"Ak-Sar-Ben and the Nebraska Association of Fair Managers is honoring 125 families with the Pioneer Farm Family Award. The award each year goes to Nebraska families whose land has been owned by the same family for at least 100 years. Nearly 6,000 families in Nebraska have received the award since its inception in 1955."     ---Sunday World Herald, page 8-B, July 5, 1998. Omaha, Nebraska

This year's Pioneer Farm Families, listed by county, are:

 

Adams: Anna Marie Riese, Holstein.

 

Banner: Palm Investment Co., Albin, Wis.

 

Boone: Matt Homan, Columbus; Leo and Louis Mueller, Albion; Paul and Kristine Ranslem, Albion.

 

Boyd: Richard and Dessi Boettcher, Spencer; Donald and Delores Schock, Naper.

 

Buffalo: Glen and Helen Duncan, Kearney; Marvelyn Eurek, Hastings; Marvin and Gail Niemack, Shelton.

 

Burt: Donald and Betty Bacon, Lyons; Randall and Mary Fran Bacon, Lyons; Kenneth Larsen, Decatur; Roland Peters, Pender.

 

Butler: John and Sylvia Hotovy, Dwight; Dwaine and Selma Schmit, Bellwood.

 

Cass: Gene Backemeyer, Murdock; Kirby and Cindy Drake, Avoca; Stanley and Helen Lepert, Plattsmouth; Neumann Lands LTD, Louisville.

 

Cedar: Scot Anderson, Laurel; Anthony Keiter, Hartington; Donovan and Nancy Pick, Fordyce; Merle and Loretta Wohlman, Hartington.

 

Clay: Paul and Shirley Koenig, Harvard; Martin Overtruf, Sutton

 

Colfax: Martin Grotelueschen, Leigh; Dean and Alice Teply, Clarkson; Adolph and Lois Vitek, Clarkson.

 

Cuming: Mylon and Carol Beutler, Bancroft; Alvin and Kathleen Heller, Wisner; Lynn Horst Sill, Wisner; Wilbert and Elizabeth Throener, West Point: Martin Throener, West Point.

 

Custer: Monica Fleishman, Broken Bow; Karron Miller, Scotia.

 

Dakota: Harlan Schopke, Emerson.

 

Dawes: Dale Brown, Withney; Carol Doyle, Rapid City, S.D.; Faye Stewart, Hemingford.

 

Dawson: Kennicutt Family Trust, Gothenburg.

 

Dixon: Mae Phyllis Pearson, Wakefield.

 

Dodge: John and Marily Havekost, Scribner, Doris Wobken, Scribner.

 

Douglas: Helen Sedlacek, Omaha; Richard and Marilyn Waugh, Valley.

 

Fillmore: Lillian Meistrell, Fremont; Gary Saltzman, Shickley.

 

Franklin: Cyde Frerichs, Franklin; Marjorie Johnson, Juniata.

 

Frontier: Max and Suzanne Bartruff, Eustis; Velma Farr, Eustis; Elwin and Dorothy Hansen, McCook; Herb and Rosemary Koch, Eustis; Robert and Ruth Pfeil, Alma.

 

Furnas: Willaim and JoAnn Hays, Edison; Don and Karol SHAFER, Oxford; Mary Wineland, Denver.

 

Garfield: Foster Ranch Inc., ericson.

 

Gosper: Dennis and Linda Gruber, Eustis; Herbert and Genevieve Wendland, Arapahoe; Mildred Vinzant, Lexington.

 

Hall: H.E. Elstermeier, St. Paul; Herbert and Helen Koch, Grand Island; Glen Wiese, Grand Isalnd; Cara Wilhelmi, Grand Island.

 

Hamilton: Donald and Leola Bish, Giltner; Alvena Garrido, Kearney.

 

Hayes: Glenn Callander, McCook.

 

Hitchcock: M. Colene Ingraham, Loevland, Colo.

 

Holt: Angela Wedige, Stuart.

 

Howard: thomas and Rosemarie Mrkvicka, Farwell.

 

Jefferson: James Cunningham, Fairbury; George and Lois Schipper, North Platte.

 

Kearney: Robert and Wand Borgaard, Minden; Alfred Hansen, Minden; Robert Shearer, Minden.

 

Knox: Lyle Sukup, Verdigre; Kenny and Pam Sukup, Verdigre; Dale and Marilyn, Sukup, Verdigre.

 

Lancaster: Richard and Sondra Block, Roca; R.B. Hoppe, Denton; Ralph and Sara Olson, Ceresco; Josephine Reihart, Lincoln; Emma Wismer, Hickman.

 

Lincoln: Don and Rosemary Johnson, North Platte.

 

Madison: Glenn and Betty Makelin, Madison; Fred and Dee Tiedgen, Meadow Grove; Allen and Janice Wedekind, Lindsay.

 

Merrick: Jack and Dorothy Burger, Silver Creek; Ethel Sweet, Clarks; Neal Thomas, Lincoln.

 

Monterey: Emmett and Milada Dickey, Dodge.

 

Nance: Fred and Helen Whitney, Fullerton.

 

Nemaha: Dean and Marie Jodry, Auburn.

 

Otoe: Bobby Thomson, Lincoln: Wayne and Mary Wallen, Palmyra.

 

Pawnee: Glenda Ford, Sioux City.

 

Pierce: Ronald Koehler, Osmond; Mathias Luebbers, Pierce.

 

Richardson: Ruth Cummings, Falls City; Mary Katherine Snethen, Humboldt; Thelma Swisegood, Falls City.

 

Saline: Joseph Donald, Wilber; Elise Kovar, Wilber; Dennis Jelinek, Wilber.

 

Saunders: Adolph Hanis, Prague; Kenneth and Grace Hanke, Wahoo; Henry and Pearl Mahrt, Colon; Marvin and Yvonne Perterson, Ceresco; Jacqueline Sabatka, Valparaiso.

 

Seward: Gerald and Imogene Hegeholz, Staplehurst: mitch and Priscilla Klintworth, Seward.

 

Sherman: Keith Moeller, Loup City.

 

Sioux: Shirley McChesney, Tuscon, Ariz.

 

Stanton: Gloria Long, Norfolk.

 

Thayer: Kenneth Mosier, Davenport; Stanley Schiermeyer, Fairbury.

 

Washington: Hilltop Diary Inc., Arlington; Lyle and Mona Thielfoldt, Herman.

 

York: Darrell Blum, York; Robert Osborne, York; Virgil and Nelda Thiessen, Hampton; Frances Dreier Wagner, Morrow, Ga.

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