Ray G. Anderson
Apr 26, 2013
Ray G. Anderson, 82 of Syracuse passed away at home surrounded by family on Friday April 26, 2013. He was born on October 9, 1930 to Charles & Edna (Cooper) Anderson in Hartington, Nebraska. Ray married Minnie Benning on November 1, 1953 in Randolph, Nebraska and to this union they had 14 children. He served in the Marines for 2...
William "Bill" O. Petersen
Apr 24, 2013
William "Bill" Petersen was born on January 8, 1921 to Herman & Anna (Grundman) Petersen in rural Johnson County. He passed away on Wednesday April 24, 2013 at the Syracuse Good Samaritan Center at the age of 92 years, 3 months, and 16 days. Bill joined the Army on August 15, 1942 and was sent to Washington D.C. where he...
Robert Albert Fred Kirchhoff
Apr 21, 2013
Robert Albert Fred Kirchhoff, age 74 of Avoca, NE died peacefully at his home surrounded by family and being well taken care of by Tabitha hospice on April 21, 2013. Robert was born on September 10, 1938 in Rural Weeping Water, NE to Fred John & Caroline Emma Sophie (Ludwig) Kirchhoff. Robert graduated from Avoca High School in 1956 where...
Gladys C. Kruse
Apr 16, 2013
Gladys C. Kruse was born January 21, 1909, rural Syracuse. The daughter of William J. and Clara (Zahn) Kruse, Syracuse. She passed away Tuesday April 16, 2013 at the Syracuse Good Samaritan Center. She was a retired elementary teacher who taught in rural schools of Otoe County and Unadilla and Lorton for 45 years. She was a lifelong member of...
Doratha B. Gross
Apr 16, 2013
Doratha Gross was born August 23, 1912 in rural Burr, Nebraska to Charles & Minnie (Neemann) Gross. She passed away on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 at the Syracuse Community Memorial Hospital at the age of 100 years, 7 months and 23 days. Doratha worked in personal home health care in Syracuse, Nebraska. She was a member of the Easter Star...
Glen William Stubbendick
Apr 4, 2013
Glen William Stubbendick, age 88, of Syracuse passed away peacefully surrounded by family on Thursday, April 4, 2013, at Community Memorial Hospital in Syracuse, Nebraska. Glen was born on January 6, 1925 in rural Avoca, Nebraska to Henry & Clara (Hauschild) Stubbendick. Glen married Margaret Berner on June 5, 1946 at First Lutheran Church and to this union they raised...
Gary Lee Knutson
Mar 22, 2013
Gary Lee Knutson, was born July 20, 1942, in Omaha, NE, to Eugene & Eunice (Brown) Knutson. He passed away, March 22, 2013 at his home in Phoenix, AZ, at the age of 70 years, 8 months, and 2 days. Gary, after graduating from Louisville High School, was a member of the United States Air Force from 1961 until 1964....
Francis Neumann
Mar 20, 2013
Francis Neumann was born June 27, 1929, on the Farm, near Louisville, Nebraska, to William & Lydia (Stohlmann) Neumann. He died on Wednesday, March 20, 2013, at the Louisville Assisted Living Center, Louisville, Nebraska, at the age of 83 years, 8 months, and 21 days.
Francis married Donna Mae Dagerman, on November 12, 1950, in Papillion, Nebraska .They celebrated...
Herman F. Sickmann
Mar 10, 2013
Herman Frederick Garhard Sickmann was born on October 31, 1914 at Phillipsburg, Kansas to Gottlieb Herman Sickmann and Mary Magdalena (Warnken) Sickmann. He passed away on Sunday, March 10, 2013 at the Louisville Care Center at the age of 98 years, 4 months, and 10 days. Herman married Velma Dagmar June Borjeson on December 23, 1945 at Weeping Water, Nebraska....
Laverta Marie Meta Hillman Heusman Van Winkle Emshoff
Mar 9, 2013
LaVerta Marie Meta Hillman Heusman Van Winkle Emshoff was born August 10, 1928 on the family farm near Otoe, NE. She passed away on Saturday March 9, 2013 at the Good Samaritan Center in Syracuse, NE. She was the 11th child of Anna Ottens Hillman and Fritz Hillman. She was baptized September 11, 1928 and confirmed on May 10, 1942...
Mary Kay Kirby
Mar 9, 2013
Mary Kay Kirby was born in Endicott, Nebraska, on August 30, 1935, to Richard and Helen (Jones) DeVries. She passed away on Saturday, March 9, 2013, at Bryan Medical Center, Lincoln, Nebraska, at the age of 77 years, 6 months, and 9 days. Mary Kay married Raymond Kirby, on August 25, 1960, in Palmyra, Nebraska, and to this uion they...
Verla Mae Probst
Mar 5, 2013
Verla Probst was born February 8, 1925, in Greenwood, Nebraska, to Carl and Sara (Lau) Kupke. She passed away, March 5, 2013, at the Life Care Center, in Elkhorn, Nebraska, at the age of 88 years, and 25 days. Verla was confirmed June 18, 1939 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Murdock, Nebraska, and graduated from Ashland High School in 1943....
Evelyn Pearl Gerking
Mar 2, 2013
Evelyn Pearl Gerking of Cook, Nebraska was born on April 12, 1919 in Rural Burr, Nebraska to Ben & Mary (Homier) Spanjer. She passed away at Belle Terrace in Tecumseh, Nebraska on Saturday March 2, 2013 at the age of 93 years, 10 months, and 18 days. Evelyn married Charles Gerking on September 15, 1940 in Cook, Nebraska and to...
Joycelin G. Schacht
Feb 20, 2013
Joycelin (Joycie) Gayle Schacht, 60, of Beatrice died Wed., Feb. 20, 2013 at her home at the Beatrice State Developmental Center, surrounded by loving care givers. She was born March 12, 1952 in Nebraska City to Marvin and Vivian (Vermule) Schacht. She is survived by her sisters: Diane Schacht of Syracuse and Anita (Ron) Bowman of Hooper; nieces, Elizabeth (Ken)...
Delbert H. Heather
Feb 14, 2013
Delbert H. Heather was born on May 9, 1919 in Rural Syracuse, Nebraska to Harry & Mollie (Walker) Heather. He passed away on February 14, 2013 at St. Mary's Hospital in Nebraska City, Nebraska at the age of 93 years, 9 months, and 5 days. Delbert married Marie Halvorsen on February 8, 1941 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Delbert was a farmer...
Martha Maxene Winingham
Feb 14, 2013
Martha Winingham was born June 26, 1929, in St. Deroin, Nebraska to John & Edna (Conover) Foster. She left us on Thursday, February 14, 2013, at her home in Louisville, Nebraska, at the age of 83 years, 7 months, and 19 days. Martha married James Houston Winingham, on October 22, 1947, in Plattsmouth, Nebraska, and to this union they raise...
J.C. Nisely
Feb 13, 2013
J.C. Nisely was born on May 27, 1927 in North Platte, Nebraska to John Francis Nisely & Sarah Katherine Harvison. He passed away on February 13, 2013 at the Syracuse Good Samaritan Center in Syracuse, Nebraska at the age of 85 years, 8 months, and 17 days. J.C. started school in Sunnyside Washington and graduated from North Platte High School...
Vernon V. Warnke
Feb 2, 2013
Vernon V. Warnke was born November 28, 1926 at Cook, Nebraska to William R. & Mary (Stiehl) Warnke. He passed away on February 2, 2013 at Bryan East Hospital in Lincoln, Nebraska at the age of 86 years, 2 months and 5 days. When Vernon was younger he learned to play the guitar, banjo and harmonica and always dreamed of...
Roger Leroy Cram
Jan 28, 2013
Roger Leroy Cram was born August 13, 1942, in Oakland, Nebraska, to Clyde E. and Ethyl Mary (Miller) Cram. Roger passed away at the Rehab Center, in Omaha, NE, on Monday, January 28, 2013 at the age of 70 years, 5 months, and 15 days. Roger had many important people in his life - three children Chad, Deanne, and Douglas,...
Gene H. Scheef
Jan 27, 2013
* Visitation on Wednesday January 30 in Burr has been CANCELED due to the Weather * Eugene H. Scheef was born September 14, 1931 to Harry and Erna (Henning) Scheef at Gretna, Nebraska. He was the second child and first-born son. Gene was baptized and confirmed at the Gretna Lutheran Church. They had a dairy farm on the edge of...