Linda Piatt
May 17, 2019
Linda I. Piatt, 72, of Fairbury passed away May 17, 2019 in her home. She was born March 24, 1947 to Oliver & Wanda (Rees) Beard in Wichita, KS. Cremation has taken place.
Sharon V. Apking
May 16, 2019
Sharon Vey Anderson was born to E. Jerome & Blanche (Lapcheska) Anderson in Edinburg, Texas on July 14, 1934. Her parents divorced when she was two and she came to Nebraska with her mother. Until she was four, she lived with her aunt and uncle, Pearl and Mervil Elward, on a farm near Strang. At that time her mother...
Theresa Joann Luebcke
May 11, 2019
Theresa JoAnn Luebcke was born March 13, 1935 in Marysville, KS to Ferdinand J. “Pete” Luebcke and Belva L. Blocker Luebcke. She was baptized at St. Gregory the Great Catholic Church in Marysville. At an early age the family moved to Jansen, Nebraska. JoAnn contracted polio as a child. After a long, determined struggle, she regained her ability to...
Pat Jr. Swett
May 11, 2019
Pat Junior Swett, 65, of Fairbury passed away May 11, 2019 at Bryan East Medical Center. Pat was born to Max and Norma (Horak) Swett on May 17, 1953 in Fairbury. He spent nearly his entire life on a farm near Powell, NE. He attended country school in Powell and graduated from Fairbury high school in 1971. As a...
Leona L. Silvester
May 4, 2019
Leona Silvester, 89, of Fairbury, NE passed away May 4, 2019 at Heritage Care Center in Fairbury. She was born October 5, 1929 to Leopold & Nellie (McKay) Richter of Fairbury. Leona attended West Ward Elementary and graduated from Fairbury High School in 1948. While in school, Leona worked at the Bonham Theater and played clarinet in the band....
Wilmer Leroy Ruhnke
Apr 27, 2019
Wilmer Leroy Ruhnke, 87, passed away Saturday April 27, 2019 at Beatrice Community Hospital surrounded by family. Wilmer was born June 26, 1931 to Arthur A. and Gertrude (Krause) Ruhnke at the Mennonite Hospital in Beatrice, Nebraska. Wilmer was baptized at the Evangelical Reformed Church in Jansen, NE and then confirmed in 1944. He attended Dist. 65 School in...
Mary Ann Larkins
Apr 25, 2019
Mary Ann Cunningham Larkins, 91, of Fairbury, passed away April 25, 2019 at Heritage Care Center in Fairbury. She was born January 14, 1928 to Lloyd & Ida Cunningham at Gladstone, NE. She was the 7 th of 9 siblings.
Mom and her family moved to Fairbury when she was 4 and for the next 87 years...
Rev. Roland Eugene "Gene" Carriker
Apr 23, 2019
Roland Eugene Carriker, 92, passed away April 23, 2019 at Good Samaritan in Beatrice. He was born March 18, 1927 to Virgil Edwin and Ruby Gertrude (Kaschmieder) Carriker in Bucklin, Linn County, MO. In July 1944 he entered the U.S. Navy and attained GMM3rd Class and took part in the invasion of Okinawa aboard LST 879. In 1947 he...
Nettie Carol Rose Dragoo
Apr 17, 2019
Nettie Carol Rose Dragoo was born on April 6, 1924 on a farm 4 miles east of Mahaska, Kansas to Harry and Mary (Wells) Rose. She spent her childhood days growing up on her parents’ farm and attended Glen Country School for eight years, and then graduated from Mahaska High School, Mahaska, Kansas in 1942. She was active in...
Virginia R. Sadil
Apr 14, 2019
Virginia Ruth (Iverson) Sadil was born in Daykin, Nebraska on Sept. 6, 1926 to Chester Olin and Addie Marie (Wagoner) Iverson. She was the middle child of three born to them.
Her family later moved to Fairbury where she graduated from High School in 1944. After graduating she worked in the offices of the Farmers Union Creamery....
Larry D. Niederklein
Apr 7, 2019
Larry Dean Niederklein was born November 8, 1950 to Erwin G. & Erna L. (Marschman) Niederklein in Fairbury, NE. His entire life was spent in residence in Daykin, NE. He passed away April 7, 2019 at Gardenside Nursing Home in Fairbury at the age of 68 years and 5 months where he had been a patient for a short...
Edward L. Tracy
Apr 4, 2019
Edward Lee Tracy was born in Denver, Colorado to Robert Leroy and Agnes Marie Tracy on June 25, 1953. He graduated from Fairbury High School in 1971 and then entered the United States Army. He was stationed at Fort Huachuca, Arizona and was honorably discharged in December of 1973. He returned to Fairbury where he began to chase a...
Roger H. Peatling
Apr 1, 2019
Roger H. Peatling, 76, of Fairbury, NE passed away April 1, 2019 at Heritage Care Center in Fairbury. He was born July 5, 1942 to Vernon & Opal (Montgomery) Peatling in Salina, KS.
Services will be Friday, April 5, 2019 at Ryan's Funeral Home in Salina, KS.
Don "Dee" Swett
Mar 31, 2019
Dee Swett, 84 of Steele City was born January 20, 1935 to Pat & Lillie "Cook" Swett in Endicott, Nebraska passed away Sunday, March 31, 2019. He married Marilyn Grone September10, 1955. To this union 6 children were born. They lived most of their married life in Steele City, Nebraska. Dee had been a member of the Steele City...
Peyton L. Vanwesten
Mar 24, 2019
Peyton Lyle VanWesten, son of Jay and Staci (Zoubek) VanWesten was born in Fairbury Nebraska on April 15, 2002, departed from his life on March 24, 2019 in Lincoln, Nebraska from the result of injuries caused by a car accident at the age of 16 years, 11 months, and 9 days.
He was baptized on May 5,...
Gidget Ann Fisbeck
Mar 23, 2019
Gidget Ann Fisbeck, 46, of Fairbury, NE passed away March 23, 2019. Born November 20, 1972, in York, NE to Timothy and Dorothy (Gutzmer) Fisbeck. Gidget will be forever remembered by her daughter, LaNae Morales; son, Tyler Effle; husband, Mago Jimenez; parents, Timothy and Dorothy Fisbeck; brother, Austen Fisbeck; friend and father of LaNae, Anthony Morales; and many others....
Leona J. Gaydusek
Mar 19, 2019
Leona Josephine Loomis Gaydusek of St. George, KS and formerly of Mahaska, KS, passed away on March 19, 2019 at the Westmoreland Community Care Home in Westmoreland, KS.
Leona was born November 14, 1927, in Beatrice, NE to Archie and Josephine Kaltenbach Loomis. Leona grew up on the family farm near Gilead, NE where Leona helped her...
Fred C Kujath
Mar 17, 2019
Fred Chris Kujath was born November 10, 1944 to Fred Ernest and Delta (Moran) Kujath at the Fairbury Clinic and passed away in a vehicle accident going after hay for his cattle at the age of 74 years 4 months 7 days on March 17, 2019.
He received his first 8 years of education at country school...
Garrett A Klipp
Mar 17, 2019
Garrett Anthony Klipp, Tobias, Nebraska, was called home to our Lord on March 17, 2019 at the age of 18.
He was born on September 12, 2000 in Geneva, Nebraska to Anthony “Andy” and Mandy (Goeckel) Klipp and baptized on October 1, 2000 and confirmed on March 28, 2015, at Zion Lutheran Church of Tobias. Garrett attended...
Gene L Thomas
Mar 16, 2019
Gene Lewis Thomas Gene was born on May 20, 1945 at Fairbury, Nebraska, and died on March 16, 2019. He died on the farm where he grew up, near the creek where he played as a boy, working on his fence for his cattle. Gene went to country school at Helvey, Nebraska until 8th grade and then attended and...
