58 NEBRASKAland • MAY 2018
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I am sending you this photo of turkey hunting around
Atkinson, Nebraska, in 1967.
Left to right are Pete, Randy Kruse, Bob Duennerman
(myself), and Ernie. I cannot remember Pete and Ernie's last
names, but they were Randy's cousins I believe.
I am now living in Apple Valley, California, and am 83 years
old, but was originally from Grand Island.
– Bob Duennerman, Apple Valley, California
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This photo was taken on opening weekend
1959 southwest of Comstock on the farmstead
where my mother grew up. Pictured are my
grandfather Frank Janulewicz, my brothers
Glenn and John, my father Wendell, and me.
Bagged my first pheasant that day with my
grandpa's Bay State single shot .410 shotgun.
– Bruce Hovie, North Platte, Nebraska
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Bob Colling, right, and I display a limit of pheasants we
harvested the last day of about 1969, north of Kearney. Bob
was a professor of mathematics at, then, Kearney State
College, and I was an assistant pastor at St. James Catholic
Parish. Pheasants were abundant in those days, and we
went on hunts whenever our schedules permitted. We lost
Bob last year. He was a good teacher and parishioner,
a wonderful family man and a faithful friend. Many fond
memories remain.
– Father Bernard Berger, Crawford, Nebraska
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