CHADRON | MARTIN | CRAWFORD | HAY SPRINGS | GORDON
Irene Hughes
May 17, 2015
Service: Monday, June 1, 2015 ~ 11:00 AM Ft. Logan Cemetery ~ Denver, Colorado
Ron Dorshorst
May 15, 2015
Ron was born in Hay Springs on July 12th 1935 to Louis and Minnie (Schoen) Dorshorst. He grew up on the family homestead south of Hay Springs and attended Banner School though the eighth grade and graduated from Hay Springs High School in 1953 with Fines and Dandies. On May 14th 1955 he was joined in...
Virginia Schmidt
May 12, 2015
Virginia Lee (Carter) Schmidt, 97, passed away May 12, 2015 at Gordon Countryside Care, Gordon Nebraska. Services were Friday, May 15, 2015; 10:00 a.m. at Chamberlain-Pier Funeral Home, Gordon, NE with Reverend Al Trucano officiating. Burial was at the Gordon Cemetery. Virginia Lee was born September 3, 1917 at the family home in Dockery, Missouri. She...
Carol Orr
May 7, 2015
Graveside services for Carol Jean Orr of Harrison, Nebraska will be held on June 19, 2015 at 3:00 PM at Ash Hollow Cemetery in Lewellen, Nebraska with her grandson, Scott Skavdahl presiding. A gathering will be held at the Oregon Trail Trading Post; the building where she was born in; after the service. Carol Jean Orr,...
Mary Miller
May 6, 2015
Mary Frances Hagemeister Miller was born July 10, 1934 to Henry L. Hagemeister and Isabel R. (Richardson) Hagemeister in Lusk, Wyoming. She grew up in Crawford, Nebraska for most of her early years, and spent her freshman year of high school with her Uncle Frank and Aunt Georgia Hagemeister in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. Mary was the oldest...
Myrl Merchant
May 3, 2015
Service: Monday May 11, 2015 ~ 10:00 AM Chamberlain Chapel ~ Chadron, Nebraska
James Dobry
May 3, 2015
JAMES DOBRY James was born February 8, 1916 in Verdigre, Nebraska. He died May 3, 2015, at Crestview Care Center, in Chadron, Nebraska. After graduating high school, he worked at Nebraska's CCC Camp where he cooked for almost 30 people at a time, making a month. He saved while his parents got . Later...
Elaine Couger
Apr 28, 2015
Elaine Parton Couger, 73, formerly of Patterson, MO and recently of Chadron, entered heaven at home on Tuesday, April 28, 2015, after a courageous battle with COPD. She was surrounded by family and loved ones. She was born to Lawrence and Lola Parton on November 19, 1941. She was retired from Couger Systems of Chadron which...
Boyd Holtmeier
Apr 19, 2015
Boyd Lavern Holtmeier passed away on April 19, 2015 in his home after a long battle with amyloidosis. He was born July 28, 1957 in Fairbury, NE to Lavern and Shirley (Grote) Holtmeier. He was raised on the family farm in Fairmont, NE. He then attended Fairmont High School and graduated in 1976. Boyd worked various...
Mary Hartman-Willey
Apr 15, 2015
Mary Ellen Hartman Willey was born in Dawes County, NE on December 24th, 1931 to Clarence and Anna (Wohlers) Peck. She spent the early part of her life, with her brother Roy, on the Table in Dawes County. She graduated from Crawford High School in 1949. She furthered her education at a Business College in Rapid...
Melvin Miller
Apr 14, 2015
Melvin Clark Miller was born on February 6, 1934 in Crawford Nebraska. He was born to Frank Clark Miller and Anna Marie (Glendy) Miller and was raised on the family farm three miles west of the "four mile school" (District 60) on highways 2 & 71. He then attended high school at Crawford High and graduated...
Stella Otte
Apr 8, 2015
Stella Mary Otte Stella Mary Otte, age 90 of Gordon, Nebraska, died April 8, 2015, at Gordon Memorial Hospital. She was born August 23, 1924, to Frederick and Catherine Crowe, in Valentine, Nebraska. Stella grew up near Valentine, NE and surrounding area. She attended high school at St. Mary's Academy in O'Neill, NE. She received her...
Frank Divan
Apr 7, 2015
Frank (Pete) James Divan, 90, of Martin, South Dakota, passed away Tuesday, April 7, 2015, at Rapid City Regional Hospital. He was born July 18, 1924, at a farm near Clinton, Nebraska, to Frank and Emma (Anderson) Divan. A few years later they moved to a farm north of Gordon where he grew up and attended...
Grace Leetch
Apr 4, 2015
Grace A. Leetch, 97, of Marsland, NE died Saturday April 4, 2015 at Golden Living Center in Scottsbluff, NE. She was born December 23, 1917 in Box Butte County Nebraska to Louis and Jessie (Leavitt) Homrighausen. She was born and raised on the ranch northwest of Hemingford, Nebraska. She was the 4th child of 7. She...
Fritz Wefso
Mar 27, 2015
Frederick Conn (Fritz) Wefso , 86, died Friday, March 27, 2015 surrounded by his loving family, at the Pioneer Manor in Hay Springs, NE. Fritz was a "bigger than life" man, touching so many lives. The legacy Fritz leaves behind in service and good works is extraordinary. And those affected by his contributions may have benefited...
Timothy Arnold
Mar 27, 2015
Timothy James Arnold, 26, of Gillette, Wyo., passed away Friday, March 27, 2015, in Gillette. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, April 1, at 2 p.m., at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Martin, S.D., with Fr. Matthew Fallgren officiating. Inurnment will be at the Martin Community Cemetery. Tim was born on...
Eleanor Sandoz
Mar 26, 2015
Eleanor Sandoz was born 7-12-1925 to Henry & Ruth Sandoz in Hay Springs, NE Eleanor's early childhood was spent on the family homestead about 30 miles south of Rushville, NE. At the time there was not a school close so Eleanor was sent to stay with her Johnson grandparents, Gustave and Laura Johnson in east Nebraska...
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