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Lexington NE Obituaries
Local obituaries for the Lexington, NE area
Jessie Winnifred Talbott
May 4, 2012
Jessie Winnifred Talbott, 94, of Lexington, Nebraska, passed away Friday, May 4, 2012, at Plum Creek Care Center in Lexington. Jessie Winnifred (Winnie) Talbott was born July 30, 1917, to Clay and Alice (Wright) Wallace on the family farm northwest of Lexington, Nebraska. Winnie graduated from Lexington High School and attended Hastings College. After graduation in 1938, she embarked on...
Mark Alan Schievelbein
May 1, 2012
Mark Alan Schievelbein, 42, of Lexington, Nebraska, died Tuesday, May 1, 2012, at his home in Lexington. Mark was born June 25, 1969, in Lebanon, Missouri to Lyle and Ramona (Shepherd) Schievelbein. When he was four the family moved to Elwood, Nebraska, where he grew up. He was active in school sports and loved to wrestle. He graduated from Elwood...
Gregory G. Witthuhn
Apr 30, 2012
Gregory G. Witthuhn, 55, of Omaha, Nebraska, departed this life on Monday, April 30, 2012, at the Callaway Good Samaritan Home. He was born December 24, 1956, in Callaway, Nebraska, to Wayne Witthuhn and Nadine Ellison Witthuhn. Greg was the fourth of five children. He grew upon the farm in the Callaway area. He attended Callaway Public Schools. As a...
Marian "Macky" Vollmer
Apr 30, 2012
Marian “Macky” Vollmer, 83, of Lexington, Nebraska, passed away Monday, April 30, 2012, at Lexington Regional Health Center in Lexington. She was born July 17, 1928, in Omaha, Nebraska. She grew up in Clay County and attended school in Edgar, Nebraska. In 1943, she moved to Dawson County with her family. On July 24, 1944, she married Frank Vollmer. They...
Gustavo Vargas Carrasco
Apr 27, 2012
Gustavo Vargas Carrasco, 39, of Lexington, Nebraska, died Friday, April 27, 2012, at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney with his family by his side. He was born May 29, 1972, in Villachuato, Michoacan, Mexico, to Salvador and Maria Consuelo Carrasco Vargas. Gustavo lived in California for 17 years, but would come to Lexington often to visit his family. Three years...
Denise Kay (McReynolds) Mosier
Apr 26, 2012
Denise Kay (McReynolds) Mosier, 57, of Johnson Lake, Nebraska, died Thursday, April 26, 2012, at her home at Johnson Lake, surrounded by her loving family. She was born February 18, 1955, at Columbus, Nebraska to Leonard and Ilene (Shack) Mohr. Denise was a 1973 graduate of Genoa High School. She was united in marriage to John Wilcox in 1974 at...
Vera P. Daleness
Apr 15, 2012
Vera P. Daleness, 72, of Lexington, Nebraska, died Sunday, April 15, 2012, at Lexington Regional Health Center in Lexington. She was born February 1, 1940, in Elbow Woods, North Dakota, to Walter and Emma (Cold Hand) Plenty Chief. Vera was a member of Arikara Sioux Tribe. She attended school in North Dakota and lived there until 1964. She was united...
Ruby Elaine Warner
Apr 14, 2012
Ruby E. Warner, 89, of Lexington, Nebraska, passed away Saturday, April 14, 2012, at Park Avenue Estates in Lexington. She was born March 9, 1923, in Cairo, Nebraska to O. Jay and Hazel Marie (Manners) Waddington. Ruby grew up in the Grand Island area and graduated from Grand Island High School with the class of 1941. Ruby was married to...
Rigoberto Beltran Valdez
Apr 13, 2012
Rigoberto Beltran Valdez, 55, of Lexington, Nebraska, died Friday, April 13, 2012, in Lexington. He was born October 21, 1956, in Cubiri De Portelas, Sinaloa, Mexico to Eutiquio Beltran and Evarista Valdez. He attended school in Mexico. Rigoberto moved to Lexington, Nebraska in 1995, where he worked for Tyson Fresh Meats in the Slaughter Department at the time of his...
Janice Jean Givens
Apr 12, 2012
Janice Givens, 92, of Lexington, Nebraska, passed away Thursday, April 12, 2012, at Plum Creek Care Center in Lexington. She was born February 5, 1920 in Lexington, graduating from Lexington High School in 1937. She attended Nebraska Wesleyan University for 2 years, studying elementary education and music, taking her first teaching job at Litchfield, NE. where she met her future...
Howard "Levern" Snider
Apr 12, 2012
Howard “Levern” Snider, 55, of Overton, Nebraska, died Thursday, April 12, 2012, at his home in Overton, following a courageous battle with cancer. He was born October 22, 1956, in Broken Bow, Nebraska to Howard and Ida Mae (Swisher) Snider. The family moved to Overton in 1969. Levern spent his working years at alfalfa mills, working construction and feedlots. His...
Roy Wesley Houser
Apr 7, 2012
Roy Wesley Houser, 63, of Gothenburg, Nebraska, died Saturday, April 7, 2012, at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, following a heart transplant operation. He was born December 8, 1948, in Eustis, Nebraska to Elmer Wesley and Ramona (Kirwin) Houser. Roy attended school at Elwood, Nebraska. He was united in marriage to Nancy Young on January 15,...
Thomas W. Eland
Apr 7, 2012
Thomas W. Eland, 93, of Lexington, Nebraska, passed away Saturday, April 7, 2012, at the Plum Creek Care Center in Lexington. Tom was born August 26, 1918, at Wisner, Nebraska to Ralph and Faye (Waller) Eland. He was raised a farm north of Arapahoe, Nebraska and graduated from Arapahoe High School with the class of 1936. Tom was united in...
Janet Lynn "Spiegel" Psota
Apr 6, 2012
Janet Lynn (Spiegel) Psota, 57, of Lexington, Nebraska, died Friday, April 6, 2012, following a courageous battle with cancer, at the Lexington Regional Health Center in Lexington, Nebraska. She was born November 7, 1954, at Albion, Nebraska, to John E. “Jack” and Marilyn (Arthur) Spiegel. Janet was a 1973 graduate of Ravenna High School. Following high school she was a...
Alonzo Jon DeLara
Apr 5, 2012
Alonzo Jon DeLara, 84, of Johnson Lake, Nebraska, passed away Thursday, April 5, 2012, at the Grand Island Veteran’s Home in Grand Island, Nebraska. He was born June 2, 1927, in Placitas, New Mexico, to Antonio and Florinda (Gurule) DeLara. Jon was a career Marine and served on the front lines in the Korean War. He was one of the...
Virginia Ann (Braithwait) Hanson
Apr 4, 2012
Virginia Ann (Braithwait) Hanson, 70, of Lexington, Nebraska, passed peacefully into the loving arms of Jesus on Wednesday, April 4, 2012, after a valiant battle with Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig’s Disease) with her family by her side in her home at Johnson Lake. Ann was born on August 24, 1941, at the Lexington Community Hospital the only...
Kenneth Clark Wood
Apr 2, 2012
Kenneth Clark Wood, 88, of Kearney, Nebraska, formerly of Lexington, NE and Quinn, SD, died Monday, April 2, 2012, at Mt. Carmel Home Keens Memorial in Kearney. Kennie was born May 29, 1923, in Sioux Falls, SD. That year, his parents, Waldon Clark Wood and Olive Blanche (Adams ) Wood, moved Kennie and his older sister, Maxine, north of Quinn,...
Eugene "Gino" Dougherty
Apr 1, 2012
Eugene “Gino” Dougherty, 53, of Lexington, Nebraska, died Sunday April 1, 2012, at Lexington Regional Health Center. He was born September 4, 1958, in Seattle, Washington. Gino worked as a professional welder for over 30 years. He moved to Lexington a few months ago to be near family and friends. He loved being outdoors, fishing, camping and being with family....
Ardus Halker
Mar 28, 2012
Ardus Halker, 90, of Lexington, Nebraska, former Elwood resident, died Wednesday, March 28, 2012, at Plum Creek Care Center in Lexington. She was born August 21, 1921, in rural Gosper County, Nebraska to Clint and Ellen (Carter) Haney. Her elementary education was spent at Brace Country School in rural Gosper County and then Elwood High School. She was united in...
Betty Jo Wicks
Mar 26, 2012
Betty Jo “BJ” Wicks, 78, of Elwood, Nebraska, died Monday, March 26, 2012, at Lexington Regional Health Center in Lexington, Nebraska. She was born January 9, 1934, in Callaway, Nebraska to James M. and Vera M. (Schukar) Liner. Betty Jo graduated from Callaway High School, where she cheered on her beloved Callaway Bears. Betty Jo spent her working years with...
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