Tagged with: webster county
Posted on
07/19/2012
at 9:17 AM
Emerson (Andy) Anderson has been active with the Webster County 4-H program and Webster County Fair Board for several decades. He was active as a club leader where one member of the club remembers Andy driving throughout the county to pick up 4-H’ers so they could attend the meeting. He...
Posted on
08/19/2011
at 11:32 AM
Jim Patton retired July 1, 2011, after serving two years as ISU Regional Extension Education Director for Region 7 (Hamilton, Humboldt, Webster and Wright Counties) and as ISU Webster County Extension Education Director, from 1995-2009. While with ISU Extension, he was founding staff member of Agriculture-Environmental Classroom. During its first...
Posted on
04/21/2011
at 10:55 AM
Ron and Shirley Webb have been long time supporters of the Webster County 4-H program. Their four children all were active in 4-H and enjoyed exhibiting baked goods, clothing, furniture as well as hogs and sheep. The family raised and showed purebred Suffolk sheep for many years after their children...
Posted on
04/19/2011
at 12:10 PM
Bruce Long has been a Webster County 4-H volunteer for over 32 years. After being a 4-H member, he eagerly started volunteering as a leader almost right after high school. He was a club leader of the Gowrie Gainers then became beef superintendent. Bruce currently assists with the rabbit, beef...
Posted on
04/12/2011
at 12:47 PM
Cheryl Ekstrom Christopherson was a nine year member of the Willing Washington Workers 4-H Club. This was the same 4-H Club her Mother Doris Williams Ekstrom belonged to in the 1930s. Cheryl was active on the club level as well as serving as President of the Webster County’s Girls 4-H...
Posted on
04/07/2011
at 11:10 AM
Brian and Jeannine Dencklau have been very active in the Webster County program in many ways. They have been leaders of the dog project for over thirty years, active on the fairboard, and their six children have all been very active in the 4H program. Volunteering their time twice a...
Posted on
04/05/2011
at 11:49 AM
Sharon and Tim Lemkau have been very active in the Webster County 4-H program as they started a co-ed club for their own children to be involved with; had club meetings in their home the last ten years; worked with the aerospace and rabbit projects by providing leadership, fair support,...
Posted on
03/31/2011
at 1:29 PM
Karen and Denny Amman have been a valued asset to the Webster County 4-H program for many years. Karen Cuckie Amman began her 4-H career in the boys and girls 4-H clubs of Washington Township in Webster County. Livestock was her first love but you couldn’t have livestock unless you...
Posted on
03/31/2011
at 10:39 AM
Judy was raised in a small town in Iowa where there were no 4-H clubs. However, she had several country friends who were 4-H members and she enjoyed watching them work on and display their exhibits at the county fair. When she started working with Extension she felt she had...
Posted on
03/29/2011
at 11:12 AM
Evelyn Peterson was a Webster County 4-H leader for 64 years. As the leader to the Lost Grove Leaders 4-H club, she saw many changes during her years as a volunteer - from collecting items for World War II to helping the girls with presentations. Remembering the World War II...
Posted on
03/29/2011
at 10:48 AM
From the late 1950’s through the 1990’s, as Webster County Fair Secretary, Virginia always had the 4-H’ers best interest in mind. She could often be seen encouraging, applauding, and congratulating a member’s achievements. Virginia was also known to sit down and shed a tear along side an emotional club member...
