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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock N«w» Staff Writer
It’s a long way from Zurich, Switzerland to Rappahannock County, Virginia, but it's even longer when you go by way of Burwell, Nebraska.
That is the route Dr. Werner Krebser followed. It has brought him to where he is today: practicing family medicine in Washington and fanning at Huntly.
He was bom in Zurich in 1928 and grew up there attending school for the required nine years, six in primary school and three in secondary school.
“My father was a butcher,” Dr. Krebser said. “He wanted me to be a butcher too, so he sent me to the French part of Switzerland for a butcher’s ♦ apprenticeship.** '
The apprenticeship lasted three years, andwas ' followed by two years working as a journeyman butcher. Then he was called, as all Swiss men are, into the military. He did his required training and * then wanted to go for further training as an officer, “but as a butcher they wouldn’t take me.”
As he was finishing his military training, he saw an ad in a Swiss newspaper. “They wanted a Swiss butcher in Burwell, Nebraska,” he said. “We learn [in Switzerland] all the parts of the trade, from skinning to sausage making. Here a guy just becomes
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