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Terry Dyer
Jan 29, 2005
Terry Wayne Dyer died Saturday, January 29, 2005 at Premier Estates Senior Living in North Platte. He was 58 years old. Terry was born on July 14, 1946 at Dennison, Texas to Elbert Washington and Virgie Ethel (Foxx) Dyer. On October 10, 1975, he married Dixie L. Matson at Guyman, Oklahoma. They moved to the McCook community in 1998. Terry...
Jackie Boehm
Jan 28, 2005
Jackie Boehm, 69, of McCook died Friday, January 28, 2005 at her home in McCook. She was born April 25, 1935 to Leo and Anastasia (Wasia) Kotschwar at Hayes Center. She graduated from McCook High School in 1952. She lived in this area most of her life. On April 25, 1964 she married Charles B. Boehm in McCook. She...

Viola Darlene Trout
Jan 27, 2005
Viola Darlene Trout, 90, died Thursday, January 27, 2005 at Community Hospital in McCook. She was born February 18, 1914 to Glen and Wretha (Wilson) Scott in Hayes County. She grew up in Hayes Center and graduated from Hayes Center High School in 1932. She taught rural school for six years. On August 11, 1938 she married Norval R....
Marjorie Johnston
Jan 21, 2005
After a 98 year life filled with travel, culture, family and friends, Marjorie Lillian Johnston, of McCook, Nebraska, passed away at the Community Hospital of McCook, on January 21, 2005. Marjorie was born in Atkinson, Nebraska, on February 2, 1906. She was one of two daughters and three sons to William L. and Violet (Malzacher) Schultz. Post high school graduation...
Virginia "Ginny" Lavonne (Mitchem) Moore
Jan 19, 2005
Virginia "Ginny" Lavonne (Mitchem) Moore died Wednesday, January 19, 2005 at her sister's home in Lincoln. She was 64 years old. Ginny was born on April 22, 1940, at McCook to Dale Jess and Fern Elizabeth (Worske) Mitchem. She was the second born of ten children. She attended McCook Public Schools. She moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin and was employed...
Eugene Hanson
Jan 14, 2005
Eugene Gene Milton Hanson, 73, of McCook died Friday, January 14, 2005 at Bryan LGH in Lincoln. He was born in Beardsley, KS south of Stratton, July 25, 1931 to Clark and Edna (Canton) Hanson. He grew up in Stratton and graduated from Stratton High School in 1949. Gene served proudly in the U.S. Navy from 1950-1954 during the Korean...
Beatrice Burns
Jan 13, 2005
Beatrice "Betty" Jean Burns died Thursday, January 13, 2005 at McCook Community Hospital. She was 82 years old. Betty was born on January 8, 1923, at Waterloo, Iowa to James R. and Marguerite (Anderson) McMullen. She graduated from St. Mary High School in Waterloo and attended Loretta Heights College in Denver, Colorado. On November 6, 1941, she married Thomas...
Elaine Helen Schilz
Jan 8, 2005
Elaine Helen Schilz of McCook died Saturday, January 8, 2005, at Community Hospital at the age of 83. Elaine was born on March 18, 1921, at Herndon, Kansas to Paul Louis and Anne Alice (Bobinmyer) Berger. She graduated from Herndon High School in 1939. She attended Normal Training School in Oberlin, Kansas and taught for rural schools in Kansas...

Phyllis Kotschwar Traphagan
Jan 4, 2005
Phyllis Pauline (Kotschwar) Traphagan was born to Leo and Anastasia (Wasia) Kotschwar on March 21, 1938 in Dickens, Nebraska. Phyllis passed away on January 4, 2005 after a battle with cancer while residing at the Yuma Life Care Center in Yuma, Colorado. Phyllis was 66 years old. Phyllis was raised in McCook, Nebraska and graduated from McCook High School in...
Valois Pullen
Jan 1, 2005
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Valois "Val" Irene Pullen, 81, of McCook died Saturday, January 1, 2005 at Community Hospital. She was born April 24, 1923 in Council Bluffs, Iowa to Lewis W. and Anna A. (Weaver) Hall. Her elementary education was in Council Bluffs and Fairbury Public Schools. She graduated from Fairbury High School in 1941. She graduated from the University of...
Bonnie Nadine Sevier
Jan 1, 2005
Bonnie Nadine Sevier, 62, of McCook died Saturday (January 1, 2005) at Community Hospital. She was born December 6, 1942 in Hayes County, the youngest child of Nathan Lee and Dorothy Pearl (French) McNutt. She married George Campbell in California and to this union one son was born. Bonnie taught school for 27 years. She taught in Grant, Sargent,...
John Coyle
Dec 31, 2004
John Francis Coyle, 85, of McCook, died Friday, December 31, 2004 at McCook Community Hospital. He was born October 18, 1919 to John and Amanda (Wendele) Coyle at Culbertson. He attended and graduated from the Nebraska School of Agriculture in Curtis in 1939. He lived in Frontier and Hitchcock Counties all his life. He served in the U.S. Army during...
Richard L. Green
Dec 28, 2004
Mr. Richard L. Green, age 71, of McCook Nebraska passed away on Saturday December 28, 2024 at his home in McCook.
A full obituary and service details are pending.
Donald Lehl
Dec 28, 2004
Donald D. Lehl died at his home in McCook Tuesday (December 28, 2004). He was 85 years old. He was born November 7, 1919 to Conrad and Katie (Arndt) Lehl at Ft. Morgan, CO. He lived most of his life since 1922 in McCook. He attended McCook High School with the class of 1937. He attended the University of Iowa....

Frances M. Trail
Dec 27, 2004
Frances M. Trail, 92, died Monday, December 27, 2004 at Hillcrest Nursing Home. She was born August 28, 1912 to Lynn Bartlett and Helena Margaret (Hellriegel) Hoyt in Hitchcock County (Rural Culbertson) in her grandparent’s home. She attended District 68 School and graduated from McCook High School in 1930. She also attended McCook Junior College and much later graduated...
Pauline Coghill
Dec 21, 2004
Pauline A. Coghill, 92, died Tuesday, December 21, 2004 at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook. On September 7, 1912 she was born to Clark A. and Clara (Beckman) Beaty at Ossian, Indiana. She attended schools in Nebraska, Indiana, Kansas and Colorado and taught elementary school for four years in Kansas. She was Postmaster in Cedar Bluffs, Kansas for two years....
Mildred Stratman
Dec 21, 2004
Mildred Millie A. Stratman died Tuesday, December 21, 2004 at Hillcrest Nursing Home. She was 84 years old. She was born October 2, 1920 to Louis John and Susan Anna (ODea) Colling at McCook. She graduated from Red Willow High School in 1938. She lived in this area all her life. Prior to WWII service she taught school in various...

Kenneth Christian
Dec 20, 2004
Kenneth Harold Christian, 88, of McCook, died at his home on Monday, December 20, 2004. Kenneth was born on October 3, 1916, at Aurora, Illinois to Harold and Edna (Balfour) Christian. He graduated from Aurora East High School, in 1934. On August 3, 1940, he married Arlene E. Northrup at Aurora. To this union three sons were born. Kenneth was...
Walter "Pinky" R. Warburton
Dec 19, 2004
Walter R. "Pinky" Warburton, 71, died Sunday, December 19, 2004 at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook. On August 22, 1933, he was born to Fred Alton and Goldie Mae (Larreau) Warburton at Oberlin, Kansas. He attended McCook Public Schools. He served in the National Guard for a number of years. He married Thelma Meissner in Oberlin, Kansas on March...
Nellie Newberry
Dec 17, 2004
Nellie J. Newberry, 92, died Friday, December 17, 2004 at Cambridge Memorial Hospital in Cambridge. She was born August 29, 1912 to Paul and Charlotte (Crocker) Jussel in Red Willow County. She attended Red Willow School and lived all her life in this area. On January 25, 1939 she married Kenneth Doran Newberry at Indianola. She worked at the Elks...
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