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A memorial service for Burnsville police officers Paul Elmstrand,27, Matthew Ruge, 27, and firefighter-paramedic Adam Finseth, 40, is set for 11 a.m. Wednesday at Grace Church in Eden Prairie.
The memorial service for Burnsville officers Paul Elmstrand and Matthew Ruge, both 27, and firefighter/paramedic Adam Finseth, 40, filled Grace Church's 4,300-seat auditorium.
On August 18, 1888, University of North Carolina Alumni erected an obelisk memorializing him at his grave site atop Mt. Mitchell. On January 1, 1915, high winds destroyed the monument. It was replaced 13 years later by the funeral cairn and plaque currently marking his tomb. [5] "University" is misspelled on the plaque.
Burnsville is a town that serves as the county seat of Yancey County, North Carolina, United States. [4] Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, sits in the shadow of Mount Mitchell, the highest peak in the Eastern Continental United States. The population was 1,612 at the 2020 census.
The U.S. Navy veteran died Dec. 1 in hospice care at age 97, according to his obituary, and Lebanon, New Hampshire resident Kevin Dougherty, one of more than 200 attendees at the funeral.
The area of Yancey County was inhabited by the Cherokee prior to European settlement, as was much of the southern Appalachian region. [citation needed]Independent and sturdy Scottish, English, and Scotch-Irish and Irish settlers of the Carolina frontier had crossed the Blue Ridge Mountains and settled the Toe River Valley by the mid-18th century.
Burnsville Township, population 1,942, is one of eight townships in Anson County, North Carolina. Burnsville Township is 48.93 square miles (126.7 km 2 ) [ 1 ] in size and is located in northwestern Anson County.
An American Airlines flight departing New York's LaGuardia Airport on Thursday evening had to divert to nearby John F. Kennedy International shortly after takeoff after a reported bird strike ...