Article: EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLECollection of shot glasses just for show

By Jan Biles

Photographs by Ann Williamson

THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL

BELLEVILLE - Looks can be deceiving.

Take the basement in Mary Elizabeth Kunc's home, where rows and rows of shot glasses are displayed on shelves mounted to the walls.

But whiskey and vodka haven't come near her lips.

"I have shot glasses, but I don't drink a drop," the 80-year-old Belleville resident said.

Kunc grew up in Diller, Neb., a tiny community where she met her future husband, Bohman, at a skating party in 1948. Kunc was a college student at the time, studying to be a teacher.

The couple married in 1951 and moved to a farm outside of Narka in Republic County, where they raised hogs, cattle and chicken and grew a ...

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