One of the papers I take is the Quincy paper.  I found that Betty Eshom had passed this week.  She was from Sutter and she worked at Plymouth Rock Antiques for years.  She held down the store when I…

Bill Finney passed away on Monday.  He attended Living Faith UMC in Bowen.  The obituary in the Quincy paper gave a long list of his life’s work.  He will be greatly missed.  It is my understanding that the visitation was…

  It is very difficult to know  what to write for this week.  A week that brought daylight savings back which disrupts our lives for a while, a full moon, a Friday the 13th, a batch of snow and one…

  Dillon Flesner, son of Greg and Alana Flesner, was killed in a motorcycle accident in Omaha this week.  Services were held on Thursday at Living Faith UMC in Bowen.  He was a 2008 graduate of Southeastern.  The members of…

  Saw in the paper that David Woodside had passed away on last Sunday.  That brought back many memories.  When I was growing up we lived on a small farm as did most every one I knew.  We bought our…

  First our sympathy to the family of Dixie Anderson.  Dixie and her husband Wendell lived in Plymouth and she was a member of our Plymouth Women’s Circle.  She passed away on Sunday, February 16th in Macomb, IL.  Visitation was…

  Many of you will remember the name Stella Lawton Smith who is probably Plymouth’s best known artist.  Her daughter, Rachel Lorentz, recently celebrated her 96th birthday. Rachel’s daughter made donuts from Stella’s recipe for her birthday.  Rachel’s son and…

  Seems like it has been a long and sad week.  Carl Koehser passed away on Sunday, February 2nd in Quincy.  He and his wife Gladys were very important parts of our community.  They will be greatly missed. Also on…

  Our sympathy to the family of Gary Kendall who passed on Friday of last week.  The Kendall family lived in one of the two large stone houses built by the Monk brothers in Plymouth.  They then moved out West…

  OK just go buy a “pillow pet”.  Though the hang tag says for ages 0 through 100, I see no reason to toss it just because one reaches one hundred.  In the summer, I mow, weed flowers, garden, sit…