A memorial service and celebration of life for Randal R. Emmons will be held on Saturday, August 13, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. at the Hilltop Event Center in Oxford, Nebraska with Mr. David Hunt officiating. The family requests casual attire.

James W. Cox, age 81, passed away May 29, 2022 in Seward, Nebraska.

Terry D. Draper, age 75, of Edison, Nebraska, passed peacefully on July 30, 2022, after a brief battle with cancer. He arrived in this world on June 9, 1947, born to Donal “Dale” and Viletha (Hougnon) Draper in Holdrege, Nebraska.

Rosetta Joan (Brown) Manley passed peacefully from this life on July 29, 2022, at the age of 94. Her graveside services was held in Beaver City, NE at Mount Hope Cemetery on August 4, 2022, at 2 pm CDT. It is respectfully requested that in lieu of any flowers, memorials in Joan’s honor be made in care of her family to be designated at a later time. Online condolences may be made by viewing Joan’s memorial page at www.bridgmanfuneralhome.com. Bridgman Funeral Home in Scottsbluff is entrusted with arrangements.

Max Eugene Tomlin age 95 of Cambridge, passed away at the Beaver City Manor on Friday July 29, 2022. He was born in Indianola, NE on May 27, 1927, to Walter and Charlotte (Barnett) Tomlin. Max attended and graduated from Cambridge High School in 1945. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy September 7, 1944, while still in school. He trained and worked as a radioman in the Navy and was Honorably Discharged on September 6, 1949.

August 29, 1937 -July 22, 2022 William “Bill” Teel, age 84, of Indianola, Nebraska, was surrounded by his family when he passed away at his home in Indianola late Friday evening, July 22, 2022. Bill was born at the family home in Frontier County to Warren A.

Gara Lee Cody Sprague passed away June 28, 2022 at the Cheyenne County Village, St. Francis, KS, at the age of 89.

Robert F. Fisher of New Milford, CT passed away peacefully on July 21st at the age of 90. He was born in Edison, Nebraska in 1932 in a farmhouse that had neither electricity nor running water. He was the second youngest of 5 siblings. After graduating from Arapahoe High School, he worked on several farms and on traveling combines harvesting wheat in Texas. Tiring of that, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served as a signalman during the Korean War. While stationed in Long Beach, California he would meet the love of his life, Dorothy (who was also in the Navy). They married in 1955 and moved to Long Island, New York where they lived until moving to New Milford in 1960 where they raised 6 children and spent the rest of their lives. Dad worked for Century Brass until it closed in 1985 then started his very successful lawn and landscape business from which he ultimately retired. During retirement, he and Dorothy enjoyed traveling and visiting their children and grandchildren. Robert very much enjoyed playing cards with his friends and a yearly visit to Saratoga to play the ponies (at which he was very good). He was a communicant of St. Francis Xavier Church in New Milford and a member of the Knights of Columbus.

Lavonna J. Krajewski, 82, of Grant, NE, passed away Wednesday, July 20, 2022 surrounded by her children in Lincoln.

A memorial service for Mary E. Youngquist will be held on Saturday, July 23, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. at the Presbyterian Church in Orleans, Nebraska with Pastor Dave Irwin officiating. A private inurnment will be held prior to the service at the Stamford Cemetery in Stamford, Nebraska.