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Apfel Funeral Home and Cremation Services Obituaries
Armando Rodriquze-Fleites
Jan 30, 2013
Hastings resident, Armando Rodriguze-Fleites, 76 passed away Thursday, January 30, 2013 at his home. Visitation will be Saturday, February 1, and Sunday, February 2, 2014 from 1 pm to 5 pm at the Apfel Funeral Home Chapel, Hastings. Rosary will be Sunday, February 2, 2014 at 5 pm at the Apfel Funeral Home Chapel, Hastings. Graveside service will be Monday,...
Raoul 'Rod' R. Ruple
Jan 29, 2013
Raoul R. Rod Ruple, 82, of Grand Island died Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at Golden Living Park Place in Grand Island. Services will be at 2:00 pm on Saturday, February 2, 2013 at Apfel Funeral Home in Grand Island. Burial will be at Grand Island City Cemetery at a later date. Visitation will be on Friday evening from 5 to...
Velva E Overy
Jan 28, 2013
Hastings resident, Velva E. Overy, 92, passed away Wednesday, January 23, 2013 at the Mary Lanning Memorial Hospital, Hastings, NE. Services will be Monday, January 28, 2013 at 10 am at All Saints Chapel, Good Samaritan Village, Hastings, NE with Rev. Charles Johnson officiating. Burial will be in Blue Valley Cemetery, Ayr, NE. Visitation will be Sunday, January 27, 2013...
Michael A. Roberts
Jan 28, 2013
Michael A. Roberts, 54, of Grand Island died Sunday, January 28, 2013 at his home. Memorial Services will be 2:00 P.M. Friday at Apfel Funeral Home in Grand Island. A Private Burial of Ashes will be in the Ravenna Cemetery. To honor Michaels wishes, his body was cremated. There will not be a public visitation. Memorials are suggested to the...
Lawrence O. Wissing
Jan 27, 2013
Lawrence O. Wissing, 81 of Alda, died Sunday, January 27, 2013 at St. Francis Medical Center in Grand Island. Services will be at 10:30 am on Thursday, January 31, 2013 at St. Leos Catholic Church with Rev. Charles Torpey officiating. Private family burial will be at Westlawn Cemetery at a later date. Visitation will be on Wednesday evening from 5...
Edward D. Detweiler
Jan 25, 2013
Edward C. Detweiler, 65, of Chapman, died Friday, January 25 at his home near Chapman. Services will be at 10:30 am on Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at the Chapman Public School Gymnasium with Rev. Scott Friesen officiating. Burial will be at the Chapman Cemetery. Visitation will be on Tuesday evening from 4 to 8 pm at Apfel Funeral Home in...
Robert Elton Wortman
Jan 25, 2013
Robert Elton Wortman, 89, of Wood River died Friday, January 25, 2013 at Good Samaritan Society Nursing Home in Wood River. Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10 am on Friday, February 1, 2013 at St. Marys Catholic Church in Wood River. Visitation will be on Thursday evening from 5 to 7 pm at St. Marys Catholic Church with...
Eldon Mays
Jan 25, 2013
WOOD RIVER - Eldon Mays, 91, of Wood River died Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, at Tiffany Square Care Center in Grand Island. Services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at First United Methodist Church in Wood River, with the the Rev. Theresa Mason officiating. Burial will be in Wood River Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday at...
Jacquelyn O. Luers
Jan 24, 2013
Jacquelyn O Luers died January 24, 2013. She was born Jacquelyn Lou Ochsner to Margaret and Rinehardt Ochsner of Deshler, Nebraska on March 28, 1927. Jackie grew up in Deshler, graduating from Deshler High School in 1945. She earned a Home Economics and Hospital Dietetics degree from the University of Nebraska in 1949. Jackie was a member of Gamma Phi...
Lorren R. Hayes
Jan 21, 2013
Lorren Rex Hayes, 87 of Hastings, died Monday, January 21, 2013 at Sutton Community Home in Sutton. Services will be at 10:00 am on Friday, January 25, 2013 at Brand-Wilson Funeral Home in Hastings with Pastor Dale Phillips officiating. Burial will be at Ft. McPherson National Cemetery at 2 pm near Maxwell. Visitation will be on Thursday evening from noon...
Doreen E. Englund
Jan 21, 2013
Doreen Emlie Englund, 61, of Doniphan, died Monday, January 21, 2013 at St. Francis. Per her request there will be no services. Apfel Funeral Home is caring for the family. Doreen was born December 1, 1951 in Paterson, New Jersey, the daughter of Marinus & Dorothy (Stemmer) DeJong. She grew up in North Haledon, New Jersey where she received her...
Charlene S. Carter
Jan 20, 2013
Charlene S. Carter, 74, of Grand Island entered into heaven on Sunday, January 20, 2013, at the Good Samaritan Society in Grand Island. Services will be at 11:00 AM Friday at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Bishop John Henderson will officiate. Burial will be in the Shelton Cemetery at Shelton, Nebraska. Visitation will be from 4...
Richard Lee Cloud
Jan 20, 2013
Richard Lee Cloud, 54, of Lincoln died Sunday, January 20, 2013 at Bryan LGH East Hospital in Lincoln, Nebraska. Services will be 10:30 a.m. Friday, January 25, 2013 at Apfel Funeral Home with the Rev. Russell Wolf officiating. Burial will be in Grand Island Cemetery. Visitation hours will be 5-8 p.m. Thursday, January 24, 2013 at the Apfel Funeral Home....
Alyce M. Keiper
Jan 20, 2013
Alyce Marie Keiper passed away at the age of 98 on January 20, 2012 at Mt. Carmel Nursing Home of Kearney, Nebraska. Visitation will be held Thursday, January 24 from 5:00-7:00 at the Gibbon Baptist Church, and funeral services will be held Friday, January 25 at 10:30 a.m. at the Gibbon Baptist Church. Burial will be at Riverside Cemetery in...
Donald D. 'Deanie' Obst Jr.
Jan 19, 2013
Donald D. Deanie Obst, Jr., 46, of Grand Island died Saturday, January 19, 2013, at Golden Living Center at Park Place in Grand Island. Memorial services will be at 10:30 A.M. Wednesday at Trinity Lutheran Church. The Rev. Jack Gillam will officiate. There will be no visitation, as Mr. Obsts body was cremated. Apfel Funeral Home is serving the family....
Wesley C Dewey
Jan 18, 2013
Wesley C. Dewey, 77, of Grand Island, died Friday, January 18, 2013 at Wedgewood Care Center, Grand Island, NE. Services will be 11:00 a.m., Monday, January 21, 2013 at Peace Lutheran Church with the Rev. Michael Reiners officiating. Burial will be in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Cairo, Nebraska. Visitation hours will be 4-7 p.m., Sunday, January 20, 2013 at Apfel Funeral...
Karen E. Kelly
Jan 18, 2013
Karen E. Kelly, 71 of Bellevue, Nebraska formerly of Grand Island died Tuesday, January 15, 2013 in Omaha, Nebraska. Services will be 10:00 a.m. Monday, January 21, 2013 at Kahler-Dolce Mortuary in Papillion with visitation, Sunday January 20, 2013, 1-8 p.m. with the family receiving friends from 6-8 p.m.at Kahler-Dolce Mortuary, Papillion, NE. Additional services will be 10:00 a.m. Tuesday,...
Jose M. Briseno
Jan 16, 2013
Hastings resident, Jose Martin Briseno, 33 passed away Thursday, January 16, 2013. Rosary will be Friday, January 18, 2013 at 8 pm at the Brand-Wilson Funeral Home Chapel with Father James Benton officiating. Mass of Christian Burial will be Saturday January 19, 2013 at 10:30 am at St. Cecilias Catholic Church, Hastings, NE with Father James Benton officiating. Visitations will...
Darold Anthony Szafrajda
Jan 14, 2013
Darold A. Szafrajda, 74 of Grand Island, died Monday, January 14, 2013 at the V.A. Medical Center in Omaha. Memorial services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Monday, January 21, 2013 from the auditorium of the Grand Island Veterans Home with the Rev. Richard Piontkowski officiating. Inurnment of the ashes will be in Burkett Cemetery, Grand Island. As per Mr....
Ruth Frances Workman
Jan 13, 2013
Ruth Frances Stone Workman was born January 9, 1920 in Harvard, NE. She passed away in Ruston, LA, January 13, 2013. Memorial service will be held Saturday, April 20, 2013 at 2 pm at the Harvard United Methodist Church in Harvard, NE with Rev. Travis King officiating. Burial will be in the Harvard Cemetery, Harvard; NE. Alberding-Wilson Funeral Home is...
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