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Late Fall 2002
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My gosh, didn't know this existed.
Was homesick this morning and began looking up websites for Dodge
City. Decided to see if the Jacksonian had a news website and led me
to this one. Great Job. We are planning to be home Christmas. Plan
the gatherings, we have not been there for awhile. Great job Pete.
Lets us have a look now and then to stay in touch. Contact Ted and
Harriet Phelps, Hampton, IL. thphelps@surfbest.net
I told Ted about this
site but I should have known. Look us up Xmas, maybe we can do
something. Pete
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I LOVE the web site! It's been a
very long time since I graduated in '64, but Cimarron will always have
a special place in my heart. Since that time I obtained a bachelor's
degree, a master's, and a Ph.D. and taught for over 30 years in San
Antonio, Texas (high school science). In fact, I'm retiring this
year. Seeing pictures of the new high school really started the
memories. I'm delighted to see the old bell is given a place of
honor. Hopefully, I'll make it
for the fifty year graduation festivities. (Virginia) Dianne
Gibeson. Thanks Dianne.
The fifty year deal would
be a great thing but don't forget about homecoming next Oct. 39 years
ain't too bad. Pete
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September/2002
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Laquanda Hoskins.
South Ga Tech
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CONGRATULATIONS PHILLIP
MARSHALL !!!! GOOD LUCK AT THE KC CHIEFS SECTIONAL PUNT-PASS AND KICK
COMPETITION!!! WE ARE PROUD OF YOU!!
LOVE, MOM, DAD, NICOLE, VINCE, JULIE AND PAYTON
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Enjoyed looking at your
sight.
David R. Salem, Glendale AZ.
dsalem@cox.net
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This is great! I've been
away a long time. Boy what memories it brings back! Thank you, Melanie
(Smith) Fink Class of '87
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I
really like your site I was the blue-jay for 2001-2002 so I like
seeing all the pictures!!!!
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August/2002
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Pete, I have been to your
site many times but this is the first time I have read any of the
comments and its so nice to see peoples names I hadn't thought of in
years. I don't get to Cimarron much any more but still have family
there. Told my sister Pat (Lee) Waits and she was going to look this
sight up today. Wonderful sight, thanks Sue (Lee) Smith
klsmith@gtmc.net
Thanks Sue.
Glad you enjoy
the site. Homecoming is only a year off so I will start soon with
some information about it. Be sure and watch. Pete
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Hi Pete! I now have a full website,
www.trails.net/cimarron.
It has multi-pages with our services and programs and soon I'll even
get our card catalog up and running online! I'm really excited.
Thought you might want to put a link on to your site (which by the
way, is far and above one of the best I've seen!) Thanks! Sara
McFarland, Director, Cimarron City Library
cimar1lb@ucom.net
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July/2002
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Good to hear from you
Pete. Good grief, I was in my wife's email when I sent the first
contact...and I had the school function goofed up too. Terrible ain't
it...when we pass 50?!! <sigh>. Yes, you can print it if you like...I
don't mind at all. If you want to take any literary license to
correct anything have at it,.. or leave it the way it is. Either way
is okay with me.
I sure do have a LOT of memories of Cimarron. I really miss the
town and the people. Guess I'd best make a trip back there just to
see what had changed.
My Grandfather Kenneth Wilbur Lucas worked at the Tuggle's drug
store on the SW corner of Hwy 50 and Main when he was young. He met a
guy who was passing through. The guy was a traveling showman by the
name of Milburn Stone. He and my Grandfather became friends. As it
turned out, Milburn Stone, wound up going to Hollywood and played Doc
on Gun Smoke in a town 19 miles east of Cimarron. <grin>
Who-da-thought???
I was really shocked to find out about the flood of '65. Visa
Lucas passed away a few years before, so had lost all contact with
Cimarron. That flood really did some damage!!! That year we got
wiped out in Denver too. That was the year that the South Platte
flooded. My step-dad (number 4) Tom Koehn (brother to Ed Koehn the
Ford dealer) ran a small greasy spoon near the river. Wiped it out.
I didn't like working there much,.. but he sure could cook. I guess
my Mom (Carol Lucas) met Tom at the Western Cafe,...they got married
and headed out to set up home in Wichita. Regina Koehn (one of the
three older sisters of the Mennonite Koehn's,.... Regina, Imogene, and
Betty) babysat my sister and me for a couple of months until they got
settled. Hank Koehn introduced me to the art of shooting .22's. I
could go on and on!!!
Is Joetta still
around? If so, tell her I said HI. Long time since 3rd grade. Well,
I'll be within 5 miles of Cimarron again tomorrow. I am flying to
Wichita and back. Should be overhead around 5:30pm and again around
7:15pm or so. I'll honk the horn. <grin>
God Bless and Godspeed, Mark Towne
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Are you a relative of the Thomas' in
Cimarron who may have had a grandfather perhaps who was the Sheriff
around 1956? Just curious. I logged onto the Cimarron website, and I
have to say that I am really impressed, as I have always been with the
town. There is quite a bit of my family history from Cimarron. Visa
Lucas (Great-Grandmother) is buried at the cemetery there, as is
Charles (her husband) and several children including Edith Lucas.
My Grandfather Kenneth Lucas was a star football player for the
high school, and for a long time had his picture in the entryway.
(complete with the leather helmet). I have wondered over the years
what may have happened to it. He was also a life guard in the pool at
the south end of Main street for years, long before he married.
Both my Mother and Aunt were born in Cimarron, and I lived there
for about a year during third grade. My teacher's name was Mrs. Lynch.
I think there was another Thomas girl who as in the third grade class.
Occasionally, I am able to come within 5 miles of Cimarron ,..
but it is straight vertical. I am a Captain with United Airlines out
of Denver. The view is incredible...and it is quite a relief to know
that there is at least Cimarron hasn't changed so much that it can't
be identified.
I hope to visit the town of Cimarron one day soon. It has been
far too long. Tell me sir, is the Jacksonian still the newspaper of
the city? Is the movie house still across the street from the
newspaper? Is Koehn Ford still in business? Lots of memories. Maybe
it is time to come out for a visit.
God Bless and Godspeed, Mark Towne
I wrote Mark back and
answered all the questions I could. Mark, I did miss the question
about the movie house. It is still there but is now a small office
complex with a beauty parlor in the front.
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Howdy Pete, What a
wonderful webpage! I didn't know about it until a friend who lives in
Washington County, Kansas was looking it over with the thoughts of
moving to Cimarron, and was asking me about some of the pictures and
stories listed here. I have downloaded some of my favorite pictures
from here into a personal file so that I can relive the memories over
and over. I will return here often! Thanks again and God Bless.
Allen D. Bailey
Dodge City Marshal
Class of 1973
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Interesting! I have lost
touch of Cimarron, only to find her again. I was in third grade at
the time...that fateful evening that was the start of that blizzard.
Both my sister and I were playing out front on the steps of the High
school, where the PTA meeting was in progress. About 30 minutes before
the PTA meeting ended that evening (a Wednesday evening??) large
snowflakes the size of 1/2 dollars began to fall. The really strange
thing that I remember was that the air was warm and these huge
snowflakes melted immediately when they touched the ground, leaving a
large wet spot. All the rest is history.
Sometime I will sit down and recount my recollection of being
marooned for almost 3 weeks. What a childhood dream it was in '57. (
yes...we had to attend school a little longer that year <sigh> ) God
Bless and Godspeed, Mark Towne, Great Grandson of Visa Lucas (a long
time Cimarron resident)
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Pete - David Bryan sent me the series
of pictures taken in approximately l939 at the Gray Co. Fair.
( You can see the rest of Lorraine's
message on
www.cimarronkansas.net/graycofair1939.htm. )
Keep up the good work Pete. You are
doing a great service for the community. Sincerely, Lorraine Nugent
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Dear Pete,
I don't know if you remember me or not. I wrote you about my visit to
your town last may. I live out here in So. Calif. well, as of May
18th, I will be living in Kansas. I will be getting married and be
living in Ottawa on the eastern side. Ottawa is a little larger than
Cimarron but it is a dream come to true.. to leave the rat race of LA.
didn't figer the Lord would throw in a wife too.. ha! My mother in
law to be lives in Pratt. take care.. still enjoy your site. Randy
senior. ( Yes, I remember you
and congratulations. You are very fortunate in finding a Kansas
wife. There are none better.)
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I think that this is an
awesome site you have put together. I really enjoy the basketball and
volleyball pictures, they go great in my scrapbook. My parents also
really enjoy seeing all of the pictures from all of the events. Great
Job!! Angie Faurot
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Pete, just got an e-mail
from my oldest son to go to the Cimarron web page and read about the
Blizzard of '57. Decided to read the comments in the Guest Book.
Noticed my old e-mail address. My new one is
sewbetter@neteze.com
Thanks, Betty (Sapp) Patton
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June/2002
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I used to drink cherry coke's at a bar
similar to that one with the likes of K McG,
(Kathy Magourik)
B.B
(Barbara Barhydt),
Laverda (Cessna)
and Jill (Menzie),
Pete (Thomas)
and and a baker called Skip
(Russell). Was just out
shopping the net and looked in on home. When I noticed Clark's I
thought I would be cute and ask for a black and white, but noticed you
had that covered in the add! Pete, either you or your kids must be
the comp guru's in the metroplex. Written in fun, hope to be in area
for our 73rd annual in August hope to see some soon. Doug Sears.
Hi Doug. I added last
names, hope you don't mind. Those were good times. Makes me think
about a lot of things, house haunting, football, high school in
general, taking down the flag at the Gunsmoke in Dodge on a rainy
night. Good times. Hope to see you in August. Pete
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May/2002
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After living/working in 8 different
countries around the world with the Department of State, Cimarron
still looks like a GREAT place. We lived there in the 70s and early
80s. Great site Pete -- saw "The Lettermen" several years ago and
thought of you. Still have a Thomas Implement hat! Danny and jann
Corsbie,
jcorsbie@aol.com
Great to hear from you
Danny, it's been a long time. Not many know about the lettermen and
Denver. Stop by if you get this way. Pete
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April/2002
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Pete - I was looking
through the Cimarron site and realized I had not updated my email and
address info since moving to Des Moines. Thanks for making the
Cimarron site available, you do a great job! Sincerely, Tim Unruh.
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David Summers: Waz up
class of 2004?
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March/2002
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Dear Sir,
You all have such a quaint
little town. I drove through Cimarron last summer on my way to Pratt.
I visited friends in the Denver area and rented a car to visit friends
in Pratt. I rolled my camcorder while driving through Cimarron and
made the comment "typical small town". Believe me, that was NOT a put
down. I live out here in the rat race of Southern Calif. I stopped
and went into a "corner drugstore" just off us 50 and the street where
the grain elevator is located. It was an experience just to go in
there.. like a step back in time.. to another, more "innocent" time.
On the website I saw a pix
of the Hotel... I drove by it and filmed it before I turned around and
went back to highway 50. Anyway... be thankful you live in a place
like Cimarron. it may be slow but it sure beats the rat race..ha! It
was so relaxing driving through Kansas.. gave me some perspective that
life is NOT all rat race and smog and crime etc. take care and thanks
for putting the pixs on the site. Are you planning on adding others?
I was just surfing and found this site. Best Regards, Randy Senior
Thanks for the kind words
Randy, Come see us and spend some time when you can. Pete
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Dear Pete I like
you because you're fun. YOUR FRIEND ZULEIMA
thanks, but do not
remember your name, write me again when you can.
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February/2002
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Pete, Thanks for
forwarding to Frankie. I realize we've been apart a number of years,
but I will always feel a part of the Cimarron community and especially
part of the Thomas family. As you may know, your grandparents (and
Frankie) took me in when my folks moved to Dodge City at the beginning
of my senior year. Your grandparents, the Korfs and your mom always
made me feel part of the family.
By the way, I've been e-mailing back and forth with Lola (Davis)
Hudson and she told me she often goes on to your web site. She
recommended it to me if I wasn't familiar with it. You are doing a
great job and providing a valuable service keeping Cimarron "family"
connected across the years and the miles. Thanks. Bob Hilliard.
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January/2002
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Pete, great site, keep the
info. coming. Thanks Max McPhail
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