Lovetta Faye Hammer – Obit

July 9, 1933 – March 16, 2024 BEMIDJI, Minn. – Lovetta Faye Hammer, 90, Bemidji, Minn., died Saturday, March 16, in Colleen’s Caring Hands. A memorial service will be 1:30 p.m. Saturday, May 11, at First Lutheran Church in Bemidji. Interment will be in Greenwood Cemetery in Bemidji. Arrangements by Cease Family Funeral Home in… Continue reading Lovetta Faye Hammer – Obit

New York Mets pitcher dies at 80 – .

39 Jim McAndrew was a pitcher with the 1969 World Series-winning New York Mets.  Jim McAndrew’s legacy  Born in the small town of Lost Nation, Iowa, McAndrew played both baseball and basketball at the University of Iowa. A knee injury prompted him to focus exclusively on baseball, and he was drafted by the Mets in… Continue reading New York Mets pitcher dies at 80 – .

John Purcell – Obit

Oct. 1, 1945 – March 12, 2024 BEMIDJI, Minn. – John Purcell, 78, Bemidji, Minn., formerly Grand Forks, N.D., died Tuesday, March 12, in Sanford Health Neilson Place. A memorial service and celebration of life will be 1 p.m. Saturday, March 16, at Sanford Health Neilson Place in Bemidji. Arrangements by Cease Family Funeral Home… Continue reading John Purcell – Obit

Dean Anderson – Obit

June 26, 1937 – March 15, 2024 ARGYLE, Minn. – Dean Anderson, 86, Argyle, Minn., died Friday, March 15, in his home. Visitation will be from 5-6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 21, at Savior’s Free Lutheran Church in Argyle. Visitation will continue from 10-11 a.m., followed by a funeral at 11 a.m., Friday, March 22, at… Continue reading Dean Anderson – Obit

Elizabeth “Betty” Canavan – Obit

We lost our moon; on December 2, 2023, our beloved mother passed away at Valley Senior Living, where she had been a resident for some years and made many friends.  Betty was born to doting parents Jacob and Elizabeth Kozlowich, May 10, 1944 in Detroit, MI. She was a tennis and basketball player in school… Continue reading Elizabeth “Betty” Canavan – Obit

author and creator of James at 15 dies at 91 – .

222 Dan Wakefield was an author and screenwriter who wrote the novels “Going All the Way” and “Starting Over,” and he created the television show “James at 15.”  Dan Wakefield’s legacy  Born and raised in Indianapolis, Wakefield wrote for the same high school newspaper at Shortridge High School that author Kurt Vonnegut (1922– 2007) once… Continue reading author and creator of James at 15 dies at 91 – .

daring stunt performer from films like Mad Max dies at 85 – .

155 Grant Page was a daring stunt performer from such Australian films as “Mad Max,” “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome,” and “The Man from Hong Kong.”  Grant Page’s legacy  Page was a key figure in the so-called Ozploitation movement, an Australian-born genre of low budget, high-action films best known for the influential 1979 movie “Mad Max.”… Continue reading daring stunt performer from films like Mad Max dies at 85 – .

civil rights activist dies at 81 – .

108 Dorie Ladner was a civil rights activist whose efforts included being arrested for attempting to have lunch at a segregated Woolworth lunch counter and jailed for picketing in the 1962 Jackson, Mississippi boycotts.  Dorie Ladner’s legacy  Ladner was born and raised in a racially segregated society. Growing up in Palmer’s Crossing, Mississippi, and raised… Continue reading civil rights activist dies at 81 – .