NEW ULM – Laurie Edick did not set out to become a nurse, but once she did, she knew exactly where she wanted to work. “Nursing found me,” she said. “I had a friend who was a public health nurse, and she more or less pushed me into it. I think she saw something in me.” That ...
SLEEPY EYE — Rick Mages comes from a family of military members, a tradition he and the family have continued for a long time. A number of people in his wife Jane’s family were also in the military. Rick and Jane’s three sons were all U.S. Marines. Two of them, Jory and Rob were ...
NEW ULM -- Emil Rosenau’s tour of duty in the Vietnam War began in Swineford, Germany. After graduating from Hutchinson High School in 1965 and doing farm work in the area for a year, he and a friend decided to enlist in the armed forces. “I thought, ‘Well, what else is there to ...
NEW ULM — When Lawrence “Larry” Stueber received his draft notice in 1966, the 20-year-old New Ulm native was working as a paint salesman at Cook’s Paints. He didn’t know much about electricity, but the Army did. It needed generator repair specialists, and it trained him to become ...
NEW ULM -- Harold Lange joined the 101st Airborne Division, known as the “Screaming Eagles,” in 1958 at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. He said the decision wasn’t difficult. “When the 101st Airborne came by and they got done speaking--I heard another $69 a month jump pay-- and I said ...
BERNADETTE –Ruth Klossner and her dog, Molly, have a great view of the sky and the endless corn fields in their home at the Moo-seum in the small town of Bernadette. Klossner, a long time writer and photographer, has 22,010 cows related items in her museum, for which she holds the Guinness ...