a few photos of life in & around table rock
by sharla sitzman
Harvest season in Dry Branch, 2016. (Dry Branch is the area that spans eastern Pawnee County/western Richardson County. In Pawnee County, it's at the eastern side of Sheridan Precinct.
They are on the wrong side of the road because they drove around my car. Of course they stopped to say hello. It was a very hot and dry day.
At the 2016 funeral of beloved Joe Sochor, three of this classmates from the Class of 1945, all equal beloved -- Ed Hanna, Art Alderman, and Willard Binder.
September 2016, Howard Blecha stands inside Pleasant Valley Country School, District 32, which an alumni group has been working to preserve. September 2016.
Shad Gager, waiting for patriotic program by the Legion Auxiliary to begin with the Legion Color Guard posting the flag. It was 2014 and the program was called An Afternoon for America.
Gathering in the Methodist Church basement in 2014, after a patriotic event put on by the Legion Auxiliary.
The Halversons, after donating and installing new signs on the front windows of the Argus Newspaper Museum & Picture Gallery, April 2017.
May 2017 -- Eagle Scout Trent Plager of Boy Scout Troop 289, Humboldt, and Staff Sgt. Froa, who, delivered the flag to be used for Military Honors for Private William McNeal of the 2nd Kansas Cavalry. Private McNeal died in the Civil War. His body lays in a place known but to God, but on Memorial Day weekend, a new military tombstone was dedicated by the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, with Military Honors by the United States Army. Staff Sgt. Froa delivered the flag into the hands of Plager, to care for it until the ceremony. The Civil War statue they stand before honors those who lay in unknown graves, and was placed and dedicated in the Table Rock Cemetery in 1903.
July 22, 2017 - new Methodist minister Dorothy Smith visits with Delores Penkava at Premier Estates nursing home in Pawnee City. Delores missing her Table Rock home terribly, and her dogs. Dorothy's dog Sadie provided many smiles.
April 10, 2016, volunteers Kelly Freeman Vogt and Roger Vondrasek help paint the interior of the Argus, working to get ready for the grand opening of the renovated museum on Memorial Day 2016.
Larry Angle of the 1st Nebraska Volunteers, a Civil War reenactor organization, after a 2015 cemetery walk by lantern light at the Table Rock Cemetery.
At the 2016 consignment sale
The Table Rock Community Club's first annual kolache bake, 2016. Barb Harris teaches the young 'uns how the dough should look and feel.
Amy Hunzeker finishes off some kolaches with streudel crumbles during the 2018 Community Club Kolache Bake.
July 8, 2015 -- installing the ceiling during renovation of the Argus Museum.
Bugler Elsie Tomek stands by before the dedication of the military tombstone of Wilber D. Perry of the 10th West Virginia in 2016. To her right, Legion fire squad members listen to instructions, including Lavon Covault & Tom Hildebrand.