Michael Allen Blain of Edgar, died Monday, Jan. 30, at the Bryan East Medical Center in Lincoln, Nebraska. He was born Feb. 9, 1962 to Dale 'Dean' Blain and Sharon Kay Voboril in Red Cloud. Mike grew up in the Edgar, Nebraska, area. He attended Edgar Public School through the sixth grade, then attended Sandy Creek Junior and High School where he graduated in 1980.

Mike enjoyed time in Kansas with Grandma and Granddad Voboril where he helped his granddad farm and his grandma garden. It was not rare for him to stay the entire summer with them, and it was during those formidable years he fe...