Call (906) 932-4449 Ironwood, MI This Is My Crew Volleyball Soto lifts Nats to 4-3 comeback Mercer beats archrival Redsautosales.com wild-card win over Brewers Washburn SPORTS • 9 SPORTS • 9 DAILY GLOBE Wednesday, October 2, 2019 Few showers yourdailyglobe.com | High: 48 | Low: 40 | Details, page 2 WWII POW COMING HOME Schools Kellett to arrive celebrate with procession homecoming By TOM LAVENTURE Funeral Honors Team, said [email protected] members from the Upper week IRONWOOD – Members of Peninsula who train with the By TOM LAVENTURE the Wisconsin and Michigan team will take part in both the [email protected] Patriot Guard Riders will escort ceremony to receive the IRONWOOD – Area schools the funeral coach with the remains on Thursday, and for are celebrating homecoming this remains of a POW/MIA soldier the funeral home service Satur- week with parades, dress-up from World War II to Ironwood day, and the burial service fol- days and activities all leading up on Thursday. lowing at Riverside Cemetery. to the big games on Friday. “We will have the Patriot “There will be full military The Gogebic Miners, a triad Guard coming on Thursday,” honors provided,” Larson said. football team of Ironwood, Besse- said Michael Patrick, director of John Curran, the Wisconsin mer and Wakefield-Marenisco McKevitt-Patrick Funeral State Captain, said the family school districts, has Luther L. Home, Inc., who is handling has expressed that the Patriot Wright hosting home games this arrangements on behalf of the Guard escort would be wel- year to include the homecoming family of Walter Kellett, a come. Arrangements were made game at 6 p.m. Friday versus the deceased soldier who died in by the son of Patricia Werner, Houghton High School Gremlins the Pacific theater while a pris- who is the surviving sibling of at Longyear Field in Ironwood. oner of war in the Philippines Kellett, he said. Paul Mattson, high school sci- in July 1942. Sometimes the families want ence teacher and student senate Kellett was a 22-year-old cor- to limit presence at services to advisor in Ironwood, said the poral in the U.S. Army Air loved ones, he said. Other times homecoming parade will start at Corps and stationed in the the families want as many 4 p.m. Friday and run from the Philippines in December, 1941, motorcycles and public as can public safety building through when Imperial Japanese Army attend, he said. downtown on Aurora Street. The forces invaded the island chain “We have to be invited by the sister schools are invited to par- and his unit was forced to sur- family,” Curran said. ticipate along with the Ironwood render after months of heavy Curran said a funeral coach floats, the school marching fighting in April 1942. Kellett is from McKevitt-Patrick Funeral band, the Junior R.O.T.C. Cadets, believed to have died of malaria Home will receive Kellett’s cheerleaders and athletes, he and starvation in July 1942 as a remains soon after the United said. result of the infamous Bataan Airlines flight carrying him The student senate hasn’t “death march” and was buried from Omaha, Nebraska, lands decided whether to announce the among other prisoner camp sol- at Central Wisconsin Airport Submitted photo / U.S. Department of Defense CPL WALTER KELLETT, pictured here in civilian clothing some- homecoming court at the Friday diers who were later disinterred around 9:30 a.m. Thursday, pep rally or at the game later that but remains were not identifi- under the care of a funeral time before his death as a prisoner of war in the Philippines during the early months of World War II in July 1942. His night, he said. able until a DNA matched with guard out of Fort Leonard The students of A.D. Johnston the family on July 23, 2019. remains were identified through a DNA match with his family and his remains are being returned to Ironwood on Thursday, High School in Bessemer plan to Lt. Benjamin Larson, the hold a pep rally around 1:20 p.m. officer in charge of the Military followed by a burial service on Saturday. KELLETT — page 5 Friday and then take part in the homecoming parade and the dance with Ironwood, said Jean- nine Simcoe, the high school sec- retary. To join the spirit of the Hurley 5th graders harvest school garden triad team the students will dress for Miners pride with green and By TOM LAVENTURE black colors, she said. [email protected] The students held a Tuesday HURLEY, Wis. – A group of pink out day in honor of Breast Hurley K-12 School students Cancer Awareness Month, fol- were given permission to get lowed by the girls volleyball their hands dirty on Tuesday as game versus Ironwood, she said. they harvested the section of the Events the rest of the week school garden they planted last include class volleyball, dodge- spring. ball and soccer games. Two classrooms of fourth- grade students planted potatoes, carrots and dill in the school gar- HOMECOMING — page 5 den at the end of the previous school term, when it was main- tained over summer by the 4-H Club’s “Green Team,” said Debo- Kimball man rah Leonard, the FoodWise Edu- cator for Iron County UW-Exten- convicted of pointing sion. Now those same 44 stu- dents as two fifth-grade classes pistol at hunters are picking the plants and mak- By RICHARD JENKINS ing a meal with them, she said. [email protected] “Today we harvested the food while we talked about the boiled HURLEY – It took a jury side dish with some seasonings roughly 20 minutes to find a they will make with it,” Leonard Kimball man guilty of endanger- said. “This is just to give them ing safety by intentionally point- the education and knowledge ing a firearm at a person. Jerry Gus “Rocky” Hitter, 71, about where their food comes Tom LaVenture/Daily Globe from and how easy and fun it can FIFTH-GRADE student Camryn Gresham braces herself as classmates Destiny Clark, Brenden faces a possible sentence of up to Aukee, Dylan Hippenbecker and Maddee Hewitt toss the potatoes they picked into the crate she nine months in jail or a fine of up is holding in the Hurley K-12 School garden on Tuesday. Their teacher, Laura Lund, in back, to a $10,000 for the Class A mis- reminds the students not to bruise the vegetables they will be making into a meal. demeanor. HARVEST — page 5 The charge stems from a Oct. 18, 2018 incident when Hitter confronted Clifford and Gene Kaari near the border of Hitter’s Wakefield Township votes to approve new millage property in the town of Kimball By P.J. GLISSON According to township super- of .0845 mills in the operating reduce their millage when annu- while the brothers were bird [email protected] visor John Cox, the 4.63 com- tax millage to be levied in 2019.” al growth on existing property hunting. WAKEFIELD – After a related bined millage remains the same Cox told the audience that exceeds the rate of inflation. Both sides agreed to the basic public hearing that drew no as the preceding millage, but the township was in the unusual The supervisor commended elements of the misdemeanor – comments, the Wakefield Town- only because local property position of seeing its total tax- Prisbe, who was in the audience, that Hitter pointed a firearm at ship board of trustees voted assessor Melissa Prisbe applied able value increase due to North- for calculating the millage someone and that it was an Tuesday night to apply a 4.63 a millage adjustment to compen- ern Natural Gas Company now adjustment and for assuring that intentional act – but the defense millage on township properties. sate for what otherwise would operating in the township. the township’s Audit Minimum argued Hitter was acting in self The township portion of the have been a tax loss due to the Meanwhile, the Headlee Assessing Compliance is in line defense by pulling a pistol after millage is 3.0 mills, with the state’s Headlee Amendment. Amendment, according to the remaining 1.63 mills for the The hearing specifically Michigan Municipal League, county. addressed “a proposed increase demands that local governments MILLAGE — page 5 CONVICTED — page 14 TODAY INDEX Few showers — Details, page 2 Arts & Entertain . .7 75 cents Tuesday Today’s records Classifieds . .12-13 High 54 High 86 (1953) Comics . .11 Vol. 100, No. 266 Low 50 Low 20 (1975) Community . .3 Year ago today Precipitation Obituaries . .2, 8 High 48 24 hours to 7 a.m. Opinion . .4 Low 38 Tuesday 1.06 in. Sports . .9-10 l 2 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2019 AREA / NATION THE DAILY GLOBE • YOURDAILYGLOBE.COM FIVE-DAY FORECASTFOORECAST FOR IRONWOODIRRONWOOD Obituaries TODAY THURSDAYTHURSDAAY FRIDAY SATURDAYSATURRDAY SUNDAY Rosalee A. (Peterson) Kutz WAKEFIELD, Mich. – Rosalee A. deeply missed by all (Peterson) Kutz, 81, of Ironwood, died who knew and loved Chance Showerss Partly Cloudy Few ShowersShhowers Few Showers Sept. 28, 2019, at Gogebic Medical her. Showers Likely Care Facility in Wakefield. She is survived by Rosalee was born on Sept. 7, 1938, a son, Mark (Paula) 48° 40° 46° 33°333° 51° 38° 49° 41° 52° 38° in Gile, Wis., to the late Leonard and Kutz of Anna, Texas; Winds: Winds: Winds: Winds:Winnds: Winds: Anna (Zanella) Peterson. She attended two daughters, Amy 9-139-13 mphmph NENE 6-106-10 mphmph N 2-52-5 mphmph NENE 9-149-14 mphmph S 9-159-15 mphmph WSWWSW St.