Eva Arline Votaw
Dec 30, 2012
Eva Arline Votaw, age 96, of Wellfleet, passed away December 30, 2012 at Great Plains Regional Medical Center. She was born January 5, 1916 in Curtis, Nebraska to Arthur and Stella Blanche (Hinton) Poteet. Eva's father died November 1918 and she moved to Wichita to live with her grandparents, Ezra and Rose Hinton returning to Curtis in 1930. Eva attended...
Mary Jo Marshall
Dec 29, 2012
Mary Jo Marshall, age 66 of North Platte, died December 29, 2012 at Great Plains Regional Medical Center. Mary Jo was born on October 8, 1946 in Rushville, NE to Herman and Lucille (McGannon) Arthur. She graduated from Assumption Academy in Chadron in 1965. She moved to Denver for a short while before moving back to Chadron where she married...
Marvin Russell Platt
Dec 29, 2012
Marvin Russell Platt, age 100, formerly of Paxton, passed away, Saturday, December 29, 2012 at Centennial Park in North Platte. Marvin was born October 1, 1912 in Cook, NE. to Dan and Jessie (Hunt) Platt. The family moved to Ogallala in 1919 and then to the Sandhills in 1923. His dad started Thune Store in 1924; moved to Flats and...
Annamae Walter
Dec 29, 2012
Annamae Walter, age 94 of Ainsworth, went to heaven on Saturday December 29, 2012. She was born in Elsmere, NE on May 6, 1918 to Lee and Hervian (Chase) Luther. She lived life fully and enviably, never failing to make people welcome in her home ~ feeding the masses, fixing hair or the roof ~ she always had a shoulder...
Floyd Hank William Hinrichsen
Dec 28, 2012
Floyd ""Hank"" William Hinrichsen, age 82 of North Platte, passed away December 28, 2012 at his home. Hank was born March 9, 1930 in Overton, NE to Walter and Anna (Hemstrom) Hinrichsen. He grew up in Overton and then went to work for the Union Pacific Railroad. From August 1951 to April 1953 he served in the Army, including 16...
Marvin Smith
Dec 28, 2012
Marvin Smith, 76, died December 28, 2012 in North Platte. He was born July 31, 1936 in Franklin, Nebraska to Milo and Viola Smith. At the age of 16, Marvin went to work as a ranch hand for Chas Long at the Long Ranch northwest of North Platte. He worked for three generations of the Long family. One of his...
Deloris May Dickman
Dec 26, 2012
Deloris May Dickman, age 80, of Maxwell passed away December 26, 2012 at Hilltop Estates in Gothenberg. She was born May 21, 1932 in Denver Colorado to Charles and Gertrude Moore Poland. She grew up in Sargent, NE graduating from Sargent High School. On December 24, 1950 Deloris married Dale Dickman in Sargent. He preceded her in death on May...
William Bill Foy Clark
Dec 24, 2012
William Foy ""Bill"" Clark, age 72 of North Platte, passed away December 24, 2012 at Clarkson Hospital in Omaha. Bill was born October 26, 1940 to Delbert ""Doc"" Valentine and Inez L. Clark at Rushville, NE. He spent much of his youth in Valentine, Norfolk and Omaha, graduating from North High School with the Class of 1960, before moving to...
Everett Lee Skeeter Thompson
Dec 22, 2012
Everett Lee ""Skeeter"" Thompson Jr., age 59, of Hershey, died December 22, 2012 at his home. Skeeter was born on September 28, 1953 in North Platte to Everett Sr. and Twila (Gilmore) Thompson. Skeeter grew up in the Bignell area and graduated from Maxwell High School in 1970. He worked at Quick Electric in Ogallala for several years before moving...
Michael Harper Lavelle
Dec 17, 2012
Michael Harper LaVelle age 69 of North Platte died December 17, 2012 at his home. Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:00 a.m. Thursday December 20, 2012 at Holy Spirit Catholic Church with the Rev. James Novakowski as Celebrant. Burial with full military honors will be at Ft. McPherson National Cemtery. The casket will not be open. Those wishing to...
Elna Wilene Wooden
Dec 16, 2012
Elna Wilene Wooden, age 87, of Sutherland, passed away December 16, 2012 at the North Platte Care Center. She was born in Keystone, NE, to Thomas and Ruth Markussen. She attended schools in Keystone through high school and especially remembered ice cream socials and dances during those years. Elna joined a brother stationed in Florida after graduation, and she met...
Ralph Clemond Kelley
Dec 15, 2012
Ralph C. Kelley, age 78, formerly of North Platte, passed away December 15, 2012 at the Sutherland Care Center. Ralph was born December 25, 1933 in Bignell, NE to Roy and Louise Yanken Kelley. He graduated from Maxwell High School and then was drafted into the United States Army where he served as a Corpsman. Ralph married Barbara Kostic in...
Payten Marie Fox
Dec 10, 2012
Payten Marie Fox, infant daughter of Kevin and Heather Fox of North Platte, was born and died December 10, 2012 at St. Elizabeth Regional Medical Center in Lincoln. Survivors include her parents; grandparents Ben and Mary Ann Fox of Arnold and Ray and Mary Kahler of Lincoln; great-grandparents Tracy Clement of Hemet, CA; aunts and uncles Renee (David) Murphy of...
Levon Keith Scotty Scott
Dec 9, 2012
Levon Keith ""Scotty"" Scott, age 72, of Sutherland, passed away December 9th, 2012 at Great Plains Regional Medical Center in North Platte, NE. Scotty was born August 13th, 1940 in Almena, KS to Elmer and Hattie Hayes Scott. He graduated from Densmore High School in 1958. On November 7th, 1959 he married Katheryn M. Bittel in Norton, KS. The couple...
Steven Michael Bobo
Dec 6, 2012
Steven Michael Bobo, age 56 of North Platte, passed away on December 6, 2012. Steve was born on May 31, 1956 in Grand Island to Clarence and Keo (Classen) Bobo. Steve grew up in Commerce City, CO. He graduated from North Platte High School in 1974. He married Christine Brown in 1981 in Las Vegas and to this union two...
Deloris Mae Stellman
Dec 4, 2012
Deloris Mae Stellman, age 91 of North Platte, surrounded by her family, passed away at her home on December 4, 2012 after a lengthy battle with leukemia. Deloris was born July 5, 1921 to John F. and Cecile (Marchbanks) Dancer in Whitman, NE. She attended school in Tryon and Arnold. She married Clarence Newman and the couple had two daughters,...
Billie Lee Effenbeck
Dec 4, 2012
Billie Lee Effenbeck, age 76 of Maxwell, passed away December 4, 2012 at Centennial Park Retirement Village in North Platte. Billie was born March 20, 1936 in North Platte. She was adopted at an early age by Harve and Maime Feathers. She lived her entire life at Maxwell. On June 26, 1954 she married Walt Effenbeck. Billie is survived by...
Martin L. Rousey
Dec 1, 2012
Martin LeRoy Rousey, age 87, of North Platte passed away December 1, 2012 at the Sutherland Care Center. He was born April 4, 1925 in Wauneta, NE to Ora and Mae Tepley Rousey. Martin grew up in the Wauneta and Hamlet area, living much of his younger years with an uncle and grandfather. He was living with his mother in...
Evelyn L. Arbuck
Dec 1, 2012
Evelyn L. Arbuck, age 94, of North Platte , died December 1, 2012 at Linden Court . She was born on April 22, 1918 in North Platte to Frank W. and Lola E. (Ridinger) Steel. Evelyn graduated from North Platte High School . On March 11, 1939, she married Donald Arbuck in North Platte . The couple continued to live...
Donald Faye Holscher
Nov 30, 2012
Donald F. Holscher, age 79, formerly of North Platte, passed away November 30, 2012 in Overland Park, Kansas. He was born September 23, 1933 in Unadilla, Nebraska to Adolf and Neva McDaniel Holscher. On June 19, 1960 he married Gerayne ""Gerre"" Swanson in Lincoln, NE. Don was a school counselor with the North Platte Public Schools. He was a member...
