James R. "Jim" Stucker
May 14, 2024
James R. “Jim” Stucker was born May 30, 1952 in Hebron, Nebraska to James W. and Jean (Watson) Stucker. He passed away May 14, 2024 at the CHI Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney, NE at the age of 71 years. Jim received his education from Ainsworth High School, graduating with the class of 1970. On November 1, 1985, He was...
Violet Lavonne (Frederick) Coash-Briggs
May 14, 2024
Violet Lavonne Coash-Briggs was born on July 21st, 1929 in Beatrice, NE to Jesse L. and Blanche A. (Birch) Frederick. She spent her younger years growing up around Adams County before moving to her beloved Sandhills when her father took work on a ranch in Rock County. The rolling hills and singing birds would become her first love until she...
Cecelia R. (McDaniel) Shaw
May 13, 2024
Cecelia Rae McDaniel was born July 24, 1932 to Vernon and Gladyce McDaniel at the Brown County Hospital in Ainsworth, NE. Cecelia passed from this earth into her Savior’s loving arms at the age of 91 on May 13, 2024 at the Arbor Care Center in O’Neill, NE, where she had resided since August of 2020.
Cecelia spent her elementary...
Emogene Whitten
May 9, 2024
Emogene Whitten, devoted wife, mother, grandmother and friend, sewed a life legacy of family, Christian service to others, creativity and a fun element of spunkiness. She entered her heavenly home on Thursday, May 9, after a short battle with cancer. The threads of her life began November 16, 1930 in Rayville, Missouri, born to Eula Beryl Happy and Robert...
Sharron E. (Eckhout) Jochem
May 7, 2024
Sharron Evonne Jochem, 84, of Ainsworth, NE, passed away on May 7, 2024, at the Brown County Hospital in Ainsworth.
Sharron was born on May 5, 1940, in Kearney, NE. When she was only one hour old, she was adopted by Charles A. and Mabel A. (Curlile) Eckhout. Welcoming her to the family were an older stepsister and stepbrother, Norma and...
Robert Ray Hutton
May 6, 2024
Robert “Bob” Ray Hutton was born at home on August 3, 1938 to Elwin B. and Hope L. (Turpin) Hutton on the old Beck place northwest of Newport, Nebraska. Bob attended school at Mariaville, Nebraska through the 8th grade. After that time, Bob helped his folks on the farm and later he was a hired...
Lorris C. "Larry" Rice
Apr 21, 2024
Lorris “Larry” Clark Rice was born at his family home on January 5, 1938 in Pickering, MO to Champ and Sylvia (Baldwin) Rice. He passed away peacefully at home in Ainsworth, NE surrounded by family on April 21, 2024.
The youngest of four children, Larry grew up on a small farm north of Pickering. Larry’s sister, Shirley, recalled that he was...
Maynard E. Harr
Apr 6, 2024
Funeral Service for Maynard E. Harr age 93 of Ainsworth, NE will he held on Friday (April 12, 2024) at 10:30 AM in the Ainsworth United Methodist Church. Burial with Military Honors by Ainsworth American Legion Post #79 will follow in the Ainsworth Cemetery. Maynard Harr died Saturday (April 6, 2024) at his home in Ainsworth.
SURVIVORS INCLUDE:
Wife: Twyla Harr of...
Carol J. (Montgomery) Berg
Mar 29, 2024
Carol J. Berg, 87, of Bassett, NE passed away on March 29, 2024 at the Rock County Hospital at Bassett.
Carol was born on July 15, 1936 to Russell Burnham Montgomery and Helen Cowles Black in Cook County, IL. She grew up in Bellwood, a suburb of Chicago. She and her younger sister Judy attended Proviso High School, and Carol...
Carole M. (Gilliland) Witt
Mar 29, 2024
Carole Marie (Gilliland) Witt, was born on December 10, 1944 in Ainsworth, NE to Ralph and Delia (Morton) Gilliland. Carole passed away Friday, March 29, 2024, at the age of 79, surrounded by loving family at her daughter’s home in Valentine, NE. She succumbed to an ongoing battle with Parkinson’s disease.
Carole attended school in Ainsworth where she met...
Mary E. (Harris) Daniels
Mar 25, 2024
Mary Elizabeth (Harris) Daniels was born in 1932 in Rogers, Arkansas to Samuel Roger and Cora (Williams) Harris. She passed away on Monday, March 25, 2024 at the Rock County Hospital Long Term Care in Bassett, Nebraska at the age of 91 years six months and 19 days.
Mary grew up...
Thomas O. "Tom" Strand
Mar 24, 2024
Thomas Oli Strand was born on February 1, 1961, to Shep and Elizabeth (Slattery) Strand in Ainsworth, Nebraska and passed away on March 24, 2024, at the Winner Regional Hospital in Winner, South Dakota.
Tom grew up in Ainsworth and in 1983, he married Patsy Denny of Newport, Nebraska. To this union three daughters were born: Jessica, Ashly...
Richard M. Crooker
Mar 21, 2024
OBITUARY OF RICHARD M. CROOKER
Richard M. “Dick” Crooker was born on August 6, 1952, to Claude and Alta (Anderson) Crooker in Broken Bow, NE. He passed away Thursday, March 21, 2024 at the Rock County Hospital in Bassett, NE. Dick was the youngest of his 12 siblings. He married Marilyn M. Jines on August 24, 1979 in Ainsworth, NE...
Dale Caskey
Mar 17, 2024
Dale Caskey was born July 23, 1930, to Johnson and Frances (Finch) Caskey in Venus, NE, 13 miles west of Creighton, NE. He was delivered at home by his grandmother, Lillian Caskey. In 1932, he moved with his folks and older brother Clarence north of Valentine, NE. A sister Betty, joined the family in 1940. Dale was in the 5th...
Nellie E. (Jackson) Johnson
Mar 15, 2024
Nellie (Jackson) Johnson was born to R.A. (Dick) and Josephine Maye (Wheeler) Jackson on a farm southeast of Ainsworth, NE on May 3rd, 1929 and passed away March 15th, 2024 at the Sandhills Care Center.
When Nellie was about two years old, they moved to Ainsworth where she attended school and graduated in 1946. On June 26th of that same...
Gregory E. Bammerlin
Feb 18, 2024
Gregory E. Bammerlin, age 75, of Mills, NE, passed away peacefully at his home on Sunday, February 18, 2024.He is survived by his daughters, Chera Sisson and husband Jeff of Ainsworth, NE, Chana Orton and husband Jason of Mills, and Alicia Bammerlin and husband Bob Schieffer of Boelus, NE; grandchildren, Caitlin Orton of Grand Island, NE, Raden Orton of Mills,...
Dennis D. Pfister
Feb 17, 2024
Dennis D. Pfister was born in Bassett, NE to Lawrence F. and Guila M. (Lewis) Pfister on January 27, 1950. After graduating from Rock County High School in 1968, he studied mechanics at Milford Trade School. In 1971, he married his childhood friend Elaine McDermott in Garden City, KS where he was working as a mechanic at Berry Tractor. They...
A. Darline (Minshall) Blake
Feb 3, 2024
Agnes “Darline” (Minshall) Blake died peacefully at her home in Bassett, NE on February 3, 2024 at the age of 91 years. Darline was born in Rock County, NE on April 30, 1932 to Walter “Guy” Minshall and Agnes (Kleckner) Minshall. Darline was the oldest daughter of the seven Minshall children. Her childhood was spent helping her mother with the...
Madeline 'Lynn" K. (Cook) Strelow
Jan 19, 2024
Lynn Kay Strelow, age 81 of Bassett, NE passed away on Friday, January 19, 2024 at the Rock County Hospital in Bassett. She was born on September 9, 1942 at Bloomfield, NE to Milford and Evelyn (Downie) Cook. She was the oldest with one brother, Dennis Cook and three half-sisters, Lisa Burkinshaw, Shelly Boyles and Carma Kluthe. Lynn attended grade...
Marvel M. (McCoy) Forgey
Jan 13, 2024
Marvel Mae McCoy, born October 3, 1937, in Springview, Nebraska, peacefully passed away January 13, 2024 in Bassett, Nebraska at the age of 86. She was the first-born daughter of Robert Francis and Hilda Mae (Rinehart) McCoy following seven (six living) sons. Two years later, her sister, Fern Kay, completed the family.Marvel attended District #56 grade school in Springview and...
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