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Mildred Deininger
Mildred Deininger passed away Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 2005, at her home in Aurora, Colo.
Funeral services were held Friday, Dec. 30, 2005, at 10:30 a.m. MT at the United Methodist Church of Wauneta with Pastor Judy Dye officiating. Interment followed at the Riverside cemetery, Wauneta.
Liewer Funeral Home of Wauneta was in charge of arrangements.
Virgil Kerchal
Virgil Kerchal passed away Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 2005, at the hospital in Tecumseh, Neb.
Funeral services were held Friday, Dec. 30, 2005, at 2 p.m. MT at the Redeemer Lutheran Church of Wauneta with Rev. Keith Wellman officiating. Interment followed at Riverside cemetery, Wauneta.
Survivors include son Ken Kerchal and wife Loretta; son Duane Kerchal and son Rex Kerchal and wife, Deborah; brothers: Leonard Kerchal and wife Frona and Keith Kerchal and wife Nona and sister, JoAnn and husband, Rob Vicary, grandchildren, nieces, nephews and other relatives.
A memorial has been established in Virgil's memory.
Liewer Funeral Home of Wauneta was in charge of arrangements.
Brice Rueter
Life-long Wauneta resident Brice Fredric Rueter passed away Dec. 30, 2005. He was born on Feb. 25, 1944, in Holdrege, Neb., to Carl and Ann Holbein Rueter.
Growing up in Wauneta, Brice was very active in 4-H, graduated from Wauneta High School where he played trumpet in the band and participated in several singing groups.
He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1966 from the University of Nebraska. He was a member of Theta Xi Fraternity. He received his law degree from the University of Nebraska in 1971 and returned home to Wauneta to practice law and farm.
His real love was woodworking. His grandfather clocks were masterpieces of design and execution and the wood work in his former law office in Wauneta attests to his remarkable creativity and craftsmanship.
In recent years, Brice suffered from Multiple Sclerosis and spent the last 13 years of his life at Heritage of Wauneta where he received kind and attentive care.
Services were held Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2006, at 1:30 p.m. at the United Methodist Church, Wauneta, Neb., with Pastor Judy Dye officiating.
Music was provided by Mrs. Lucille McBride, pianist and Mrs. Sharon Walgren, soloist.
He was inurned with his mother and father at Riverside cemetery, Wauneta.
Liewer Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Robert Tibbetts
Robert Tibbetts, 74, of Westwood, Calif., died Sunday, Dec. 25, 2005, in Oakland, Calif.
An obituary will appear in a later issue.
Verna Doris Johnson
Verna Doris Cranwell Johnson, the youngest child of Ernest and Myrtle Cranwell, was born Feb. 5, 1919 at Holyoke, Colo.
She was raised on the farm that her parents homesteaded on the Colorado and Nebraska state line and attended grade school at a small one-room school nearby.
Because of an illness since birth, she was unable to attend high school so she remained at home, learning to cook, sew and helping friends and neighbors.
Her passion was music, especially playing the piano and even though she had no formal training, she played by ear and practiced long hours.
She married
Irvin Johnson on July 3, 1938. They spent several years working on a farm near Hamlet, Neb. before their first child, Donna was born in 1945.
In 1946, they bought a farm south of Lamar, Neb. where Cynthia was born in 1949 and Barry in 1950. They maintained that farm until 1976 when they retired, moving to Bella Vista, Ark. and later moving to Roger, Ark. in 1990.
She was baptized into her Christian faith at Lamar, Neb. as a child and continued to build her faith at Bella Vista Christian Church in Arkansas. Irvin and Verna returned to a home in Imperial, Neb. in 1996. Failing health for them both was a reason for moving to Imperial Manor where they had lived together since 1998.
Verna peacefully passed away Dec. 20, 2005 at Imperial Manor Nursing Home.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Ernest and Myrtle Cranwell; four sisters, Mildred, Fern, Erma and Vivian; brother, Clyde; an infant brother and son-in-law, James Gibb.
She leaves to mourn her passing her husband, Irvin, of 67 years; daughters and Donna Gibb of Imperial and Cynthia Hudgins and husband, Jack, of Texarkana, Ark.; son Barry and wife, Sheila, of North Platte, Neb.; grandchildren, Jamie Gibb and wife, Denise, Shannon Johnson and husband, Russell, Shane Hudgins and wife, Teri, Sean Hudgins, Renee Johnson and Cody Kimberling and wife, Donelle, and nine great grandchildren.
She will be sadly missed by her family and her friends and caregivers at Imperial.
Della Merrill
Della Pearl Merrill was born April 5, 1913, to Delaware and Elsie (Englehart) Decker in a sod house east of Traer, Kan. Two years after Della, the youngest Decker in the family appeared, the family moved to Cedar Bluffs, Kan., where her father was a Methodist minister at a country church. But by the time Della was six, she was fatherless. Her father had fractured his appendix and died following surgery. To survive her mother worked odd jobs, while Della attended first grade in Cedar Bluffs.
The family moved to Orleans, Neb., the following spring where she attended school from the second grade through the first semester of her freshman year in high school. That winter she and her mother moved to Wauneta. They lived there through her junior year before moving back to Orleans for a brief time, but eventually moved back to Wauneta so Della could graduate with the Wauneta High School Class of 1931.
During her high school years she met her future husband, John Jay Merrill. Della and Jay were married
in September of 1931, when Della was 18. The following year they lived in and around Wauneta and started raising their family during the years of the dust bowl and the depression.
After her youngest child started school, Della took a job working at the Wauneta Telephone Company. She would answer the phone, then patch the first party through to the second. Della worked alone and also served as the receptionist and helped with the billing. Working during the day meant chores were left to time off and laundry was huge in her family of seven, using a wash board for years.
Della and Jay lived in Wauneta until their youngest graduated from high school. At that time they moved to Cheyenne, Wyo., where Jay worked in redoing the military base. Della was 45 at the time of the move and went to work at Montgomery Ward, first as a telephone operator, then in the cash office, and finally as a receptionist.
After being away from Wauneta for 16 years, they moved back to retire. They bought the Mabel Taylor house and lived in Wauneta since the move. After moving back she lost her husband in 1978, then her daughter, Elsie Kerchal, in 1999. Even through the hard times, Della loved Wauneta.
Della passed away early Wednesday morning, Dec. 21, 2005, at the Heritage of Wauneta Nursing Home. She was 92 years of age.
Della loved to garden and growing flowers, she was a avid quilter, producing quilts for her 18 grandchildren, 31 great grandchildren and five great, great grandchildren. Della was a member of the Rebecca Lodge of Wauneta and the Shilohettes until they disbanded. She loved to play cards, belonging to the pinochle and canasta clubs in town.
She is survived by daughter Barbara O'Dea of Wauneta; daughter Joyce Hutchins of Inverness, Fla.; daughter Marilyn and husband Robin Koelmel of Lakewood, Colo.; and son Richard Merrill and wife Pat, also of Lakewood; 18 grandchildren, 31 great grandchildren and five great, great grandchildren.
Della was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Jay; daughter, Elsie Kerchal; brother, Zenas and sisters, Pansy, Frances and Lulu.
Funeral services were held Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2005, at 10 a.m. at the Wauneta Church of Christ, Wauneta, Neb., with Pastor Randy Hayes officiating. Music was provided by the Wauneta Church of Christ choir.
Casketbearers were grandsons and great grandsons Rick Merrill, Doug Merrill, Derek Koelmel, Gerry Koelmel, Steve Kerchal, Dave Kerchal, Russ O'Dea, Bob Goings, Jeremy Merrill and Justin Kerchal.
Interment was in Riverside cemetery, Wauneta.
A memorial has been established in her memory
Liewer Funeral Home of Wauneta was in charge of arrangements.
Verna Johnson
Verna Johnson, age 86, passed away early Tuesday morning, Dec. 20, 2005, at the Imperial Manor Nursing Home in Imperial.
Survivors include husband, Irvin of Imperial; daughter, Donna Gibb of Imperial; son, Barry Johnson and wife, Sheila, of North Platte; daughter, Cindy Hudgins and husband, Jack, of Texarkana, Ark.; six grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.
Graveside services will be today (Thursday), Dec. 22 at 2 p.m. at Mount Hope cemetery, Imperial, with Martin Harmon officiating.
Visitation will be held Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 21 at 2-6 p.m. at the funeral home in Imperial.
A memorial has been established to the Imperial Manor Nursing Home.
Liewer Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Goldie L. Runyon
Goldie Runyon, 88, passed away Dec. 15, 2005 in the Imperial Manor Nursing Home.
Goldie was born Jan. 25, 1917 in rural Chase County to John and Lula Smith. She attended school in Chase County through the 11th grade.
In 1935 Goldie married
Clarence E. White and to this union one son, Norman, was born. In the late 1930's they moved to Idaho Springs, Colo.
In 1944 Goldie married
Wm. Clyde Runyon.
In 1946, after WWII, they moved to Imperial to be with her son, who at that time was living with John and Lula Smith.
In 1959 Goldie and Clyde moved to Riverside, Calif. Goldie resided there until 1995 when she moved back to Chase County. She resided in Champion until 2002 when she moved into the Imperial Parkview Assisted Living.
Goldie was preceded in death by her parents, John and Lula Smith; brothers, Ross A. and Harry P. Smith; both husbands, Clarence E. White and Wm. Clyde Runyon; and daughter-in-law, Judith L. White.
She is survived by her son, Norman L. White, of Santa Maria, Calif.; sister-in-law, Betty M. Smith of Salida, Colo. and numerous nieces and nephews.
The family requested no services and private burial was in the Mount Hope cemetery, Imperial.
Elva Read
Elva Pearl (Burtis) Read, age 86, of Limon, Colo. passed away Dec. 17, 2005 at Hugo, Colo.
Elva was born Nov. 9, 1919 in Imperial, Neb. to George Ira and Neva (Kimberling) Burtis.
Elva married
Charles Read on July 4, 1939 in Champion, Neb. To this union two children were born.
Elva was a member of the High Plains Baptist Church in Limon, the Colorado Cow Bell's Women's Association, the Lyon's Auxiliary of Colorado Springs and the president of EPPICA a women's group at the First Baptist Church in Morris, Ill. Elva enjoyed making crafts, cooking and baking, she liked to keep her hands busy doing something. When she was a child she learned to say the alphabet backwards and she would always amaze children with that ability.
Elva was preceded in death by her parents, husband, three brothers, Robert, Hubert and Dean, a sister-in-law, Maxine Burtis and a brother-in-law, Roland Taylor.
Elva is survived by one son, Jim and wife, Francie Read of Limon, Colo.; one daughter, Katherine Kreiling of Ashland, Ohio; two brothers, Donald Burtis of Sheridan, Wyo. and Ralph and wife, Lucille Burtis of Tracy, Calif.; one sister, Leona Taylor of Sheridan, Wyo; a sister-in-law, Roma Jean Burtis of Imperial, Neb.; four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren: Pam and husband, Tom Brown and their children; Erica and Jonathan of Limon, Colo.; Nyhma and husband, William Glenn Tramel and their children, Cyrel, Cyle and Christopher Glenn of Killeen, Texas; Celinda and husband, Robert Kerr and their son, Bryan of Ashland, Ohio; Ronnita and husband, Patrick Norval of Northville, Mich. Also surviving are numerous nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held today, Dec. 22 at 11:00 a.m. at the Hi-Plains Baptist Church in Limon, Colo. with Pastor Greg Scherrer officiating. Burial will follow in the Pershing Memorial cemetery in Limon.
Memorials are suggested to the Hi-Plains Baptist Church Building Fund, P.O. Box 158, Limon, CO 80828.
Service arrangements were made by Love Funeral Home of Limon, Colo.
Please visit www.lovefuneral homes.com to sign the guest book or leave a message of condolence for the family.
Jesse Deaver
Jesse Deaver was born on May 31, 1934 at Ogallala, Neb. He was the oldest of five sons born to Bernard and Susie Lugenbeel Deaver. Jesse was baptized on June 14, 1934. The family lived west of Grant, Neb., and Jesse attended rural school.
He began high school at Sidney St. Patrick's before returning to Perkins County High School in Grant where he graduated in 1952. Jesse had worked for Kreider's implement and car dealership in high school and continued his employment with them after graduation.
Jesse was married
to Idonna Russell on June 5, 1954 at Paxton, Neb. They lived their entire married
life in Grant.
Jesse began working for Producer's Grain in 1959, later managing Kellogg Grain, and in 1965 began his career with the Grant Co-op. He eventually became the general operations manager for the Co-op. Jesse served for 30 years before his health forced his retirement in 1995.
Jesse was the recipient of a liver transplant that same year. He stayed active in his retirement with his farming interests and Jesse and Idonna spent their winters in Yuma, Ariz., during this time.
His health had been a continuing issue in his life and he had been transferred to the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha the middle of November for treatment. He died at the Medical Center Tuesday morning, Dec. 6, 2005. He had reached the age of 71.
Jesse had been confirmed into the Zion Lutheran Church on March 17, 1957 and had been an active member. Jesse was a founding and charter member of the Grant Jaycees. He was a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Grant Volunteer Fire Department and the Grant Rotary. He was a member of the Nebraska Feed and Grain Association. When Grant had a functional theater several years ago, Jesse was responsible for running the projectors. He was presently a member of the Imperial Eagle's Club.
In addition to his parents, Jesse was preceded in death by two brothers, John Dale and Jerry.
He is survived by his wife, Idonna; two sons, Kevin and wife Kathy of Lincoln, Neb., and Kent of Kearney, Neb.; one daughter, Carmen Bottom of Kearney; five grandsons, Sean and Mitchel Bottom; Shane, Jacob and Danny Deaver; four granddaughters, Mindy Bottom, Nikki, Megan and Molly Deaver; two brothers, James and wife Virginia of rural Imperial, Neb., and David and wife Kathy of Grant; two sisters-in-law, Sandy and Jody; many other relatives and friends.
Funeral services were held Friday, Dec. 9, at the Grant Zion Lutheran Church with Pastor Ron Krause officiating. Music was provided by Judy Kurkowski and Lori McCloskey.
Casketbearers were Sean Bottom, Mitchel Bottom, Ted Deaver, Shane Deaver, Danny Deaver and Jacob Deaver.
Burial was in the Grant cemetery. A memorial has been established. Bullock-Long Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
