George Millard

Apr 19, 2005

George Henry Millard died Tuesday (April 19, 2005) at Willow Ridge Retirement Community. He was 90 years old. He was born June 5, 1914 at Somerville, New Jersey to Raymond D. and Jennie May (Amerman) Millard. He graduated from high school in Plainfield, NJ. He served in the U.S. Army during WWII from 1943-1946. On July 23, 1957 he married...

Fannie Barber

Apr 18, 2005

Fannie Barber died Monday (April 18, 2005) at the home of her daughter, Lois, in Lincoln. She was 101 years old. On March 22, 1904 she was born at Cedar Bluffs, Kansas to Charles and Dorothea (Greve) Duckworth. Her family lived at St. Francis, Kansas, Wymore and Shubert, Nebraska before moving back to Indianola. Fannie graduated from Indianola High...

Anna Geihsler

Apr 18, 2005

Anna Irene Geihsler, died Monday, April 18, 2005 at the Cedar Living Center in Oberlin, Kansas. She was 77 years old. Anna was born on March 9, 1928 at Oberlin to Floyd and Francis Emma (Richards) Lewis. She graduated from Red Willow High School in 1947. On August 12, 1947 she married Harlan Edward Geihsler at Oberlin. To this union...

Terry Steier

Apr 17, 2005

Biography

Terry Lee Steier died Sunday (April 17, 2005) at United Medical Center Hospital in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He was 31 years old. On June 26, 1973 he was born in Oberlin, Kansas to Curtis L. and Deborah K. (Eby) Steier. He graduated from Herndon High School in 1992. He married Gina Frazier in June of 1996 in Kearney. They...

LaVonne "Bonnie" L. Teply

Apr 14, 2005

LaVonne "Bonnie" L. Teply, 71, of Palisade died Thursday (April 14, 2005) at Community Hospital of McCook. On October 15, 1933 she was born in Hershey to George and Celia M. (Bodell) Marquette. As a youth the family moved to Sarben where she graduated from the Paxton High School with the class of 1950. She joined the Methodist church...

Robert Ray

Apr 14, 2005

Biography

Robert T. Ray, 78, of McCook died Thursday (April 14, 2005) at Community Hospital of McCook. On January 20, 1927 he was born to Clark Calvin and Anne (Webb) Ray in San Francisco, California. He graduated from Hayward High School in Hayward, California in 1945. Bob, as his friends called him, served with the United States Marine Corp...

Margery Dorthy Unger

Apr 13, 2005

Margery Dorthy Unger died Wednesday, April 13, 2005, at McCook Community Hospital. She was 92 years old. Margery was born on December 28, 1912, at Hays, Kansas to Adam and Dora (Bissing) Bahl. The family moved to McCook in 1919 where Margery attended St. Patrick’s Catholic School. She graduated from McCook High School in 1931 and attended McCook College....

Florence Fisher

Apr 13, 2005

Florence Berneice Fisher died Wednesday, April 13, 2005 at Decatur County Good Samaritan Center in Oberlin, Kansas. She was 79 years old. Florence was born on December 16, 1925 at Trenton, Nebraska to Arthur and Lena (Hiatt) McDowell. She graduated from Trenton High School in 1944. On October 31, 1944, she married Everett George Fisher. To this union three children...

Lewis L. Hoschouer

Apr 13, 2005

Lewis Leslie Hoschouer of McCook died Wednesday (April 13, 2005) at Community Hospital of McCook. He was 90 years old. He was born to Leslie W. and Emma Julia (Orman) Hoschouer at their farm in Hayes County. He attended rural school in Hayes County, high school in Curtis and Maywood and auction school in Sterling, Colorado. On August 13,...

Harold Kircher

Apr 12, 2005

Harold “Bud” William Kircher, of rural McCook, died Tuesday, April 12, 2005 at McCook Community Hospital. He was 72 years old. Bud was born on August 16, 1932, at McCook, to William and Mary (Hackenkamp) Kircher. He attended rural school near their family farm. On January 27, 1953, he entered the US Army and served during the Korean Conflict. He...

Joyce Jean Sevier

Mar 31, 2005

Joyce Jean Sevier, 75, died Thursday, March 31, 2005 at Community Hospital in McCook with her husband, Dwaine, and her family by her side. She was born July 7, 1929, in Omaha to Irene Wright. She grew up in Auburn and graduated from Auburn High School in 1947. On June 21, 1947, she married Dwaine Sevier in Auburn and...

Arthur Merrell

Mar 27, 2005

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Ronald Stevens

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...

Velma Collins

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...

Janet Szuba

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...

Norma Bodeman

Mar 16, 2005

Biography

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...

Pedro Monzon

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...

LaDona Laura Redtfeldt

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...

Opal Gillen

Mar 10, 2005

Biography

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...

Karen Hanke

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...