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State Patrol Honors Former Dispatcher by Organizing Escort to Hospice

Published: March 26, 2020

Barb Klinetobe spent the last 40 years as a dispatcher for the Nebraska State Patrol in Omaha.

So when troopers heard the 64-year-old was being transferred in an ambulance from Methodist Hospital to the hospice house Wednesday, they provided an escort.

"If you talk to any trooper in Omaha, they would say this is the least we can do for her. We hold her up on a whole different pedestal. She's very special to us," said a trooper.

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