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Richard J. Coufal

Richard J. Coufal

Feb 13, 2013

Richard Joseph Coufal was born September 11, 1928 near Brainard, Nebraska to Joseph Jerome and Ludmilla "Lillian" Kristine (Rejda) Coufal and passed away on February 13, 2013 in Seward, Nebraska at the age of 84 years, 5 months, 2 days. Richard attended country school and then Dwight Assumption High School. He was a lifelong farmer. On November 25, 1952, Richard...

Jane Vive Wiles

Jane Vive Wiles

Feb 11, 2013

Jane Vive Wiles was born on June 11, 1940 in Grand Island, Nebraska to Tracil and Nella (Powell) Power. She grew up in Gibbon, Nebraska. Jane invited Jesus to be her Lord and Savior when she was in third grade, while at the knee of her grandmother. Jane learned her way around the kitchen by helping her mother cook for...

Loretta A. Jisa Hotovy

Loretta A. Jisa Hotovy

Feb 8, 2013

Loretta Ann (Slama) Jisa Hotovy was born June 8, 1934 near Bee, Nebraska to Louis Frank and Anna (Kolar) Slama and passed away in Lincoln, Nebraska on February 8, 2013 at the age of 78 years and 8 months. Loretta was a graduate of Dwight Public School and attended Concordia Teachers College in Seward. She taught school for a short...

Leland B. Austen

Leland B. Austen

Feb 3, 2013

Leland B. Austen of Pleasant Dale, NE was born on February 23, 1923, in Powell, NE to Charles Edison Austen and Mary Agnes (Powell) Austen and passed away on February 3, 2013, at the age of 89 years, 11 months and 11 days. Leland grew up in Fairbury, NE where he graduated with the Fairbury High School class of 1939....

Rick J. Kilzer

Rick J. Kilzer

Feb 3, 2013

Rickey Jay Kilzer was born September, 6, 1950, the first baby born in the new Seward Memorial Hospital to Willard George and Audrey Mae (Graham) Kilzer and passed away on February 3, 2013 in Lincoln, Nebraska at the age of 62 years, 4 months, and 28 days. Rick attended Oak Grove (District 13), District 12 and Staplehurst Public Grade schools;...

Milo Jules Olson

Milo Jules Olson

Feb 2, 2013

Milo Jules Olson, Jr., was born on April 27, 1943, in Sioux City, Iowa to Milo and Rebecca (Pipette) Olson, Sr., he passed away on February 2, 2013 at his home in Pleasant Dale at the age of 69 years, 9 months and 6 days. He grew up in Crete where he loved to play football and basketball. He graduated...

Raymond G. Krenk

Raymond G. Krenk

Jan 29, 2013

Raymond Gregory Krenk was born October 20, 1928 in Dwight, Nebraska, the son of Louis and Helen (Helman) Krenk and passed away on January 29, 2013 in Lincoln, Nebraska at the age of 84 years, 3 months, 9 days. Ray graduated from Dwight Assumption High School in 1947 and worked in Omaha at U.S. Steel for two years and then...

Willard G. Kilzer

Willard G. Kilzer

Jan 27, 2013

Willard George Kilzer was born December 21, 1919 in Falcon, Colordo to Otto George and Florence Hazel (Darnell) Kilzer and passed away at home surrounded by family on January 27, 2013 at the age of 93 years,, 1 month, 6 days. The family moved to Seward County, Nebraska when Willard was two; he grew up on the Darnell family homestead...

Vernon F. Lostroh

Vernon F. Lostroh

Jan 24, 2013

Vernon Fred Lostroh was born on April 30, 1926 to Louis and Sette (Borchers) Lostroh on a farm northwest of Emerald, which is now Pawnee Lake. He was baptized and confirmed at Zion Lutheran Church, where he was a lifetime member. He attended Lancaster School District 80, and Pleasant Dale High School. At the age of 18, he was inducted...

Robert (Bob) Heyen

Robert (Bob) Heyen

Jan 23, 2013

Robert William Heyen was born August 8, 1926 in Milford, Nebraska to Claus and Myrtle Crolla (Bloodhart) Heyen and passed away in Seward, Nebraska on January 23, 2013 at the age of 86 years, 5 months, 15 days. Bob served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He was united in marriage to Delores Darlene Imig in 1948 and...

Ileen M Walden

Ileen M Walden

Jan 11, 2013

Ileen Martha Walden was born October 27, 1921 on a farm 2 1/2 miles south of Goehner, Nebraska in Seward County, to Carl Christian and Anna Marie (Wussler) Hansen and passed away on January 11, 2013 at Sunrise Country Manor in Milford, Nebraska at the age of 91 years, 2 months, 15 days. Ileen was baptized on April 23, 1922...

Mary Christine "Chris" Klintworth

Mary Christine "Chris" Klintworth

Jan 8, 2013

Mary Christine Warnke was born on March 11, 1952, to John and Faye (Fahrenholtz) Warnke in Nebraska City, Nebraska. She was the oldest of two children born to this union, having a younger sister Pat. Chris received the blessing of Holy Baptism on August 3, 1952 at the Evangelical Lutheran Church Auburn and was confirmed on May 28, 1968. She...

Robert L. Policky

Robert L. Policky

Jan 7, 2013

Robert Lee Policky was born June 12, 1940 on the family farm near Bee, Nebraska, the son of Leonard J. and Wilma S. (Pelan) Policky and passed away on January 7, 2013 at home near Pleasant Dale, Nebraska at the age of 72 years, 6 months, 26 days. Bob attended District 28 grade school and was a 1958 graduate of...

Valerie Sandra Johnson

Valerie Sandra Johnson

Jan 6, 2013

Valerie Sandra Johnson was born on December 23, 1963, in Santa Barbara, CA; to Douglas Randall and Lillian May (Huot) Bain and passed away on January 6, 2013, in Milford, NE; at the age of 49 years and 14 days. She grew up in Watsonville, CA; where she attended high school and graduated in 1981. Valerie enlisted into the United...

Lawrence Sedlak

Lawrence Sedlak

Dec 29, 2012

Lawrence "Larry" Lee Sedlak was born on April 2, 1944, in David City, NE; to Joseph and Frances (Coufal) Sedlak and passed away on December 29, 2012, in Lincoln, NE; at the age of 68 years, 8 months and 27 days. Larry grew up in Dwight and was a 1961 graduate of East Butler High School. He enlisted into the...

Fred A. Friend

Fred A. Friend

Dec 25, 2012

Fred Allen Friend was born January 13, 1948 in Akron, Ohio the son of Fred Friend, Jr. and Mary K. (Blankenship) Friend. Fred passed away in Omaha, Nebraska on December 25, 2012 at the age of 64 years, 11 months, 12 days. Fred was a 1967 graduate of Kenmore High School in Akron, Ohio. He served in the U.S. Navy...

Larry L. Shaw

Larry L. Shaw

Dec 23, 2012

Larry Lee Shaw was born November 28, 1940 in Lincoln, Nebraska to Chester Merrill and Ruth Eleanor (Chamberlain) Shaw and passed away in Lincoln, Nebraska on December 23, 2012 at the age of 72 years, 25 days. Larry attended Pleasant Dale Elementary School and was a 1958 graduate of Milford High School. He attended NE Vocational Technical School (now Southeast...

Virginia M. Hoffbauer

Virginia M. Hoffbauer

Dec 22, 2012

Virginia Marie (Hotovy) Hoffbauer was born July 22, 1927 near Brainard, Nebraska to Jacob and Emily (Houdek) Hotovy and passed away on December 22, 2012 at the age of 85 years, 5 months. Virginia's father passed away when she was eight years old and her mother later remarried John Kresse. Virginia was a 1945 graduate of Dwight Assumption High School....

Rod Thomas

Rod Thomas

Dec 21, 2012

Rodney Eugene Thomas was born July 17, 1953 in Kentucky and passed away on December 21, 2012 in Lincoln, Nebraska at the age of 59 years, 5 months, 4 days. Rod grew up in Belleville, Illinois where he attended school for 12 years. Rod was preceded in death by his adoptive mother, Betty Eulene (Trupp) Thomas in October of 2012....

Josephine M Klein

Josephine M Klein

Dec 16, 2012

Josephine Marie (Schmit) Klein was born to Cornelius and Martha (Speicher) Schmit on March 19, 1920 near Bellwood, Nebraska and passed away on December 16, 2012 in Seward, Nebraska at the age of 92 years, 8 months, 27 days. Josephine attended country school, Humphrey St. Francis and Bellwood and graduated from David City High School in 1937 with a degree...

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