August 13, 1933 – December 28, 2023 Colleen Joyce Bose, 90, passed away on December 28, 2023 at the Worland Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center. Born on August 13, 1933, in Wilsonville, Nebraska, Colleen was the daughter of Robert “Chub” Peter and Irma Jane (Grotfeld) Dillan.

Ivan Newton “Newt” Eby, 80, passed peacefully on Friday, April 19, 2024, in Gulf Breeze, FL. He was born November 8, 1943, in Oxford, NE, oldest of three children to Ira Newton Eby and Betty Lou (Snyder-Mathis) Eby.

Sandra “Sandy” Lynn Franzen, 76, of Kearney, Nebraska, passed away Wednesday, May 8, 2024, at Brookstone Gardens in Kearney. She was born June 15, 1947, in Cozad, Nebraska, to Thearle “Parkie” and Fern Elizabeth “Betty” (Chapin) Parkhurst.

Carla Jean (Clarine) Quinn was born October 30, 1941, in Oxford, Nebraska to Maxwell Earl and May (Loper) Clarine. She grew up in Oxford and graduated high school in 1959.

Joyce Annette (Kohlmeier) Trosper, age 75, passed away on May 12, 2024, at the Tri-Valley Hospital in Cambridge, Nebraska after a short, hard-fought battle with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. She was surrounded by her family who will miss her dearly.

Wavalee Couse was born on the family farm near Bell Plain, Kansas on Feb 3, 1935 to Clara Beulah (Keen) and Leslie Robert Howell. She died at Community Hospital May 10, 2024 surrounded by her children Her family moved during the depression to Brush, Colorado and finally settled in McCook, Nebraska. Wavalee graduated from McCook High School with the Class of 1953.

Shirley Carolyn Zink Jurgens Shirley was born in Medford, Massachusetts, on October 13, 1925, and passed peacefully on April 24, 2024. She attended elementary school through the sixth grade in Akron, Ohio, moving to Altadena, California where she completed high school, followed by Pasadena City College.

May 14, 1928 – May 5, 2024 James was born in Scranton, PA on May 14,1928 to Willard Jerome McHale and Gertrude Veronica Farrahar. His high school education was at Holy Cross Seminary on Lake Erie, Dunkirk, NY, a boys’ prep school run by the Passionist monks.