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fond memories of the flour sacks.  My sisters and I had many a bouse or undies made from flour sacks.  If it was your turn to have a new blouse, you got to pick out the sack.  If it was a dress then two sacks were bought.  Dishtowls??? I bought some at Jean Gray's garage sale and I love them, however I haven't used them yet.

[HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUHAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUHAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR DALEHAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU.]

Dale, better late than never so.......................
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR DALE
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU.


Sounds like your day was just great and see you at Alumni?

Waldo, I know the perfect vacation or year round home for you.  Mine is back on the market.  It is described in the "for sale" section.

when Ford's had the creamery in Severy if I'm not thinking of someone else, the building had two sides.  The East door was the creamery and the west door entered into a place they sold shoes.  When McIntyers (sp) had it they sold some groceries in the west side.  That is been many many years ago.  Also there was a creamery east of the main drag behind the grocery that was on the NE corner of the main intersection.  Okay, that is taxing my brain too severly.

this is getting to be a bit too much.  I have known Leslie Ford for so many many years.  We went to the lower grades together.  His older sister was my older sister's age.  At the time they lived in Severy, there were Evelyn, Leslie and a younger sister (I can't recall her name.)  I don't know if the family grew after they moved.  I re-connected with Leslie after so many many years when we were eating at Swinging Bridge when it was down town.  He looked so familiar and then someone called him Les and I was brazen enough to interrupt his meal to ask him if he was the Leslie Ford that lived in Severy at one time.   he replied yes and we had a very nice short visit.  He said he wouldn't have recognized me either.   so sorry to hear of his passing.  Sympathies and God's comfort to his family.

Carla, my sympathies and prayers to you and your family.

anybody who was raised and went to school in Severy knew Terry, his parents and siblings.  My condolences to Gary and his family and to Angie and her family.

well, boring their games aren't.  Good thing I have dentures or my nails would all be bitten off.  I do like close games, but these are just nerve-racking.  So far they have been able to pull the rabbit out of the hat, so to speak, and win. 

    I am appauled at what I just read posted by prehistoricrez.  How dare you try to interfere with the good work Elk County businesses and residents do to help our youth of Elk County.  In this case, however, I don't think ONE BAD APPLE is going to spoil the barrel.  United we conquer, divided we fall.  In every town there are "nit-pickers" who look for something to complain about just to be complaining.  We have church youth groups open to ALL youth, not just those from that church.  Elk Konnected has event after event involving ELK COUNTY YOUTH (and falls over into Severy which is in Greenwood county).  I say to prehistoricrez, grow up and quit acting like a child not old enough to even be in Girl Scouts.  They work hard on their cookie sales and many people buy those cookies even if they can't eat them for health reasons.  They buy because of the help it gives to these girls.  Cookie sales is not the whole reason for Girl Scouts.  I was a Girl Scout and I was a Girl Scout Community Leader.  The next time you see a scout proudly displaying their badges they worked hard for, give them a shout out.  They weren't given those awards, they "earned" those awards.  To the rest of you, keep on supporting our youth wherever they reside.  That's what helps them to become responsible adults.  Note:  Connie, you do a wonderful job and keep it up.  Most of us support your efforts to not only the Girl Scouts, but the community.  By the way, when we are eating at Sweet & Spicy, I see a lot of out of towners.  Prehistoricrez, question: Should these people be eating in their own  town instead of supporting a Howard business?? Okay, off my soap box and into the kitchen.  Thanks for letting me blow off steam.

Dorothy H. Odle, age 95, of Eureka, Kansas, formerly of Homestead Community, Kansas, died Monday, March 12, 2012, at the Eureka Nursing Center in Eureka, Kansas. The daughter of Crosby L. and Ellian N. Caress Merritt, she was born April 19, 1916, in Clements, KS.

She attended Chase County schools through the first year of high school. She and Vernon Odle were married November 5, 1933, in Cedar Point, Kansas. He died April 21, 1992. They were farmers/ranchers all of their lives. Dorothy raised big gardens and canned food for her family. She worked at the Cottonwood Falls Nursing Home for many years as a certified nurse's aide and as a therapist. She was baptized, in the First Baptist Church in Cottonwood Falls in 2001 and faithfully attended services until she moved to assisted living in the spring of 2009.

She is survived by a son, Larry R. Odle, of Howard, Kansas; a daughter, Twila M. Northern, of Mesquite, Nevada.; eight grandchildren; and many great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; a son, James L. Odle; a daughter, Valeta C. Allison; a brother, Howard Merritt; and five sisters: Myrtle Brumbaugh, Olive Jackson, Nettie Sidener, Ruth Jeffrey, and Eulah Van Buren.

A Celebration of Life service will be held Friday, March 16, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. at Brown-Bennett-Alexander Funeral Home in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas.  Pastor Rick Smith will conduct the service.  Burial will follow in the Homestead Cemetery in Homestead Community, Kansas.  There will be no formal family visitation. Friends may call, at the funeral home, Thursday, from 10:00 until 5:00 and Friday, from 10:00 until service time. Memorial contributions to the Alzheimer's Association may be sent to the funeral home, 201 Cherry, Cottonwood Falls, KS. 66845. Messages, for the family, may be left at www.brown-bennett-alexander.com.