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Ione Lewis Hruza 1917-2002
Ione Hruza died April 10, 2002 at Memorial Health Center Extended Care in Sidney. Cremation has taken place. Memorial Services will be Saturday, April 20 at 11 a.m. at the Methodist Church in Harrison, Neb. Graveside services and inurnment will follow in Prairie View Cemetery. Holechek Funeral Home of Sidney is in charge of arrangements.
Memorials have been established to the Memorial Health Center Extended Care in Sidney at 549 Keller Dr., c/o Judy Frerichs.
Ione was born July 21, 1917 on a homestead four miles southeast of Harrison, the daughter of Delmer and Dorcas (ZumBrunnen) Bigelow. After attending rural schools, she received an Associate Degree in Secretarial Science from Chadron State College.
Ione married Everett Corwin Lewis May 22, 1937. The couple moved soon afterward to Lexington, Ky. Following Everett’s death in 1942, Ione and her three children returned to Harrison, making it their home until 1949, when they moved to Lusk, Wyo.
In 1962, Ione moved to Fort Collins, Colo. where, while working full-time, she completed a Bachelors Degree in Business Education/Administration at Colorado State University. In 1966, she moved to Rangely, Colo., where she taught at Rangely College for several years.
Ione married Francis Hruza of Peetz, Colo. in 1969. The couple then moved to Riverton, Wyo., where they owned and operated Cottonwood Court, a housing complex. Following Francis’ death in 1984, Ione continued operating the business until her retirement in 1992. She lived in Lander, Wyo. for a year prior to moving to Sidney in December, 1999.
Ione was a member of the VFW and the American Legion Auxiliaries and a life member as a spouse of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association.
Survivors include two daughters, Lennea and husband Jack Slagle of Lander and Leila and husband James Norris of Houston, Texas; son, Dr. Lon and wife Nancy Lewis of Topeka, Kan.; step-daughters, Eloise (Hruza) Thomas of Denver, Colo. and Janis (Hruza) Mitchell of Greeley, Colo.; sisters, Lucile Bigelow of Scottsbluff and Clara Bigelow Harmon of Sterling, Colo.; brother, Eugene Bigelow of Lakewood, Colo.; foster-daughter, Rena Brown of Riverton; six grandchildren; four step-grandchildren; two foster grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren and many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.
Ione was preceded in death by her parents, two husbands and a brother, William Bigelow.
Myrtle Fredricka (Weed) Harris 1914-2002
Myrtle Fredricka (Weed) Harris, 87 of Dalton, died April 12, at the Beverly Healthcare Center in Sidney.
Funeral services will be held today at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Dalton, with Alice Shriver P.M.A. officiating. Private family burial will be held prior to church services in the Dalton Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made in Myrtle’s name to the Trinity Lutheran Church, P.O. Box 36, Dalton, NE 69131.
Holechek Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Myrtle was born July 7, 1914 in North Bend, Dodge County, Neb. to Eugene and Anna (Winkelman) Weed. Her family moved to Western Nebraska and resided on a farm one mile south and nine miles west of Dalton. She attended Meadow Lawn Country School and graduated from Dalton High School in 1933.
On January 22, 1936 she was united in marriage to Glenn Elvin Harris in Gurley. To this union three children were born. Upon the death of her parents, Myrtle and her family moved to the homeplace. She resided on this farm until she moved into Beverly Healthcare Center in Sidney.
Survivors include: two daughters, Phyllis Lofshult and husband Gordon of Casa Grande, Ariz. and Janet Russell and husband Robert of Highland, Calif.; one son, Gary Harris and wife Ellen of Dalton; seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
Myrtle was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, one brother, Raymond and one great-grandson.
Barbara Printz Fees 1937-2002
Barbara Printz Fees, 64, died March 30 in Huntsville, Ala. Burial was at Maple Hills in Huntsville.
Memorials may be made to the American Heart Association, Hospice and/or the Tourettes Syndrome Association.
Barbara Printz Fees was born August 27, 1937 in Ainsworth, Neb. She lived at the Sioux Army Depot until the age of 16. She married Hugh “Buddy” Fees and moved to Alabama.
Barb got her LPN license and worked at Huntsville Hospital and then for Drs. Bramm, Rice, Sheppard, Speed and Tyart until she retired in 1996.
Survivors include her husband, Hugh “Buddy” Fees; two sons, Michael and Douglas Fees and one daughter Kim Shattuck, all of Alabama; two sisters, Alice McNally of Sidney and Glenda McGreggor of Phoenix, Ariz.; three brothers, Eugene of Midland, Texas, Gordon Printz of Montrose, Colo. and Steve of Owasso, Okla.; six grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Edward Hinrichs 1915-2002
Funeral services for Edward Hinrichs will be held at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Sidney on Wednesday, April 10 at 10:30 a.m.
Interment will be at Greenwood Cemetery in Sidney, next to his beloved wife of 62 years and high school sweetheart, Helen.
Memorials may be designated for Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Sloan Estates, the Sidney Elks Club or the Fort Sidney Colonels.
Long-time Sidney resident and Cheyenne County wheat farmer, Edward Hinrichs, died Saturday, April 6 of natural causes at Sloan Estates in Sidney.
George Edward Hinrichs was born on May 22, 1915 in his parents sod house in the Weyerts German community east of Gurley. Ed’s parents were Gerd George Hinrichs and Bertha Rose Gade-Hinrichs of Weyerts. Ed was baptized, confirmed and married at the Weyerts Emmanuel Lutheran Church. He was married to Sidney resident, Helen Marie Masse on September 14, 1938.
Helen, who died in April of 2000, preceded Ed in death. He was also preceded in death by elder brother Henry E. Hinrichs, formerly of Oakland, California and younger sister Florine L. Mohrman of Tennessee.
Ed farmed for most of his adult life, except for a ten-year period when he lived in Los Altos, California and worked for Westinghouse Electric and Kaiser Permanente corporations in the 1940s.
Ed was a charter member of the Ft. Sidney Colonels, the Sidney Elks Club, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) and an enthusiastic member of the Cloud Dusters, a panhandle civil aviation organization. Ed was a private pilot; an avid snooker and billiards player and an amateur photographer who helped organize a local camera club. He enjoyed hunting, fishing and automotive mechanics in his younger years.
Ed graduated from Sidney High School in 1933 and briefly attended Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho before joining the wartime work force in California after the Pearl Harbor bombing.
Ed Hinrichs is survived by his two daughters Dianne E. Otte of Omaha; Pamela C. Swick of Council Bluffs, Iowa; and son Scott R. Hinrichs of Milpitas, California. He has four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
John L. Synove
John L. Synove, 68, of Bossier City, La. passed away Thursday, April 4, following a lengthy illness.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m., Thursday, April 11 at the Weyerts Immanuel Lutheran Church north of Lodgepole.
Friends may call at the funeral home on Wednesday from 9 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.
Holechek Funeral Home is in charge of the local arrangements.
The family requests that memorial contributions be made in lieu of flowers, to The Scleroderma Foundation Inc., 12 Kentway, Suite 101, Byfield, Mass. 01922.
Mr. Synove served his country for 31 years in the Air Force. During that time he served in Korea and Vietnam. He flew the KC 97, the KC 135 and the KC 10. Following his retirement from the service he worked thirteen more years as a boom operator instructor.
John was preceded in death by his wife Viola; daughter, Joann; son, John Jr; 2 brothers; and 1 sister.
Survivors include his daughter, Kim Synove; brother, Jim Synove; and four grandchildren.
Lloyd D. Walmsley 1926-2002
Lloyd D. Walmsley, 75, of Gering, died Thursday, March 21, 2002 at Regional West Medical Center in Scottsbluff. Graveside services will be Friday, April 5 at 1:30 p.m. at Hill Crest Cemetery in Norfolk, Neb. A reception will follow at the Methodist Church on South Fourth. Cremation was held at Sunset Memorial Park in Scottsbluff.
Lloyd D. Walmsley was born Nov. 18, 1926 near Foster, Neb., the son of David and Esther (Walters) Walmsley. He attended rural school in Pierce County.
Lloyd enlisted in the United States Army in 1945. He served during WWII in the Philippines. He was honorably discharged in 1946 and returned to farm near Pierce, until moving to Norfolk.
Lloyd married Marietta Haas on June 11, 1950 in Pierce. The couple lived in Norfolk, where Lloyd worked as a mechanic for the Department of Roads. In 1964, they bought a motel in Sidney and then sold it in 1980. The couple traveled in their R.V. and worked in different locations until 2000. They finally settled in Gering.
Lloyd was a lifetime member of the VFW.
Survivors include his wife, Marietta of Gering; sons, Dean and wife Linda Walmsley of Chappell, David and wife Helen Walmsley of Douglas, Wyo. and Dwain Walmsley of Denver, Colo.; daughters, Ramona Power and Alice Walmsley, both of Denver; two nephews; seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Lloyd was preceded in death by his parents and brother, Art Walmsley.
Mary Ogden Bently
Mary Ogden Bently, 85, died Saturday, March 30, 2002 at the Hearthstone Nursing Home in Seattle, Wash. Her funeral was Tuesday at Wiggen & Sons Funeral Home in Seattle. Wiggen & Sons Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Memorials have been established to the American Lung Association or the Shrine Crippled Children’s Hospital.
Mary Ogden Bently was born in Wymore, Neb. She and her husband, Donald, moved to Seattle in 1949. Mary was a retired supervisor with the Washington State Department of Social Health & Services, and known as a true lady. She was also an active member of the Daughters of the Nile and O.E.S., Rada Uphus Chapter #208.
Survivors include her son, Don K. Bently and wife Laurie of Escondido, Calif.; cousins, Steve Lomax and wife Karen of Kenmore, Wash., Jim Lomax of Snohomish, Wash., Terri Lomax and husband Bill Winner of Corvalis, Ore., Ron Kriesel and wife Jeanne of Portland, Ore., Jerry Miller and wife Sharon of Fargo, N.D.; nieces, Marvel Leader and husband Dick of Salt Lake City, Utah and Jeanne Simmers and husband Earl of Cottonwood, Ariz.; nephew, Keith Kissel and wife Wilma of Yuma, Ariz.; two grandchildren, Matthew Bently of Chico, Calif. and Patricia Bently of Zurich, Switzerland; two step-grandchildren, Doug Crooks of Sammamish, Wash. and Vicky Crooks of Seattle; and one great-granddaughter, Madison.
Mary was preceded in death by her husbands Donald A. Bently and James L. Stanard and brother, Edward Ogden.
Doris Rose Juelfs 1906-2002
Doris Juelfs, 95, a long-time Potter and Kimball resident, died Saturday, March 30 at the Eastmont Towers in Lincoln. Her funeral will be Wednesday, April 3 at 10:30 a.m. at the Potter United Methodist Church in Potter with her son-in-law, Rev. John Hayes officiating. Burial will follow in the Potter Cemetery.
Memorials have been established to the Potter Rescue Unit or the donor’s choice.
Friends may call today from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Holechek Funeral Home in Sidney.
Doris Rose Juelfs, the daughter of William and Rose (Ely) Hagemeister was born June 10, 1906 at Farmer’s Valley Mill on the Blue River in Hamilton County, Neb. Through her younger years, she and her family moved to several towns in Nebraska and Iowa. On Jan. 1, 1920, when Doris was 13, they arrived by train in Potter, where her dad had bought a lumberyard and had a grain elevator. Doris graduated from Potter High School on May 17, 1924. She was the valedictorian of her class and captain of her basketball team. After graduating, she taught in a county school 17 miles north of Potter.
On June 17, 1925, Doris married Lloyd Anson Juelfs in Cheyenne, Wyo. The couple lived on a ranch north of Potter until 1930, when they moved into Potter. Lloyd owned a gas station and farmed. To this union, nine children were born, Bruce, Stanley, Joyce, Janice, Dennis, Lloyd Allen, Rita, Atril and Rodney.
Doris was an 85-year-member of the Methodist Church, of which 82 years were in Potter and active in many offices and women’s groups.
Survivors include her sons, Bruce and wife Charlyne Juelfs of Show Low, Ariz., Dennis and wife Ingrid Juelfs of Winchester, Ohio and Rodney and wife Kim Juelfs of Seattle, Wash.; daughters, Joyce and husband Harvey Soderholm of Lincoln, Janice and husband Karl Hueftle of Cozad, Neb. and Atril and husband John Hayes of Hannibal, Mo.; two daughter-in-laws, Dee Juelfs Killham of Kimball and Annie Juelfs of Potter; 24 grandchildren and 46 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Lloyd Juelfs; two sons, Stanley and Lloyd Allen Juelfs; one daughter, Rita Juelfs; her parents; and three brothers, Dean, Lee and Bruce Hagemeister.
Luke Matthew Midcap 1980-2002
Luke Matthew Midcap, 21, Wiggins, Colo., died Sunday, March 24 as a result of an automobile accident south of Fort Morgan, Colo. His funeral will be Thursday at 10 a.m. at the Wiggins High School Gymnasium. Interment will follow at the Hoyt Cemetery. Heer & Jolliffe Mortuary of Fort Morgan is in charge of arrangements.
Friends who wish may make memorial gifts in Luke’s name in care of the High Plains National Bank of Wiggins.
Luke Matthew Midcap was born Oct. 1, 1980 in Greeley, Colo., the son of Michael and Linda Midcap. He was a 1999 graduate of Wiggins High School. Luke was employed by the Bittersweet Farms of Roggen.
He was a member of the American Paint Horse Association.
He enjoyed calf roping, fishing and hunting and especially spending time with family and friends.
Survivors include his parents, Michael and Linda of Wiggins; sister, Sarah Reed of Denver, Colo.; grandparents Ruth Midcap of Wiggins and Ivan and Ardith Gillham of Peetz; special friend, Lindsey Williamson of Fort Morgan; and a niece and nephew of Sterling.
Luke was preceded in death by his sister, Elizabeth Taylor and grandfather, Fred Midcap.
