Past painted on VFW walls Members of the Harrison High School art club may have gained a new appreciation for military veterans after completing two massive murals for the Harrison VFW that commemorate men and woman who have served our country.
The murals represent all branches of the military from World War I to the present day, said VFW junior vice commander Rich Dickman. World War II veterans Ron Fury, George Minges and George Zeumer unveiled the murals during a ...
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Swimmer-coach at Trials OMAHA, Nebraska - Once you’ve developed and refined that fierce competitive fire, it never really dies, apparently.
That’s the sort of inner drive that propelled Dillsboro native Katie Robinson to resume training in March, a year after NCAA Division I swimming career had ended at the University of Texas-Austin, with her sights set on... Read more...

Kathryn Hooper Funeral services for Kathryn M. Hooper, 93, Clearwater, Fla., formerly of Aurora, will be at 2 p.m. Monday, July 7, 2008, at the Rullman Hunger Denney Funeral Home, Aurora, with burial in Riverview Cemetery, Aurora. Visitation will be noon until the time of services Monday at the funeral home.
Mrs. Hooper died Tuesday, July 1, in Clearwater. She was a member of First Evangelical United Church of Christ, Aurora. She retired from J. Byron after 10 plus years and formerly worked for Goldsmith's Department Store in Aurora for 15 years.
She is survived by two sons, Larry Dale (Laura) Hooper, Lawrenceburg, and Danny Robert (Christina) Hooper, Clearwater, Fla.; a brother, Robert Clayton Knippenberg, Virginia; grandchildren Sarah Kathryn Joyner, Debra Kay Taylor and Kimberly Sue Walters; five great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandson.
Memorials may be made to the Aurora First Evangelical United Church of Christ. Read more...