Excerpts from past Tracy newspapers
May 19, 1955 — Two hundred and thirty-seven voters cast their ballot in the District 30 school board election, naming Dr. R. R. Remsberg and Mrs. Merrill Starr to the board. Don Stassen was the other candidate. The new officers will serve threeyear terms on the board. | Mrs. Starr has been a board member for several years and both she and Dr. Remsberg will start their terms at the July 21 meeting.
Obituaries: George Sudlow, Mrs. Fred Morgan
May 20, 1965 — Fire fanned by high winds completely destroyed an old but good barn on the Francis Kirk farm two miles west of Garvin Monday about noon after a cupola blaze was believed quenched three hours earlier. No livestock was lost in the blaze but more than 50 bales of hay and about 250 bales of straw went up in smoke.
Obituaries: George VanDeWiele, Richard Sandbo
May 15, 1975 — Searchers from the Murray County Sheriff’s Department retrieved the bodies of Michael Ziemke, 18, of Garvin and Perry Nelson, 17, of Tracy were recovered shortly before noon on May 10. Dennis Engesser, 17, of Tracy, who was also in the boat, managed to swim the 300 yards back to shore, Obituaries: John Mulvaney, Harry Smith, Caroline Herrlinger, Bud Lindley, George Fujan
May 16, 1985 — N/A
May 17, 1995 — The Tracy Hospital Auxiliary plans a new policy of putting out a self-serve coffee pot and plate of cookies beginning June 1. The all-day coffee and cookies policy replaces the staffing of the auxiliary’s traditional snack bar. The snack bar, staffed by auxiliary volunteers afternoons and evenings, has been a fixture since the hospital opened in 1961. “We feel that the free coffee and cookies will work out better,” explained Barb Purves, an auxiliary board member. This way, she says, hospital visitors will be able to help themselves at all hours of the day. Previously, if the snack bar wasn’t open, people were out-of-luck. The coffee and cookies will also be free, when previously there was a charge at the snack bar.
May 18, 2005 — The summer that a young doctor named Wilfredo Apostol came to Tracy, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, Jaws was a No. 1 best- seller, and Hank Aaron set a new Major League home run record. “Thirty-one years. Can you believe it?” Dr. Apostol said last week, as he thought about his 1974 arrival in Tracy. Smiling broadly, he soon erupted into his signature laugh, as if he couldn’t quite believe either that the years had gone by so quickly. Dr. Apostol, 64, is retiring next month. He will see his last patients on June 15. “This retirement has been two years in the making,” Dr. Apostol said. “I have been thinking about it that long.”
Obituaries: Monte Luchtel, Mary Pat Ruppert, Kathleen Sabin, Lester VabDePutter, Raymond Murray, Wesley VanEssen
May 20, 2015 — Tom Rignell, the recipient of an artificial heart transplant on Feb. 9, died Monday afternoon at St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester. He had celebrated his 62nd birthday on April 1. Rignell was a well-known figure in the Tracy business community for more than three decades. A 1971 Tracy High School graduate, Rignell earned a Bachelor’s degree at Southwest Minnesota State in Marshall.
Obituaries: Sander Ludeman, Anna Rolling, Arnie Williams, Lorilee Hansen
