John "Jack" F. Callaway
Sep 17, 2022
On Saturday, September 17, 2022, John F. (Jack) Callaway, loving husband and father of three, passed away at the age of 79, at Brown County Hospital. John (Jack) was born August 18, 1943 iOn San Bassett, NE to Connie and Margaret (Bruns) Callaway. After high school he worked for Nebraska Department of Roads, mostly the western part of the interstate,...
Ruth C. (Norlin) Goodrich
Sep 16, 2022
Ruth Christine (Norlin) Goodrich was the only living daughter of Carl Curtis and Francis (Carlson) Norlin. She was born on July 28, 1944, in Chadron, NE and passed away on September 16, 2022, at the Brown County Hospital in Ainsworth, NE. Ruth was the daughter of a Methodist minister and was baptized at the Chadron Methodist Church on October 22,...
Gretchen C. Swinney
Aug 29, 2022
Gretchen C. Swinney, age 68, of Bassett, NE passed away Monday, August 29, 2022, at Methodist Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska. She was born August 24, 1954, in Ainsworth, NE to Howard and Leona (Kaufman) Swinney. Gretchen was the eldest of four children. She grew up on a small ranch in Rock County helping her dad with milking cows and feeding...
Rosalie Lucy (De Wachter) Vargason
Aug 19, 2022
R. Lucy (De Wachter) Vargason was born September 12, 1924 in Brussels, Belgium and passed away on August 19, 2022 at Brookstone Acres in Columbus, Nebraska at the age of 97 years, eleven months and seven days. Lucy was united in marriage to Elmer K. Vargason on March 13, 1946 in Brussels where they had a son, Steve. Lucy worked...
Donna L. (Rogers) Keim
Aug 19, 2022
Donna Keim was born June 23, 1932 to Harry and Leota (Jarmin) Rogers at Waco, NE and passed away Friday, August 19, 2022 at the Brown County Hospital in Ainsworth. She attended grade school and high school in Brown County, graduating from Ainsworth High School with the class of 1950. Donna married Duane Keim on May 19, 1951 and to...
Zelda M. (Yenglin) Moore
Aug 9, 2022
Zelda Mae (Yenglin) Moore passed away August 9, 2022 at Rock County Hospital Long Term Care in Bassett, NE, at the age of 82 years. She was born on February 22, 1940, to Maford and Aileen (Malone) Yenglin north of Crookston, NE. She joined two sisters, Freda and Mary for several years. The three of them later welcomed a brother,...
Elizabeth A. "Annie" (Bates) Pike
Aug 5, 2022
Elizabeth Ann (Bates) Pike, age 61 of Long Pine, Nebraska, passed away Friday, August 5, 2022 at the Brown County Hospital in Ainsworth. A Private Graveside Memorial Service will be held at a later date in the Evergreen Cemetery at Loup City, Nebraska. Elizabeth was born on December 6, 1960 to Buster Darby Bates and Mary Louise (Bydalek) Bates in...
Carroll Eugene "Gene" Turpin
Jul 27, 2022
Carroll Eugene Turpin was born September 21, 1948 at Valentine, Nebraska to Harold Clinton and Rose C. (Koralewski) Turpin. He died July 27, 2022 at the Rock County Hospital in Bassett, Nebraska at the age of 73 years. “Gene” was raised in rural Rock County. Growing up, he helped his dad on the farm. He graduated from Rock County High...
David R. Fischer
Jul 12, 2022
A Private Memorial Graveside Service will be held at a later date in the Bassett Memorial Park Cemetery.
George G. Brock
Jul 8, 2022
George Goffery Brock, 78 of Raymond, Mississippi passed peacefully on July 8, 2022 at Hospice Ministries in Ridgeland, Mississippi, with family by his side. George, first child of John Edward and Bernadine E. (Trent) Brock born on May 31, 1944 in Taylor (Loup County), Nebraska. George grew up on the Shovel Dot Ranch in Rose, Nebraska, where his family engaged...
Gary George Green
Jun 27, 2022
On the morning of June 27th 2022, Gary G. Green passed away in his home in Bassett, Nebraska at the age of 77 years. Gary was born to Dale and Dorine (Coleman) Green on March 11, 1945 at Kilgore, Nebraska. He was raised in Cody, Nebraska where he grew up ranching with his family and participated in sports and rodeo....
Roger W Keisler
Jun 4, 2022
EULOGY WRITTEN BY LISA KEISLER Roger W. Keisler was born on October 4th, 1968 at Lexington, SC and was taken from us much too soon, on June 4th, 2022 at Ainsworth, Nebraska. There is so much that has happened between those two dates, and there is simply no way I could possibly reiterate the life Roger led today. Roger was...
Garth G. Swett
May 21, 2022
Garth Garrett Swett was born June 14, 1991 in Bassett, Nebraska to Steve and Ellen (Kast) Swett. He died May 21, 2022 at O’Neill, Nebraska at the age of 30. Garth grew up in Long Pine, Nebraska with his two older sisters Amanda “Mandy” (Swett) Turpin and RanDell Swett. From a young age Garth was the “wild child” of the...
Thomas E. Collin
May 13, 2022
Thomas Eugene Collin was born July 13, 1940 at Aitkin, MN to Arthur Eugene and Vera Illeen (Mulvihill) Collin. He passed away Friday, May 13, 2022 at the Rock County Hospital in Bassett, NE at the age of 81 years and ten months. Tom grew up in Cloquet, MN. He graduated from Garfield Elementary School there. The family moved to...
Kay Lynn (Madsen) Classen
May 7, 2022
Kay Lynn Classen passed away on Saturday, May 7, 2022 at CHI Health-Good Samaritan in Kearney, Nebraska. Cremation will take place There will be no services held locally.
Doris A. (Anderson) Hughes
Apr 27, 2022
Doris “Dorie” Anderson Hughes, after recently celebrating her 99th birthday at the Rock County Care Center in Bassett, quietly and peacefully passed into her new life on April 27, 2022. Dorie and her late husband “Bill” were married February 8, 1941 and raised their family in the Ainsworth area. Her life was joyfully dedicated to her husband and children –...
Delores K. (Abraham) Stec
Apr 24, 2022
Delores K. (Abraham) Stec passed away in Grand Island, NE at the CHI Health-St. Francis Hospital on April 24, 2022, with her family by her side. Delores, formally of Ainsworth, NE, was the daughter of Dell and Genevieve (Saba) Abraham, born February 19, 1922. Delores attended school in Ainsworth and graduated in 1940. She was very proud of her Lebanese...
Raymond E. Norton
Apr 17, 2022
Raymond Edward Norton was born on the family homestead north of Stuart, NE on January 19, 1933 to Asa E. and Lucy A. (Wilcox) Norton. He was the oldest of 13 children. Ray graduated from Stuart High School in 1950. He served in the United States Army from April 3, 1951 through April 2, 1954 during the Korean War. When...
George Kamas
Apr 15, 2022
Longtime Ainsworth, NE resident George Kamas died at the Sandhills Care Center in Ainsworth on April 15, 2022 at the age of 95 years. Those familiar with his 64 years in Ainsworth knew him as a businessman devoted to his family, a golfer who enjoyed the camaraderie as much as the game and a quick wit with a clever quip...
Dale E. Billings
Apr 11, 2022
Dale E. Billings was born on June 26, 1936 near Norden, NE to Jay Loy Billings and Myrtle Mary (Reynolds) Billings. He attended grade school in Keya Paha county and graduated from Keya Paha County High School in Springview, NE. Dale lived on his parents’ place. He did live in Ainsworth, NE for a few years and then moved to...
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