Published by News Staff on Fri, 10/25/2019 - 12:00am
When 18-year-old Fayette County native Harvey Steward received his draft notice in 1943, his mother sent him off with some sage advice. “Mama told me I had to have faith.
Published by News Staff on Fri, 09/27/2019 - 12:00am
Donald Cernosek and Margie Cernosek Seidl revisit memories of growing up on a farm in the Holman Valley southeast of La Grange with a good deal of satisfaction. “More kids
Published by News Staff on Fri, 08/30/2019 - 12:00am
What do you say when a coworker stands in front of your desk and asks for help? If you’re Marge Rosenberg and the colleague is good friend Dottie Meinardus, you
Published by News Staff on Fri, 07/26/2019 - 12:00am
Leroy Bennetsen loves hunting and fishing as much as the next outdoorsman, but when it came to his job, well, business was business. Fayette County never had a full-time game
Published by News Staff on Tue, 07/23/2019 - 12:00am
In the following conversation taped in 2016, Lillie Kallus Sulak, The Fayette County Record’s longest serving employee, shared a few memories. Mrs. Sulak died July 18, 2019, at age 106.
Published by News Staff on Fri, 06/28/2019 - 12:00am
“The late 1950s and early 1960s found education in the U.S. in turmoil,” recalls childhood Fayetteville resident and former La Grange City Council member Ed Krivacka. “The ‘separate but equal’
Published by News Staff on Fri, 05/31/2019 - 12:00am
Alittle misty-eyed, Pat Mares Keller flips through the news clippings about the funeral of her uncle, Master Sergeant Charlie J. Mares. “My grandparents still believed in their hearts that someday
Published by News Staff on Tue, 05/28/2019 - 12:00am
American doughboys like U.S. Army Private Max Rudolph Gebert didn’t immediately return to civilian life after the World War I Armistice was signed on Nov. 11, 1918. Four months later,
Published by News Staff on Fri, 04/26/2019 - 12:00am
In 1946, Frankie Joe Cernosek missed something like 127 days of school. When the seven-year-old second grader was absent from St. Michael’s Catholic School in Weimar, he was tucked into
Published by News Staff on Tue, 04/02/2019 - 12:00am
Fayette County’s flags flew at half-staff on Friday, March 29, in honor of its native son, U.S. Army Master Sergeant Charlie J. Mares. While serving on the front lines during
