Friday, July 25, 2008

A NICE DAY TODAY IN MAQUOKETA...HIGH OF 78.
TOMORROW WILL BE ANOTHER GREAT DAY, WITH NO RAIN AND A HIGH
IN THE 80'S.

ATTENDANCE AT THE FAIR YESTERDAY (THURSDAY) WAS 3,402.....UP 114
OVER THURSDAY OF 2007. THERE WAS A FULL GRANDSTAND FOR THE
STOCK CAR RACES AND THE WINNERS OF $100 DRAWING, INCLUDING ONE
PERSON FROM MAQUOKETA, MELINDA USHER. KENT FUGLSANG OF RURAL
BALDWIN, FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, WAS ALSO A $100 WINNER.'

BOB WIESE, AGE 67, OF ELVIRA AND FORMERLY OF MAQUOKETA, DIED LAST
NIGHT AT HIS HOME, FOLLOWING A BATTLE WITH LUNG CANCER.
GRAVESIDE SERVICES WILL BE HELD MONDAY AFTERNOON AT 2 AT ST. PATRICK'S CEMETERY AT DELMAR. FRIENDS MAY CALL SUNDAY FROM 4 UNTIL 6 P.M.
AT THE LAHEY FUNERAL HOME IN MAQUOKETA. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS
WIFE CATHY, 2 SONS, JEREMIAH OF DELMAR AND JOSHUA AT HOME AND
DAUGHTER JENNIFER OF DUBUQUE. ALSO 7 GRANDCHILDREN AND 4 SISTERS,
INCLUDING EDNA EDWARDS OF MAQUOKETA AND A HALF-SISTER, BARB TUBBS OF MAQUOKETA. BOB WAS A GOOD EMPLOYEE FOR ME FOR SEVERAL YEARS AT THE 61 DRIVE-IN.

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND.

DENNIS VOY

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