Feb 24, 2012

Edith Lorraine (Troxell) Persinger, age 75 of Oberlin, Kansas passed away Friday, February 24, 2012 at the Decatur County Hospital in Oberlin, Kansas. Edith was born in Culbertson, Nebraska on June 28, 1936 to Homer Ira and Myrtle E. (Barnes) Troxell the youngest of nine children. Edith graduated from McCook High School in 1954. Edith married Donald Fuller on February...

Feb 23, 2012

Luella McConville, age 89, died Thursday, February 23, 2012 at Hillcrest Nursing Home. She was born Aug 8, 1922 to John and Emma Reiners. She graduated from Red Willow High School and taught school in Red Willow County for five years prior to her marriage to Richard McConville on March 4, 1946. Richard and Luella farmed in Frontier County where...

Feb 22, 2012

Marion “Howard” Roth Howard Roth of Indianola, Nebraska died February 22, 2012, at his home at the age of 89. He was born July 4, 1922 near Deweese, Nebraska to Alfred Harvey and Rachel Mina “Jane” (Hannum) Roth. The family moved to Frontier County in 1932. He graduated from Nebraska School of Agriculture at Curtis in 1939. Howard was united...

Feb 22, 2012

Feb 17, 2012

Irene Josephine Bermel, age 89, passed away Friday, February 17, 2012 at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney, Nebraska. Irene Josephine Kudera was born, February 25, 1922, in Clarkson, Nebraska to Joseph and Josephine Kudera. After graduating from School District #51 in Colfax County Nebraska she attended Lincoln Cosmotology School graduating in January of 1944. Irene owned and operated...

Feb 16, 2012

Roberta Ann “Bobbi” Blankenship passed away Thursday, February 16, 2012 at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook. She was 73 years old. Bobbi was born on March 6, 1938, to Walter Thomas and Violet Stell “Dell” (Seitz) Blankenship in Cheyenne County, Kansas. She attended various rural schools and Benkelman High School. In February of 1955, she was united in marriage to...

Feb 16, 2012

Harry Milton Petsch was born June 21, 1924 in Hayes County to Guy F. and Jessie (Crosson) Petsch, and passed away February 16, 2012 at the age of 87. At a young age the family moved to Crosson Homestead south of Wauneta where Harry attended school in a one room school house in Dundy County. After his father’s death in...

Feb 13, 2012

Ona Edmonds, age 98, of Benkelman, NE passed away February 13, 2012 at the Hester Memorial Home in Benkelman. Ona was born to parents Homer and Della (Lamb) Beeson on the family farm near Bird City, Kansas on June 23, 1913. She was one of four children. Ona married husband Harold Edmonds in Bird City. To this union three children...

Feb 12, 2012

Koda H. Reiman died Sunday February 12, 2012 at the Sarah Ann Hester Memorial Home in Benkelman, Nebraska. She was born May 17, 1928 in Stratton, Nebraska the daughter of Herbert and Janet (Morris) Williamson. She grew up on a farm south of Stratton and attended Stratton High School completing the 10th grade. On November 7, 1945, Koda married Charles...

Feb 8, 2012

Wanda Elaine Bald, age 91, passed away Wednesday, February 08, 2012, at Hillcrest Nursing Home. Wanda was born on March 8, 1920 to Irwin and Evelyn (Robinson) Hogg in Shelton, Nebraska. She graduated from Shelton High School in 1936 and went on to the Nebraska State Normal School at Kearney. She taught school for 2 years after college. Wanda...

Feb 5, 2012

Retta Berdean Bearley was born January 8, 1929 in Rawlins County, Kansas. She was the prettiest baby born to Harry Augustus and Effie Verina (Palmer) Bearley. She passed away on February 5, 2012 in Alma, Nebraska where she had resided at the Colonial Villa after suffering a severe stroke in May 2005. She and her family were appreciative of...

Feb 1, 2012

Dorothy L. Blume, age 73, passed away Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook. Dorothy was born to Benjamin F. and Ruth E. (Pond) Sprinkle at Spencer, Nebraska on October 17, 1938. Dorothy married Author D. “Pee Wee” Blume in Culbertson on October 15, 1961. To this union one child was born, Kandy Jo D’Rozario. In an...

Jan 31, 2012

Vlasta “Viola” Pritchett of McCook passed away on Tuesday, January 31, 2012, at Community Hospital. She was 83 years old. Viola was born on June 28, 1928 in Stratton, NE to Samuel Clayton and Eva Mae (Parrott) Cobb. She attended McCook Public Schools. Viola was united in marriage to Herman Howard “Smokey” Pritchett on September 3, 1943 at Oberlin, KS....

Jan 30, 2012

Justin L. Floyd, age 95, passed away Monday, January 30, 2012 at the Sutherland Care Center in Sutherland, Nebraska. Justin was born to Justin E and Nora Belle (Hibbs) Floyd on June 28, 1916 on his grandfather Warren Floyd’s homestead near Smithfield in Gosper County and departed on January 30, 2012 in Sutherland, Nebraska. In 1930, the Floyd family...

Jan 29, 2012

Marjorie Elaine Owens (Berger) Koetter passed away at her home in McCook on Sunday, January 29, 2012 surrounded by her family. She was 79 years old. Marge was born in Herndon, Kansas to Samuel Andrew and May (Weakley) Owens. She graduated from Trenton High School on May 24, 1949. She continued her education at Kearney State Teachers College receiving a...

Jan 25, 2012

June was born June 30, 1919 to Arthur and Lela (Dehart) Little in Dundy County, Nebraska, the oldest of six children. She passed away on the morning of January 25, 2012 at the Dundy County Hospital after living her entire life in the County. June attended county school at Dist. 23 and graduated from Benkelman High School in 1937....

Jan 24, 2012

Avis E. Ray of McCook passed away at the Scottsbluff Regional Medical Center on Tuesday, January 24, 2012. She was 80 years old. Avis was born on April 20, 1931 at the family farm near Culbertson to Guy Leon and Rosa Elnora (Schlegel) Nelson. She graduated from McCook High School in 1948 and McCook Junior College in 1950. She continued...

Jan 22, 2012

Joseph J. Laumann, age 73, of Benkelman, Nebraska passed away Sunday, January 22, 2012 in Benkelman. Joe was born May 12, 1938 to Antoinette (Faimon) and Albert Laumann in Hitchcock County, Nebraska. He attended county school and later graduated from Stratton High School in 1957. The year following his graduation, Joe lived in Colorado where he drove a gravel...

Jan 21, 2012

Mabel E. Dunham of Garden City, Kansas has gone to be with her Savior on this day, January 21, 2012. Mabel was born June 12, 1920 to parents Theodore and Jessie (Cordwell) Wickizer. The family lived north of Max, KS where she attended school. Mabel married Clyde R. Dunham in Atwood, KS. To this union three children were born; Marilyn,...

Jan 20, 2012

WILLIAM HENRY FRERICHS, age 83, passed away on January 20, 2012, at the Golden Living Center, Cozad, Nebraska, only 3 months after having been diagnosed with terminal cancer. William was born January 17, 1929, to William and Mabel Frerichs in McCook, Nebraska. After an honorable discharge from the army in 1953, he began his career as an automobile salesman, working...