Mar 25, 2005

Ronald F. “Tug” Stevens died Friday, March 25, 2005 at Hillcrest Nursing Home. He was 94 years old. Tug was born on June 28, 1910, at Indianola, NE to Fred and Maude (Jones) Stevens, the fourth child of four children. He graduated from Indianola High School in 1929. Tug entered the US Navy on September 14, 1942 and served during...

Mar 24, 2005

Velma D. Collins died Thursday, March 24, 2005, at Chase County Community Hospital in Imperial. She was 94 years old. Velma was born on April 8, 1910, in Hayes County, Nebraska to Richard and Kitty (Lantz) Daniel. She graduated from Wauneta High School. She continued her education at Kearney State Teachers College where she graduated with a degree in elementary...

Mar 20, 2005

Janet Szuba of McCook died Sunday, March 20, 2005, at Great Plains Medical Center in North Platte. She was 73 years old. Janet was born on September 24, 1931, in Tonawanda, New York, to Ira and Nellie (Heatherly) Lyon. She graduated from Tonawanda High School in 1951. She married John Henrick Szuba in September of 1954, in Buffalo. To...

Mar 16, 2005

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Norma Ellen (Troxel) Bodeman was born December 23, 1923 to Charles Orley & Luella May(Bush) Troxel at their farm home three miles south of Wauneta. Norma departed this life March 16, 2005 at Imperial. She was a loving sister to Neoma Evelyn, Charles Robert and Nola Elaine. She and Neoma attended Sunny Side School three and one half...

Mar 13, 2005

Pedro “Pete” Monzon died Sunday, March 13, 2005, at Bryan LGH East Hospital in Lincoln. He was 78 years old. Pete was born in McCook on April 29, 1926, to Jesus and Francisca (Melendez) Monzon. He graduated from McCook High School in 1947 and attended McCook College. He entered the US Navy on March 25, 1944, and served during World...

Mar 11, 2005

LaDona Laura Redtfeldt died Friday, March 11, 2005 at St. John's Care Center in Kearney, Nebraska. She was 87 years old. LaDona was born on June 8, 1917, at Lushton, Nebraska to Lawrence and Anna (Purcell) Wagner. At one year of age, LaDona and her parents moved to Wilsonville where LaDona grew up and later graduated from high school...

Mar 10, 2005

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Opal Pearl Gillen, 89, died Thursday, March 10, 2005 at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook. On October 26, 1915 she was born in Edgar to George and Margaret Seals. She was raised in the area and graduated in 1933 from Havana High School. She went to teachers college in Lincoln and taught for two years. She married Lloyd...

Mar 10, 2005

Biography Karen Kay Hanke died Thursday, March 10, 2005 at McCook Community Hospital. She was 66 years old. Karen was born on January 12, 1939, at Oberlin, Kansas to Myron Lee and Pearl Edna (Pearson) Pollnow. She graduated from Decatur Community High School in 1956 and was homecoming queen in 1955. On August 10, 1964, she married Dr. Vernon Harold...

Mar 9, 2005

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Katherine Witzke, McCook, formerly of Beaver County, Oklahoma, died Wednesday, March 9, 2005 at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook, Nebraska. She was 96 years old. She was born on May 20, 1908 in Beaver County, Oklahoma to Henry D. and Katherine (Dalke) Smith. She lived all of her life in Beaver County, until the last few months when...

Feb 28, 2005

Clyde Frederick Starrett, 83, died Monday, Feb. 28, 2005, at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook, NE. He was born Sept. 16, 1921 in Kingman, KS to Ellis L. and Frederica Angela (Johnson) Starrett, the oldest of four children. Clyde graduated from Atwood High School at Atwood, KS in 1939 and completed two years of college prior to joining the U.S....

Feb 26, 2005

Maurine Elaine (Nelson) Hofferber, 92, died Saturday (February 26, 2005) at Community Hospital in McCook. Maurine was born February 21, 1913 to Edward C. and Rena M. (Johnette) Nelson in Loomis. She graduated from Loomis High School in 1929 and from Kearney State Teachers College in 1934. She taught school for two years in rural Phelps County schools, in...

Feb 21, 2005

William Forrest Poore, Jr., 74, died Monday, February 21, 2005 at Community Hospital in McCook. He was born March 10, 1930 in McCook to William F. Poore, Sr. and Mildred D. (Modrell) Poore. He grew up in McCook and graduated from McCook High School in 1949. He attended the Nebraska State Trade School in Milford. He married Anna Lucille Coursey...

Feb 17, 2005

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Lorene Agnes Malleck died Thursday, February 17, 2005 at Community Hospital in McCook. She was 94 years old. Lorene was born on October 21, 1910, at Indianola to John Walter and Lena (Reiners) Weskamp. She attended rural school in Red Willow County. On January 17, 1929, she married Charles LeRoy Malleck at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in McCook....

Feb 14, 2005

Brett L. Fraker died Monday, February 14, 2005 in McCook. He was 23 years old. Brett was born on October 11, 1981, at Oberlin, Kansas to Mark L. and Pam R. (Myers) Fraker. In 1995,he moved with his mom to McCook. He graduated from McCook High School in 2000 where he was a wrestler. After graduation, he worked for Hixon...

Feb 13, 2005

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Fern I. Wolgamott, 91, died Sunday, February 13, 2005 at Sunset Haven Nursing Home in Curtis. She was born May 2, 1913 in Gosper County to Leon J. and Lela O. (Collins) Wilsey. She attended school at Lexington. She moved to McCook in 1995. She married Wayne O. Wolgamott in the Methodist Church in Lexington on December 24,...

Feb 8, 2005

Josephine Almira Wesch died Tuesday, February 8, 2005 at Hillcrest Nursing Home. She was 90 years old. Josephine was born on October 28, 1914, in Frontier County, Nebraska, to Burtis Lloyd and Minnie Mary (Jewel) McMains. She attended Center Pointe School and received her GED from McCook Community College in 1978. On June 28, 1939, she married Edward R....

Feb 8, 2005

Vera Mae (Jones) Miller, 92, was born May 14, 1912 at Lebanon to Leslie Franklin and Mary Atillia (Bush) Jones. She departed this world on February 8, 2005 at the age of 92 in Cambridge, Nebraska. She was married in Oberlin, Kansas to Eugene V. Miller on March 18, 1934. She was owner/operator of Circle M Ceramics. Vera was preceded...

Feb 4, 2005

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Donald Lee Thompson, age 62, died February 4, 2005 in Joplin, Missouri. He graduated from McCook High School in 1960 and McCook Junior College in 1962, University of Northern Colorado, and business executive programs of Cornell University, University of Montana, and the Harvard Business School Business. A memorial service will be held at the Saint Paul's United Methodist...

Feb 2, 2005

Marilyn R. Goltl, 71, died Wednesday, February 2, 2005 at her home in McCook. On January 25, 1934 she was born in Red Willow County to Charles August and Nellie Pearl (Crocker) Wesch. She graduated from McCook High School in 1952 and had lived here all her life. She married Ralph V. Goltl in Ft. Belvore, VA on August...

Feb 1, 2005

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Agnes Louise Real, 81, of McCook, died Tuesday evening (Feb. 1, 2005) at McCook Community Hospital. She was born April 30, 1923, to Milton Reed and Gladys Viola (White) Witt in Cedar Bluffs, Kan. She grew up on the family farm near Cedar Bluffs. She graduated from Decatur County High School in Oberlin in 1940 and did post...