Excerpts from past Tracy newspapers Sept. 22, 1955 — Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Wiggins just returned from French Morocco, found Minnesota weather compared unfavorably with Moroccan sunshine, but agreed that, in all other respects, it was “great to be home.” Mrs. Wiggins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Ford, 549 Harvey St., went to Morocco in the spring of 1954 to join her husband who was stationed there as a radar officer with the 17th Air Force. Their nine-month-old daughter, Mary Liz, was born there.
Obituaries: Jim Cooreman, Mrs. Gordon Morgan, Mrs. Robert Monahan, Mrs. Lee Herron
Sept. 23, 1965 — Crowning ceremonies of Balaton High School’s king and queen during halftime of the football game was cancelled and held later at the school dance. Yvonne Miller and John Nixon were crowned reigning royalty of the homecoming.
Obituaries: Henry Howe, Mayme Engel, Mrs. Frank Selck, John Stillings, Anna Volkman
Sept. 18, 1975 — John Cambronne has been named manager of the North-western Bell Telephone company’s Tracy office, coming here to assume his new duties October 1st. He succeeds Dave Murtley, manager here six years, who left Sept. 2nd to work as a business telephone installer for the Bell Company in St. Cloud. Murtley previously worked in St. Cloud and has been with the company 18 years. The new Tracy manager at one time lived in Walnut Grove, and is a graduate of Lamberton high school. Cambronne, now residing in Minneapolis, has worked for the company 19 years.
Obituaries: Julius DeBlieck, Vincent Whalen
Sept. 19, 1985 — “I still can’t believe it,” Lota Hannasch exclaims as she looks at the shiny red Ford Tempo. The Tracy woman was the lucky winner of the St. Mary’s car drawing held at the parish’s annual fall dinner Sunday. “I was working that morning (at the Tracy Nursing Home), when my kids called me to tell me I had won the car, I said ‘oh, sure I did.’ I thought they were trying to pull a joke over on me.” But win it she did. Her winning ticket was publicly drawn by four-yearold Brandi Lanoue.
Obituaries: Henry Boots, Brent Johnson, John Miller, Mark Kelly, Arthur Jemming, William Richardson, Gordon Schmitz, John Werner
Sept. 20, 1995 — The NAPA store in Downtown Tracy has closed. Owner Dave Berg this week began a job as an outside sales representative for NAPA in the Mankato area. The Berg family plans to move to the Mankato area as soon as housing arrangements can be made. Berg said he had been trying to sell the Tracy auto parts store for several years but had no takers.
Obituaries: David Story, Merril Harris
Sept. 21, 2005 — Christmas is just around the corner for Jason Swanson. The newlyhired Tracy Chamber of Commerce director says that he has already started thinking about Tracy’s Old-Fashioned Christmas celebration, which will be his first major Chamber event. “I’m looking forward to getting started on that,” said Swanson of the Nov. 20 Christmas kick-off. The 23-year-old succeeds JoAnn Biren of rural Iona, who resigned to accept a religious youth education job with Catholic parishes in Slayton, Lake Wilson, and Iona. Her last day of work with the Chamber was Sept. 8.
Obituaries: Donald Lund, Margaret Skjong, Daniel Van DeWiele, Bruce Lanoue, Lois Dwyer
Sept. 23, 2015 — Homecoming king and queen candidates have been announced at Tracy Area High School. The king candidates are: Spencer Gravley, Riley Kirk, Josh Kirk, Daulton Carlson, and Nathaniel Pryzbilla, Ashley Amundson, Jessie Nelson, Sara Stoneberg, and Raelin Radke are the queen candidates.
Obituaries: Kevin Gegner, Teresa Landser, Theodore Schotzko, Toni Maranello, Virginia Ohman
