MOSTLY CLOUDY THIS AFTERNOON AFTER A THUNDER AND LIGHTNING STORM AND SOME GOOD RAIN AROUND 8 THIS MORNING. HIGH TODAY 65.

A HOMECOMING VICTORY LAST NIGHT......
MAQUOKETA 23
CENTER POINT URBANA 12

I LOST A GOOD FRIEND LAST NIGHT. ED TUBBS DIED AT THE AGE OF 90.
GO TO CARSON AND SON WEB SITE FOR THE PARTIAL OBITUARY.
I HAVE KNOWN ED SINCE HE AND HIS PARTNER, THE LATE JOHN FAGERLAND,
BOUGHT THE MAQUOKETA STATE BANK IN THE 60'S. AND SINCE THAT TIME,
THE MAQUOKETA STATE BANK, YEAR AFTER YEAR, HAS BEEN KMAQ'S NUMBER
ONE ADVERTISER. AND MAQUOKETA STATE BANK HAS BEEN THE BANK THAT
GAVE ME MY LOANS OVER THE YEARS TO BUY KMAQ, THE THEATRES, ETC.
WHEN KMAQ HAD TO MOVE AT MIDNIGHT BECAUSE OF THE MAJOR FIRE TO THE COAST TO COAST STORE IN 1970, ADJACENT TO THE KMAQ STUDIOS, ED...AND JOHN...WERE THE FIRST TO COME TO MY HOME AND OFFER THE HELP THAT I NEEDED. AND ED AND I HAVE BEEN MAQUOKETA ROTARIANS ALL THOSE YEARS AND
ATTENDED MOST WEDNESDAY MEETINGS. AND THE LAST FEW YEARS, ED
HAS BEEN A "REGULAR" IN OUR 9:30 A.M. COFFEE GROUP AT THE DECKER.
AND ED AND ELAINE HAVE BEEN ON TWO OR THREE KMAQ-TRAVEL BUS TRIPS
TO BRANSON. AND THEY HAVE DINED WITH NANCY AND I ON OCCASSION
THE LAST COUPLE YEARS. AND ED HAS CONTRIBUTED FINANCIALLY TO THE
MANY NEEDS AND WANTS OF MAQUOKETA, THE MOST NOTEWORTHY BEING
THE OHNWARD FINE ARTS CENTER ON EAST PLATT STREET. THE NAME OHNWARD
BANKS CAME FROM JOHNEDWARD AND IT ONLY FITTING THAT HIS FUNERAL
WILL BE THERE. BIG ENOUGH TO HOLD THE MANY MOURNER FRIENDS OF ED.
AND I COULD GO ON AND ON. AND ED KEPT TRYING TO GO ON AND ON. THE LAST COUPLE YEARS, HE WENT WHENEVER HE COULD, SLOWLY AND OFTEN IN PAIN, RATHER THAN STAY HOME AS MANY WOULD HAVE. MY SYMPATHY TO HIS
WIFE ELAINE, AND HIS THREE SONS, AL, STEVE AND BILL AND THEIR FAMILIES.
FROM FARMING IN RURAL ELWOOD TO BANKING IN MAQUOKETA AND EASTERN
IOWA, HE DID IT RIGHT! HE JOINS HIS FRIEND JOHN AND NOW THERE'S
OHNWARD UP THERE TOO.

DENNIS VOY