Samantha Jo Gischel Feb. 10, 1988 — Nov. 28, 2013

Samantha (Sami) Jo Gischel, 25, of Loveland passed away on Nov. 28, 2013, after a short illness.

The daughter of Michael and Cynthia Kepler, Sami was born on Feb. 10, 1988, in Longmont, Colo. She grew up in Berthoud where she participated in various sports and scouting. Sami and her family spent many wonderful times together travelling and exploring exciting places. She was an amazing softball catcher despite her petite frame. She would guard the plate against much larger girls, throwing her mask, revealing her long fl owing hair while diving in the dirt for balls. Soon after the game she would quickly revert back to all-girl dressed and made up.

Sami graduated from Berthoud High School in 2006. She and Josh Colbert-Gischel were married in Lyons, Colo., in 2008 and have two young sons, Joshua and Jackson. Sami, Josh and family owned and operated several small businesses in Northern Colorado.

Sami was a beautiful and loving wife, mother, daughter and sister. She was completely dedicated to her family, put others fi rst, and was a bright ray of sunshine in the world and the lives of those who loved her.

Sami is survived by her husband, sons, parents, brother Jeffrey, grand-parents Darlene Davis and Eddie Sanchez, parents-in-law Don and Chris Gischel and Frank Colbert, sister and

brother-in-law Jessica and Zach Coyle and niec-es Emma and Ava Coyle. Sami is also survived by many loving aunts, uncles, cousins, in-laws and friends.

A celebration of life will be held 2 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013, at Allnutt Funeral Service, Loveland.

Memorial contribu-tions can be made to the Make-A-Wish Foundation in care of Allnutt Funeral Service.

Please view the online obituary and sign the

guestbook at www.allnutt.com.

Charles G. AndersonDec. 21, 1932 — Dec. 2, 2013

Charles Gilbert Anderson, 80, of Loveland, Colo., died on Dec. 2, 2013, at Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland. He was born on Dec. 21, 1932, in Denver, Colo., to Edwin L. and Ida Sara (Wilson)Anderson.

Charles attended Campion Academy and later graduated from CU in Boulder with a bachelor’s degree in business. He married Ruth Holmes on

May 10, 1953, in Keene, Texas. Charles worked as a

farmer and a truck driver. He lived in Loveland most of his life and was a mem-ber of Campion Seventh-day Adventist Church. He loved trucks, tractors and car racing.

Charles is survived by his wife, Ruth Anderson of Loveland; sons, Michael Anderson (Jackie) and Steve Anderson (Debbie), all of Loveland; and grandchildren, Jason Anderson (Amber) of Loveland, Kelli Nash (Justin) of Kansas, Michael Anderson of Loveland, Matthew Anderson (Erin) of Longmont and Alexandria Gutierrez of Loveland, as well as eight great-grandchildren.

Funeral Services will take place at 11 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013, at Campion Seventh-day Adventist Church. Visitation will be from 3-5 p.m. Wednesday at Kibbey Fishburn Funeral Home in Loveland. Interment Berthoud Greenlawn Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Campion Academy in care of Kibbey Fishburn Funeral Home.

William J. HarrisApril 3, 1968 — Nov. 17, 2013

William Joseph Harris (Joe), 45,

passed away on Sunday, Nov. 17, 2013, at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He was born April 3, 1968, in Logan, Utah, to Bill and Arla Harris. He was married to Lisa Anne Mikkelson on Oct. 28, 2000.

Joe’s family lived in the Dallas, Texas, area until he was 13, then he grew up in Berthoud. He graduated from Berthoud High School in 1986, where he played trumpet in the jazz and concert bands; and he was on the

soccer team. Joe became an Eagle Scout during his

high school years. His project was to build one of the wooden signs to wel-come all to Berthoud. It still stands at the entrance to town.

Joe served in the United States Army from spring 1990 to 1994. He was based in El Paso, Texas, and worked in the Patriot Missile program. After locating to the Kansas City area, he became a fi refi ghter with North Kansas City Fire Department on March 15, 1995, a career he loved until his death.

Joe enjoyed the outdoors, with his favorite activity being fi shing for crap-pie in Missouri and trout in Wyoming and Colorado, especially with his wife and dad. He and his wife enjoyed studying the Bible together, and he

was strong in his Christian faith. He also loved his dirt bike, r/c cars, cross-word puzzles and word games (he was an avid Wheel of Fortune fan).

Joe is survived by his wife, parents, and siblings Arna, Mark (Laurel), Justin, Randall (Marianne), Brent (Jen), Barb (Andy) and Megan (Mark); his children Brent Harris and Kelsey Harris; stepchildren April (Eddie) Ferreira, Dan (Rosangela) Pennycuff and Amy (Adam) Gerdes. He is also survived by stepchildren Mitch Jennings and Scott Harris from a pre-vious marriage to Kathryn Jennings. He has four step-grandchildren, Izabella, Izaia, Otavio and Nathan, as well as numerous nieces and nephews; his father-in-law Chuck Mikkelson, sister-in-law Carrie Mikkelson, and brother-in-law Brian Mikkelson.

Cremation has been conducted. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013, at White Chapel Funeral Home at 6600 N. Antioch Rd. in Gladstone, Mo. Visitation will be 11 a.m.-1 p.m. with the service at 1 p.m.

In lieu of fl owers, donations to Project SAFE (for families of fallen fi refi ghters), William Joseph Harris Memorial, 3100 Broadway Suite 226, Kansas City, MO 64111 would be ap-preciated.

A memorial will be held in Colorado in the spring on a date to be deter-mined later.

2014 Leadership Northern Colorado Members AnnouncedSpecial to the Surveyor

Thirty-one current and emerging leaders were recently selected to par-ticipate in the 2014 Leadership North-ern Colorado program. The group is a diverse mix of professions with representative from education, large and small business, not for profi t and government.

Leadership Northern Colorado, a joint initiative of the Fort Collins, Greeley and Loveland Chambers of Commerce, the Community Foundation of Northern Colorado and the Com-munity Foundation Serving Greeley and Weld County, is designed to build

human capacity and to identify, defi ne and address the issues facing the Northern Colorado region.

“The selection committee had a tre-mendous task when they were asked to select our fi fth class. We had fantastic applications for the program and as a result, have an outstanding class,” said David May, president & CEO of the Fort Collins Area Chamber of Com-merce.

The 2014 Leadership Northern Colo-rado Class members are:Eric Aakko — Weld County Public Health and EnvironmentRichard Alper — Alper-Davis Media-tion ServicesMatt Beck — Colorado Business BankMara Brosy-Wiwchar — Congressman Jared PolisJordan Butts — BBVA Compass BankChris Crutcher — Wells Fargo BankTodd Dangerfi eld — Fort Collins

Downtown Development AuthorityPatti Garcia — Town of WindsorGuner Gardenhire — RBC Wealth ManagementJennifer Gehrman — PointsWest Com-munity BankBob Hinderaker — Upstate ColoradoHoward Hissrich — Morgan StanleyJeff Kirtley — RLH Engineering, Inc.Paul Matthews — Banner HealthEric McCrery — Cobalt MortgageHeather McNeil — Columbine Medical EquipmentGreg Metzo — US BankDeanne Mulvihill — Berthoud Area Chamber of CommerceTamara Odell — PR and Marketing CommunicationsJenna Oliver — Aims Community Col-legeJessica Rawley — CSU College of Busi-nessSarita Reddy — GCI, Inc.

Rochelle Reynolds — Ehrlich Vehicles, Inc.Sara Seely — First National BankMichael Short — Downtown Fort Col-lins Business AssociationErica Siemers — PVH and MCR Founda-tionMelissa St. Clair — Heart of the Rock-ies Christian ChurchRobyn Steele — Loveland Chamber of CommerceShashi Unnithan — Front Range Com-munity CollegePaul Watkins — Wells Fargo Business BankingReza Zadeh — Timberline Church

The class members will begin their experience at the Leadership North-ern Colorado Kick Off Event on Dec. 4 at the Embassy Suites. The Kick Off Event is open to the public and will feature keynote speaker Bill Flan-nigan, executive vice president of the Alleghany Conference on Community Development. Registration is avail-able at www.FortCollinsChamber.com. The fi rst all day class session for the class participants will be on Jan. 28. The program is a six-month interac-tive development program that will be focused on regional issues, regionalism and regional leadership skills. The program is designed to educate and motivate leaders who are committed to shaping the future of our region.

The Berthoud Historical Society’s 2014 calendar, “Newsworthy Berthoud,” is

fi lled with old photos that evoke memo-ries of Berthoud’s past. The snapshot that accompanies this article was taken

from the soci-ety’s Berthoud Bulletin Collection and is one of the photos se-lected for the September calendar page. In the snapshot two women and three men pose for a pro-motional photo in the north shelter house at Berthoud Town Park. Their aim was to draw

interest to the 1950 Berthoud Flapjack Day that took place on Sept. 4 of that year.

From 1948 through 1958 Berthoud’s Chamber of Commerce hosted an annu-al Flapjack Day on Labor Day weekend. The one-day event attracted thousands

of visitors to Berthoud and was built around meals of free pancakes and the crowning of a fl apjack queen. The elec-tion of the queen began several days be-fore the event and was conducted in lo-cal businesses where patrons put coins that doubled as ballots in jars marked with the candidates’ names.

Since Flapjack Day lured visitors to Berthoud from throughout the re-gion, the committees that organized the event produced promotional photos that could be used in advertisements. The photograph that accompanies this article, and appears in the historical society calendar, is a photo of the 1950 organizational committee clustered around the cement mixer that was used to blend pancake batter. Following the 1950 Flapjack Day it was estimated that the mixer had been used to pro-duce batter for 9,000 free pancakes.

At the left of the photo stand Ora Hagler and John Berglin. Hagler, who worked at the local post offi ce, was also a member of Berthoud’s American Legion Auxiliary. Berglin, a local vol-unteer who helped organize the event over its 10-year life span, resided with his family in a home at 748 Fourth St. in Berthoud.

Dressed in an apron and standing to

the right of the cement-and-pancake-batter mixer was Virgil Barbre, who owned and operated Barbre’s Red & White grocery store at 416 Mountain Ave. Several years ago Barbre’s store building was incorporated into the structure that now houses the Mi Cocina Mexican restaurant at the northwest corner of Fourth Street and Mountain Avenue. The restaurant’s kitchen was once Barbre’s store build-ing.

Next to Barbre stands an uniden-tifi ed woman and a local merchant named Lee Orville McClung. McClung operated a dry goods store and was a descendant of one of the town’s early butchers. He lived at 629 Ninth St. in Berthoud.

The “Newsworthy Berthoud” 2014 calendar also contains a photo of a crew of volunteers fl ipping pancakes at a community event held on Third Street, that many readers of this column will also fi nd of interest. Rev. Ray Scott, Lottie Boeve and Maggie Schleiger may be seen in that snapshot.

On Saturday, Dec. 7, sales of the “Newsworthy Berthoud” 2014 calendar get offi cially underway at the Little Thompson Valley Pioneer Museum at 224 Mountain Ave. On that day, from

10 a.m. to 4 p.m., an open house at the museum will provide an opportunity to purchase copies of the calendar at a cost of $12, as well as to view a selec-

tion of paving stones that may be pur-chased, inscribed and installed in the museum’s backyard. Refreshments and a children’s craft will also be available.

Berthoud Weekly Surveyor December 5, 2013 Page A5

A LOOK AT BERTHOUD

The historical society and Mark French are interested in obtaining and copying old photos from Berthoud’s past. Please contact Mark at 532-2147 if you have any photos you would like to share.

Surveyor Columnist

Mark French

Flapjack Day commemorated in 2014 Newsworthy Berthoud calendar

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Photo courtesy of the Berthoud Bulletin Collection, Berthoud Historical SocietyThe organizational committee of Berthoud’s 1950 Flapjack Day cluster around the cement mixer used to produce pancake batter for the day’s event. The committee included (left to right) Ora Hagler, John Berglin, Virgil Barbre, un-identifi ed, Lee Orville McClung.

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brother-in-law Jessica and Zach Coyle and niec-es Emma and Ava Coyle. Sami is also survived by many loving aunts, uncles, cousins, in-laws and friends.

life will be held 2 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013, at Allnutt Funeral Service, Loveland.

tions can be made to the Make-A-Wish Foundation in care of Allnutt Funeral Service. Sami Gischel

William Harris