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Local obituaries for the Broken Bow, Arnold, & Mullen, NE areas

Faye Kleeb

Faye Kleeb

Dec 21, 2019

Broken Bow, NE- Faye Kleeb age 95 of Broken Bow, died Saturday December 21, 2019 at the Brookestone View Care Home in Broken Bow.

Funeral services will be held on Monday December 23, 2019 at 2:00 PM at the United Methodist Church in Broken Bow with Reverend Matt Fowler officiating.  Burial will be in the Broken Bow Cemetery.  A visitation...

Myrtle May Hollibaugh

Myrtle May Hollibaugh

Dec 17, 2019

Myrtle May (Harris) Hollibaugh age 77 of Arcadia, NE passed away Tuesday, December 17, 2019 after a hard-fought battle with cancer. She was born March 28, 1942 at Loup City. She went to grade school and graduated high school at Litchfield in 1959. She then attended beauty school and worked as a beautician for a number of years where she...

Clifford Hanna

Clifford Hanna

Dec 15, 2019

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On December 15, 2019, a devoted husband was reunited with his beautiful bride.  Cliff’s integrity and strength of character was evidenced to all who knew him.  He was always willing to give a helping hand to a friend and once you met him you quickly became a friend. 

Clifford Allen Hanna was born January 2, 1952 in Broken...

Dorothy Porter

Dorothy Porter

Dec 13, 2019

Dorothy E. Porter, age 90, of Broken Bow, NE died Friday Dec. 13, 2019 at Brookstone View in Broken Bow.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday Dec. 17, 2019 at 2 p.m. in Govier Brothers Chapel in Broken Bow, NE with Reverend Matt Fowler officiating.  Visitation will be Monday December 16 at Govier Brothers Mortuary in Broken Bow, with family...

Ruth Anne McConnell

Ruth Anne McConnell

Dec 13, 2019

Ruth Anne McConnell age 75, from Broken Bow, NE passed away Friday, December 13, 2019 at the Bryan East Medical Center in Lincoln, NE.

Funeral services will be Saturday, December 21, 2019 at 11:00 am at the Lillian Church of Christ north of Broken Bow, NE with Pastor Roger Sloan officiating. Burial will be in the Westerville Cemetery in Westerville,...

Neola McAlevy

Neola McAlevy

Dec 13, 2019

Ansley, NE               On Friday, December 13, 2019, Neola Rae McAlevy, loving wife, and mother to four children, passed away at the age of 74 at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.               Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, December 18, 2019 at 11:00 AM at Govier Brothers Chapel in Broken Bow.  A visitation will be held on Tuesday,...

Roberta L Tobias

Roberta L Tobias

Dec 7, 2019

Farewell to Mom...

Roberta Lea Tobias, 85 of Sargent, Ne.

Born 9-30-1934

Died Sat 12-7-2019

Roberta was born to Joeseph and Della Cool in Amherst, Nebraska.  At 13 months of age and following the death of her mother, Roberta was lovingly taken in by their Aunt and Uncle, Harvey and Essie Keyser. Harvey and Essie would become known as her...

Giles "Jerry" Henry Warren

Giles "Jerry" Henry Warren

Dec 4, 2019

Giles “Jerry “Henry Warren, Sr age 90 of Broken Bow, NE passed away Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at the Jennie M Melham Memorial Medical Center in Broken Bow, NE.

A Celebration of Life will be held on Monday, December 23, 2019 at 11:00 A.M. at the Broken Bow Vets Building.

Jerry was born July 20, 1929 in Norfolk, NE to...

Jerry "Bob" Johnson

Jerry "Bob" Johnson

Dec 1, 2019

Jerry “Bob” E. Johnson age 82, passed away Sunday, December 1, 2019 at the Rose Lane Home in Loup City, NE.

Bob was born July 5, 1937 in Valentine or J F Naskaheb near the South Dakota boarder on his grandparent’s ranch to Henry and Edna (Fike) Johnson. Bob the oldest child of four, two sisters Jeanie and Janice and...

Hazel Sheets

Hazel Sheets

Nov 28, 2019

     Hazel Flyr Sheets was born May 9, 1921 in Long Pine, NE to Wilke Henry and Anna Margaret (Lammers) Flyr, the 9th of 11 children. Raised on a farm near Long Pine, she graduated from Long Pine High School in 1938. She became a country school teacher at age 17, so some of her students were nearly as old as...

Marilyn L. Anderson

Marilyn L. Anderson

Nov 28, 2019

Dunning, NE - Marilyn Anderson age 70 of Dunning, died Thursday November 28, 2019 at her home in Dunning. Funeral services will be held on Monday December 2, 2019 at 3:00 PM at the Sandhills High School Gymnasium at Dunning, NE with Pastor Mark Sievering officiating.  Burial will be in the Dunning Cemetery.  A visitation will be held on Sunday...

Larry Arthur Yarrington

Larry Arthur Yarrington

Nov 26, 2019

Larry Arthur Yarrington passed into heaven on November 26, 2019 at the age of 82 in Castroville, TX.

He was born on October 2, 1937 in Arnold, NE. Larry was raised in the Arnold area, attended the country school north of Arnold and graduated from Arnold High School in 1955. He then enlisted in the United States Army and served...

Phyllis M Winter

Phyllis M Winter

Nov 21, 2019

Obituary for Phyllis M. Winter

June 22, 1923 - Nov. 21, 2019

Phyllis passed away in Elkhorn, NE on November 21, 2019. She was preceded in death by her parents, Andrew, and Maggie (Beals) Molley and her husband, Virgil Winter.

Survived by her brother, Bernard Duane Molley (Joyce), nieces Andrea (Andy) Borchers and Melinda Molley and great-nieces, Annie, and Abbey...

Tom Prentice

Tom Prentice

Nov 20, 2019

 

Mullen, NE- Thomas “Tom” Prentice age 93 of Mullen died November 20, 2019 at the Pioneer Memorial Nursing Home in Mullen. 

Funeral services will be held on Monday November 25, 2019 at 11:00 AM MDT at the Sandhills Community Bible Church at Mullen with Pastor Bob Teters officiating.  Burial will be in the Cedarview Cemetery at Mullen with...

Shirley Jean Mattox

Shirley Jean Mattox

Nov 19, 2019

Shirley Jean Mattox was born July 26, 1936 on a farmstead near Berwyn, Nebraska to Leo and Wauneta (Jones) Neidt.  She married her high school sweetheart Cecil Mattox on September 16, 1953.  She graduated from Broken Bow High School the following May 1954 while Cecil was serving in the Army in Korea.  She attended beauty school in Grand Island after...

Milrae Eloise Horn

Milrae Eloise Horn

Nov 15, 2019

Milrae E. Horn age 88, of rural Broken Bow died Friday, November 15, 2019 at the Jennie Melham Medical Center in Broken Bow after a lengthy battle with dementia.

Funeral services will be held on Saturday, November 23, 2019 at 11:00 AM at the Burr Oak Church, south of Broken Bow.  Burial will be in the Broken Bow Cemetery.  A...

Karl Floyd Marten

Karl Floyd Marten

Nov 13, 2019

Karl F. Marten was born May 2nd, 1943 to Herman (Fred) and Ruthanna (Johnson) Marten in Broken Bow, Nebraska. Fred and Ruthanna moved Karl and his three siblings to Purdum, Nebraska where Karl attended school and graduated from Halsey High in 1961.

Karl married Melva Ryman in 1966 to which two children were born. Karl and Melva lived in Hastings...

Ruth L. Blauvelt

Ruth L. Blauvelt

Nov 12, 2019

Ruth Lenore Blauvelt

December 9, 1911 ~ November 12, 2019

Ruth Lenore (Harrell) Blauvelt daughter of Lewis and Cordelia Harrell was born on December 9, 1911 at Norway, Nebraska and passed away on November 12, 2019, 27 days short of her 108th birthday, in her daughter's home surrounded by family.

Ruth grew up on her parent’s homestead and attended a...

Miller Kelley Heller

Miller Kelley Heller

Nov 10, 2019

Miller Kelley Heller was born August 21, 1921 and passed away November 10, 2019 at the age of 98. His parents Edver and Katherine (Kelley) Heller were homesteaders in Blaine County and eventually owned the Pine Ridge Ranch where Miller resided until April 2017, when he was admitted to the Brookestone View care center in Broken Bow, Nebraska.

Miller met...

Joanne Johnson

Joanne Johnson

Nov 9, 2019

Joanne Rutledge (O’Brien) Johnson passed away surrounded by her family. She was raised up on eagle’s wings Saturday, November 9th, 2019.

Joanne was born on January 30th, 1948, to Claude and Betty Lou O’Brien in Alliance, Nebraska. She grew up with her five siblings on her family’s ranch southwest of Mullen, Nebraska.

On April 1st, 1972, Joanne married Gary Johnson....