Recent Obituaries from Syracuse, Louisville, Elmwood, Weeping Water, Nebraska & Surrounding Areas

Leroy Fredrick "Butch" Obermeyer Sr.

Leroy Fredrick "Butch" Obermeyer Sr.

Aug 15, 2013

LeRoy Fredrick "Butch" Obermeyer Sr. of Syracuse, was born on a farm in rural Syracuse on July 7, 1937 to Henry & Kate (Fahrenholz) Obermeyer. He passed away in Lincoln on August 15, 2013 at the age of 76 years, 1 month and 8 days. Butch married Shirley Ramold on September 29, 1959 in Sidney, Iowa and to this union...

Dorothy Louise Barrett

Dorothy Louise Barrett

Aug 8, 2013

Dorothy Louise (Gillispie) Barrett, 79, of Syracuse passed away August 8, 2013. Worked as a teacher. Survived by sons: Lynn, Dave, Michael, Jeff. Funeral Services: 10:30 A.M. 8/12, at United Methodist Church in Syracuse, NE. Visitation 8/11 from Noon until 8 P.M. with family from 2-4 P.M. at the Funeral Home. Burial at Park Hill Cemetery. Memorials to family's choice....

Leland C Stander

Leland C Stander

Aug 5, 2013

Leland C. Stander age 77, of Bellevue, Nebraska, formerly of Murdock, Nebraska, passed away at St. Joseph Villa, in Omaha, Nebraska, on Monday August 5, 2013, at the age of 77 years, 2 months, and 5 days. He was born May 31, 1936, in Louisville, Nebraska, to Charles and Selma (Rohrdanz) Stander. Memorial Service will be Tuesday, August 27, 2013...

Carl Rueben Davis

Carl Rueben Davis

Jul 29, 2013

Carl Ruben Davis was born December 11, 1936, in Tarkio, Missouri, to Orville and Alpha (Hughes) Davis. He passed away at his home with his family present, on Monday, July 29, 2013, at the age of 76 years, 7 months, and 13 days. Ruben served in the U.S. Air Force. He married Jessie Ann Barnes, on October 25, 1956, in...

Clara F. Stoner

Clara F. Stoner

Jul 28, 2013

Clara Frieda (Pieper) Stoner was born April 7, 1922 in rural Johnson country near Cook, NE to Charles and Hattie (Puppe) Pieper. She passed peacefully at the Good Samaritan Home in Syracuse on Sunday, July 28, 2013 at the age of 91 years, 3 months, and 21 days. Clara was married to Harland Ralph Stoner on March 7, 1941 in...

Willard W. Ropers

Willard W. Ropers

Jul 6, 2013

Willard W. Ropers, of Otoe, NE, was born on July 1, 1921 in Otoe, Nebraska to Albert & Alice (Paap) Ropers. He passed away on July 6, 2013 at the Syracuse Good Samaritan Center at the age of 92 years and 5 days. Willard married Dorothy Schutz on September 21, 1947 at St. John's Lutheran Church in Otoe, NE and...

Daniel Nicklen

Daniel Nicklen

Jul 6, 2013

Daniel Anthony Nicklen was born on February 28, 1927 to John Robert and Katherine Emma (Landgraf) Nicklen in Omaha, Nebraska He passed away on July 6, 2013 in Louisville at the age of 86 years, 4 months, and 9 days. Daniel married Donna Rae Willoughby on August 27, 1949. To this union, were born three children – David; Daniel, Junior;...

Robert "Bob" Donald Wagoner

Robert "Bob" Donald Wagoner

Jul 3, 2013

Robert Donald "Bob" Wagoner, was born March 16, 1924, in Ithaca, Nebraska, to Lester and Mae (Byers) Wagoner. He passed away, on Wednesday, July 03, 2013, at the age of 89 years, 3 months, and 17 days. Bob married Helen Ann Doan, on December 4, 1949, at the First United Methodist Church, Louisville, Nebraska and to this union they raised...

Joan "Joni" Carole Bro Brace

Joan "Joni" Carole Bro Brace

Jun 23, 2013

Joan (Joni) Carole (Bro) Brace, 57, of Syracuse, NE, died June 23, 2013 in Lincoln, NE. She was born January 11, 1956 in Syracuse, NE, to Ernest and Imogene Bro. She graduated from Syracuse-Dunbar-Avoca High School in 1974. She worked at NRD, Northern Natural Gas and was owner of Bits & Pieces Framing & Matting. She married Guy (Andy) Brace...

Earl Pietzyk

Earl Pietzyk

Jun 22, 2013

Earl Pietzyk, 90, of Syracuse, NE, was born on March 1, 1923 to Paul and Edith (Dohm) Pietzyk, in Toronto, South Dakota. Earl passed away June 22, 2013, in Syracuse, NE. He was a retired farmer and business man. In 1948, after his father passed away, he became a full time farmer and made it his life's work to be...

William F. Vogt

William F. Vogt

Jun 16, 2013

William F. Vogt age 89 of Unadilla, NE, was born October 10, 1923 to William H. & Martha (Luetchens) Vogt and raised on the family farm near Wabash, NE. He passed away at the Syracuse Good Samaritan Center on June 16, 2013 at the age of 89 years, 8 months, and 6 days. Bill graduated from Elmwood High School and...

Roby D Lamb

Roby D Lamb

Jun 9, 2013

Roby D. Lamb was born on January 23, 1933 in North Platte, Nebraska to Fred R. and Nina M. (Carey) Lamb. He passed away on Sunday, June 9, 2013 at the Good Samaritan Center in Syracuse, Nebraska at the age of 80 years, 4 months and 16 days. He was united in marriage on July 8, 1960 to Colleen F....

Richard "Rich" Reveillac

Richard "Rich" Reveillac

Jun 9, 2013

Richard Reveillac was born on July 30,1933 to John Martin and Elsie (Bornman) Reveillac at Louisville, Nebraska. He passed away on June 9, 2013 at the age of 79 years, 11 months, and 21 days. On December 11, 1965, Rich and Kari Thorsen were married in Omaha, Nebraska. To this union they raised three daughters – Debbie, Coreen, and Heidi....

Clarence Koester

Clarence Koester

Jun 9, 2013

Clarence Koester, 94 Retired farmer and businessman, Clarence Koester, died Sunday, June 9, 2013, at the Good Samaritan Center in Syracuse. Clarence was born to Fred and Anna (Seggebruch) Koester in Cissna Park, Illinois, on June 12, 1918. When Clarence was three, the family moved to Nebraska and settled on a farm northwest of Otoe. On April 30, 1941, Clarence...

Rose E. Bartling

Rose E. Bartling

Jun 3, 2013

Rose Eileen Bartling was born August 22, 1912, at home in rural Unadilla, Nebraska, to Henry D. and Edla A. (Van Meter) Stubbendieck. She passed away on Monday, June 3, 2013, at the Syracuse Good Samaritan Center, Syracuse, Nebraska, at the age of 100 years, 9 months and 12 days. Rose married Herman W. Bartling, on January 18, 1933, at...

Diana Vogler

Diana Vogler

May 29, 2013

Diana B. Vogler was born February 17, 1945, in Kearney, Nebraska, to Dick and Beryl (Clingerman) Arnold. She passed away on Wednesday, May 29, 2013, at the age of 68 years, 3 months, and 12 days. Diana married LeMar Vogler on January 6, 1968, in Lincoln, Nebraska, and from this union they raised two daughters, Barbara and Karen. She attended...

Irene D. Eden

Irene D. Eden

May 25, 2013

Irene was born July 18, 1917 at the Panko farm south of Burr, Nebraska in Otoe County. She passed away on May 25, 2013 at the Syracuse Good Samaritan Center. As an infant, she was baptized in the Lutheran faith by Pastor John Beckman. She was confirmed Rev. John Streng and continued her membership in Hope Lutheran Church until 1951...

Alverta Dorothy Ahl

Alverta Dorothy Ahl

May 23, 2013

Alverta D. Ahl, 95, of Louisville, Ne. died Thursday May 23rd. Preceded in death by husband Harry, parents John and Molly Wegener, and sister Jeanette Startzer. Survived by sons and daughters-in-law John and Janet Ahl of Milford, Ne. and Ken and Carol Ahl of Ralston, Ne. ; grandchildren Dennis (Janet) Ahl of Fairbury, Derek (Kerry) Ahl of LaVista, Denise Ahl...

Donna Kerans

Donna Kerans

May 21, 2013

Donna Kerans was born February 25, 1929, in St. Joseph, Missouri, to Waldon and Theodora (Fowler) Winters. She passed away on early Tuesday morning May 21, 2013, at Bergan Mercy Hopsital, in Omaha, Nebraska, at the age of 84 years, 2 months, and 26 days. She married Donald W. Kerans on February 1, 1946, in Nebraska City, Nebraska. To this...

David Henry Vogt

David Henry Vogt

May 19, 2013

David Vogt, age 61 of Lincoln, formerly of Elmwood, Nebraska, survived by his mother, Ethel Vogt Richert, brothers, Bruce, Richard, and Robert, sons Ben, Tim and daughter-in-law Christine and grandson Anderson, and son Christopher preceded in Death by his father Raymond Vogt Celebration of life for David Vogt, 7:00 pm Friday, May 24th, at the Red Cedar Social Hall, Elmwood,...

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