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Koda Reiman
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...
Wanda Bald
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...
Retta Berdean (Bearley) Berger
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...
Dorothy Blume
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 DRozario. In an...

Vlasta Pritchett
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....
Justin L. Floyd
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...
Marjorie Koetter
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...
June Stamm
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....
Avis Ray
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...

Joe J. Laumann
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...
Mabel Dunham
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,...
William Frerichs
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...
Clayton Luther
Jan 19, 2012
Clayton C. Luther, 95, passed away at his home in Mesa Arizona on January 19, 2012. Clayton was born October 26, 1916. Clayton married Marcella Marie McNeill in Chadron on August 18, 1940. To this union two children were born. Clayton was a graduate of Chadron State College and became an engineer for Ford Motor Company. His retirement to Mesa...
Janet Deloris Fidler
Jan 19, 2012
Janet Deloris Fidler, age 56, departed this life on January 19, 2012 after a courageous battle with cancer. She was born on May 26, 1955 to Robert L and Doris (Eaton) Crocker in McCook, NE. Janet graduated from McCook High School and the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, and began a 35 year career at McCook Community Hospital, where...
Kendall Moon
Jan 15, 2012
Kendall Ray Moon of North Platte passed away Sunday morning, January 15, 2012 at his home surrounded by his family. He fought a brief courageous battle with an aggressive lung cancer. He was 42 years old. Kendall was born on Sunday morning, June 8, 1969 in Liberal, Kansas to James Edward and Myrna Eulaine (Witzke) Moon. At the age of...
Joan J. Barger
Jan 10, 2012
Joan J. Barger, 86, died Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at Community Hospital in McCook. Joan was born May 13, 1925 at home near St. Ann, Nebraska to Joseph and Lucy (McCracken) Anderjaska. She graduated from High School in Curtis, Nebraska in 1942, and then taught school in both Hitchcock and Hayes County. She married Robert C. Barger on January...
Douglas Shadley
Jan 8, 2012
Douglas Clifford Shadley, 61, departed this life on January 8, 2012, at his home in Indianola, NE. Doug was born in McCook, NE on November 19, 1950, to Glenn Clifford Shadley and Donna Mae (Bacon) Shadley. He grew up in McCook and attended high school there. He graduated in 1969. Doug went on to college in Denver, Colorado, where he...
Jean Madsen
Jan 6, 2012
Jean Louise (Wray) Madsen passed away on January 6, 2012, at Littleton Adventist Hospital in Littleton, Colorado. She was 69 years old. Jean was born in Garden City, Kansas to the late Jim Wray and Vera (Carlson) Wray. She moved to the Carlson family farm southwest of Trenton in 1944. Jean and sister Jan attended country schools through junior high,...
Libbie J. Schroeder
Dec 31, 2011
Libbie J. Schroeder of McCook passed away December 31, 2011 at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook. She was 93 years old. Libbie was born on October 30, 1918, at Clarkson, Nebraska to Alois and Mary (Pacas) Bures. She attended school District 41 in Cuming County near Dodge. She worked in Fremont and Dodge before her marriage to Doran Schroeder...

Carol Beardsley
Dec 26, 2011
Carol Beardsley passed away December 26, 2011. There will be no local services for Carol.
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