OBITUARIES

Jan 31, 2014

Marvin was born to Vera Kusel Hanks and Henry Hanks on August 31, 1931 and was a native of the Whitney/Chadron area all his life with the exception of his last two years of life when he resided in Louisiana with his daughter and her family (and dog Mandy who kept him company.) He was married...

Feb 1, 2004

Corraine Joanne (Jacobs) Letcher, 89, passed away peacefully February 7, 2024 at Regional West Medical Center in Scottsbluff, NE.

Corraine was born to Floyd and Helen (Reimann) Jacobs on October 27, 1934 south of Hay Springs, NE. She was the oldest of two daughters. Throughout her life, she never lived more than 10 miles away from her birthplace. During her school...

Nov 20, 1943

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Fae Verlin Moore, 23, of Chadron, Nebr. was killed in action Nov. 20, 1943, on the island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll of the Gilbert Islands during World War ll"s Battle of Tarawa. He was buried on Betio and later classified as Missing in Action. The burial site was discovered in...

Mar 18, 1934

Memorial services for Julie (Homrighausen) Wheeler are going to be on Friduay, March 24, 2017 at 10:00 AM at the United Methodist Church in Crawford with Pastor Tim McCrary officiating. Julie passed away on March 16, 2017 in Rapid City, South Dakota. She was born on January 12, 1959 to Doris and Earnie Homrighausen in Alliance,...

Apr 2, 1922

Trudy Walgren, age 96, died at the Chadron Community Hospital in Chadron, NE on February 23, 2019. She was born on Sunday April 2, 1922, the youngest child of Bernhard and Lydia (Jungck) Petersen.

Trudy was preceded in death by her husband Gene, her parents, three brothers, three sisters, and sons Stuart and Glen. She is survived...