Obituaries
HARLAN - Robert C. Kramer, 82, Harlan, died Sat., Dec. 24 at Elm Crest Retirement Community. Visitation is Wed., Dec. 28 from 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. with a wake service at 7 p.m. at Pauley Jones Funeral Home. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Thurs., Dec. 29 at 10 a.m. at St. Michael’...
COUNCIL BLUFFS -- Ruth Dinesen, 93, Council Bluffs, formerly of Harlan, died December 19 at Hansen House Memory Care Assisted Living. Services will be Wednesday, Dec. 28 at 11 a.m. at Pauley Jones Funeral Home in Harlan with burial in the Harlan Cemetery. A prayer service will be held...
AVOCA -- Aldine Fay Lippold, 82, Avoca, died December 20 at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Services will be held Friday, Dec. 23 at 10:30 a.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church in Avoca with burial in the Graceland Cemetery at Avoca. Visitation was Thursday, Dec. 22 from 5-7 p.m. at...
OMAHA -- Debra S. Hipnar, 60, Omaha, died December 19 at Josie Harper Hospice House. Services will be held Tuesday, Dec. 27 at 11 a.m. at Hoy-Kilnoski Funeral Home with her cremated ashes to be dispersed at a later date over the Rocky Mountains. Visitation is Monday, Dec. 26 from 6-8 p.m....
AVOCA -- Gordon Nelson, 84, Avoca, formerly of Harlan, died December 14 at the Avoca Nursing and Rehab Center. Services will be held Tuesday, Dec. 20 at 11 a.m. at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Harlan with burial in the Harlan Cemetery. A prayer service was held Monday, Dec. 19 at 6:30 p.m....
ELK HORN -- Janet Freeman, 83, Elk Horn, died December 17 at the Salem Lutheran Home in Elk Horn. Services will be held at a later date. Freeman is survived by her husband, Larry Freeman, of Avoca; daughter Mary Jo (Peter) Hall of Avoca; sons Michael (Jean) Junis of Iowa City, Martin (...
HARLAN -- Funeral services are pending at Pauley Jones Funeral Home for Gordon Nelson, 84, formerly of Harlan, who died Wednesday, Dec. 14 at the Avoca Specialty Care in Avoca.
HARLAN -- Funeral services are pending at Pauley Jones Funeral Home, Harlan, for Barbara Morgan, 87, Harlan, who died Wednesday, Dec. 14 at Elm Crest Retirement Community in Harlan. Morgan is survived by children Kathy Lee of Austin, TX, Kent (Deb) Morgan of Harlan and Karen (Roy) Fordyce of...
ELK HORN -- Edwin “Ed” Larsen, 96, Elk Horn, died Tuesday, Dec. 13 in Elk Horn. Services will be held Wednesday, Dec. 21 at 10:30 a.m. at Elk Horn Lutheran Church in Elk Horn with burial of ashes in the Elk Horn Lutheran Cemetery. Friends may call Tuesday, Dec. 20 from 5-8 p.m. with family...
HARLAN -- Eric Paul Thompson, 54, Harlan, died December 13 at his home. Services will be held Friday, Dec. 16 at 11 a.m. at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Irwin. Visitation is Friday from 10-11 a.m. at the church. Thompson is survived by his mother, Dixie Thompson, of Harlan; brother...