Faye E. (Bennett) Saar
Aug 12, 2021
Faye E. (Bennett) Saar was born March 16, 1949 in Bassett, Nebraska to Dallas R. Bennett and Lois N. (Krause) Bennett. She graduated from Rock County High School in 1967 and spent two years at Kearney State College. She married Gary Saar on June 7, 1969 at Bassett. Two children were born to this union, Jayme and Jered. She was...
Ann (Arnold) Vaughan
Aug 8, 2021
Hannelore “Ann” (Arnold) Vaughan was born on March 7, 1928 in Frankfurt, Germany to Heinrich and Friederike (Dietz) Arnold. Ann passed away on Sunday, (August 8, 2021) at the Rock County Hospital Long Term Care Center in Bassett, Nebraska. Ann grew up in a war torn Germany where she attended twelve years of year-round public school. She received special training...
Genevieve F. (Dillon) Lackaff
Aug 8, 2021
Genevieve Florence (Dillon) Lackaff was born on her parents’ cattle ranch in rural Brown County to J. Hall and Florence (Hughes) Dillon on May 24, 1925, and died at Rock County Hospital Long-Term Care in Bassett, Nebraska, on August 8, 2021. Her one sibling was her brother, Kenneth, six and a half years older. Genny attended Long Pine High School...
Edith Ann (Crist) Jefferis
Aug 4, 2021
Edith Ann Jefferis was born on May 10, 1952 in Ainsworth, Nebraska to Theodore C. and Ethel C. (Herbaugh) Crist. She grew up on a ranch south of Ainsworth and attended the Raven School. Her family moved to town in 1965 where she attended Ainsworth High School, graduating with the class of 1972. Edith passed away on August 4, 2021...
Patricia A. (Mattern) Van Winkle
Aug 4, 2021
Patricia A. (Mattern) Van Winkle, 85, of Ord, Nebraska, formerly of Ainsworth, Nebraska, passed away at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney, Nebraska on August 4, 2021. Pat was born July 19, 1936, at Hyannis, Nebraska. She was the daughter of Donald and Hazel (Burgess) Mattern, and was the middle child of three. Pat graduated from Burwell High School in...
Daniel Lee Beasley
Jul 31, 2021
Daniel (Dan) Beasley passed away in Ainsworth, Nebraska on July 31, 2021 at the age of 87. Dan was born March 20, 1934 in Maud, Texas to James and Phoebe (Stinson) Beasley. Dan grew up in Texas during his formative years. He enlisted in the Navy in 1954 during the Korea Conflict serving on various ships. After his discharge in...
Betty J. (Brown) Christensen
Jul 26, 2021
Betty June (Brown) Christensen was born June 19, 1927 to James Price Brown III and Lena E. (Bishop) Brown at Newport, NE and went to her Heavenly home on July 26, 2021 at the Rock County Hospital in Bassett, NE. Betty attended school at the Mariaville School then Bassett High School and graduated from Newport High School in 1945. She...
Chad B. Stec
Jul 26, 2021
Chad Brandon Stec (44) was born on June 17, 1977 in Lexington, Nebraska and died of complications from a severe infection at his home in Bassett, Nebraska on July 26, 2021. Chad was the second child born to Richard John Stec and Susan Kay (Coleman) Stec Brewer. He began school in Lexington, NE and completed his education in the Cozad...
Philomenia O. (Gesiriech) Pape
Jul 12, 2021
Philomenia Olive Pape, 94, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, peacefully passed into the arms of Jesus on Monday, July 12, 2021, at her home in Longwood, Florida. Philomenia was born in Newport, Nebraska on July 1, 1927, as one of twelve children to the union of Goldie Dorsey and John Gesiriech. She was in the middle of the pack...
Michael Ray Leicher
Jul 8, 2021
Michael Ray Leicher, beloved husband of Carolyn Joan (Gauthreaux) Leicher passed away peacefully at home in Ainsworth Nebraska, surrounded by his family on July 8, 2021 at the age of 72. Michael was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on December 6, 1948. He was raised in Long Beach, California, spending his summers in Louisiana. After graduation from high school, he...
Wayne E. Mattern
Jun 30, 2021
Wayne Edwin Mattern was born March 8, 1935 at Hyannis, Nebraska and passed away on Wednesday, June 30, 2021 at the Brown County Hospital in Ainsworth, Nebraska at the age of 86 years. He was the son of Don and Hazel (Burgess) Mattern, and was a brother to sisters Patricia Van Winkle and Judith Hearn. His grade school years were...
John P. LeMay
Jun 28, 2021
John Patrick LeMay was born in 1949 at the American military base in Guayaquil, Ecuador to Wilfred Herman and Violeta Elena (Allen) LeMay. He passed away at the Sandhills Care Center in Ainsworth, NE on June 28, 2021 at the age of 71 years from complications of a broken hip. As a child, John moved from one country to another...
Virginia A. (Thiede) Sylva
Jun 19, 2021
Virginia was born June 13, 1935 at home, on a ranch near Burton, Nebraska to Louis H. and Frieda J. (Hoffman) Thiede. She was the youngest of two daughters. She passed away on June 19, 2021 at the Brown County Hospital in Ainsworth, Nebraska. Virginia’s first schooling was at Jordan Valley District 62 and later graduated in 1953 from Keya...
Geneva M. (Kirk) Davis
Jun 9, 2021
Geneva Madeline Kirk Davis was born April 16, 1925 in Mullen NE and graduated to her eternal home on June 9, 2021. She was the daughter of Estes and Grace (Palmer) Kirk and sister to Kenneth Kirk. The family moved near Vetal, SD when Geneva was age 3 and then to Rock County, NE in 1937. She attended Dist. #44,...
Ralph Clarence Davis
May 31, 2021
Ralph Clarence Davis age 82 passed away May 31, 2021. Ralph was born on February 19, 1939 in Ainsworth, Nebraska to Clarence A. Davis and Lola Faye (Wheeler) Davis. The family lived on the farm northeast of Ainsworth. Ralph worked alongside his father on their farm until he was old enough to venture out on his own to other farmers....
Joe L. Giles
May 21, 2021
Joseph Lawrence Giles was born April 14, 1926, at the family ranch 1/2 mile west of Elsmere, Nebraska to Charles M. and Astrid E. (Stav) Giles. He was delivered by a midwife, Mrs. Paul Huffman. Joe began working in the hayfield at the age of seven with a team of horses and continued to work well into his 90s at...
Darby Randall Cook Sr.
May 8, 2021
Darby Randall Cook Sr. was born in Ord, Nebraska to Dennis R. Cook and Susan E. (Ford) Cook on December 4, 1970. He joined his older brother Dennis R. (Rod) on the ranch in Taylor, Nebraska where they lived until 1973. The family then moved to Johnstown, Nebraska. A sister, Elizabeth joined the family in 1975. The boys loved to...
Yvonne M. (Marlatt) Reyman
May 5, 2021
Yvonne “Vonnie” Marie Reyman was born on July 18, 1936 in Ainsworth, Nebraska to Marie A. Esterly and Wilson Marlatt. Vonnie passed away May 5, 2021 at the age of 84 in Lincoln, Nebraska. She was surrounded by her husband, Ret. U.S. Army Major Claude Lou Reyman and daughter, Ret. U.S. Army Colonel Lynda Marie Granfield. Claude and Vonnie had...
F. Lorene (Hayden) Kernan
May 1, 2021
Lorene (Hayden) Kernan was born at Blackbird, Nebraska (North Holt Co.) on July 5, 1921 to Bertha (Rouse) and James R. Hayden. She passed away on May 1, 2021 at the age of 99 years at the Rock County Hospital Long Term Care Center in Bassett, Nebraska. As a small child she lived in Nebraska and Colorado. She grew up...
Donald Engle Allen
Apr 24, 2021
Donald Engle Allen was born December 23, 1922 in the Allen Family sod house in Brown County, Nebraska and passed away on April 24th, 2021 in Del Rio, Texas. He was the fourth child of his parents Fred Albert Allen and Mabel Henrietta (Hewitt) Allen. Doctors Hewitt, Don’s grandparents, attended to Don’s birth and to those of his three siblings....
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