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Barbara Brown
Dec 12, 2020
Barbara Anne Brown was born March 28, 1930, in Battle Creek, Michigan, to Oris Albert and Angelina Elizabeth (McMannama) Brown. As a young girl, Barbara attended school in Imperial, Nebraska, and graduated from Chase County High School in 1948. On May 13, 1949, Barbara married Hubert C. Brown at the Evangelical United Brethren Church. The couple first settled in Enders,...
Karen K Steinbeck
Dec 7, 2020
Karen Karrleen Steinbeck was born October 24, 1940, at Palisade, Nebraska, to Francis M. and Mildred O. (Weston) Andrew. As a youngster, she grew up and attended School in Palisade, graduating Palisade High School in 1958. On January 11, 1960, she married Duane “Pete” Steinbeck in Benkelman, Ne. They lived and farmed south of Wauneta. In 1997 the couple moved...
Viola B Gottschalk
Dec 6, 2020
Viola Bertha Gottschalk was born November 13, 1923, to John and Margaret (Kramer) Johnston near Erie, Colorado. As a child, she attended country school near her home through the eighth grade. She completed requirements for a high school diploma as an adult many years later after raising her family. On Oct. 8, 1950, she married Benjamin E. Gottschalk in Longmont,...
Jessie (Annabel) Pump
Dec 3, 2020
Jessie Annabel (Brown) Pump entered this world at the family farm North of Wauneta, Nebraska. The 4th child of 8, Annabel was born on January 18, 1920 to her proud parents, Gertrude Orvetta (Witt) and Andrew Jackson Brown. Annabel remembers riding on the family horse, Chloe, with three of her siblings to and from the Garfield School where she attended...
Catherine M Weber
Dec 3, 2020
Catherine Minnie Weber passed away on December 3rd in Lincoln Nebraska. She was 88 years old. Catherine was born to Joseph and Elizabeth Simons, of Nenzel, Nebraska on April 19th, 1932. She was the second youngest of nine children. She grew up on a farm there in Nenzel. Lived in Merriman through her school days. Worked the family café. Cathy...
Dennis F Goings
Dec 1, 2020
Dennis Floyd Goings was born February 26, 1944, to Floyd Lecurgus and Sophia Stella (Kerchal) Goings at Chase County Hospital, Imperial, NE. Dennis graduated from Wauneta High School on May 7, 1962, and continued his education attending Parks Business School in Denver, CO. He earned an Associate’s Degree in Data Processing and was employed in several different positions assisting his...
Gregorio Murillo
Nov 30, 2020
San Benito, Texas, to Gregorio Murillo and Esperanza Barrera. As a young man he grew up and attended school in Texas before moving to Colorado. Gregorio married Socorro Perez on September 7, 1967, in Greeley, Colorado, and the couple settled in Ft. Lupton, Colorado, where they lived for several before making Imperial, Nebraska, their home. Gregorio was employed by Edwin...
Joe C Maddux
Nov 27, 2020
Long time rancher of Chase County, born July 7, 1938, passed away Friday morning, November 27, 2020, at his home on the ranch surrounded by his family. Joe was 82 years of age. (Private Family Services)
Arthur "John" Werner
Nov 22, 2020
Arthur John Werner, age 59, of Palisade, Nebraska, passed peacefully, on Sunday, November 22, 2020, surrounded by family at his son’s home in Lincoln, Nebraska. John (as he was known) was born January 16, 1961, in Sacramento, California. He graduated in 1979 from John F. Kennedy High School in Sacramento, California. John moved to Tahlequah, Oklahoma, and joined the U.S....
Eugene L Carrigan
Nov 20, 2020
Eugene Lee Carrigan was born on April 1, 1942, in Wauneta, Nebraska. Gene (as he was known) resided in Northglenn, Colorado and passed away November 20th, 2020, at the age of 78, after an extended illness. Gene was raised by his father, Alme Eugene Carrigan and grandmother Vida, after his mother, Vera, passed away in 1948. In May of 1956,...
Marilyn L Lutz
Nov 14, 2020
Marilyn Louise Lutz was born on August 23, 1936, in Benkelman, Nebraska, to Dr. G. Albert and Marguerite Morehouse. Marilyn grew up and attended school in Benkelman, graduating from Benkelman High School in 1954. On September 5, 1954, Marilyn married Chris Frankie Lutz at the Benkelman Methodist Church. The couple settled on the farm six miles east of Benkelman on...
Janice L DeWester
Nov 14, 2020
Janice Louise DeWester was born July 17, 1944, in Benkelman, Nebraska, to Everett and Louise (Hardwick) Stamm and departed this life on November 14, 2020, from her home in Wauneta, Nebraska, at the age of 76. Jan was raised on a farm 12 miles northwest of Benkelman and attended District 36, a one room schoolhouse through the 8th grade. She...
Max Hoffmeister
Nov 13, 2020
Max was into life full time and for the long run. He was born September 29, 1927, to Isabel (Bennison) and Max Hoffmeister at Imperial, NE, the oldest of three, growing up with sisters Mary (Hillberry) and Ruth (Piva). He attended grade and high school in Imperial, graduating from Chase County High School in 1946. While in high school, he...
Donald D Henry
Nov 12, 2020
Donald Henry Resident of Stratton passed away Thursday, November 12, 2020, at the Sarah Ann Hester Memorial Home in Benkelman. Donald was 77 years of age. A full obituary will be submitted when it becomes available Service are pending. B
Clara J Hamilton
Nov 12, 2020
Clara Jean Hamilton was born February 16, 1935, on the family farm north of Wauneta, Nebraska, to Cecil R. and Mabel E. (Hallett) Maddux. Clara grew up and attended school in Wauneta, graduating from Wauneta High School in 1952. She went on to further her education at McCook Community College where she received her Associate’s Degree in teaching. Clara taught...
Joseph W Sowa
Nov 8, 2020
Joseph W. Sowa Resident of Benkelman and Haigler Nebraska passed away Sunday, November 8, 2020 at the Sarah Ann Hester Memorial Home in Benkelman. Joe was 95 years of age. Services and Obituary are pending at this time.
Bonnie I Schultz
Nov 5, 2020
Bonnie Irene Schultz was born on December 17, 1925, to Millard Bryan and Ethel Ellen (Bressie) Smith in rural Chase County. As a young lady she attended country grade school and graduated from Chase County High School in 1943. Bonnie married Eldon Grantham and the couple settled on the Bryan Smith Farm east of Imperial. They moved to several different...
DeLores Taylor
Nov 5, 2020
DeLores Ann “Dee” Taylor was born May 20, 1930, to Edward and Dora (Nordhausen) Denker on their farm south of Wauneta, Nebraska. Dee was baptized, schooled, confirmed and married at St. Paul’s Lutheran church out on the South Divide. Dee’s childhood revolved around church and family. The Nordhausen and Denker clans were a prodigious group of German immigrants that resulted...
Cory Hock
Oct 29, 2020
On October 29, 2020, H. Cory Hock, 64, passed away due to a recently diagnosed medical condition. Cory was born on May 30, 1956 and lived most of his life in Denver, Colorado. Yet it was fitting that he passed away in Imperial, Nebraska, his favorite hunting and fishing “honey hole.” Cory attended Emmaus Lutheran School during his younger years,...
Mary Harmon
Oct 21, 2020
Mary Louise Harmon was born in Dryden, MI on January 1st 1939 at the home of Clarence and Elta (Brainard) Rose in the middle of a blizzard. Not being their primary doctor, unaware, he started packing up his bag when Elta called out "wait there is one more coming!" Shirley May Gayman was born at 1:40 am and Mary 17...
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