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Bob F. Spangler, 87, of Blair, formerly of Norfolk and Wisner, died Saturday, May 3, 2014, at the Immanuel Medical Center in Omaha.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday, May 8, at the Minnick Funeral Home in Wisner. Interment will be in the Wisner Cemetery. Visitation will be 5-7 p.m. Wednesday and will continue on Thursday from 9 a.m. until the time of the service, all at the funeral home.

Bob Franklin Spangler was born Oct. 28, 1926, at rural Wisner, to Frank and Elizabeth (Lidmiller) Spangler.

He was baptized and confirmed at the Methodist Church in Wisner. He attended rural school near Wisner and graduated from Wisner High School in 1944. He began farming after graduation.

On June 16, 1946, he married Donna Hyland at the Methodist Church in Wisner.

He continued farming north of Wisner until December of 1973, when they moved to Norfolk. He was a truck driver for Norfolk Rendering before retiring in the early 1990s. He moved to Blair in the fall of 2007 and later entered the Good Shepherd Nursing Home in Blair in 2012.

Mr. Spangler was a member of the Westridge Methodist Church in Norfolk and the Valley Vagabonds Camping Club, which he had served as president. He enjoyed traveling the United States, doing yard work and attending garage sales with his wife.

Survivors include his son, Larry Spangler of Blair; daughter Connie Carstens of Blair and her daughters: Monica Carstens and fiance Mike Woolman of Omaha and Tiffany Carstens of Omaha; great-grandchildren: Breanna Carstens and Jayda Cribbs of Omaha; great-great-grandson Aidyn Coleman of Omaha; and sister-in-law Bonnie and husband Jack Sorensen of Corona, Calif.

He was preceded in death by his parents; wife Donna Spangler on Feb. 5, 2014; brother George and wife Bonnie Spangler; sister Mildred and husband Earl Schwartz; and brother-in-law Bob and wife Dotty Hyland.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~