Obituaries

Lexington NE Obituaries

Local obituaries for the Lexington, NE area

Harold Ervin Sorensen

Harold Ervin Sorensen

Nov 15, 2008

Harold Ervin Sorensen, 84, of rural Lexington, died Saturday, November 15, 2008, at his home near Lexington. He was born July 26, 1924, in rural Dawson County, Nebraska, to Soren and Anna (Christiansen) Sorensen. Harold attended rural school near Lexington and graduated from Lexington High School with the class of 1942. He was united in marriage to Viva Beck on...

Harold Ervin Sorensen

Harold Ervin Sorensen

Nov 15, 2008

Harold Ervin Sorensen, 84, of rural Lexington, died Saturday, November 15, 2008, at his home near Lexington. He was born July 26, 1924, in rural Dawson County, Nebraska, to Soren and Anna (Christiansen) Sorensen. Harold attended rural school near Lexington and graduated from Lexington High School with the class of 1942. He was united in marriage to Viva Beck on...

Betty Nadine Golden

Betty Nadine Golden

Nov 15, 2008

Betty Nadine Golden, 81, of Minden, Nebraska, died Saturday, November 15, 2008, at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney. She was born August 13, 1927, at Omaha, Nebraska, to Homer and Etta May (Kelso) Emley. She was united in marriage to Dwight Golden on April 7, 1945, at Omaha, Nebraska. Betty and Dwight lived in the Lexington area during the 1960’s...

Norma J. Warren

Norma J. Warren

Nov 13, 2008

Norma J. Warren, 84, of Lexington, Nebraska, died Thursday, November 13, 2008, at Park Avenue Estates in Lexington. She was born November 26, 1923, in Dawson County, Nebraska, to Hunter and Laura (Lobdell) Delap. Norma attended country school at District #59 and went on to graduate from Lexington High School with the class of 1941. She then went to beauty...

Kenneth William Holen

Kenneth William Holen

Nov 13, 2008

Kenneth William Holen, 92, of Lexington, Nebraska, died Thursday, November 13, 2008, at Tri-County Hospital in Lexington. He was born December 10, 1915, at Bertrand, Nebraska, to William and Opal (Karr) Holen. He was baptized and confirmed at Westmark Evangelical Free Church in Loomis, Nebraska. After graduating from Bertrand High School in 1934, he farmed in the Bertrand area and...

Darlene Donna Hamilton

Darlene Donna Hamilton

Nov 5, 2008

Darlene D. Hamilton, 44, of Callaway, Nebraska, died Wednesday, November 5, 2008, at her home near Callaway. She was born January 1, 1964, at Ogallala, Nebraska, to Arthur and Theresia (Gross) Durkop. Darlene grew up in Craig, Colorado, where she graduated from Moffat County High School in 1982. She then went to Junior College in Sterling Colorado and graduated from...

Ila Marie Volk

Ila Marie Volk

Oct 22, 2008

Ila Marie Volk, 93, of Cozad, Nebraska, died Wednesday, October 22, 2008, at Meadowlark Pointe in Cozad, Nebraska. She was born December 9, 1914, in Dawson County, Nebraska, near Darr, to Charles and Alma (Selk) Wisemiller. She moved with her family as a young child to Overton, Nebraska, where she attended school and graduated from Overton high school with the...

Burton Dale Porter

Burton Dale Porter

Oct 19, 2008

Burton Dale Porter, 62, of Lexington, Nebraska, died Sunday, October 19, 2008, at Cozad Community Hospital in Cozad, Nebraska. He was born October 29, 1945, at Alliance, Nebraska and adopted as an infant by Clarence and Blanche Porter. Burt was raised on a farm near Chappell, Nebraska. He moved to Lexington in the late 1970’s. He was united in marriage...

Patricia J. Ruppe

Patricia J. Ruppe

Oct 14, 2008

Patricia J. Ruppe, 83, of Lexington, Nebraska, died Tuesday, October 14, 2008, at Tri-County Hospital in Lexington. She was born June 16, 1925, at Lexington, Nebraska to Harold and Clare (Rosenberg) Banks. Pat attended school in Lexington and graduated from Lexington High School with the class of 1943. She went on to further her education at the University of Nebraska...

Harold Q. Buck Moler

Harold Q. Buck Moler

Oct 9, 2008

Harold Q. “Buck” Moler, 82, of Minden, Nebraska, died Thursday, October 9, 2008, at Minden Long Term Care in Minden, Nebraska. He was born November 2, 1925, at O’Neill, Nebraska, to Vincent and Clara (Rhode) Moler. He grew up in the O’Neill area and entered the United States Navy during WWII. Harold served his Country from January 7, 1943 to...

Maria de la Luz Arroyo

Maria de la Luz Arroyo

Sep 24, 2008

Maria de la Luz Arroyo, 41, of Lexington, Nebraska, died Wednesday, September 24, 2008, at Tri-County Hospital in Lexington, of natural causes. She was born November 25, 1966, in Colonia Gildardo Magana, Michoacan, Mexico to Antonio Gutierrez and Esther Montez. Maria attended school in Mexico. She was united in marriage to Heraclio Arroyo Parra in 1995, in Mexico. Maria moved...

Dorothy May Nielsen

Dorothy May Nielsen

Sep 19, 2008

Dorothy May Nielsen, 95, of Elwood, Nebraska, died Friday, September 19, 2008, at Elwood Care Center in Elwood. She was born May 5, 1913, at Curtis, Nebraska, to Donald and Ella Nora (Strickland) Nelson. Dorothy was a 1933 graduate of the Nebraska School of Agriculture at Curtis, Nebraska. She was united in marriage to Lloyd Scharf on April 4, 1935,...

Helen "Irene" Jessen

Helen "Irene" Jessen

Sep 14, 2008

Helen Irene (Kirkegaard) Jessen, 83, of Lexington, Nebraska, passed away Sunday, September 14, 2008, at Yuma Life Care Center in Yuma, Colorado. Irene was born January 22, 1925, in Aurora, Colorado to Anton Christian and Helen Marie Elizabeth (Jersild) Kirkegaard. She was baptized and confirmed at Bethany Lutheran Church in Denver. Irene attended the William Smith High School in Aurora,...

Wayne Edward Anderson

Wayne Edward Anderson

Sep 8, 2008

Wayne E. Anderson, 85, of Callaway, Nebraska, died Monday, September 8, 2008, at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney. He was born May 13, 1923, at rural Arnold, Nebraska to Gunner and Inez (Henry) Anderson. Wayne attended country school around the Arnold area. He was united in marriage to Pearl Sundquist on July 10, 1944, at Oberlin, Kansas. Three children were...

Doris Elaine Whitney

Doris Elaine Whitney

Sep 2, 2008

Doris Elaine Whitney, 84, of Lexington, Nebraska, died Tuesday, September 2, 2008, at the Elwood Care Center in Elwood, Nebraska. She was born September 30, 1923, at Elm Creek, Nebraska, to George and Vera (Snowden) Stryker. Doris moved to Lexington when she was 9 years old and attended Lexington public schools. She lived in Lexington most of her life. Doris...

Ronald M. Johnson

Ronald M. Johnson

Aug 31, 2008

Ronald M. Johnson, 72, of Lexington, Nebraska, died Sunday, August 31, 2008, at Tri-County Hospital in Lexington. He was born July 3, 1936, at Wood River, Nebraska, to Melvin and Etta (Seery) Johnson. Ron grew up around the Holdrege and Kearney area and stayed close to home until entering the United States Army. He was honorably discharged and upon his...

Thelma F. Eland

Thelma F. Eland

Aug 29, 2008

Thelma F. Eland, 84, of Lexington, Nebraska, died Friday, August 29, 2008, at Tri-County Hospital in Lexington. She was born September 30, 1923, at Fairbury, Nebraska, to Joseph and Flossa (Randall) Lesher. Thelma grew up in the Fairbury area and attended school at Fairbury. She was united in marriage to Thomas Eland on October 12, 1940, at Washington, Kansas. Two...

Dorothy Mae Burns

Dorothy Mae Burns

Aug 28, 2008

Dorothy Burns, 98, of Broken Bow, Nebraska, formerly of Lexington, passed away August 28, 2008, at Heritage Hall in Broken Bow, Nebraska. She was born at Arcadia, Nebraska, July 2, 1910, to Jerome Woody and Ella May Fradenburg Woody. Dorothy went to Arcadia schools and graduated in 1928. After graduation she worked at a variety store then became and telephone...

Theodor John "Ted" Schoenrock

Theodor John "Ted" Schoenrock

Aug 22, 2008

Theodore “Ted” Schoenrock, 79, of Callaway, Nebraska, died unexpectedly on Friday, August 22, 2008, at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney. He was born August 6, 1929, in Gilead, Nebraska, to John T. and Anna (Goeking) Schoenrock. Ted married Shirley Ann Hummel on March 4, 1951, at Daykin, Nebraska. Ted and Shirley had five children; James, Pat, Susan, Terri, and John....

Verna Madeline Pittenger Ziebell

Verna Madeline Pittenger Ziebell

Aug 22, 2008

Verna M. (Pittenger) Ziebell, 89, of Lexington, Nebraska, died Friday, August 22, 2008, at Plum Creek Care Center in Lexington. She was born March 17, 1919, at home on a farm west of Johnson Lake, to Robert and Mina (Hawks) Beyl. She grew up on the farm and attended high school at Elwood. Once Verna was out of high school...