June (Missing) Billesbach, 94, of Kearney formerly of Hastings. God gained another angel on July 15, 2024, when June went to be with Him.

Loyle Lee Debban, age 85, of Elwood, Nebraska passed away on Sunday, June 30, 2024, at the Elwood Care Center, Elwood, Nebraska with his wife Hazel by this side.

Opal M. (King) Coakley, age 103, of Arapahoe, Nebraska passed away on Saturday, July 13, 2024, at the Beaver City Manor, in Beaver City.

Delvin Lawson was born October 3, 1948 in Cambridge, Nebraska to Frank E. and May E. (Phillips) Lawson. He passed away peacefully Sunday July 14, 2024 at Tri Valley Health System surrounded by loved ones.

Gale Wayne Wolfe was the second of two sons born to Howard “Roscoe” Wolfe and Avis (Scott) Wolfe. He was born on October 9, 1939 at home northeast of Wilsonville, Nebraska in the same house built by his great-uncle, Asa Wolfe and where his mother had been born.

Raymond W. Geiger, 89, passed away Monday, July 1, 2024 at Kearney Regional Medical Center.

Vernon D. Bletscher, age 85, of Arapahoe, passed away at his home on July 6, 2024, surrounded by his three girls Rebecca, Nancy, and Becky.

Harvey Marvin Ficken, age 94, passed away on Monday, July 1, 2024 at CHI Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney, Nebraska. He was born on May 24, 1930, to John and Johanna (Noltensmeier) Ficken at their rural home in Frontier County, Nebraska. He was the youngest of a family of five.

A Funeral Service for Margaret H. Wendell will be held on Friday, July 12, 2024, at 10:00 a.m. at the Nelson-Bauer Funeral Home in Holdrege, Nebraska, with Chaplain Kathy Doiel officiating. Interment will follow at the Wilcox Cemetery, Wilcox, Nebraska.

Oralene Marie (Hall) Winchell, age 80, passed away in the early hours of Saturday, July 6, 2024, after a short losing battle with cancer. She was born in Mitchell, Nebraska on September 24, 1943. Daughter of Oral and Pansy (Trauernicht) Hall.