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Post All-Class Reunion: Mossberg was oldest Kimball grad to attend 2015 reunion

Martha Schneider Mossberg was the oldest graduate to attend the Kimball All-Class Reunion over the July 4 weekend.

She began school in the District 5 school house, but attended high school at the "Old High School" in Kimball. At that time the junior high was west of the high school building.

Mossberg graduated in 1937, one in a class of 37 on May 21, a Friday night, at 8 p.m., according to the May 13, 1937 edition of The Western Nebraska Observer.

She enjoyed the program at the auditorium this year. Mossberg said, she had attended each of her class reunions as well as earlier All-Class affairs.

Martha and all of her children, Elsie, Kenneth, and Marshall, graduated from Kimball, as did her grandchildren, Todd, Dee, Christopher, Andrea, Brandon, Chisholm and Chelsea.

In 2014, with the graduation of her great-granddaughter, Shelby, Martha's family has graduated four generations from Kimball High School.

Martha remembers something of the school district that she said most people will not recall.

There was a junior high school next to the old high school on Third Street, one which she said was demolished so the west wing could be added on.

"I often ask different people if they remember the junior high being west of the old high school," Mossberg said. "There used to be a big gray building there. They tore it down then built the little flat addition."

Mossberg said she enjoyed seeing so many people, reminiscing, and marveling over how times do change.

"Kim did a very good job, I think. It was a very nice reunion," Mossberg said. "The people that didn't go really missed out on a lot."