Elaine Skiles
Dec 9, 2020
Elaine Velma (Hurtt) Skiles, 104, passed away Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook. Elaine was born Feb. 13, 1916, on the family farm in Wilsonville, Neb., to parents Maude and Victor Hurtt. She was the youngest of four girls: Alta, Eva, Frances, and Elaine. She attended a one-room school called South Rockton grade school, where...
Robby Carfield
Dec 9, 2020
Robby Carfield, 50, of McCook, passed away Wednesday morning, December 9, 2020 at his home in McCook. He was born on November 4, 1970 to Griff and Delores "Dee" (Lehn) Carfield in Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Robby was the oldest of four children. He attended school in McCook and Alliance, Nebraska and graduated from Alliance High School. Robby was a...
Marvin Frank
Nov 28, 2020
Marvin L. Frank, age 92, of McCook, died peacefully at his home in McCook on Saturday, November 28, 2020. He was born September 11, 1928 to Jesse and Gladys (Turpin) Frank in Bartley, Nebraska. He grew up on the farm near Bartley and graduated from Bartley High School in 1946. Marvin married Elaine L. Smith in Cambridge, Nebraska on...
Robert Joseph Hrnchir
Nov 27, 2020
Robert Joseph Hrnchir of Trenton, Nebraska, entered the arms of Jesus on Friday, November 27, 2020, at Community Hospital in McCook, Nebraska. He was 78 years old. Robert "Bob" was born January 2, 1942, to parents Henry James and Clyta Cleon (Davis) Hrnchir in Colby, Kansas. He was the oldest of 11 children. Bob graduated from Atwood High School...
Barbara Ann Hixson
Nov 23, 2020
Barbara A. (Jones) Hixson, 82, of McCook, passed away Monday, November 23, 2020 at Community Hospital in McCook. She was born on October 9, 1938 in Wauneta, Nebraska the daughter of the late, Eugene W. Jones and Anna E. (Hixon) Jones. Barbara grew up in McCook, Nebraska and attended the McCook city schools, she graduated from McCook High School...
Dale Leroy Wilcox
Nov 22, 2020
Dale Leroy Wilcox, 88, of Overland Park, Kansas and a former longtime resident of McCook, passed away on November 22, 2020 at the Olathe Medical Hospital in Olathe, Kansas. Memorial services for Dale and Phyllis will be held at 2:00 P.M. (CT), Saturday afternoon, July 31, 2021 at Memorial United Methodist Church in McCook with Pastor Jeff Kelley officiating....
James O. Ellis
Nov 21, 2020
James Otto Ellis, age 75, of Cambridge, Nebraska, passed away at the CHI Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney on November 21, 2020. He was born in Oxford, Nebraska on January 5, 1945 to Fern and C. Lucille (Culver) Ellis. The family moved to Cambridge where Jim attended Cambridge Schools.
Jim joined the United States Navy in 1962...
Donald Schaaf
Nov 20, 2020
Donald Alan Schaaf, age 83, of McCook, passed away Friday, Nov. 20, 2020, surrounded by his family at his home in McCook. Don entered this life at the old St. Catherine Hospital, McCook, Neb., on Feb. 5, 1937. He was the first of four children of Myron Donald and Esther Wilhelmina (Noetzlemann) Schaaf. Donald grew up in McCook and...
Donna Jeanne Jesch
Nov 17, 2020
Donna Jeanne Jesch of Stratton, Nebraska, passed away at the Country House in Kearney Nebraska on November 17, 2020. Donna wrote her autobiography, and we will put a few quotes from that in this obituary. "First of all, I was born. That happened in July of 1926. The 18th to be exact. Now isnt that interesting? OK, so thats...
James 'Jim' Timmons
Nov 16, 2020
James M. Timmons, 67, of Lebanon, Nebraska, passed away November 16, 2020 at his home in Lebanon after a battle with esophageal cancer. He was born on September 14, 1953 to Glen and Doris (Glenn) Timmons in Imperial, Nebraska. The family moved to Colorado when Jim was young where he attended school in the Arvada area and graduated from...
Albert Cuellar
Nov 13, 2020
Albert Cuellar, 82, a longtime resident of McCook, passed away November 13, 2020 at Kearney Regional Medical Center in Kearney, Nebraska. He was born February 22, 1938 to Macedonio and Tranquilina (Luevano) Cuellar in McCook. He attended McCook Schools and graduated from McCook High School in 1956. Albert graduated from McCook Junior College (MCC) in 1958 and from Kearney...
Margaret Ann Ingram
Nov 12, 2020
Margaret Ann Ingram, age 76, of Curtis, NE passed away at the Great Plains Regional Health Center in North Platte on November 12, 2020. She was born in Cambridge, NE on October 19, 1944 to Carl and Erma (Munson) Presler. Margaret graduated from UNSA in Curtis in 1961. She attended Kearney State College and later obtained her degree from...
Anita Catherine Conroy
Nov 12, 2020
Anita Catherine (Sides) Conroy, November 29, 1934 - November 12, 2020. Anita was born at her home in Bartley, NE on Thanksgiving Day, November 29, 1934 to Pearl (Rayer) and Melvin Sides. She was welcomed to this world by sister, Mildred; brother, Eldon and extended family who had planned to attend the Thanksgiving holiday at Pearl and Melvins. Her...
Larry Dean Wood
Nov 12, 2020
Larry "Woody" Wood, 80, a longtime resident of McCook, passed away November 12, 2020 at Kearney Regional Medical Center in Kearney, Nebraska. He was born in Indianola, Nebraska on October 3, 1940, the second born child to Dean L. and Georgia M. (Seals) Wood. Larry attended grade school at North Star in Frontier County and also in Stockville, Nebraska....
Hannah Hageman
Nov 10, 2020
Hannah Hageman, age 97, of Cambridge, Nebraska, passed away at the Sarah Hester Memorial Home in Benkelman, Nebraska on November 10, 2020. She was born in Holbrook, NE on May 1, 1923 to Charles and Mary Frances (Neel) Odell. She moved to Cambridge when she was in the third grade. On July 17, 1940, she married Frances "George" B....
Roberta Lucia Spilinek
Nov 9, 2020
Roberta Spilinek of McCook, NE died peacefully on November 9, 2020 in Lincoln, NE. She was 84 years old. She was born December 13, 1935 to Robert and Frances (Polanski) Schmidt in Spalding, NE and lived with her four siblings on a farm until she was the age of six when the family moved to St. Paul, NE. She...
Larry 'Bugs' Lynn Foster
Nov 9, 2020
Larry 'Bugs' Foster, age 81, of Bartley, passed away at the Community Hospital in McCook on November 9, 2020. He was born in Omaha, NE on February 5, 1939 to Leo and Dorothy (Wight) Foster. Bugs attended and graduated as Valedictorian of the Class of 1956 at Bartley High School. After high school, he joined the United States Navy...
Virginia May Hein
Nov 9, 2020
Virginia May (Gillen) Hein gained her angel wings on November 9, 2020. She was born on May 20, 1930 in McCook, Nebraska to Frank and Marie (Lebsack) Gillen. She was the youngest of four children having two older brothers and one older sister. She was raised in McCook, where she attended McCook schools and met her husband of 71...
William 'Bill' Eugene Weber
Nov 6, 2020
William "Bill" Eugene Weber, 80, of Culbertson, passed away on November 6, 2020 at the El Dorado Manor in Trenton. He was born April 26, 1940 in Palisade, Nebraska to William Theodore Weber and Beaulah Lorraine (Edgett) Weber. Bill spent his childhood at the family home near the Hitchcock / Hayes county line where he attended school in in...
Margalee A. Ruf
Nov 6, 2020
Margalee Alice Ruf age 93, passed away at the Good Samaritan Care Center in Arapahoe, NE on November 6, 2020. She was born near Wilsonville in Furnas County, NE on March 11, 1927 to Walter and Garnet (Bankson) Lyons. Margalee attended Wilsonville High School graduating in 1946 and she then continued her education, receiving her Certificate of Normal Training....
