Grant, Nebraska Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Grant, Nebraska & Surrounding Areas
Art E. Forney
Feb 11, 2016
ARTHUR E. FORNEY, age 89 of Madrid, passed away February 11, 2016 at the Golden Ours Convalescent Home in Grant. Art was born January 5, 1927 at Moorcroft, Wyoming to David and Helen (White) Forney. He attended school in Moorcroft. On March 17, 1947, Art married Frances Peek at Broadus, Montana. Five sons were born to this union. The family...
Betty M. Peterson
Jan 28, 2016
BETTY M. PETERSON, 92, of Grant, passed away Thursday, January 28, 2016 at the Golden Ours Convalescent Home in Grant. Betty was born September 11, 1923 at Douglas, Wyoming to E.R. and Martha (Werner) McNaughton. Betty graduated from Chappell High School as the Valedictorian of her class, and attended Mary Lanning Nursing School in Hastings. Betty worked as a nurse...
Burle L. Newth
Jan 9, 2016
BURLE L. NEWTH, age 95 of Venango, passed away Saturday, January 9, 2016 at the Golden Ours Convalescent Home. Burle was born January 13,1920 in a sod house south of Venango, near the Perkins County line. He was the youngest son, one of seven children born to Dave and Myrtle (Chaney) Newth. He moved at the age of 1 to...
Adrian Gasseling
Dec 24, 2015
Adrian Gasseling, 74 of Grainton, passed away December 24, 2015 at the Perkins County Hospital in Grant. Adrian was born November 10, 1941 at Alliance, Nebraska to Marcus B. and Agnes A. (Hovarka) Gasseling. He graduated from the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture at Curtis in 1959. On October 27, 1962, Adrian married Marion Abbott at Hay Springs, Nebraska. Their...
Jackie Mickels
Dec 17, 2015
JACKIE MICKELS, 82, formerly of Madrid, NE, passed away Thursday, December 17, 2015 at the Comfort Care Home in Newton, KS. Jackie was born at home April 17, 1933 near Dalhart, Texas. On March 25, 1951 she married Donald Mickels. Jackie was preceded in death by her husband, Don, and her daughter, Bonnie. Survivors include daughters Kim (Dave) Kroeker of...
Lyle D. Holaway
Dec 10, 2015
Lyle Douglas Holaway, Son of Cliff and Clara Holaway, was born in Grant, NE on December 1, 1937. He was the youngest of four brothers, and was raised in a farming family. He helped with the farming of crops and raising of sheep. He grew up in Grant and graduated from Perkins County High School in 1955. He attended the...
Gerald Leroy Klug
Dec 6, 2015
JERRY KLUG of Venango, NE, passed away Sunday, December 6th, 2015 at Perkins County Hospital in Grant, he was 74. Jerry was born on February 13th, 1941 in Ovid, Colorado to John and Helen (Frank) Klug. He graduated from Lorenzo High School in 1960. He married his bride of 54 years, Geraldine Maahs, on August 20th, 1961 in Julesburg, CO....
Kenneth W. Erickson
Dec 3, 2015
Kenneth Wayne Erickson, 90, of Wallace, died December 3, 2015 at the North Platte Care Center, surrounded by his family. Kenneth was born September 15, 1925 at the family homestead south of Wallace to E. Albin and Ilo (Ferrell) Erickson. Kenneth attended school in Wallace where he graduated in 1943. Kenneth was married to Bonnie Hise on January 3, 1945...
Harold L. Sexton
Nov 27, 2015
Harold Lavern Sexton was born on June 12, 1930, in Mt. Vernon, Illinois. He was the oldest of four children born to Albert “Earl” and Loretta “Zelma” (Detty) Sexton. The family moved to Hayes County, Nebraska, when Harold was five. He attended school in and around Hayes Center and Dickens through his sophomore year, Wallace for his junior year, and...
James Lavern Mcchesney
Nov 18, 2015
James L. McChesney, age 85, passed away peacefully surrounded by family at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney on November 18, 2015. Jim was born on September 13, 1930 in Lebanon, NE, to Percy and Eunice (Evans) McChesney. He served in the US Navy from 1951-1954 aboard the USS Curtiss after graduating High School in Indianola in 1948. He worked for...
Marie Dahlkoetter
Nov 11, 2015
MARIE DAHLKOETTER, 94 of Lexington, formerly of Grant, passed away Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at Lexington, NE. Marie was born August 25, 1921 at Table, Nebraska to Guy and Ethel (Hill) Clark. She graduated from Gothenburg High School with the class of 1939. Marie worked at a munitions plant during WWII. On June 25, 1943, Marie married Melvin E. Dahlkoetter...
Virginia M. Hastings
Nov 10, 2015
Virginia Minnie Wilbur Hastings, of Elsie, lived a glorious 100 years, dying on November 10, 2015 at the Indian Hills Manor in Ogallala. She was born September 12, 1915 to Chauncey and Ricki Harms Wilbur on a farm near Belgrade, Nebraska. She lived with her parents, 5 brothers and one sister in eastern Nebraska. When she was 13 years old...
Elvera I Seiler
Nov 5, 2015
Elvera “Vera” Seiler, age 95 of Lincoln, long time Grant resident, passed away Thursday, November 5, 2015 at Bryan LGH East. Vera was born August 9, 1920 at Grainton, Nebraska to Chris and Hulda (Johnson) Jensen. Vera attended rural school in the Madrid area. On September 17, 1939, Vera married William Seiler at the Seiler family residence at Madrid. The...
Angela Joy Deaver
Oct 23, 2015
Angela Joy (Wendell) Deaver was born February 3, 1987 in Scottsbluff, Nebraska to Jack and Michelle Wendell of Dickens. Angela attended elementary school in Wallace, where she was known as a sweet and quiet girl who loved to read. On the farm where she grew up, her love of animals was apparent, as she was always toting around a kitten...
Wayne S. Melton
Oct 15, 2015
Wayne Sigal Melton, age 67 of Wallace, passed away Thursday, October 15, 2015 at his rural home near Wallace. Wayne was born May 3, 1948 at North Platte, Nebraska to Don and Veva (Washburn) Melton. He grew up on the Melton Ranch southeast of Wallace. He graduated from the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture in Curtis. He went into the...
Michelle L. Wendell
Oct 13, 2015
Michelle Lynn (Holaway) Wendell was born on Sept 10, 1955 in Grant, Nebraska to Jack and Donna Holaway. She graduated from Perkins County High School in 1973, where she was an outstanding athlete and a good student. Her talents shown particularly bright on the track, where she was an excellent hurdler, sprinter and long jumper. Her talents for the visual...
Myrna Lee
Oct 12, 2015
Myrna Lee, 87 of Hay Springs, passed away at Pioneer Manor on October 12, 2015. Myrna was born on October 22, 1927 to Edgar and Pearl (Mickels) Price at Madrid, Nebraska, the youngest of six children. She married Robert Lee on February 10, 1945 and to them seven children were born, Rickie who died at birth, Linda Bradfield of Alliance,...
Marcella Jean Witzki
Oct 7, 2015
MARCELLA WITZKI, 82 of Venango, NE, passed away Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at her home in Venango. Marcella was born May 29, 1933 at Venango, Nebraska to Julian and Frieda (Dudden) Ogden. She graduated from Venango High School with the class of 1950. Marcella had worked at Goodalls and TRW in Ogallala before moving to Billings, MT to work for...
Steven B. Anderson
Oct 2, 2015
STEVEN B. ANDERSON, 68, of Omaha, NE, passed away Friday, October 2, 2015 in Omaha. Steve is survived by his wife, Jan; daughter, Stefanie (Troy ) Fink; son Bundy James; granddaughter, Ava Fink; brother, Lane (Kerri) of Ogallala; two sisters, Janet (Paul) Heinrich of Paxton and Julie (Chuck) Loper of Springdale, Arkansas; sister-in-law, Jo (Duane) Talich of Sidney; and two...
Gary D. Schneider
Sep 30, 2015
Mr. Gary D. Schneider, of Bay City and Paxton, Nebraska, passed away following a lengthy illness Wednesday September 30, 2015 at his residence with his loving wife at his side after spending his final hours being comforted by his family. Gary was 77 years old. The son of the late Glenn and Violet (Seigrist) Schneider, he was born on December...
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