Colleen Marie Kaiser, age 64, passed away peacefully in her sleep at her home in Manson. She spent her final days surrounded by family and friends. After 19 years of fighting Multiple Sclerosis, her body and mind are at peace as her soul joins her parents Leo and Mabel Rost in heaven. She is survived by her loving husband Randy, her three children Stephanie (Brad) Gehring, Kristy (Eric) Hoefing and David (Jiabei) Kaiser, and seven grandchildren (Amber, Halle, Olivia, Abby, Natalie, Bryce and Leo) whom she loved dearly. Colleen was born and … [Read more...]

When the 101st Mechanized Cavalry Division took over a small town in southern Germany in 1945, Leo Rost said they believed the enemy fire had stopped. “When we took this town over, it had been neutralized for a few hours,” Rost said. But around 11 a.m. that April morning, they realized that wasn’t the case. Rost pulled up his jeep beside another jeep with his buddies in it. He was standing outside the jeep talking to them, when the Germans showed they weren’t finished. “All of a sudden the mortar shells started coming into … [Read more...]