Mar 25, 2012

Robert Lawrence Baumfalk of McCook, originally of Wauneta, passed away Sunday, March 25, 2012 at Community Hospital in McCook. He was 98 years old. Robert was born on April 15, 1913 to Hickey Henry and Mary (Hedke) Baumfalk on a farm near Ludell, KS. When he was six years old the family moved to Hitchcock County to a farm...

Mar 24, 2012

Joyce Elaine Beideck passed away Saturday, March 24, 2012 at her home in Highland Park Retirement Community, McCook, after a courageous battle with cancer. She was 80 years old. Joyce was born at Ord, NE on January 19, 1932, to Walter John and Freida (Fuss) Foth. She graduated from Ord High School in 1950 and continued her education at...

Mar 22, 2012

Helen Louise Goodson, age 92, passed away Thursday, March 22, 2012 at Madonna Rehabilitation Center in Lincoln. Helen was born September 17, 1919 in Hayes County, to John and Alvina (Frank) Gaarder. She grew up on the family farm and graduated from Hayes Center High School in 1937. She taught rural schools for 6 years. She married Elvin T....

Mar 22, 2012

Victor L. Beebe, age 90 of rural Hayes Center, Nebraska passed away on March 22, 2012 at El Dorado Nursing Home in Trenton. Victor was born April 13, 1921 on the family farm eleven miles North of Culbertson. He attended grade school in a one room country school house. Victor attended Bluff View his freshman year, then transferred to...

Mar 20, 2012

Biography

Carol M. Borgman of McCook passed away Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at Community Hospital. She was 91 years old. Carol was born on a farm northeast of McCook to Merle Edgar and Ruth (Daugherty) Masters on December 4, 1920. She graduated from Republican Valley High School in the class of 1938. She continued her education at McCook Junior...

Mar 18, 2012

Louise Henriette Coburn age 92, died Sunday, March 18, 2012, at the Good Samaritan Society Nursing Home in Oberlin, Kansas. She was born February 16, 1920, at Culbertson to Henry Walter and Anna Frieda (Vollroth) Pollmann. She grew up north of Culbertson and attended Culbertson High School. On December 23, 1945, she married Albert R. Coburn at McCook. They farmed...

Mar 17, 2012

LaDonnia Kay Lindgren, age 71, passed away Saturday, March 17, 2012 at the Decatur County Good Samaritan Center in Oberlin, KS. She was born November 14, 1940 to Elmer E. and Virginia E. (Troxell) Lorimer at McCook. LaDonnia married Leroy W. Lindgren in Winter, SD on April 9, 1956. To this union two children were born. They made their...

Mar 7, 2012

James Randell (Jim) Henry died Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at his home after a year and a half battle with leukemia. Jim was born on April 10, 1938 in Rosebud, Arkansas to Sam and Delsa Henry and grew up in that general area. He pulled many a cotton sack when he was a very small boy. When he was...

Mar 5, 2012

Keith Dwaune Redfield of rural Palisade passed away at his home on Monday, March 5, 2012. He was 59 years old. Keith was born at McCook on May 18, 1952, to Dwaune E. and DeVeta V. (Collicott) Redfield. He attended grade school at Beverly Dist. #48 and graduated from Palisade High School in 1970 where he was a member...

Feb 28, 2012

Loyd G. Campbell, age 96, passed away Tuesday, February 28, 2012, at Heritage of Wauneta in Wauneta, Ne. He was born October 27, 1915 in Gretna to William Lewis and Emma (Pahmeyer) Campbell. His family moved to the Trenton Community in 1930, where he graduated from High School in 1935. Loyd entered the US Army in 1942 and served in...

Feb 28, 2012

Ruth A Needham passed away Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at Community Hospital in McCook. She was 76 years old. Ruth was born June 5, 1935 in Camden, New Jersey, daughter of William and Dorothy Barattucci. She graduated from Haddon Heights High School In 1953. Shortly after her graduation at the age of 19, Ruth became afflicted with Polio. She was...

Feb 25, 2012

LeAvis “Lee” Rutt passed away Saturday, February 25, 2012, at Hillcrest Nursing Home. She was 82 years old. Lee was born on June 27, 1929 to Charles and Edith (Shepherd) Koler in McCook. She and her older sister, Rae Ellen were raised there, where she graduated from High School in 1947. In June of 1947, she wed Dick Rutt...

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

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 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 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...