Mr. Alfred E. "Al" "Shippy" Schipporeit
Jul 26, 2017
Alfred Ernest "Shippy" Schipporeit, age 87, passed away July 26, 2017 at Brookstone View in Broken Bow, Nebraska. Al was born on the Schipporeit Ranch north of Brewster, Nebraska in German Valley, May 21, 1930 to Ernest and Bertha (Weihs) Schipporeit. Al was baptized and confirmed at St. John's Lutheran Church in German Valley. After starting his education in a...
Mr. Jerry M. Focken
Jul 17, 2017
Jerry Myron Focken, was born at Atkinson, Nebraska on January 8, 1955, to Don and Beulah (Brainard) Focken. He was the third of five children. Jerry attended Kirkwood Country School north of Newport, Nebraska and later graduated from Rock County High School in 1973. On a cold night in December of 1974, he met the love of his life, Peggy...
Mrs. June D. (Snelson) Kelly
Jul 14, 2017
June Kelly was born on February 10, 1927 at Ewing, Nebraska to Emel and Iva (Goodwin) Snelson. She graduated from Long Pine, Nebraska on May of 1944. June was married to Paul Laughead in 1945, and two children were born, Paul and Renda. The marriage ended in a divorce. June later married Leslie Kelly on December 18, 1954 at Long...
Mrs. Peggy A. (Wiley) Larson
Jun 21, 2017
Peggy Ann (Wiley) Larson was born February 7, 1934 in Burton, Nebraska to Lucille (Lewis) and Louis Wiley. She passed away at the Rock County Long Term Care on June 21, 2017 at the age of 83. The Wewela, South Dakota and Burton, areas are where Peggy spent her childhood. She attended rural schools and graduated in the class of...
Mrs. Twila Mae (Diehl) Kepler
Jun 21, 2017
Twila Mae (Diehl) Kepler was born May 1, 1924 to Wilbur and Pearl (Cameron) Diehl at Pawnee County, Nebraska, and passed away on June 21, 2017 at the Rock County Hospital Long Term Care in Bassett. Twila's family moved back to Rock County and she graduated from Rock County High School. She taught for two years in country schools in...
Mr. Brian D. "Fuzzy" Gaskins
Jun 21, 2017
Brian Dean Gaskins was born on March 18, 1962 in Ainsworth, Nebraska. His parents were Orville and Opal (Allen) Gaskins. Brian passed away on Wednesday, June 21, 2017 at his home west of Ainsworth at the age of 55 years. Brian spent most of his life in Brown County, living south of Ainsworth as a small child and later just...
Mrs. Carlean Mae (Nordstrom) Stern
Jun 13, 2017
Carlean Mae Stern was born a twin on March 30, 1937 to Eddie and Alta (Burdick) Nordstrom at Winner, South Dakota. She and her twin brother Carl, had an older brother, Edward, and a younger brother, Robert. She left to go to her heavenly home on June 13, at the Winner Regional Health Care Facility at Winner, South Dakota at...
Mrs. Louise Ann (Weber) "LouAnn" Williams
Jun 12, 2017
Louise Ann "LouAnn" (Weber) Williams was born at home on May 26, 1937 in Butte, Nebraska to Minnie (Tiefenthaler) Weber and Raymond J. Weber. She passed away Monday, June 12, 2017 at Great Plains Regional Medical Center in North Platte, Nebraska at the age of 80 years. LouAnn attended Saints Peter and Paul Catholic grade school and graduated from Butte...
Mrs. A. Voy Alderman
May 27, 2017
Voy Alderman of Bassett, Nebraska was born September 27, 1916 in Springview, Nebraska to Harry and Ella (Williams) Carr, and passed away Saturday, May 27, 2017 at the Rock County Long Term Care in Bassett, Nebraska at the age of 100 years and eight months. Her dad nicknamed her "Topsy" and her six siblings always referred to her as "Tops."...
Mr. George M. Hipke
May 16, 2017
George Hipke passed away Tuesday, May 16th at the Sandhills Care Center in Ainsworth, at the age of 101. George Maurice Hipke was born Nov. 26, 1915 at Clarks, Nebraska, the third of eleven children born to Roy William and Sophia Charlotte (Zwiebel) Hipke. At a young age, his family moved to Holt County where he grew to adulthood. George...
Mr. James A. "Jim" Carr
May 10, 2017
James "Jim" Amaniuel Carr was born on March 1,1935 in Springview, Nebraska to Fred and Edna Lucille (Boshart) Carr. He joined an older brother, John. Jim grew up in the Springview area, graduating from Keya Paha High School in 1953. He then went to the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. He received his Bachelors of Science in Business Administration and...
Mrs. Audrey E. (Brewer) Christensen
May 1, 2017
Audrey Ellen (Brewer) Christensen was born on April 28, 1927 in Ainsworth, Nebraska to Bertha C. (Roach) and Lloyd H. Brewer. When she was nine years old the family moved to Forest Grove, Oregon due to her father's ill health. (Her youngest brother, Ronald E., was born while living in Oregon.) Audrey attended the fifth grade in Oregon, after which...
Mrs. Evelyn L. (Irwin) Allen
Apr 29, 2017
Evelyn Louise (Irwin) Allen was born on September 9, 1932 at Ainsworth, Nebraska to Mark and Rachel (Wigent) Irwin. She graduated from Ainsworth High School in 1950 and went on to teach one year at a rural school. Evelyn worked as a waitress for a short time. While roller skating in Long Pine, Nebraska she met Wayne Allen and were...
Mrs. Karen M. "Peg" Raymond
Apr 25, 2017
Karen Margaret "Peg" Raymond was the youngest of three daughters born to Thora (Heggelund) and Bateson Kimball, on February 2, 1940, in Gregory, South Dakota. She graduated from Gregory High School in 1958 and the University of South Dakota in 1962 with a Bachelor's Degree in Education. She taught English and Business in Milbank, South Dakota for several years. On...
Ms. Jessica Tate (Hempel) Anderson
Apr 20, 2017
Jessica Tate (Hempel) Anderson, age 43 of Ainsworth, Nebraska, passed away April 20, 2017, at Faith Regional Health Services in Norfolk, Nebraska. She was born April 3, 1974, in Ainsworth, Nebraska, to Richard and Anita Hempel. Jessica grew up with an older sister (Julie) and younger brother (Jared) in Long Pine, Nebraska, where she attended grade school and junior high....
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...
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