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Carol Ann Best
Dec 16, 2013
Carol Ann Best of Kearney passed away Monday, December 16, 2013 at her sister's home, rural Indianola, surrounded by her family after a courageous battle with cancer. She was 58 years old. Carol was born October 23, 1955 at O'Neill, Nebraska to parents Merrill Eddie and Darlene Ella (Blume) Best, Jr. She graduated from McCook High School in 1974...
Vivian Kompus
Dec 12, 2013
Vivian Kompus, age 94, passed away December 12, 2013 at the Dundy County Hospital in Benkelman, NE with family by her side. Vivian Kompus was born September 23, 1919 to Marie and Elmer Martin. She lived in Cambridge, NE in her early life. June 25, 1941 she married Donald Frandsen and they were farmers and cattle feeders. Two daughters...
Peter "Pete" Marcel Graff
Dec 7, 2013
Peter Marcel Graff of McCook passed away Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013, surrounded by his loving family. He was 90 years old. Pete was born Nov. 24, 1923, at Hartley, Iowa, to parents, Peter Joseph and Anna (Poos) Graff. His father was born in Belgium, his mother was born in Luxembourg, and they immigrated to Iowa. He graduated from Linn...
Burdell Thurston
Nov 30, 2013
On November 30, 2013, Burdell Thurston, 90 years old, passed away at the Silverado Senior Living and Rehabilitation Center in Arvada, Co, which had been his home since March of this year and where he was a member of its Founders' Club. He was born May 29, 1923, to Lee Orin and Eva Thurston. Burdell's main interest was music,...
Shirley Ruth Wallen
Nov 23, 2013
McCook, Nebraska - Shirley Ruth (Muffley) Wallen, age 85, passed away Tuesday, November 26, 2013 at Willow Ridge Retirement Center in McCook. Shirley was born September 10, 1928 in Galesburg, Illinois. Her family moved to McCook in 1937. She graduated from McCook High School in 1946 and McCook Junior College in 1948. Following her college graduation, Shirley then taught...
Louis "Arvene" Myers
Nov 23, 2013
Louis Arvene Myers, age 95, passed away Saturday, November 23, 2013 at Willow Ridge Retirement Center in McCook, NE. Arvene was born May 6, 1918 on a farm south of Culbertson, NE to parents Alex Eugene and Vivian Viola (Haller) Myers. He had one younger brother, Gerald. The family made their home south of Culbertson. Arvene attended and graduated...
Larry G. Stute
Nov 19, 2013
Larry G. Stute, age 70, of Benkelman, NE passed away Tuesday, November 19, 2013 in Benkelman. Larry was born in Benkelman on September 9, 1943 to Francis Fredrick and Hazel Irene (Trout) Stute. He was the youngest of eight children. Larry attended and graduated high school from Parks, NE in 1961. On June 5, 1965 he married Arlene Pursley...
Connie Joyce Reiners
Nov 17, 2013
Connie Joyce Reiners of Trenton passed away Sunday, November 17, 2013 at Community Hospital in McCook. She was 64 years old. Connie was born on September 30, 1949 at McCook to parents Franklin John and Irene Isabelle (Cotton) Reiners. As a child she was baptized into the Catholic faith at St. Catherine's Catholic Church in Indianola. She graduated from...
Leoma "Lee" Marie Blackman
Nov 14, 2013
Leoma Marie “Lee” Blackman originally from Indianola passed away Thursday, November 14, 2013 at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook. She was 97 years old. Lee was born on March 28, 1916, at Holbrook, NE to parents, Charles E. and Hazel M. (Nelson) Tomlin. She attended school in Holbrook. On May 6, 1937 she became the bride of Victor G....
Lois L. Messinger
Nov 9, 2013
Lois L. Messinger passed away November 9, 2013 at McCook Community Hospital. She was born May 8, 1922 in rural Clatonia, Nebraska, to Kathryn (Williams) and Nelson Walker. Art was always a passion for Lois, but being from a Clatonia farm, there was no art education available. After graduation from Clatonia High School she pursued education at the University...
Mary Ellen Goodenberger
Nov 6, 2013
Mary Ellen went to join her beloved Marvin E. on November 6, 2013. He had waited long enough and called her to him. She left from her own room, surrounded by her rogue's gallery of pictures, on the farmstead that had been their home from 1954. Mary Ellen was born to George A. and Ida M. (Stewart) Marshall on...
Richard A. Sitzman
Oct 29, 2013
Richard A. "Dick" Sitzman of Indianola passed away Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney. He was 79 years old. Dick was born on March 17, 1934, at Culbertson to parents, Henry and Helen (Hill) Sitzman. He graduated from Culbertson High School in 1951. On November 15, 1958, he was united in marriage to Marilyn Reiners...
Lola May Wilke
Oct 27, 2013
Lola May Wilke was born in Dickens, NE which is in Hayes County on May 5, 1934. She was the seventh one of 11 children. Lola went to school in Dickens, but later moved to Wallace, Nebraska, where she graduated. She was the only one of her siblings whoever went to college. She went to McCook Junior College for...
Helen Louise Sell
Oct 17, 2013
Helen Louise Sell, age 87 went to Heaven Thursday, October 17, 2013 at Community Hospital in McCook, Nebraska. She was born August 2, 1926 in Smith Center, Kansas to Cecil and Hazel Bolin. Helen attended school in Oberlin, Kansas and Orleans, Nebraska. She then moved to Stamford, Nebraska where she attended junior high and high school, and graduated in...
Lila Nadine Johnson
Oct 17, 2013
Lila Nadine Johnson, age 75, passed away Thursday, October 17, 2013 at Hillcrest Nursing Home. Lila was born on April 29, 1938 in McCook to Harry H. and Lena (Hein) Schafer. She graduated from McCook High School in 1955. On June 16, 1957 she married her high school sweetheart Richard W. Johnson in McCook. To this union three children...
Charlotte Marie Johnson
Oct 16, 2013
Charlotte Marie Johnson, age 92, passed away Wednesday, October 16, 2013 at El Dorado Manor in Trenton. Charlotte was born on September 18, 1921 in Imperial, NE to John and Martha (Neverve) Teply. She lived her childhood on a farm north of Wauneta until she was 16 and went to California to work in an airplane factory for the...
Betty J. Harmon
Oct 11, 2013
Betty J. (Carpenter) Harmon passed away Friday, October 11, 2013, at Hillcrest Nursing Home. Betty was born on June 16, 1919 at Campbell, Nebraska to Tarlington Bates and Minnie Blanche (Harvey) Carpenter. When Betty was just a baby her mother was injured in an accident, so Betty went to stay with her Grandmother Harvey and Great Grandfather Meyers on...
Sheryl "Sher" L. Stroup
Oct 10, 2013
Sheryl Lee "Sher" Stroup passed away Thursday, October 10, 2013 at her home surrounded by her family. She was 64 years old. Sher was born on September 14, 1949 at Denver, CO to parents, Merle Boyd and Pauline Margaret (Hessler) Nunenkamp. As a child she was baptized and confirmed into the Lutheran faith. She graduated from Lutheran Parochial High...
Sylvia Jane Coppin
Oct 10, 2013
Sylvia Jane Coppin, age 93, passed away October 10, 2013 at Hillcrest Nursing Home. She was born May 3, 1920 on the family farm near Culbertson to Charlie and Mae (Wilson) Barger. On May 15, 1959 she married Robert L. Coppin at the First Christian Church in McCook. The couple owned and operated a gift shop in Central City,...
Alden "Skelly" Vern Remington
Oct 3, 2013
Alden"Skelly" Vern Remington was born September 7, 1925 in Danbury, NE to George and Anna Catherine (Ward) Remington. He passed away October 3, 2013 in McCook, NE. at the age of 88. After finishing his senior year of high school, he was drafted into the Navy where he served as a Radioman Third Class on the USS Lansdowne (also...
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