OBITUARIES

Feb 28, 2014

Loren Ray Walker, 87 of Harrison, passed away Friday, February 28, 2014 at Heritage Estates in Gering, Nebraska. Loren, the son of Delbert and Ruth Walker, was born on August 24, 1926 in Lusk, Wyoming. Loren grew up in the Lusk area. He graduated from high school in Spearfish, South Dakota. Loren was drafted into the...

Feb 27, 2014

Garold W. "Toed" Smith passed away on Thursday, February 27, 2014 at his childhood home in Whitney, Nebraska doing what he loved, ranching and tending to the cows. He was born on April 21, 1936 to Lloyd George Smith and Myrtle Isabelle Seikert in Crawford, Nebraska. As a young boy he lived with his family on...

Feb 19, 2014

Clarence Everett Hunt, 92, of Vetal, passed away on February 19, 2014, at Bennett County Hospital Everett was born May 29, 1921 near Franklin, NE, the first child of Ellsworth and Iva (Hammond) Hunt. The family lived in Nebraska, Arizona, and Kansas before moving in 1932 to a farm northwest of Vetal. Everett married Carol L....

Feb 17, 2014

Mrs. Franklin B. Gilmore, age 104, died February 17, 2014, in Crawford, Nebraska. She was born Doris Jane Duhart December 21, 1909, in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York. She moved with her parents, at the age of 4, to Port Allegany, PA, where her father, Armat Lee Duhart, was the manager of the Mississippi Glass Company....

Jan 31, 2014

Marvin was born to Vera Kusel Hanks and Henry Hanks on August 31, 1931 and was a native of the Whitney/Chadron area all his life with the exception of his last two years of life when he resided in Louisiana with his daughter and her family (and dog Mandy who kept him company.) He was married...

Nov 6, 2004

Feb 1, 2004

Corraine Joanne (Jacobs) Letcher, 89, passed away peacefully February 7, 2024 at Regional West Medical Center in Scottsbluff, NE.

Corraine was born to Floyd and Helen (Reimann) Jacobs on October 27, 1934 south of Hay Springs, NE. She was the oldest of two daughters. Throughout her life, she never lived more than 10 miles away from her birthplace. During her school...

Nov 20, 1943

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Fae Verlin Moore, 23, of Chadron, Nebr. was killed in action Nov. 20, 1943, on the island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll of the Gilbert Islands during World War ll"s Battle of Tarawa. He was buried on Betio and later classified as Missing in Action. The burial site was discovered in...

Mar 18, 1934

Memorial services for Julie (Homrighausen) Wheeler are going to be on Friduay, March 24, 2017 at 10:00 AM at the United Methodist Church in Crawford with Pastor Tim McCrary officiating. Julie passed away on March 16, 2017 in Rapid City, South Dakota. She was born on January 12, 1959 to Doris and Earnie Homrighausen in Alliance,...

Apr 2, 1922

Trudy Walgren, age 96, died at the Chadron Community Hospital in Chadron, NE on February 23, 2019. She was born on Sunday April 2, 1922, the youngest child of Bernhard and Lydia (Jungck) Petersen.

Trudy was preceded in death by her husband Gene, her parents, three brothers, three sisters, and sons Stuart and Glen. She is survived...