Ethyl Siegfried
Jul 19, 2025
Ethyl Marie (Logan) Siegfried passed away peacefully on July 19, 2025, at the age of 89, surrounded by her loved ones. Known for her boundless compassion, quiet strength, and unwavering kindness, Ethyl touched the lives of all who had the privilege to know her.
Ethyl was born on May 2, 1936, to Forest and Lena...
Betty Yonkers
Jul 11, 2025
Betty Ann Yonkers, 87, of McCook, Nebraska , passed away peacefully on July 11, 2025. Betty was born on November 5, 1937, in McDonald, Kansas, to Clarence and Florence (Thompson) Jussel. She graduated with the class of 1955 from Parks High School.
Betty and her three boys lived in McCook until 1969 when she married...
Rick Loshbaugh
Jul 8, 2025
Rick Loshbaugh, of Irvine, California, passed away peacefully on July 8, 2025, at the age of 78.
Rick was born on February 21, 1947, to Howard and Opal Loshbaugh in Brush, Colorado, and grew up in McCook, Nebraska.
After graduating from McCook High School, he earned a full scholarship...
Connie Rooney
Jul 5, 2025
Connie Gene (Eller) Miller Rooney passed away suddenly on July 5, 2025, at her home in Stratton, Nebraska, at the age of 71 years, 11 months, and 18 days.
Born on September 8, 1953, in St. Francis, Kansas, Connie was the eldest of two children born to Gene Loyd and Eunice Marie (McGriff) Eller. She...
Lainey Rea Marie Haarberg
Jul 5, 2025
Lainey Rea Marie Haarberg, infant daughter of Keagan and Brittany (Hixon) Haarberg of McCook passed through Heaven’s gates and into Jesus’ arms on Saturday morning, July 5, 2025.
Lainey was born in McCook, Nebraska on June 9, 2025. She was greeted at home by the love of her siblings Cooper, Axel, Paisley and Rylee. And...
Edith Mccorkle
Jul 1, 2025
Edith Ann (Myers) McCorkle, age 100, went to be with her Lord and Savior on July 1, 2025.
Edith was born September 19, 1924, in Ottawa Hills, Ohio to Jesse and Catherine (Chittenden) Myers. She graduated from Ottawa Hills high school then continued her education at Stephens College (Missouri) for two years. After Stephens College,...
Ruth Sughroue
Jun 25, 2025
C. Ruth Sughroue was born on February 7, 1927 at the family homestead southwest of McCook, Nebraska to Austin Wilson Dutcher and Minnie (Tucker) Dutcher. She attended Country School #71 through Grade School and went on to graduate from McCook High School in 1945.
After high school Ruth moved to Washington, D.C. where she was...
Darlene Ann Leahy
Jun 21, 2025
Darlene Ann (Linenberger) Leahy passed away at her home in Trenton, Nebraska on June 21, 2025.
She was born on January 11,1944 in Garden City, Kansas. Darlene was the fifth of thirteen children born to Robert Linenberger and Julia (Werth) Linenberger. The family moved from Garden City to Denver, Colorado in 1957 where she attended...
Sawyer Adam James Geihsler
Jun 20, 2025
It’s with great sadness and heavy hearts that we announce that Sawyer Adam James Geihsler was born and went home to Heaven on June 20th, 2025. His tiny footprints left a big imprint on his family.
Sawyer was preceded in death by his grandmother, Jamie Jumps; great-grandfathers, George Florom, Justin Floyd, and Dean Geihsler; and...
Joan Keeney
Jun 12, 2025
Joan Lucille Keeney, a beloved mother, 91 of McCook, Nebraska, passed away peacefully at her home on June 12, 2025.
Joan was born in Trenton, Nebraska on November 6, 1933 to parents James and Letha (Williamson) Brown. She was married to her husband James Keeney on May 6, 1961 and was a loving mother to...
Lorraine Hannah
Jun 10, 2025
Betty Lorraine Hannah was born at home December 14, 1929 in Wauneta, Nebraska to Cecil and Mabel (Hallet) Maddux.
Lorraine attended the country school southwest of the family farm, she graduated from Wauneta High School where she went on to earn a teaching degree from McCook College.
On December 21, 1950,...
April Lynn Ryan
Jun 8, 2025
April Lynn Ryan was born on April 11, 1979 in Omaha, Nebraska to George Roy, Sr. and Melony Sue (Hefti) Friend. She attended school in Bartley and graduated from Bartley High School in 1998.
April married John Jason Ryan on June 2, 2000 in Beaver City, Nebraska. The couple just celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary....
Shelly Richardson
Jun 6, 2025
Our loving wife, mother, sister, grandmother, aunt, niece, cousin and friend, Shelly, left us on June 6, 2025.
Wauneta Michelle “Shelly” Richardson was born July 8, 1964 in Stratton, Nebraska to Robert LeRoy Turpin and Geraldine Gay (McEvoy) Turpin. Shelly, as she preferred to be called, had three siblings, Robert Francis, Tonya Sue and her...
Sherry Harsh
Jun 1, 2025
Sherry A. Harsh was born in Genoa, Nebraska on October 28, 1945. Her parents were Philip A. and Anna (Westerman) Stec.
Sherry spent her youth in Hastings, Nebraska where she graduated from Hastings High School in 1964. From there she spent the next two years attending Kearney State College. In May of 1967, she married...
Elizabeth Schaffert
Jun 1, 2025
On the 1st of June 2025, Heaven welcomed a beautiful young lady, Elizabeth Esther Schaffert. God must have thought he needed her more in Heaven than earthside.
Elizabeth was born on a cold winter morning on Jan. 17, 2003 in Scottsbluff, Neb.
Elizabeth was the most loving soul you would ever...
Vene Deminski
Jun 1, 2025
Vene LaVaun (DeMoss) Deminski was born, along with her twin sister, on May 15, 1927 in Almena, Kansas, to Ivah Mae (Shaffer) DeMoss and Laverne Edward DeMoss.
Her dad worked for the railroad so they moved several times as she was growing up. Vene graduated from Mascot High School. After high school she married Robert...
Ronald Wallace
May 29, 2025
Ronald Leon Wallace was born in McCook, Nebraska to Helen Arlene Wallace on April 7, 1947. Ron grew up in McCook with his parents, Guy and Helen Shepherd and his brothers and sisters.
Ron served in the United States Army from 1966 to 1968. He served in Vietnam receiving the National Defense Service Medal, the...
Mike Hotchkiss
May 27, 2025
Terry Michael Hotchkiss passed away May 27, 2025 at CHI Health Good Samaritan in Kearney, Nebraska. Mike was born April 7, 1966 in Grand Island, Nebraska.
Mike was raised by Frank and Ester Tripe, Floyd and Wanda Schroeder and his father, Ron Hotchkiss. He attended and graduated from Cambridge High School in 1984 and went...
Ronald Scott
May 26, 2025
Ronald Dale Scott, our beloved father, grandfather, and great grandfather, passed away peacefully at the age of 79 on Monday, May 26th (Memorial Day, 2025), surrounded by lots of loving family. Ron was born on September 9, 1945, in the village of Palisade, Nebraska, to Harley Alan Scott and Helen Marie (Phelps) Scott. He was the youngest of eight...
Tyler John Bieck
May 24, 2025
Tyler John Bieck, 40, passed away on May 24, 2025 in McCook, Nebraska. Tyler was born September 5, 1984 to William and Mary Jo (Walsh) Bieck.
While attending McCook High School, Tyler served in several leadership positions. He especially enjoyed being a co-editor to the “MHS Stampede Newsletter”, often providing a sarcastic, humorous, or provocative...
