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Roy Fries, 85

    ELK HORN -- Roy Lee Fries, 85, Elk Horn, died March 6 at the Salem Lutheran Home in Elk Horn.    Services will be held Monday, March 11 at 11 a.m. at Pauley Jones Funeral Home in Harlan with burial in the Harlan Cemetery.  Family will greet friends Sunday, March 10 from 5-8 p.m. at the funeral home.  Visitation is Sunday from 2-8 p.m.

Terry Carley, 75

    AVOCA -- Terry Carley, 75, Avoca, died March 6 at Myrtue Medical Center in Harlan.    Services will be held Monday, March 11 at 10:30 a.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church in Avoca with burial in the Graceland Cemetery at Avoca.  Family will greet friends Sunday, March 10 from 5-7 p.m.

David Jorgensen, 70

    AVOCA -- David Lynn Jorgensen, 70, Avoca, died March 5 at Avoca Specialty Care.    Services will be held Saturday, March 9 at 11 a.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church in Avoca with burial in the Graceland Cemetery at Avoca.  Family will greet friends Friday, March 8 from 6-8 p.m.

Damian Gross, 67

    LOGAN -- Damian Gross, 67, Logan, died Friday, March 1 at his home in Logan.    Funeral Mass will be held Friday, March 8 at 10 a.m. at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Earling.  Visitation is Thursday, March 7 from 4-8 p.m. at St. Anne’s Catholic Church in Logan.  A scripture service will be held Thursday at 6 p.m.

Eleanor Brown, 96

    AVOCA -- Eleanor Caroline Brown, 96, Avoca, died March 1 at her home.    Services will be held Tuesday, March 5 at 10:30 a.m. at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Avoca with burial in the Graceland Cemetery in Avoca.    A rosary was held Monday, March 4 at 7 p.m. at Pauley Jones Funeral Home in Avoca.  Family greeted friends from 5-7 p.m.

Clara Bledsoe, 89

    GLENWOOD -- Clara Theresa Bledsoe, 89, Glenwood, died February 26 at Glen Haven Home in Glenwood.    Services will be held Friday, May 3 at 2 p.m. at Pauley Jones Funeral Home in Avoca with burial in the Graceland Cemetery at Avoca.    Bledsoe is survived by son George (Teresa) Bledsoe of Glenwood; daughter Phyllis (Steve) Combs of Battle Creek, MI; sister Arlene Sievers of Avoca; six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. 

Frances Pauley, 89

    HARLAN -- Frances Lavonne Pauley, 89, Harlan, died February 25 at Myrtue Medical Center in Harlan.    Services were held Thursday, Feb. 28 at 10:30 a.m.

Glenda Langer, 86

    HANCOCK -- Glenda Ann Langer, 86, Hancock, died February 23 at her home.    Services will be held Friday, March 1 at 10:30 a.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church in Avoca with burial in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Hancock.  Family greeted friends Thursday, Feb. 28 from 5-7 p.m.

Kathryn Fink, 72

    OMAHA, NE -- Kathryn Fink, 72, Omaha, NE, formerly of Harlan, died February 21 at Lakeside Hospital in Omaha.    Visitation will be held Saturday, March 2 from 10-11:30 a.m. at First United Methodist Church in Harlan with a luncheon to follow.    Fink is survived by her sons David (Eddie) of Omaha, Dale (Sarah) of Harlan, Brad (Barbie) of Harlan and Troy (Sara) of Underwood; brothers David Stanley of Mt.

Shirley Welker, 68

    HARLAN -- Shirley Welker, 68, Harlan, died February 16 at Myrtue Medical Center in Harlan.    Services will be held Monday, Feb. 25 at 11 a.m. at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Harlan with burial in the Harlan Cemetery.  Family will greet friends Sunday, Feb. 24 from 4-8 p.m.

Shirley Welker

    HARLAN -- Shirley Welker, Harlan, died Saturday, Feb. 16 at Myrtue Medical Center in Harlan.    She is survived by her brother, Robert Schwarte, and sister, Tami (Bill) Stiinn.    Services are pending at Pauley Jones Funeral Home in Harlan.

Karen Brockmann, 78

    SHELBY -- Karen K. Brockmann, 78, Shelby, died Saturday, Feb. 16 in Harlan.    Services will be held Thursday, Feb. 21 at 11 a.m. at United Lutheran Church in Shelby with burial in the Shelby Cemetery.  A prayer service will be held Wednesday, Feb. 20 at 7 p.m. at Burmeister-Johannsen Funeral Home in Shelby.  Friends may call Wednesday from 2-9 p.m. with family greeting friends from 5-7 p.m.

Sally Burmeister, 76

    HARLAN -- Sally J. Burmeister, 76, Harlan, died Thursday, Feb. 14 in Omaha, NE.    Services will be held Saturday, Feb. 23 at 11 a.m. at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Harlan.  Family will greet friends Saturday from 9-11 a.m.

Allan Larsen, 93

    ELK HORN -- Funeral services for Allan Larsen, 93, Elk Horn, were held Thursday, Feb. 14 at 11 a.m. at Elk Horn Lutheran Church in Elk Horn.    Burial was in the Elk Horn Lutheran Cemetery.    Larsen died Monday, Feb. 11 at home in Elk Horn.    Ohde Funeral Home in Kimballton was in charge of arrangements.
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Anthony Haney, 37

    NEW YORK, NY -- Anthony Lee Haney, 37, died at his home in New York City, on February 4.      He is survived by his mother, Sandra Haney of Harlan, father, Stewart (Tony) Haney of Irwin, sister, Amanda Haney of Louisville, KY, grandmother Lois Haney of Apache Junction, AZ, uncle Steven Haney of Apache Junction, cousins Carol Oltman, Anna Wohnoutka, and Mary Doten of Minneapolis, MN, and his faithful companion cat, Twenty-one.

Jane Goetzinger, 73

    WESTPHALIA -- Jane Clara Goetzinger, 73, Westphalia, died February 7 at Myrtue Medical Center in Harlan.    Services were held Monday, Feb. 11 at 10:30 a.m. at St. Boniface Catholic Church in Westphalia with burial in the St.

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