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Riggs Coble and Deco Espiritu, Platte Center preschoolers, are battling leukemia. A Red Cross blood drive will be held May 8 in their honor at St. Joseph’s Parish Hall. Courtesy photo

Port buddies
Some friendships run a little deeper than others. Although Riggs Coble and Deco Espiritu don’t fully understand what they are going through, they know they are buddies — port buddies. The two preschoolers at Platte Center Elementary School have...
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Emerson Krings, a senior at Humphrey St. Francis, signed a letter of intent last week for track at Southeast Community College. The SCC track team and Coach Phillip Duncan welcomed Emerson to his signing. Pictured, front row, left to right, are his mother, Ashley Krings, and Emerson. Back row, Emerson’s father Steve Krings, and SCC coach Duncan. Courtesy photo

Emerson Krings heading to SCC for track
Emerson Krings is heading to Southeast Community College. He earned the Walter Scott Pathway Scholarship, and will be in the auto collision repair program at SCC Milford. He also will be a member of the track team, which is based out of the Lincoln...
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St. Francis made itself at home, winning the Flyers Invitational Thursday. Pictured, left to right, are Tyson Wietfeld, Carson Wessel, Matthew Brockhaus, Andrew Kosch, Jacob Keller, Wyatt Brandl and Jett Dunn. Courtesy photo

Flyers win home invite
The St. Francis golf team participated in its own invite Thursday held at Steepleview Golf Course. Under windy conditions the Flyers were able to shoot a team score of 371 to finish 3 strokes ahead of Howells-Dodge and finish 1st overall in the 10-...
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Coletta Theresa (Heimann) Pfeifer

Coletta Theresa (Heimann) Pfeifer

Wed, 06/30/2021 - 4:00am

Coletta Theresa (Heimann) Pfeifer, age 96 of Fremont, Neb., passed away Tuesday, June 22, 2021, at Sumner Place in Lincoln, Neb. She was born March 21, 1925, at home at St. Bernard, Neb., to Henry and Elizabeth (Sueper) Heimann.

Funeral Mass was 10 a.m. Saturday, June 26, 2021, at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Fremont. Visitation was 5-7 p.m., Friday and a Rosary at 7 p.m. all at Moser Memorial Chapel in Fremont. Burial was at Calvary Cemetery in Fremont.

Coletta grew up in the St. Bernard, Neb., area and married Harold P. Pfeifer on May 24, 1943, at Lindsay, Neb. They came to Fremont in 1945. She was a homemaker and liked cooking, baking and embroidering dish towels for family. She was a housekeeper at St. Patrick Rectory and house retiring in 2009 after 31 years. Coletta was a member of St. Patrick Catholic Church, St. Patrick Women and St. Joan of Arc. She also helped with school lunches and volunteered at Fremont Area Medical Center for 19 years.

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