Leroy Kenneth Cook
Jul 3, 2016
LeRoy Kenneth Cook, age 86 of Culbertson, Nebraska passed away peacefully on Sunday, July 3, 2016 at home. He was born on March 6, 1930 to Elmer and Laura (Walker) Cook. He graduated from Culbertson High School in 1947. He married Betty Schmidt on October 2, 1949. To this union three children were born: Linda, Laurie, and Coni. LeRoy...
Douglas Garner
Jun 28, 2016
Douglas Richard Garner, 75, of Trenton, Nebraska, died Tuesday, June 28, 2016, in Trenton, Nebraska after a brief battle with leukemia. He was born on September 10, 1940 at home in Somerset, Nebraska to the late Richard Kenneth Garner and Elizabeth Pauline (Knoll) Garner. He graduated from the University of Nebraska School of Agriculture in Curtis, Nebraska in 1958....
Judith Ann Keenportz
Jun 27, 2016
Judith Ann Anderson Keenportz of McCook passed away on Monday, June 27, 2016 at Community Hospital with her family by her side. Judith was born September 3, 1938 to Pro and Mildred (Morrill) Anderson at the family home in Jetmore, Kansas. Judy attended Jetmore schools and graduated from Jetmore High School in May of 1956. On August 15th, 1956...
Betty Jean Ficken
Jun 27, 2016
Betty Jean Ficken age 89, of Cambridge, passed away at the Cambridge Memorial Hospital on June 27, 2016. Betty and her twin sister Bonnie were born south of Holbrook, Nebraska on the family farm on February 20, 1927 to Albert Turner and Addie Eliza (Lankston) Robeson. Betty attended country school, later graduating from Holbrook High School in 1944. She...
Leslie James Sides
Jun 26, 2016
Leslie Les James Sides of Bartley passed away suddenly at the Creighton Medical Center in Omaha on Sunday, June 26, 2016. He was 58 years old. Les was born on February 6, 1958, at McCook, Nebraska to parents, Eldon Francis and Joan Kathryn (Kohmetscher) Sides. He attended Republican Valley School. On February 9, 1980 he was united in marriage...
Carl K. Wilkinson
Jun 22, 2016
SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Carl K. Wilkinson, 70, departed this world to join his Lord and Savior in Heaven on June 22, 2016, in San Antonio. He was born in Saybrook, Ohio, on Oct. 7, 1945, to Kenneth and Katheryn (Proctor) Wilkinson. Carl excelled in roller skating, track and archery during his school years, graduating from Ashtabula High School...
Walter 'Fritz' Eugene Bauer
Jun 20, 2016
Walter Eugene Fritz Bauer age 77 of Culbertson, passed away at the Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook. He was born in Culbertson on November 25, 1938 on the family farm to Walter M. and Mae (Unger) Bauer. Fritz attended grade school and graduated from Culbertson High school in 1956. He went to Milford Technical School studying Electronics. He joined...
Marie Upton
Jun 14, 2016
Marie A. Upton passed away Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at her home in Trenton surrounded by her family. She was 94 years old. Marie was born on January 6, 1922 in Morley, England to parents Laurence and Alice Louisa (Eardley) Waring. She was united in marriage to Henry Stewart Angle on June 4, 1948 in Montreal, Canada. He passed...
Lois May Vigneur
Jun 9, 2016
Lois May Vigneur of McCook passed away Thursday, June 9, 2016 at the Cambridge Manor Cambridge, Nebraska. She was 75 years old. Lois was born on January 3, 1941 at Syracuse, New York to parents, Morris and Evelyn (Potter)Wager. They family moved to Colorado where Lois attended school at Englewood High School, Englewood, Colorado. She was united in marriage...
Donna Gayle Taylor
Jun 8, 2016
Donna Gayle Mousel Taylor, age 68, passed away at her home in Kearney on June 8, 2016. Jones Mortuary of Cambridge is in charge of arrangements. She chose cremation and memorial services will be held at Cambridge at Jones Mortuary at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, June 15.
She was born at McCook, Ne. on Sept 12, 1947...
Esther Nowka
Jun 7, 2016
Esther Propp Nowka died June 7, 2016 at the age of 96 at Emerald Court Assisted Living in Scottsbluff,Nebraska where she resided the last six years. Esther was born to Henry and Anna Propp on January 22, 1920 in Culbertson, Nebraska and graduatedfrom Culbertson High School in 1938. She married Robert Nowka on February 22, 1947. Survivors include her...
Ralph Laverne Hinton
Jun 5, 2016
Ralph LaVerne Hinton of Cambridge passed away Sunday, June 5, 2016 at the Cambridge Manor, Cambridge. Nebraska. He was 101 years old.
Ralph was born to Albert and Mary Bernice (Blake) Hinton on May 19, 1915 in a sod house on his paternal grandfathers homestead about three miles WSE of Stockville, Frontier County, Nebraska. It was the...
Tiffany Jannette Burks
May 31, 2016
Tiffany Jannette Burks passed away Tuesday, May 31, 2016 at Community Hospital in McCook. She was 36 years old. Tiffany was born on April 20, 1980 in McCook to parents, Robert and Shirley (Robarchek) Dike. She graduated from McCook High School with the class of 2000 where she was a member of the flag core. She was united in...
Joyce Nicholson
May 30, 2016
Lebanon- Joyce Elaine Nicholson, a long-time resident of Lebanon, ascended into heaven on Monday the 30th of May while in Lincoln, NE. Born on March 15, 1944 in Dighton, Kansas to Kenneth and Norma (Davidson) Zink. Joyce was the oldest of three siblings. In 1962 she graduated from Beaver Valley High School as the Valedictorian and was selected to...
Betty Lou Adkins
May 29, 2016
Betty Lou Adkins of Danbury passed away Sunday, May 29, 2016 at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney. She was 74 years old. Betty was born on November 11, 1941 to parents, Charles and Mary (Tutor) Murray at Chisholm, Minnesota. She received her GED in 1987. On July 18, 1974 she was united in marriage to Hobert Harold Adkins in...
Ursula Martha Sommer
May 26, 2016
Ursula Martha (Olberg) Sommer of Dickens, Nebraska passed away Thursday, May 26, 2016 at El Dorado Nursing Home in Trenton, Nebraska. She was 74 years old. Ursula was born to Willi and Frieda (Schloetzer) Olberg on November 15, 1941 in Bayreuth, Germany. Along with her parents, her brother Gerd, and her sister Sieglinde, she survived a childhood in post-war...
Ersel Boyd
May 25, 2016
Augusta, KS
Ersel Joy Boyd, 91, of Augusta, KS, passed away Wednesday, May 25, 2016 in Wichita. Visitation will be 9:00 am until service begins at 11:00 am Friday, May 27, 2016, at Headley Funeral Chapel, Augusta, KS. An additional visitation and service will be held 1:00 pm until service begins at 3:00 pm, Saturday, May 28,...
Virginia Lou 'Peggy' Brown
May 25, 2016
Virginia Lou Peggy Ellis Brown, age 88, of Trenton passed away Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at El Dorado Manor in Trenton. Peggy was born on March 23, 1928 in Culbertson, to parents Richard Clark and Doris (Adkins) Ellis. She graduated from Culbertson High School with the class of 1945. Following graduation, Peggy worked in the Hitchcock County Court House...
Dora Grace Burton
May 22, 2016
Dora "Grace" Probasco Burton, age 96, of Cambridge, passed away Sunday, May 22, 2016 at Tri Valley Health System in Cambridge.
Grace was born on February 12, 1920 to Daniel Gail and Nellie May (Webb) Probasco. Grace was known as "Sis" all her life by relatives and friends. Grace grew up on a farm north of Bartley...
Irene F. Stover
May 13, 2016
Irene F. Stover, age 98 died at the El Dorado Manor in Trenton on Friday, 13, 2016. She was born in Trenton, Nebraska on March 22, 1918 to Carl and Mary (Raymond) Steinke. At age nine,Irene'smother died and was raised by her father and grandmother. She grew up on a farm near Trenton and went to Trenton Schools. Irene...
