OBITUARIES

Jan 12, 2019

On Saturday, January 12, 2019, Mildred May Phillips passed away at the age of 98 years. Mildred was born on July 14, 1920 to Daniel and Ella Parkhurst. She grew up in Cherry County Nebraska. Mildred met her husband Chester Alfred “Mick” Phillips at a barn dance she attended with her family, fell in love and married him on...

Jan 7, 2019

An obituary is not available at this time for Max Rageth. We welcome you to provide your thoughts and memories on our Tribute Wall.

Jan 7, 2019

Vern Roy Landreth, 80, of rural Gordon passed away on Monday January 7, 2019, at the Pioneer Manor Nursing Home in Hay Springs, NE.

He was born January 30, 1938 at home north of Hay Springs to Alva and Eva (Pollen) Landreth. He spent the first five years of his life living north of Hay Springs before...

Jan 5, 2019

Tina Marie Mills, age 59, passed away peacefully while asleep at her home in the early hours of January 5, 2019. Tina was born feet-first to parents Evelyn and James Gwynn on June 24, 1959 and hit the ground running. She attended East Pride and went onto receive her high school diploma from Gordon High School where she was...

Jan 3, 2019

An obituary is not available at this time for Jeffrey Toke Webster. We welcome you to provide your thoughts and memories on our Tribute Wall.

Jan 2, 2019

Maxine “Max” Bump, age 89 of Chadron, passed away on Wednesday, January 2, 2019.  She was born in Chadron on June 9, 1929 to Claude (Lee) Haden and Lillian (Effie) Goff-Haden.  She was the youngest of four children.  Maxine attended school from kindergarten through 12th grade at Chadron Public Schools and graduated with the Chadron High School Class of...

Dec 31, 2018

Larry Dillon, 69, of Hay Springs, NE, died Monday, December 31, 2018.  He was born January 7, 1949, in Pocahontas, VA, to Dewey & Ruby (Hess) Dillon.  As a child, he lived in Circleville, Ohio.  In 1958, he moved to Ogallala, NE, where Larry graduated from high school in 1966.  He later studied criminal justice at Chadron State College...

Dec 31, 2018

Mr. Fast passed away on December 31, 2018 at Crestview Care Center in Chadron.  He was 89.

Eugene L. “Gene” Fast was born on October 23, 1929 in Staplehurst, Nebraska to Calvin Fast and Emma Shonka.  He was a Sargent in the United States Marine Corp.

Gene is survived by his adopted family, Diana (Steve)...

Dec 30, 2018

Jim was born to Katherine Eliza (Billman) and Frank James Lees of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio in 1936. He started early as an avid outdoorsman spending much of his young life learning in nature. He attained his Life Guard certificate in swimming and earned the rank of Eagle Scout by the time he graduated from high school.

He...

Dec 25, 2018

Bonnie Black, 71, passed away December 25, 2018, at Pioneer Manor Nursing Home in Hay Springs, NE. On June 8, 1947, a little girl named Bonne Dolly was born to Percy and Florence Black in Kadoka, SD. She joined an older brother Howard and a few years later her younger brother Jim was born. Bonnie grew up in Hisle,...

Dec 24, 2018

Leslie Evert, 88 of Gordon, died December 24, 2018, at Gordon Countryside Care.

He was born July 29, 1930, in Torrington, Wyoming to Lewis and Nette (Hanks) Evert. As a young man his family homesteaded near Chimney Rock and Bayard, Nebraska. After serving in the Air Force during the Korean War, from 1951 to 1953, he moved...

Dec 23, 2018

Marilyn Belschner, formerly of Amherst, Nebraska and Taos, New Mexico, died on December 23, 2018 at the age of 88, in her home of the last five years in Chadron, Nebraska.  In addition to her two daughters, Vicki Papineau (Rick) and Shawn Cogdill (Rex), four grandchildren, and twelve great grandchildren, Marilyn left a legacy of her artwork.

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Dec 23, 2018

DORIS M. HEBBERT

Doris M. Hebbert, age 95, of Chadron, Nebraska, finished her earthly journey and entered her Heavenly Home on Sunday, December 23, 2018 at Beautiful Savior Home in Belton, Missouri where she had been a resident for the past four years.

Doris was born on November 26, 1923 in Meade County, South Dakota....

Dec 22, 2018

Larry Dean Merrill, 71, rode his last horse on December 22, 2018. He passed away in his Chadron, Nebraska home.

He was born August 11, 1947 in Hot Springs, SD at the Seven Sisters Hospital, to Daniel and Joan (Birdsall) Merrill.  Larry was raised in the Hot Springs area and graduated from Hot Springs High School in...

Dec 21, 2018

Hope “LeToy” Leach was the first-born child of Fred & Winnie (Henderson) Burck, born on January 14, 1941.  She grew up in Gordon, Nebraska and surrounding areas. In the early 1960s she graduated from Cosmetology College in Norfolk, later returning to Gordon where she began her career as a hairdresser. She then moved to Ceres, California where she operated...

Dec 21, 2018

An obituary is not available at this time for Byron J Cox. We welcome you to provide your thoughts and memories on our Tribute Wall.

Dec 16, 2018

Harold Paul Hupp Obituary

Harold Paul Hupp was born on March 11, 1932, to Albert and Opal (Forster) Hupp in Gordon, Nebraska, at the old hospital.  He joined 3 brothers: Vern, Orville (Doc), and Eugene (Pete).  He grew up 10 miles east and 1.5 miles south of Gordon in a house with no running water and attended...

Dec 15, 2018

Dwight Eugene Garnhart, 72, of Chadron, Nebraska went into the Arms of Jesus December 15, 2018 at 2:00 a.m. at Pioneer Manor Nursing Home in Hay Springs, Nebraska.  As per his wishes, no services will be held.

He was born in Rocky Ford, Colorado on February 8, 1946.  Dwight had a huge heart and took excellent care...

Dec 13, 2018

Shirley Lee (Corbin) Deichert

October 17, 1936 to December 13, 2018

Shirley L. Deichert was a lifetime resident of Crawford, having lived here for 80 of her 82 years.  She was born October 17, 1936 to Luther Clayton (Red) and Catherine Jones Corbin.  Shirley was the second child of four born to this union.  She...

Dec 11, 2018

Betty Jean Balfany of Chadron Nebraska transitioned peacefully on Monday December 11th at Chadron Community Hospital, surrounded by her loving family. Betty was born in Martin, South Dakota on August 15, 1937 to Earl and Carol Phyllis Grass. She came into this world with a twin sister Barbara.

Betty graduated from Chadron High School in 1955. She...