A.A. Sibbernsen dies at age 64

Albert A. Sibbernsen died March 6, 1985, at Immanuel Hospital in Omaha, of leukemia.

Albert was born in Omaha December 29, 1920 and moved to a farm two miles north of Elk City when he was five years old.

He attended Mattes, District 41 grade school, Creighton Pre and the University of Wisconsin.

In WWII, he served as a Marine fighter pilot in the Pacific, where he survived the bombing of the Aircraft Carrier Franklin.

He married Peggy Lindsey in Santa Barbary, California in November 1944.

They returned to Nebraska where Al farmed for forty years.

He served on the Mattes and Arlington school boards for more than fifteen years, was a member of the board of directors of the Omaha Union Stock Yards and was on the board of directors of the Bank of Bennington. He was on the Washington County Fair Board at one time and was a 4-H leader and charter member of the Rawhide Riders Saddle Club. Many will remember him as an accomplished horseman who both raised and showed purebred horses all his life.

Al is survived by his wife, Peggy, three sons, Steve and Wade of Bennington, Mark of Omaha, a daughter Lindsey Martin of Elkhorn, three grandchildren, Penny, Mike and Jacob, and one brother, David, of Eldon, Iowa.

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