freight agent for the Union Pacific Railroad.
Raymond was graduated from the Columbus High School in 1915, and studied accountancy. During World War I, he was in the military service and was stationed at Camp Kearney, in California.
On August 29, 1919, Raymond L. Dodendorf and Mary Abts were married at the St. Bonaventure Catholic Church in Columbus.
Mary Abts Dodendorf is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Abts. She is a graduate of St. Francis Academy of Columbus, and St. Mary of the Woods College, at Terre Haute, Indiana, where she studied art. She is an accomplished artist and has a collection of her own paintings. Since 1941, she has painted the interiors and statuary of several Catholic churches in Nebraska..
Raymond and Mary Abts Dodendorf have two sons, Raymond, Jr., and Jack.
After finishing his course at business college, Raymond L. Sr. was employed at the H. W. Abts Wholesale Company as an accountant until 1925, when the H. W. Abts Company sold to the Nash-Dietz Company. He then continued with the Nash-Dietz Company: He has been the accountant of the Columbus Brewing Company since 1933.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Raymond L. Dodendorf have many talents and hobbies. They are interested in photography and are stamp and coin collectors. Mr. Dodendorf is interested in electricity, and is the owner of the most nearly perfect miniature electric railway system in this part of the country.
Raymond L. Dodendorf holds membership in the Izaak Walton League, the Columbus Rifle 'Club, and the National Rifle Association. He is a charter member of the War Dads, a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and politically, is a Republican.
Mr. and Mrs. Dodendorf are members of the St. Bonaventure Catholic Church in Columbus.
Raymond L. Dodendorf, Jr. was born in Columbus, Nebraska, on August 14, 1920. He attended the St. Bonaventure School, and was graduated from Kramer High School in the class of 1938. He enlisted in the United States Navy, and served in the regular navy until 1941, when he transferred to the Naval Air Corps. At that time, he attended St. Mary's College in California, and was commissioned an officer in the United States Navy.
He was stationed at the advanced flying fields at Atlanta, Georgia, and Corpus Christi, Texas, where, as a lieutenant junior grade, he was an instructor in the instrument flight instruction schools.
Raymond L. Dodendorf, Jr. married Betty Joan Bradley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Bradley, at the St. Bonaventure Catholic Church in Columbus, on August 29, 1946. They have one daughter, Jackie Rae, born June 29, 1947, and Robert Lee born March 28, 1949.
Raymond L. Dodendorf, Jr. established his home in Omaha, Nebraska, where he is a P.B.X. installer at the North Western Bell Telephone Company.
Jack Dodendorf was born in Columbus, Nebraska, on May 6, 1923. He attended the St. Bonaventure School, and was graduated from Kramer High School in 1941.
He enlisted in the United States Navy in 1941, and during World War II was a gun captain in the armed guards, serving in the Atlantic on a transport ship, carrying troops and supplies in the South Pacific, and also served on tankers in Panama.
On October 30, 1946, Jack Dodendorf was married to, Miss Lois Priester, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Priester of Humphrey, Nebraska. They have, two daughters, Diane Marie, born September 7, 1947, and Jeannie Kay born October 9, 1948.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Dodendorf live in Fremont, Nebraska, where Jack is employed with the Bell Telephone Company as an electrician in the switchroom.
John Doersch was born January 13, 1853, in Rosentahl in Hassen, Germany, and died June 5, 1945. His parents were Michael and Elizabeth Doersch, with whom he came to America at the age of eighteen;'
Alone, he came to Columbus and for two years Was employed by John Held. He was twenty-one when he took a homestead in Sherman Township fifteen miles northeast of Columbus and bought additional land there.
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Due to the drouth and other hardships of early farming life in this territory, he went to North Platte and was a cowboy on the ranch later owned by Updike Grain Company of Omaha but then known as the Pawnee Ranch. He also worked as a cowboy in McCook, and at Julesburg, Colorado, and Cheyenne, Wyoming.
In 1882, John Doersch returned to Columbus and was married to Miss Marie Zoellner. They had two daughters, Mrs. Alvin Harnapp and Mrs. Henry Moeller, of Columbus. Mrs. Doersch died August 20, 1928.
From 1882-1906 Mr. Doersch farmed in Platte County.
In 1906 Mr. Doersch retired from farming and moved to Columbus, where he lived until 1945. He had seven sisters and one brother. They are deceased.
Mr. Doersch was a member of the Immanuel Lutheran Church.
Daniel J. Donoghue, son of Daniel F. and Hanora Francis Donoghue, was born October 3, 1885, in Shell Creek Township. His father was born in Mallow, County Cork, Ireland, and his mother was born in Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland. They both died in Columbus.
Daniel has four brothers and two sisters: John is married to Maud Barnes, and lives in Columbus; James is married to Edith Thoendel, and lives in Ewing, Nebraska; Ed is married to Cecel Rehner, and lives in Omaha; Mary Ellen is the widow of William Branigan; Gertrude works in Texas, and Robert is deceased.
Mr. Donoghue attended school in District 4.
On September 6, 1921, at Platte Center, he was married to Elizabeth Mackin, daughter of Daniel and Mary Dineen Mackin.
Mr. and Mrs. Donoghue have four children: Eugene, born February 5, 1923, was in the United States Army for two years and served in the European Theatre of Operations; Paul, born May 23, 1924; Mark, born February 20, 1926; and Phillip, born July 1, 1928.
Mr. Donoghue is a farmer and stockman. He has served on the Shell Creek Township and District School boards. The Donoghues are members of St. Bonaventure's Catholic Church. Daniel J. Donoghue is a member of the Knights of Columbus.
Jesse Leo Dougherty, a prominent member of the Platte County Bar, was born November 6, 1893, at Venus, Nebraska, the son of John and Catherine McGrane Dougherty. His father was born in Boston, Massachusetts, July 27, 1854, and died in Columbus, Nebraska, September 21, 1932. His mother, Catherine McGrane Dougherty, was born in Clinton, Iowa, October 19, 1858, and died in Columbus, June 4, 1936. Jesse L. Dougherty is one of a family of eight children. He has two brothers and five sisters.
He began his formal education in rural schools near his home, and later attended school at Hot Springs, South Dakota. He graduated from high school at Sioux City, Iowa, in 1913, and attended Morningside College there. In 1922 he transferred to Creighton University, in Omaha, Nebraska, where he received his Bachelor of Laws degree, in 1925. He is a member of the Delta Theta Phi Fraternity.
Before coming to Platte County in 1926, Mr. Dougherty was associated with the law firm of Ziegler & Dunn, in Omaha. He opened an office in Columbus, in the late summer of 1926, with W. L. Dowling of Madison, Nebraska. Mr. Dowling returned to Madison after a short time, and in 1927 Mr. Dougherty also went to Madison, and was associated there with Mr. Dowling until April of 1929, when he returned to Columbus and reestablished his law practice. In 1935 he was elected county attorney of Platte County, an office which he held until 1943.
On June 3, 1942, he was married to, Mary C. Onkels in Columbus, Nebraska. She is the daughter of Martin and Mary Rollman Onkels, former residents of Humphrey, Nebraska.
Jesse Dougherty is engaged in private practice in Columbus. He held the office of city attorney from 1945 to 1947. He is a member of the State Bar Association, the Sixth Judicial District Bar Association, the Platte County Bar Association, the Izaak Walton League, the Wayside Country Club, the B.P.O.E., the Chamber of Commerce, and the Knights of Columbus. Politically, Mr. Dougherty is affiliated with the Democratic Party.
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse L. Dougherty are members of St. Bonaventure's Catholic Church of Columbus.
Joseph H. Drinnin, son of John and Christine Acker Drinnin, was born August 5, 1844, in a log cabin in Stark County, Illinois, and died in Columbus Township, on June 14, 1935. His father, born in Queens County, Ireland, in 1812, died in Stark County, in 1880. His mother, born on the Rhine, in Germany, died in Stark County, in 1903. John Drinnin immigrated to the United States from Ireland and worked with several yoke of oxen on the grading of the Erie Railroad. In 1843, he drove two yoke of oxen to Stark County, Illinois, which was a pioneer district, the inhabitants at that time often being disturbed by the Indians. He took an active part in the building up of the new settlement. He was a Catholic and a Democrat.
Joseph H. Drinnin grew up there and attended school in the Stark County District School, where he sat on old-time slab benches. He assisted his father on the farm until his twenty-fourth year, when he engaged in the trades of plastering and brick-laying, which he followed for thirteen years, as both an employee and a contractor.
On September 2, 1868, J. H. Drinnin was married to Mrs. Harriet Pomeroy Hecox, who was born in Vermont, March 18, 1842, the daughter of Elijah and
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Catherine Pomeroy, natives of Vermont. Mr. Pomeroy, a carpenter in Vermont, moved to Stark County, Illinois, where he engaged in farming, and died there in 1870.
Joseph H. and Harriet Drinnin had five children: Samuel, who married Catherine Browner, died March 24, 1924; George, married to Nellie Fouts, died October I, 1940; Eliza, married to Burt Stevenson, died November 3, 1948, in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Evelyn died July 22, 1930; and Plessie, the wife of Henry Yonkie, lives in Columbus Township.
Mrs. Drinnin also had two children by a previous marriage: Emma, Mrs. Sewell, and Harry Hecox. Mrs. Drinnin died February 3, 1901, in Columbus.
J. H. Drinnin purchased land in Columbus Township on June 12, 1882, and moved his family to Columbus on February 28, 1883. On July 13, 1883, his crops' were destroyed by hail. In the fall of that year, he worked on the construction of the new school building in the Second Ward, and did the mason work on the Charles A. Speice house.
He was active in the affairs of the county and taught Sunday School classes in the district school house. He was interested in experimenting in the crossing of varieties of seed corn. He produced a new seed corn, which he sold.
Mr. Drinnin served as Township Clerk, Township Treasurer, Justice of the Peace in Columbus Township, and was Moderator of the District 44 School Board for several years. Politically, he was a Democrat.
Joseph H. Drinnin was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and belonged to the Methodist Church.
Samuel Pomeroy Drinnin, the son of Joseph H. and Harriet Pomeroy Drinnin, was born in Toulon, Stark County, Illinois, on August 21, 1869, and died at Hannah, Wyoming, March 24, 1924. His father, a farmer, was born n Stark County, Illinois, August 5, 1844, and died in Columbus Township, June 14, 1935. His mother was born March 18, 1842, in Vermont, and died February 3, 1901.
Samuel came to Platte County with his parents in March, 1883. He, was then a boy of thirteen. He attended school in Stark County, Illinois; District 1 Suburban School known as the Browner School in Columbus Township, and the Fremont Normal, at Fremont, Nebraska.
He then was engaged in farming and stock raising in Columbus Township.
On Christmas Day, December 25, 1895, at the St. Bonaventure Rectory in Columbus, Samuel Pomeroy Drinnin was married to Catherine Browner, the daughter of John and Margaret O'Connor Browner. Mr. Browner was born in Wexford, Ireland, and came to the United States in the early 1850's. He came west to Omaha in 1855, and on May 29, 1856, he came to Columbus. He was one of the first settlers in Platte County. Mrs. Browner, a native of Ireland, was educated in Boston and came to Columbus in September of 1868, with her sons, Samuel and John Curry. In 1869, she was married to John Browner.
Mrs. Drinnin had one sister, Helen, Mrs. Albert H. Gehner of St. Louis, two brothers, William F. and James Browner, and two half-brothers, Samuel B. and John M. Curry.
Catherine Browner Drinnin was born in Columbus on January 4, 1872. She attended the District Suburban School, the St. Francis Academy, and the Columbus High School. She was graduated from the Fremont Normal College. Previous to her marriage, she taught in Platte and Colfax Counties, and in the Columbus schools.
After their marriage, Samuel and Catherine Browner Drinnin established their home in Columbus Township. They had four children: Grace Mae; Samuel Phillip; Joseph Harold; and Margaret. Grace was graduated from the Columbus High School and the School of Nursing at Wise Memorial Hospital in Omaha. She was a registered nurse. She was married to Doctor Frank Krampert. Grace died in Rawlins, Wyoming, on July 23, 1925. Samuel Phillip was married to Irene Korte, and they had three children. Joseph Harold attended District 80 and the Columbus High School. He was graduated as a mechanical engineer and radio specialist from a Chicago engineering school. Margaret attended the Columbus High School. She is the wife of Gordon N. McColley, of San Francisco, California. Their daughter, Bette Jeanne Thompson, was graduated from Brownell Hall, in Omaha. She attended Mills College, at Oakland, California, for two years, and later took a business course. She studied music at Brownell Hall, Omaha, and Mills College. She is the wife of William H. Cereske, of San Francisco, California.
Samuel Phillip Drinnin, the son of Samuel and Catherine Browner Drinnin, was born in Columbus on August 11, 1899. His father was born at Toulon, Stark County, Illinois, on August 21 1869, and died at Hannah, Wyoming, March 24, 1924. His mother was born in Columbus on January 4, 1872. His father came to Platte County in March, 1883.
Samuel, Jr., had two sisters and a brother: Grace Mae, the wife of Doctor Frank Krampert, died July 23, 1925, at Rawlins, Wyoming; Margaret is the wife of Gordon N. McColley, of San Francisco, California; and Joseph Harold lives in Seattle, Washington.
Samuel, Jr., finished grammar school at District 80 and learned the business of farming and stockraising. He raises pure-bred cattle and hogs in addition to managing his farm.
On February 23, 1933, at Avery, Sarpy County, Nebraska, Samuel Phillip Drinnin was married to Irene C. Korte, the daughter of Adolf F. and Anna Louise Rickert Korte. Mr. Korte was born January 2, 1879, in Schuyler, Nebraska. Mrs. Korte, born December 17, 1879, in Schuyler and died February 27, 1906, in Co-
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lumbus. Irene Korte Drinnin has one brother, Lester, who is married to Mildred Dietz; the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Dietz, of Columbus. After the death of their mother, Irene and Lester Korte lived with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Rickert, in Columbus. Irene attended the Columbus schools and was graduated from Columbus High School. She took a business course and prior to her marriage, worked in the office at the Columbus Hospital, now the Lutheran Hospital.
After their marriage, Samuel and Irene Korte Drinnin established their home on the Drinnin farm in Columbus Township.
Mr. and Mrs. Drinnin have three children: Samuel Phillip, Jr., born August 13, 1934; Katherine Ann, born January I, 1938; and Grace Louise, born October 4, 1942. Katherine and Grace attend school at District 80, and Samuel attends Kramer High School in Columbus.
Samuel P. Drinnin is interested in education. He served as director on the District 80 School Board for several years.
Mr. and Mrs. Drinnin are members of the Trinity Lutheran Church in Columbus.
Andrew L. Dussell, born in Canton Berne, Switzerland, August 26, 1848, immigrated to the United States with his parents in 185!, and settled in Davenport, Iowa. His father and mother died during an epidemic of cholera, and left Andrew and his sister orphans.
In response to a call for volunteers during the Civil War, Andrew, sixteen, enlisted in the Ninth Iowa Cavalry. He was mustered out nine months later, following the close of the war. He then returned to Iowa, locating at Big Rock.
On January 24, 1871, at Big Rock, he married Anna Harps. They came to Platte County, and located in Columbus, in 1883. In 1887 he established the A. Dussell plumbing business here.
Andrew and Anna Harps Dussell had four children, who attended school in Columbus: Ernest P. married Maude McCray; Birdie is Mrs. J. B. Tschudy, of Columbus; Jessie, Mrs. John Dow, lives in Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Harley L., of San Diego, California, married Olivia A. Nelson.
Anna Harps Dussell died in Columbus, January 26, 1901. In 1911, Mr. Dussell married Mrs. C. Kohley Day, who died in 1926.
Andrew L. Dussell died January 31, 1924.
Ernest P. Dussell, son of Andrew L. and Anna Harps Dussell, was born at Big Rock, Iowa, February 9, 1872. When he was eleven, he came to Columbus with his parents, and attended school here until his 17th year, when he entered the plumbing shop as an apprentice. He worked first with his father, and then in Lincoln, Nebraska.
In 1892 he entered a partnership with his father, under the name A. Dussell & Son. The plumbing and heating business was continued under that name until the retirement of Andrew Dussell, in 1920, when the name was changed to Dussell & Son.
The first business site of A. Dussell & Son was at the southwest corner of Twenty-sixth Avenue and Eleventh Street, now the location of Swift & Company. When the storage plant acquired that property, the plumbing and heating business was moved to a building between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Avenues, on Eleventh Street, later occupied by Levine's Store. In 1910, A. Dussell & Son moved into their own building, at 2411 Thirteenth Street. The Dussell Building is now occupied by Gamble's Store.
Mr. Dussell was a member of the Congregational Church, a Knight Templar in the Masonic Order, a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge, a member of the Columbus Fire Department, and a charter member of the Columbus lodge of Elks. Politically, he was a Republican.
Ernest P. Dussell was married to Maude McCray, August 23, 1893. They had one son, Francis C. Mr. Dussell died August 13, 1930, and Mrs. Dussell died August 12, 1944.
Francis Carroll Dussell, son of Ernest P. and Maude McCray Dussell, was born in Columbus, March 26, 1895.
He attended the Columbus schools and the Culver Military Academy, at Culver, Indiana, from which he was graduated in 1915. Francis worked with his father and grandfather in A. Dussell & Son until the retirement of Andrew Dussell, in 1920. The plumbing and heating business was founded by Andrew Dussell, in 1887. In 1892, Ernest Dussell became a partner under the firm name of A. Dussell & Son. In 1920, the name was changed to Dussell & Son, when Francis entered the firm. He became the active manager of the company in 1930. In the late 1930's, Dussell & Son moved from the Dussell Building at 2411 Thirteenth Street, to the Weaver Building, on Twenty-fourth Avenue, now occupied by Rogers Motor Company.
In 1917, at Lincoln, Nebraska, Francis Dussell married Nettie Buchanan. They had three children: Gretchen, Mrs. Edward Blondell, of Los Angeles, California; Frances, Mrs. George Farha, of Oklahoma; and Ernest C., of Columbus.
Mr. Dussell was a member of the Congregational Church. He also held memberships in the Masonic Lodge, the Elks, and the Chamber of Commerce.
Francis C. Dussell died in Columbus, December 9, 1943.
Ernest Carroll Dussell, son of Francis C. and Nettie Buchanan Dussell, was born in Columbus, Nebraska, June 14, 1928. He attended the Columbus schools
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and graduated from Kramer High School in 1946. He entered the United States Armed Forces in 1946, and served in the Signal Corps for two years, during which time he was stationed in Monmouth, New Jersey. He was enrolled in the University of Nebraska in September, 1948.
John W. Early was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, December 29, 1844, and died June 19, 1888, in Columbus, Nebraska.
He lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and in that vicinity until he moved to Nebraska, in 1867.
In 1861, during the Civil War, he enlisted in Company B, Nineteenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was in the battles of Shiloh, Perryville, and Franklin, and many other skirmishes. He was mustered out at Columbus, Ohio, in the fall of 1863.
After the close of the war, he took charge of a wagon train plying between Camp Nelson and Cumberland Gap, and served in this capacity until the latter part of 1864.
He was married in East Palestine, Ohio, in 1865, to Mary A. Routson.
In March of 1867, the Earlys came west to Platte County, and located on Shell Creek, where he engaged in farming. In June, 1868, Mr. Early made a preemption claim and erected a dwelling. In 1870. he was elected County Commissioner, and served three years. In the fall of 1873, J. W. Early was appointed Deputy County Treasurer, and served six years. In 1879 he was elected Treasurer, and re-elected in 1881.
In 1887, John W. Early formed a law and real estate partnership with George N. Crawford.
Five of the children lived here: Emma, Mrs. J. A. Austin; Charles Edward; Kate; Lois; and John, Jr. Charles Edward, known as "Ed," lives near Bakersfield, California. Kate, Mrs. Barclay, who lived in St. Louis, Missouri, is now deceased. Lois, known as "Angie," married Fred Rollins of Columbus. They live near Bakersfield, California. John Early, Jr., is deceased.
John B. Ebel was born March 4, 1871, in a log cabin on his father's homestead, four miles south and two miles east of Columbus, the son of Michael and Katherine Ebel, who came from Rochester, New York, in 1868, to locate there.
In 1874, his father drove in a lumber wagon to West Point, Nebraska, to bring Reverend Father Uhing, who said mass in the log cabin, and baptized about 20 children, one of whom was John Ebel.
John grew up like most homesteaders' children, herding cattle, watching for Indians, fighting prairie fires, and freezing in blizzards. Hunting and fishing were his recreation. He attended school in District 41, Butler County, and the old Fremont Normal School at Fremont. He graduated from the Commercial Department in 1896. He served as court reporter and secretary for Judge Evans, in Butler County, David City, for a year, then went to Lincoln, where he worked for the Huber Threshing Machine Company for six years: first in the office, later in charge of the parts and repair department.
On June 3, 1903, at St. Peter's Church, in Bellwood, he married Antonia Jacob, daughter of Moritz and Anna Franke Jacob, and granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jacob, of Austria, who came from Kansas, in 1885, and settled east of Bellwood.
After John and Antonia were married they lived in Lincoln for a few months. On February 11, 1904, John Ebel went to Portland, Oregon and entered the lumber business with Edgar Smith and Frank Zenlinka. Later he went to Idaho, then returned to Lincoln in 1905 and again worked for the Huber Company.
On January 1, 1906, he moved back on the farm, where he lived until he moved to Columbus, on February 26, 1920. His family attended the Columbus schools, and his son, Reverend Father John Ebel, said his first mass in Columbus, after being ordained to the priesthood.
John and Antonia Ebel had four children: Thelma, wife of Frank Kerr, graduated from St. Bonaventure's High School, taught school in Platte County one year in District 16, was principal three years at District 32, and taught one year in the Marks District, east of Platte Center. Kathryn, wife of Daniel Malone, graduated from St. Bonaventure's High School, was cashier in Brinninger's store until 1925, then entered St. Elizabeth's Hospital, in Lincoln, for nurses' training, where she graduated in June, 1928. She did private nursing for two years, took post-graduate work in public health at Colorado Teachers College in Greeley, then worked with Denver Visiting Nurses. Devota Elizabeth, born June 29, 1913, died June I, 1917. They had one son, now the Reverend John B. Ebel.
There are six grandchildren: Virginia Kerr graduated from St. Bonaventure's High School in 1945, where she received a scholarship to the Grand Island Business College. She attended the business college four months, then took a position as secretary in the Columbus Telephone Company office. Patricia Kerr graduated from St. Bonaventure's High School in 1946, and worked at the J. C. Penney Company in Columbus. Eugene Kerr is in Bellwood. Kathryn Ann, Rosemary, and Danny Malone live in Denver, where they attend St. Catherine's School.
Mr. Ebel died January 16, 1928.
Mrs. John Ebel makes her home in Columbus.
The Reverend John B. Ebel, son of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Ebel, was born September 17, 1918, in Bellwood, Nebraska.
He attended St. Bonaventure's grade school, the first two years of high school, and enrolled at the Regis Preparatory School, in Denver, Colorado, in 1932, and
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