Stories from Monday, January 9, 2012

On Jan. 7, 2012, Richard Alvin Boettcher lost his battle with cancer as he went to meet his Lord and Savior. Richard was born on Nov. 30, 1936, near Wolf Point, Mont. He was the son of Bernard Walter Boettcher of Blue Earth, Minn., and Mandy Christina (Lucky) Boettcher of Williston, N.D...

Rollie Jones, 88 years old, was born Sept. 11, 1923, to Robert and Deborah Jones in Buffalo, Wyo. He was the youngest of four children. The family moved to Washington state in the late '30s and settled in the Seattle area before the war. He married Lois Lee Day from Juanita, Wash., on Dec. 7, 1944, in Greensboro, N.C., prior to shipping overseas as a B-25 bomber pilot...