Rose D. Martinez
Mar 15, 2020
Rose D. Martinez of Cozad passed away Sunday, March 15, 2020 at Hilltop Estates in Gothenburg at the age of 91. Rose was born August 4, 1928 in Josselyn, Dawson County, Nebraska to Primo and Margaret (Duran) Gutierrez. She attended school at District 6 near Lexington and Cozad High School. Rose moved to Denver, Colorado and worked as a typist...
Bonnie Jean Rinehart
Mar 2, 2020
Bonnie J. Rinehart of Cozad passed away Monday, March 2, 2020 at Cozad Community Hospital at the age of 88. Bonnie was born July 25, 1931 in North Platte, Nebraska to Elden and Ruby (Callahan) Price. She attended school in North Platte, Darr and Cozad. On August 8, 1948, Bonnie married LaVern Rinehart in Cozad. Their union was blessed with...
Thelma L. Kaps
Feb 28, 2020
Thelma L. Kaps of Elwood passed away Friday, February 28, 2020 at Elwood Care Center at the age of 93. Thelma was born June 28, 1926 in Hill City, Kansas to Roy L. and Grace (Flynn) Bice. On December 6, 1943 she married Vernon Kaps in Lexington, Nebraska. Their union was blessed with two children, Stanley and Del. They resided...
Carol L. Cornelius
Feb 20, 2020
Carol Cornelius of Cozad passed away February 20, 2020 at Cozad Community Hospital at the age of 83. Carol Lea Bennett was born September 29, 1936 at Nebraska City to Robert J and Alta (Lewis) Bennett. She received her RN degree from Mary Lanning Memorial Hospital in 1957, and began her nursing career at Mary Lanning Memorial Hospital. Carol married...
Norma Florence Chittenden
Feb 16, 2020
Norma F. Chittenden of Cozad passed away Sunday, February 16, 2020 at Meadowlark Pointe Assisted Living at the age of 95. Norma was born February 18, 1924 in Rural Dawson County, Nebraska to Ulfert J. and Sophia A. (Buesing) Block. She attended rural country school. On July 30, 1943, Norma married C. Carol Chittenden at Gothenburg, Nebraska. Their union was...
William 'Tuffy' A. Kostman
Feb 16, 2020
I was born William Anthony Kostman Jr in Omaha, Ne on November 5, 1971. Some know me as Bill and my family and friends know me as Tuffy. My parents were William Kostman Sr or "Bill" and Kay Coller. I was welcomed home by my 13 month old sister who instantly became my protector and "boss" for the next 48...
Nettie Grace Gill
Feb 14, 2020
Nettie Grace (Barnes) Gill of Cozad passed away Friday, February 14, 2020 at Cozad Community Hospital at the age of 95. Nettie Grace was born in Winona County, Missouri to Richard Barnes and Pauline (Brawley) Barnes. She attended Banner Public School in Missouri until she and her mother moved to Fort Collins, Colorado. Nettie Grace worked at several jobs in...
Darlene R. Hawke
Feb 9, 2020
Darlene R. Hawke of Cozad passed away Sunday, February 9, 2020 at Meadowlark Pointe Assisted Living at the age of 82. Darlene was born November 3, 1937 at Cozad, Nebraska to Henry and Mildred (Schilreff) Schneider. She graduated from Cozad High School. Her mother passed at an early age and Darlene had to raise her younger siblings. On January 28,...
Madeline A. Rupe
Feb 8, 2020
Madeline Ann Rupe, 87, of Hastings, NE and formerly from Eustis, NE, died on Feb. 8, 2020 at Good Samaritan Village in Hastings, NE. She was born on March 29, 1932 to Donald James & Reba Fern (Gugelman) Nickerson in Farnam, NE. She grew up south of Farnam and attended Rural School #20 in Frontier County. She graduated from Stockville...
Frederick H. Geiger
Jan 28, 2020
Frederick Herman Geiger, age 98, passed away in Ames, IA, on January 28, 2020. He was born on the family farm northeast of Eustis on October 14, 1921, to William August and Louise Pauline (Unkel) Geiger.
His family moved to a farm east of Cozad in 1929. Fred graduated from Cozad High School in 1938 and from the University of...
Genabel "Jean" Hueftle
Jan 25, 2020
In His hand is the life and breath of every creature and the breath of all mankind. Job 12:10 With full confidence that the only way to Heaven is to believe in the sacrificial death, burial, and resurrection of God's one and only Son, Jesus, as her Savior from her sin; Jean took her last breath on earth and her...
David G. Gilbert
Jan 20, 2020
David G. Gilbert of Cozad passed away January 20, 2020 at Madonna Rehabilitation Center in Lincoln at the age of 79. Dave was born October 16, 1940 in Lexington, Nebraska to Glenn and Marjorie (Fair) Gilbert. He attended Lexington High School and graduated with the class of 1959. Dave married Judy Dillon August 14, 1980. They had six children between...
Sharon E. Joyce
Jan 15, 2020
Sharon E. Joyce passed away Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at the Cozad Community Hospital at the age of 63. Sharon was born September 3, 1956 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to John and Roseann (Keller) Joyce and lived in the Frankford area until she moved to Nebraska in June of 2015. Sharon was a hard worker and managed a donut shop for...
Keith L. Willets
Jan 9, 2020
Keith L. Willets of Elwood passed away Thursday, January 9, 2020 at Kearney Regional Hospital at the age of 99. Keith was born Dec 11, 1920 on the Levine Farm on turkey creek south of Smithfield, Ne. Keith was the oldest of the for children of Carl and Eleanora (Nora Fastenau Willets). He graduated from Lexington High School with the...
Kenneth E. Meissner
Dec 15, 2019
Kenneth E. Meissner of Cozad passed away Sunday, December 15, 2019 at the Cozad Community Hospital at the age of 77. He was born November 12, 1942 in rural Frontier County, Nebraska to Leo and June (Carroll) Meissner. Kenneth graduated from Maywood High School and worked numerous jobs in the McCook area. On December 21, 1973 Kenneth married Eugenia Lehn....
Oran Eugene Smock
Dec 13, 2019
Oran Eugene Smock passed away Friday, December 13, 2019 at his home in Cozad at the age of 80. Eugene was born September 24, 1939 in Cozad and graduated with the class of 1958. On June 4, 1961, he married Judith McNulty at the Nazarene Church in Cozad. Three daughters were born to this union: Sherri Ann, Dawn Marie and...
Earl R. Pharris
Dec 12, 2019
Earl Roy Pharris of Cozad passed away Thursday, December 12, 2019 at Meadowlark Pointe Assisted Living at the age of 93. Earl was born January 1, 1926 in a small rural home near Jerome, Idaho. He graduated from the University of Idaho with a master’s degree in Animal Nutrition. Earl married Hazel Danquist on July 10, 1949 in Bonner’s Ferry...
Bryant J. Keller
Dec 8, 2019
The world lost a warm light on Saturday, December 8, 2019 when Bryant Keller passed away from a brain aneurysm in his home in Richfield, MN at 28 years old. He was born July 21, 1991 to John and Kathryn (Gronstal) Keller of Eustis, NE, minutes before his twin sister, Leah.
After graduating as valedictorian of the Eustis-Farnam High School,...
Margilu Ellen Peterson
Dec 5, 2019
Margilu E. Peterson of Cozad passed away December 5, 2019 at Via Christi Hospital in Manhattan, Kansas at the age of 83. Margilu was born October 11, 1936 in Arnold, Nebraska to Henry and Marjorie (Shaw) Anderson. She graduated from Arnold High School with the class of 1954. Margilu attended Kearney State Teachers’ College and earned her teaching certificate. On...
Mary Jeannette Adams
Dec 1, 2019
Mary J. Adams of Cozad passed away Sunday, December 1, 2019 at Emerald Care Nursing at the age of 88. Mary was born June 4, 1931 in Lincoln, Nebraska and adopted when only days old by Bryan and Jean Maurine (Webster) Harrell. She graduated from Doniphan High School as valedictorian in 1949. Mary worked briefly at a bank in Hastings,...
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