May 3, 2009

Vera M. (Carlson) Wray died Sunday, May 3, 2009 at El Dorado Nursing Home in Trenton. She was 99 years old. Vera was born on February 3, 1910 on the family farm south of Stratton to French and Lena M. (Kisling) Carlson. She attended a one-room country school through eighth grade. On October 28, 1938, she was united in...

May 2, 2009

Phyllis D. Kelsey died Saturday, May 2, 2009, at Cambridge Manor. She was 63 years old. Phyllis was born on November 22, 1945 at Richmond, CA to Ralph and Nola (Smith) Hammack. On June 22, 1997, she married Kent Kelsey in Virginia City, NV. They moved to the McCook community in 2003. Phyllis was a cosmetologist as well as a...

Apr 30, 2009

Richard S. Fisher died Thursday, April 30, 2009 at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney. He was 68 years old. On August 17, 1940 he was born in Maywood, Nebraska to Leonard S. and Ona Evalena (Blake) Fisher. He received his GED in 1959. He lived most of his life in southwest Nebraska and Northern Kansas. He married Sheila Mae Van...

Apr 30, 2009

Homer J. "Whitey" Troxell, Jr. died at his home on Thursday, April 30, 2009. He was 79 years old. He was born in McCook on July 26, 1929, one of six children born to Homer Ira and Myrtle Ellesta (Barnes) Troxell. On April 28, 1952 he married Martha Jane Anderson in Wauneta, Nebraska. In 1954, Whitey retired from the...

Apr 30, 2009

Biography

Lavina M. Palic died Thursday, April 30, 2009 at Hilltop Estates in Gothenburg. She was 94 years old. On January 19, 1915 in Lincoln County, Nebraska, Lavina was born to Walter and Fannie (Hruza) Buzzell. She graduated from Hayes Center High School in 1934 and lived all her life in the Hayes Center and Wallace area. Lavina knew...

Apr 29, 2009

Biography

Florence was born September 4, 1916 in Frontier County Nebraska. Her father James E. Ryan of Irish immigrants. Mother, Lillian was raised in a homestead dugout near Stockville, Nebraska. Her parents were prosperous until the depression and years of drought in 1930's. She was the middle girl of three sisters Ada approximately 10 years her senior and Betty...

Apr 28, 2009

Send Flowers Gerold Alfred Bodeman October 10, 1921 - April 28, 2009

Gerold Alfred Bodeman was born October 10, 1921 in Hayes County to Lee A. and Alza Donzella "Dot" (Hilton) Bodeman at their home north of Palisade. He passed from life on April 28, 2009 at the age of 87. He attended country school District #7 graduating the...

Apr 28, 2009

Ewald Emil Werschke formally of Palisade, died Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at the Good Samaritan Center in Syracuse. He was 89 years old. He was born March 6, 1920 in Enders to Theodore L. and Matilda (Schultz) Werschke. Ewald entered the US Army on July 16, 1941. He served during World War II, receiving the American Defense Service Medal,...

Apr 26, 2009

Samuel McNeal Roberts, age 72, died Sunday April 26, 2009 at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney. He was born September 17, 1936 in Joplin, MO to D. G. (Bob) and Mary Juanita (Higgins) Roberts. Family moved from Missouri. to Arizona in 1947. He graduated from West Phoenix High School in 1955 and then continued his education at A.S.U.....

Apr 26, 2009

Biography

Ray E. Aldrich, 88, peacefully passed away from this life at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook after a long battle with Parkinson's. Ray was born January 31, 1921 on a farm north of Cambridge, NE, to Albert and Mabel (Harmon) Aldrich. Later the family moved to a farm north of Arapahoe. He went to a country school, riding...

Apr 24, 2009

Betty M. Overbye died April 24, 2009 at El Dorado Manor in Trenton. She was 82 years old. On June 4, 1926 she was born to Ira Ernest and Maggie (Woods) Peters at Denver, CO. She grew up south of McCook and received her GED from McCook College. She worked at the Rubber Hose Manufacturing for around 14 years....

Apr 23, 2009

Beverly Ann Fritz of Indianola died Thursday, April 23, 2009 at Cambridge Memorial Hospital. She was 71 years old. Beverly was born on July 14, 1937, in Cambridge to Walter E. and Loretta Elizabeth (Kehr) Baker. She attended Cambridge Public Schools. On February 10, 1957, she was united in marriage to George Albert Fritz at Peace Lutheran Church in...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...