Timothy Grafel

Apr 19, 2009

Timothy Lee Grafel, of Holdrege died Sunday, April 19, 2009 at Mary Lanning Hospital in Hastings. He was 42. He was born in McCook to Elmore L. and Beverley A. (Young) Grafel on July 29, 1967. He graduated from Culbertson High School in 1984. He worked at Connections for the past year and NAPA Auto for 5 years. He...

Jerry L. Bagan

Apr 13, 2009

Jerry L. Bagan died Monday, April 13, 2009 at McCook Community Hospital. He was 87 years old. Jerry was born on July 20, 1921, in McCook to Wilfred J. and Marguerite (McAdams) Bagan. He graduated from McCook High School in 1939. He attended 1 year at Creighton University before being drafted into the US Army where he served in...

John W. Weskamp Jr

Apr 11, 2009

John W. Weskamp, Jr. died Saturday, April 11, 2009 at Hillcrest Nursing Home. He was 85 years old. John was born on April 3, 1924, the youngest of six children, to John W. and Lena (Reiners) Weskamp, Sr., in Frontier County. He graduated from Red Willow High School in 1942. On December 29, 1947, he was united in marriage...

Leona May Houghtelling

Apr 8, 2009

Leona May Houghtelling daughter of Ira Andrew and Matilda May (Fisher) Williams was born November 3, 1923 in Bird City Kansas. She departed this life Wednesday April 8, 2009 at Linden Court in North Platte Nebraska. She was 85 years old. Leona married Milton J. Houghtelling, Sr. at Oberlin, KS in 1943. To this union there were six children...

Harold Leland Hall

Apr 7, 2009

Harold Leland Hall of McCook died Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at Cambridge Memorial Hospital from congestive heart failure. He was 78 years old. Harold was born on December 6, 1930 in Fairbury, Nebraska to Albert and Eva (Harmon) Hall. The family moved to Fairmont when Harold was a young boy. He graduated from Fairmont High School in 1948. On...

Joyce Hastings

Apr 6, 2009

Biography Joyce Lavaughn Hastings of Hayes Center died Monday, April 6, 2009 at the Great Plains Regional Center in North Platte after a short courageous battle with cancer. She was 68 years old. Joyce was born to Harley A. and Helen Marie (Phelps) Scott in Scottsbluff, NE on May 31, 1940. She attended school in Palisade. On September 13, 1955,...

Camilla Celestine Orvis

Apr 6, 2009

Camilla Celestine Pahl Orvis passed from this life on April 6, 2009 at her home in McCook, NE. Camilla was born June 27, 1918 to Mary and Arnold Pahl in Orafino, NE. She graduated from Wilsonville High School. Her marriage to Oliver Orvis September 8, 1937 was a union that gave her four sons to raise. They were married...

Piper Brooklyn Waddell

Apr 3, 2009

Piper Brooklyn Waddell infant daughter of Michael Paul and Rebecca Sue (Gilliam) Waddell of Bartley, went to be with Jesus on Friday, April 3, 2009. She was born at Methodist Hospital in Omaha. Survivors include her parents Michael and Rebecca Waddell of Bartley; two sisters, TayLynn and Audra Waddell of Bartley; maternal grandparents, Brent and Lori Cobb of McCook...

Kim Fassler

Mar 31, 2009

Send Flowers Kim D. Fassler June 12, 1945 - March 31, 2009

Kim D. Fassler died Tuesday March 31, 2009 at Community Hospital in McCook after a short and courageous battle with cancer. He was 63 years old. He was born in McCook on June 12, 1945 to Donald W. and Merylin Rebecca (Rippen) Fassler. He graduated from Culbertson...

Charles Eugene Rice

Mar 31, 2009

Charles Eugene Rice, of Erie, Colorado, formerly of Hayes Center, died Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at the Balfour Hospice Center in Lafayette, Colorado. He was 82 years old. Charles was born on August 21, 1926 in Holbrook to Walter A. and Bessie M. (Albrecht) Rice. He graduated from Hayes Center High School in 1943. After his graduation, he entered...

Darlene Wagner

Mar 30, 2009

Biography

Darlene Wagner died March 30, 2009 at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook at the age of 81. She was born December 14, 1927, along with twin brother, Dallas in Red Willow County, the daughter of Lloyd and Daisy Blake. She graduated from McCook High School in 1945. On November 14, 1948, Darlene married Harold Wagner in McCook. She...

Jason Drew Brown

Mar 29, 2009

Jason Drew Brown formerly of McCook died Sunday, March 29, 2009 at Lincoln. He was 31 years old. Jason was born on October 14, 1977 in Portland, OR to Dan R. and Susan Marie (Brown) Brown. He graduated from McCook High School in 1996. He entered the US Navy in 1997 and was honorably discharged in 1999. Jason loved...

Leveta B. Sailors

Mar 28, 2009

Trenton ~ Leveta B. Sailors died at El Dorado Manor in Trenton on Saturday, March 28, 2009. She was 91 years old. She was born November 11, 1917 in Hayes County to Leo and Elsie B. (Witt) Cross. There will be no public viewing. A private inurnment will be held at the Palisade Cemetery at a later date. Carpenter...

Linda Ann Grabowski

Mar 15, 2009

Linda Ann Grabowski died Sunday, March 15, 2009 at Community Hospital in McCook after a courageous battle with cancer. She was 50 years old. Linda was born in Wilimgton, Delaware to Francis Joseph and Martha Mary (Ziemienieski) Grabowski, Sr. She moved with her family in 1973 to the McCook community. She graduated from McCook High School in 1977 and...

Judy Kay Suda

Mar 15, 2009

Judy Kay Suda, of Culbertson, died Sunday, March 15, 2009 at Community Hospital in McCook. She was 59 years old. Judy was born in McCook on December 8, 1949 to Alpha Omega and Della Mae (Ventling) Bolles. She graduated from McCook High School in 1968. She worked at Alco for 15 years. Judy enjoyed cooking & following grandsons to...

Francis Hanes

Mar 13, 2009

Francis L. Hanes, age 88, of 312 Hollow Road, Catawissa, PA, passed away March 13, 2009 in Bloomsburg Health Care Center following a brief illness. He was born in Frontier County to H. Ellsworth and I. Fern Hanes. He farmed there except for the period of 3 ½ years when he was an anti aircraft gunner in the Army. He...

Gladys Thumser

Mar 10, 2009

Biography

Gladys Alberta Thumser died Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at Hillcrest Nursing Home. She was 93 years old. Gladys was born December 21, 1915 to Clemet and Eliza (Dewey) Fleming at Brush, Colorado. She was the third of five girls. Her family moved to Trenton when she was four years old and her mother died when Gladys was only...

Duane Dueland

Mar 9, 2009

Send Flowers Duane Eldon Dueland September 19, 1932 - March 9, 2009

Duane Eldon Dueland of McCook died Monday, March 9, 2009 at Donna, Texas. He was 76 years old. Duane was born on September 19, 1932 in Frontier County, Nebraska to Vernon and Fern (Johnson) Dueland. At the age of three Duane's father died and his mother married...

Geneva "Jenny" Adrain Rutledge

Mar 5, 2009

Geneva "Jenny" Adrain Rutledge died Thursday, March 5, 2009 at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook. She lost her battle with cancer, but is presently victoriously with her Lord and Savior in Heaven. She was born September 10, 1922 in Goshen Township, Ohio, the daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Harrington) Delay. She grew up in Ohio and later followed her...

Fred Mustion

Mar 5, 2009

Fred W. Mustion January 6, 1926 - March 5, 2009

Fred W. Mustion, age 83, died Thursday, March 5, 2009 at McCook Community Hospital. He was born to Gail Cecil and Pearl Victoria (Brindle) Mustion on January 6, 1926 at El Dora, Iowa. He graduated from Bartley High School in 1945. He and his brother Roy where...