Travels to Waseca

  Anita Torbert McCabe, age 66, died Monday, February 11, 2008, at the Traverse Care Center, Wheaton, MN, of resiratory problems. Our condolences to the family. The care center staff contacted me last week and provided me contact information for Anita. I called and talked to Anita on Saturday. Anita was only able to talk for a few minutes because she was losing her breath.   Anita said she’d been transferred to the nursing home/care center about 3 weeks ago from an assisted living facility in Graceville near her daughter and that she hadn’t been able to attend her mother’s recent funeral because of her respiratory condition. She was looking forward to composing an email to send to me to send to her WHS 1959 classmates but she apparently didn’t have the strength and time to do that. She did tell me to say ‘Hi’ to everyone for her – she knew she wasn’t going to be able to make it to the upcoming reunions. 

Please inform people who may be interested of Anita’s passing. Here’s a link to her online obituary at the Morris Tribune.  

Chuck 

  Waseca will be the site of the 58th Annual Waseca Sleigh & Cutter Festival, beginning this weekend. Events are scheduled February 1 – 3   &   5 – 10   &   15 – 18, 2008. There should be sufficient snow this year. For more information on the festival, check out their web site: Sleign ‘N Cutter Festival I drove down to attend the Ice Harvesting on Clear Lake last year only to discover it had been cancelled due to the extreme cold weather that day. I may try to see it again this year. It’s scheduled for 9-2:30 on Wednesday. The weather is expected to cooperate. The Ice Harvest is an educational event sponsored by the Waseca County Historical Society.If I go, I plan to have lunch at the Boat House. Stop in and say ‘Hi’ if you’re in the area.