Kathy Pinna
Otoe County
NEBRASKA CITY - Counselors today helped classmates deal with the deaths of two Nebraska City High School students in a traffic accident. "Everybody - teachers, students, everybody - was in shock here," said Irv Friesen, high school principal.
Damon Wolfe, 17, and Adam Hobbie, 15, both of Nebraska City, were killed in a one-vehicle accident at 7:45 a.m. Thursday, Police Chief Kent Roumpf said. Two other students in the car were injured. In critical condition at St. Joseph Hospital in Omaha was Michael Seager, 18. Mathew Henner, 17, had minor injuries.
Counselors from Blue Vally Mental Health, both the middle school and high school, people from the local ministerial association and a psychologist were among those helping students and staff members, Friesen said. The chief said it appeared Henner was driving a car that went out of control as it passed a second car on a city street. The car hit concrete steps in front of a house, skidded into the house, became airborne and then landed back onto the street, Roumpf said.
Services for Hobbie are schduled for 1:30 p.m. Monday at the high school. Survivors include his father, Jack, and a sister, Kelly, both of Nebraska City; grandparents, Don Hobbie, Erwin and Reva Berthold, all of Nebraska City; a great-grandmother, Jessie Hobbie of Nebraska City; an aunt, Jill Staberg of Llincoln; and two uncles, Gary Berthold of Kansas City, Missouri, and Bill Fleck of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Services for Wolfe are pending.
- Lincoln Journal Star (Lincoln, Nebraska) Friday, February 11, 1994 on page 7.
Damon Wolfe, 17, and Adam Hobbie, 15, both of Nebraska City, were killed in a one-vehicle accident at 7:45 a.m. Thursday, Police Chief Kent Roumpf said. Two other students in the car were injured. In critical condition at St. Joseph Hospital in Omaha was Michael Seager, 18. Mathew Henner, 17, had minor injuries.
Counselors from Blue Vally Mental Health, both the middle school and high school, people from the local ministerial association and a psychologist were among those helping students and staff members, Friesen said. The chief said it appeared Henner was driving a car that went out of control as it passed a second car on a city street. The car hit concrete steps in front of a house, skidded into the house, became airborne and then landed back onto the street, Roumpf said.
Services for Hobbie are schduled for 1:30 p.m. Monday at the high school. Survivors include his father, Jack, and a sister, Kelly, both of Nebraska City; grandparents, Don Hobbie, Erwin and Reva Berthold, all of Nebraska City; a great-grandmother, Jessie Hobbie of Nebraska City; an aunt, Jill Staberg of Llincoln; and two uncles, Gary Berthold of Kansas City, Missouri, and Bill Fleck of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Services for Wolfe are pending.
- Lincoln Journal Star (Lincoln, Nebraska) Friday, February 11, 1994 on page 7.
