I made the call this morning to Governor Dave Heineman's (R) office requesting a half-mast notice for the Village of Broadwater, on the death of our village clerk. The response was heartening.
I wrote yesterday about her death and that of a Korean War veteran here.
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I spoke to a staffer in Scottsbluff for Governor Heineman about a flag half-staff notice, to encompass the corporate limits of the Village of Broadwater, for the day of our village clerk Brandi Livingston's funeral (Saturday).
By the time I was off the telephone with the staffer, she was crying.
The staffer notes the laws in Nebraska have been changed, and that authority was devolved to "competent local authority."
The governor's office will issue a proclamation detailing the person's life and service to state or community to be read at a funeral or memorial however. I will be calling the main office in Lincoln tomorrow morning.
I ran out to the Livingston ranch this evening to get permission from her husband to seek such a proclamation; his family favours the notion.
Already at Messiah Lutheran Church across the street from my house, parishioners are pitching a pavilion on the south lawn: over three hundred people from all over Nebraska including representatives from the League of Nebraska Municipalities are expected to be here Saturday; that is more than thrice the populace of Broadwater.
I then spoke to the other flag committee member and the mayor, and tonight I will be writing a proclamation for us to sign directing the flag be half-staffed Saturday within the corporate limits of the Village of Broadwater.
Everyone I spoke to in town this evening is devastated by her loss. Amongst a town full of giants of compassion for neighbours, she stood on their shoulders.