Mrs. Marilyn F. (Hawks) Krause
Apr 20, 2017
Marilyn F. (Hawks) Krause was born December 22, 1929 to Phillip and Bertha (Ward) Hawks near Elgin, Nebraska. Marilyn passed away on April 20, 2017 at the Sandhills Care Center at the age of 87 years. As many fathers did, her dad delivered her on the farm six miles west and one and a half miles south of Elgin. When...
Ms. Ronnie Nicole Porter
Apr 17, 2017
Ronnie Nicole Porter "Pooh Bear" This is not a normal obituary, for it is written for an extraordinary woman. Ronnie Nicole Porter lost her long and courageous battle with cancer, in the early morning hours of Monday April 17, 2017. Ronnie started doing things "her own way" from birth, on July 1, 1981, by arriving on her own time, not...
Mr. Erwin L. Keim
Apr 4, 2017
Erwin Lee Keim, age 91, passed away on April 4, 2017 at O'Neill, NE. He was born January 31, 1926 to Frank and Gertrude Keim. He was the youngest of 8 children and spent his boyhood years on the family farm in and near the Plum Creek canyon, north of the Mabelo community. He was drafted into the US Army...
Mr. Donald R. "Don" Rossenbach
Mar 31, 2017
Donald Ray Rossenbach was born to John and Alma (Graber) Rossenbach on September 11, 1927 at Ainsworth, Nebraska. At the age of four, he started country school at District #21, Norden, Nebraska, riding horseback with his mother each way until he could saddle a horse by himself. He grew up on the family farm and ranch southeast of Norden, later...
Mrs. Carol M. (Meads) Chase
Mar 28, 2017
Carol M. Chase of Ainsworth, Nebraska was born July 11, 1930, at Callaway, Nebraska to Marshall and Veneta (Nansel) Meads, and passed away Tuesday, March 28, 2017, at the Rock County Hospital in Bassett, Nebraska at the age of 86. There are the obvious titles that describe Carol. Words such as, "wife," "mother," "sister," "grandmother," and "friend." And then there...
Mrs. Teresa L. (Rich) Percival
Mar 23, 2017
Teresa "Terri" Lynn (Rich) Percival was born on January 24, 1958 to William Frank and Retha (Pickens) Rich Sr. in Wichita Falls, Texas. Teresa and her brother, Billy and sister, Debra, lived in Arkansas with their mother until the untimely death of her mother and sister. She and Billy moved with their father to Georgia where she lived out her...
Mr. David Duane Harlan
Mar 6, 2017
David Duane Harlan, age 63, passed away Monday, March 6, 2017 at his home in Bassett, Nebraska. David was born November 5, 1953 in Ainsworth, Nebraska. His parents were Levi D. and Eula (Thomas) Harlan. He grew up in Bassett and received his education from Bassett Grade School and Rock County High School. David was united in marriage to Phyllis...
Mr. Frank E. "Junior" Weander, Jr.
Mar 3, 2017
Frank E. Weander Jr. passed away March 3, 2017 at the Sandhills Care Center in Ainsworth, Nebraska at the age of 92. "Junior" was born at Bassett, Nebraska on October 26, 1924 to Katherine (Krause) and Frank Weander. He and his ten other siblings grew up around the Long Pine area. He attended grade school for a short period of...
Mr. Robert D. "Bob" Scott
Feb 28, 2017
Robert Donald Scott was born to Alexander and Ida (Weber) Scott on March 13, 1923 in Merriman, Nebraska, the second of four children. He passed away on February 28, 2017 in Ainsworth, Nebraska. Bob was raised in Merriman and graduated from Merriman High School. He was united in marriage to Dora Elizabeth Ricedorff on June 6, 1943. They had two...
Mr. Leslie Dean "Les" Farris, Jr.
Feb 20, 2017
Leslie Dean Farris passed away on February 20, 2017, in Omaha, Nebraska. Les was born on October 10, 1951 in Ainsworth, Nebraska, to Birdeen (Crooker) and Leslie M. Farris. He grew up in South Dakota and then Ainsworth, surrounded by a loving close-knit extended family. He graduated from Ainsworth High School in 1969 and subsequently attended Parks School of Business...
Mrs. Marcella E. (Johnson) Welke
Feb 19, 2017
Marcella was the youngest of four girls, born to Cora Eva (Stich) and Cincinnatus Johnson on December 1, 1921, at home on a farm four miles east of Ainsworth, Nebraska, and passed away on February 19, 2017 with her daughter and family by her side in Sterling Heights, Michigan at the age of 95 years, two months and 18 days....
Mr. Leslie W. "Les" Graff
Feb 10, 2017
Leslie W. Graff was born on April 6, 1914 to Frank and Emma (Thompson) Graff at Johnstown Nebraska. He grew up on the family ranch on Plum Creek north of Johnstown. The ranch was homesteaded in 1896 and has been in the Graff family for over 100 years. Leslie attended rural school district #32 north of Johnstown through eighth grade...
Amber A Frerichs
Feb 4, 2017
Amber Annette Frerichs was God's gift to this world in the early morning hours of October 25th, 1995, at the Cherry County Hospital in Valentine, Nebraska. Welcoming her were her parents Barry and Amy Frerichs and two year old brother Brennan Frerichs of rural Long Pine, Nebraska. She and Brennan enjoyed a childhood filled with adventures out in the trees,...
Charles J. 'Charlie" Fuller
Jan 30, 2017
Staff Sergeant Charles Justus Fuller born October 20, 1944 and went to the Lord on January 30, 2017. He was born to Harrison Ilo and Irene (Tyler) Fuller. Charlie served in the United States Army from September of 1962 to October of 1972. He served a total of 54 months in Vietnam. After his time in the army he went...
Mr. Marvin J. "Tiny" Reynolds
Jan 24, 2017
Marvin John "Tiny" Reynolds, 77, of Bassett, died January 24, 2017, at the Rock County Long Term Care in Bassett. He was born March 25, 1939, to Eldon Loren and Betty Maria (Dunbar) Reynolds in Almeria, Loup County, Nebraska. Growing up in southern Rock County, Marvin developed lifelong friendships with the Swanson boys. Many days they could be found tearing...
Mrs. Doris M. (Moyer) Weddel Olson
Jan 22, 2017
Doris May, daughter of Carl C. and Laurel Edith (Everingham) Moyer, was born in Ainsworth, Nebraska, June 25, 1921, and departed this life January 22, 2017 at Good Samaritan Pine View in Valentine, Nebraska. She attended Ainsworth public schools until her junior year in high school, and on her fifteenth birthday, she, with her parents and brother Bob, moved to...
Mrs. Alda M. (Moon) Ellis
Jan 3, 2017
Alda Mae (Moon) Ellis, was born on February 26, 1937, at Stuart, Nebraska to Fred and Margaret (Johnson) Moon, and passed away on January 3, 2017 at the Long Term Care in Bassett, Nebraska, just shy of her 80th birthday from the adverse affects of COPD. They lived on a farm south of Stuart. She has one brother Donald Moon....
Mr. Jonas J. "Joney" Dillon, Jr.
Jan 3, 2017
Jonas "Joney" Jonathan Dillon, Jr. was born November 25, 1939 to Jonas Sr. and Ortha I. (Rix) Dillon in Ainsworth, Nebraska. At age 15, he quit school to work with his father with the Keya Paha County Road Department making bridges. In the summer of 1957, he was en route to work for Jack Jones in Rose, Nebraska but Verg...
Mr. Dale E. Mundorf
Jan 1, 2017
Dale Eugene Mundorf, age 70, was born in Ainsworth, Nebraska on March 12, 1946 to James D. and Lorena M. (Fernau) Mundorf. As a young child his family lived in various places. They finally settled in Long Pine where he graduated from Long Pine High School in 1964. Dale attended Chadron State College for 1 ½ years. He left college...
Mr. Melton A. "Mel" Crisman
Dec 20, 2016
Melton A. "Mel" Crisman was born October 15, 1933 in Wagner, South Dakota to Roy and Grace (Rude) Crisman. He was the seventh of nine children, joining Roy Jr., Glyde, Roland, Burton, Gloria, and Ken, with Betty and Clark to follow. Mel grew up in Wagner and helped on the family farm. He attended school in Ravinia, South Dakota graduating...
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