Three of Nebraska's living Pearl Harbor survivors gather at new Central City veterans memorial

[Omaha Steve]

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Ruth Ferris of Central City, left, shakes hands with Ed Guthrie of Omaha following a ceremony honoring the last Pearl Harbor survivors in Nebraska at the Heartland Veterans Memorial in Central City. Guthrie was an electrician stationed on the USS Whitney, a destroyer tender which was docked in the harbor.


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POSTED: THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 2016 12:00 AM | UPDATED: 11:29 AM, THU JUN 23, 2016.
By Steve Liewer / World-Herald staff writer

CENTRAL CITY, Neb. — History placed Nebraskans Earl Brandes, Ed Guthrie and Lawrence Osterbuhr in Honolulu on that infamous date in 1941 when Japanese planes laid waste to the Navy’s battleship row at Pearl Harbor.

Nearly 75 years later, history reunited the three men Wednesday back in their home state: Brandes, 95, of Central City; Guthrie, 97, of Omaha; and Osterbuhr, 96, of Hildreth.

They were longtime members of the Nebraska Chapter of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association. As many as 50 Nebraskans used to attend the chapter’s meetings. Now the three are believed to be the last Pearl Harbor survivors living in the state.

“We’re really comrades,” Brandes said. “There’s not too many people left our age.”

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Had I known in advance, I would have been there.

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