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Monthly Archives: December 2018

Doug Bates’ status with the Methodist faith? Well, it’s complicated.

Douglas T. Bates III, great friend of Chuck Offenburger since their college years, was asked to preach the sermon on Sunday, Oct. 21, at the United Methodist Church in the middle Tennessee town where he was born, raised and now lives in semi-retirement. He’s not a member of the Methodist Church anymore, or any church,…

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December 30, 2018 in Guest Column.

The lesson Dean McAtee learned living in poverty and then never forgot

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER JEFFERSON, Iowa, Dec. 3, 2018 — We lost one of our longtime leaders of business and community here last week when Dean McAtee died at 86.  He became a wealthy man by building McAtee Tire, Inc., into a company that at one time had dealerships in Jefferson as well as eight other…

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December 26, 2018 in OFFENBLOGGER.

When you’re a cancer patient, losing a friend to the disease hits hard

By CARLA OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, Nov. 7, 2018 — Why is cancer so devastating, over and over again? My friend Faith Ferre died a few weeks ago and I’m just able to start talking about it. In June of this year, Faith was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer that had metastasized to her spinal…

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December 1, 2018 in My View from the Front Porch.

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