Marlan Duane Barstow
Oct 30, 2020
Marlan D. Barstow was born on July 6, 1927 in Larned, Kansas, to his parents Paul and Jennie (Gore) Barstow. He passed away on Friday, October 30, 2020 in Ainsworth, Nebraska. He grew up on the family farm near Macksville, Kansas. After graduating from Macksville High School, he attended Fort Hays State University. Marlan’s college career was interrupted by the...
Mr. Don E. Hollenbeck
Oct 17, 2020
Don Earl Hollenbeck was born August 13, 1935, to Beryl & Cathern Hollenbeck in Ainsworth, NE. He was raised on his family’s ranch southwest of Bassett. Don attended a one room schoolhouse for his grade school education and graduated from Rock County High School in 1953. Don was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1958. He received his basic training...
Norman D. Kurpjuweit
Sep 29, 2020
Norman Kurpjuweit was born September 20, 1945 in Long Pine, Nebraska to Fredreich Kurpjuweit and Hazel Freeman Kurpjuweit. He grew up in Ainsworth working on the farm with his father. He later moved to Norfolk, Nebraska where he worked for Clark Brothers Transfer from 1968 to 1971. He later moved to Wahoo, Nebraska where he met his wife Patricia Albertson....
Jamie R. Spanel
Sep 27, 2020
Heaven gained another angel. Jamie was a caring and dedicated son, brother, uncle and friend. Jamie Richard Spanel was born in Ainsworth, Nebraska on March 17, 1979. He attended grade school in Omaha and graduated from Millard South High School in 1997. Jamie enjoyed playing football and wrestling. He spent many summers in Brown County with his grandparents. Jamie was...
Larry D. May
Sep 27, 2020
Larry Douglas May was born on March 12, 1943 at Bassett, Nebraska to William H. and Rose V. (Sandall) May. He was the youngest of three children. He lived with the family until April 30, 1967 when he married Linda Nelson. They then moved to his mother’s homestead, where they spent the rest of his years. On February 27, 1971...
Mrs. Carolyn J. (Thurlow) Dillon
Sep 19, 2020
Carolyn Jean Dillon was born April 13, 1941 to Betty Jean (Oxner) and Ralph T. Thurlow in a house on the south side of Atkinson. She was not breathing, but the mid-wife, Maizie Cearns never gave up and revived Carolyn. Carolyn was a tough one. She started grade school at the age of four at District 21 in Rock County....
Eugene A. "Gene" Cosgrove
Sep 15, 2020
OBITUARY OF EUGENE “GENE” A. COSGROVE Gene Cosgrove was born October 16, 1941 to Frank T. and Grace J. (Koenig) Cosgrove in Stuart, NE. He was raised with his two brothers on a ranch five miles west of Bassett, NE. He attended a one-room schoolhouse for his grade school education and graduated from Rock County High in 1959. After graduation,...
Gloria C. (Gamble) Randall
Aug 30, 2020
Gloria C. Randall age 85 of Ainsworth passed away Sunday, (August 30, 2020) at the Brown County Hospital in Ainsworth. Inurnment will take place later this year in the Scott County Cemetery in Scott City, Kansas. Hoch Funeral Homes, Inc. will comply with the CDC and the State of Nebraska regarding Direct Health Measures pertaining to the Covid-19 situation. We...
Harry E. Swanson
Aug 15, 2020
Harry Eugene Swanson was born on Nov. 9, 1933, the second child of Elmer and Helen (Everingham) Swanson. He attended District #51 for grade school excluding his sixth grade when he attended the Rose School. He graduated from Rock County High School in 1951. After graduation he started his mechanic career in Bassett, Nebraska working at the Allis Chalmers dealership,...
Joan B. (Koch) Fredericksen
Aug 10, 2020
Joan B. (Koch) Fredericksen was born March 28, 1930 in Ainsworth, Nebraska and passed away August 10, 2020 at her home in Long Pine, Nebraska at the age of 90 years, four months and 13 days. She was raised in Johnstown, Nebraska by her grandparents, Iva and Jesse McDaniel. Joan attended Johnstown School. She met and married John Hoffman and...
John L Wright
Aug 8, 2020
*****PLEASE TAKE NOTE THAT THE GATHERING EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.***** John Lee Wright, 64, was born November 11, 1955 in Gordon, Nebraska to Leo and Loretta “Ret” (Hankins) Wright. John passed away Saturday, August 8, 2020 at his home in Bassett, Nebraska. John graduated from Hay Springs, Nebraska. He married his first wife Jody Feddersen in 1980. Together they had...
Ruth E. (Day) O'Hare
Jul 29, 2020
Ruth Edna Day was born March 15, 1926 to Harold and Ruby (Heeb) Day in Springview, Nebraska. She passed away at the Sandhills Care Center, in Ainsworth, Nebraska, on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 at the age of 94. The Day family moved from Brown County when she was a sophomore. Ruth started school in Johnstown, Nebraska where she met an...
Carl "Scott" Starkey
Jul 23, 2020
Carl "Scott" Starkey (72), of Ainsworth, NE hauled his last load on July 23, 2020 in Ainsworth, Nebraska. Scott was dispatched August 6th, 1947 in Spalding, NE to his parents Carl and Gwen (Peterson) Starkey. He graduated from Woodrow Wilson High in Tacoma, Washington in 1966, where he was a member of the rifle club throughout his high school years....
Karen L. (Christensen) Hansen
Jul 15, 2020
Karen Lea Hansen, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, July 15, 2020, at Lakeview Care and Rehabilitation Center in Grand Island, Nebraska. She was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 1, 1949, to Marlin and LaVerne (Doran) Christensen. In her early teen years, the family moved to Ainsworth, Nebraska where she graduated from Ainsworth High School in 1967. Karen returned to...
Dixie L (Boyd) Worth
Jul 4, 2020
Dixie Lou (Boyd, Freeman) Worth was born April 7, 1942 to Merlon and Irene (Bean) Boyd at Springview, NE. She was the fifth of eight children. Dixie passed away July 4, 2020 at the age of 78 at Long-Term Care, in Bassett, NE. Dixie attended grade school and high school at District 56 in Springview, NE. In her high school...
Glenna M. (Hickman) Spanel-Abbott
Jun 29, 2020
Glenna Abbott, 92, passed away at her home in Long Pine, NE on June 29, 2020. Glenna was born to Paul and Lillian (Roseberry) Hickman at home in Litchfield, NE on September 23, 1927. Glenna spent most of her youth in Custer County, attending a country school and graduating from Sargent High School in 1946. She attended college at Kearney...
Zak T. Palmer
Jun 22, 2020
Zak Taylor Palmer was born July 10, 2001 in Winner, SD to Bruce and Julie (Moody) Palmer. He passed away June 22, 2020 at the University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital in Minneapolis, MN. When he was born, two brothers, Justin and Ty, eagerly welcomed Zak home to show him some "brotherly" love. Zak was pretty sure the year he...
Kenneth R. Smith
Jun 21, 2020
Sandhills rancher, Ken Smith, passed away in his home surrounded by his family, on June 21, 2020. Kenneth Ray Smith was born on April 1, 1941 to Everett and Irene (Clapper) Smith, the seventh of eight children, in Ainsworth, Nebraska. He attended K-8th grade at Chain Lake School Dist. 19. He graduated from Ainsworth High School with the class of...
Earl H. Fernau
Jun 17, 2020
Earl Herbert Fernau was born April 28, 1928 at his Aunt Leti’s home in Ainsworth. He was the 9th of 14 children, eleven boys and three girls born to David and Ella (Wolcott) Fernau. Earl H. Fernau, 92, passed away Wednesday June 17th in Ainsworth NE. While still a young child, he had polio but with his many siblings helping...
Norma J. (Lurz) Waits
Jun 16, 2020
Norma Jean Waits a long time resident of Ainsworth, Nebraska earned her angel wings on June 16, 2020 at CHI Health Good Samaritan in Kearney, Nebraska at the age of 76 years old. She lost her 8 ½ year battle with many health issues. She was a courageous woman, a fighter, she was never one to give up on anything...
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