Obituary Record

Leland Frank (Lee) Nordstrom
Died on 8/1/2014

Posted on line: Tuesday, August 5, 2014; Published in The Enterprise, Friday, August 8, 2014

Leland Frank Nordstrom, 67

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Leland Frank Nordstrom, 67, of Kennard, died Friday, August 1, 2014, at Immanuel Medical Center in Omaha. Services will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 6, at Butler Volland Chapel in Hastings with the Rev. Lee R. Wigert officiating. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Hastings. Visitation will be one hour prior to service at the funeral home on Wednesday.

Leland was born Dec. 4, 1946, to Wayne and Mary Jane (Batman) Nordstrom in Lincoln.

Lee attended Morton Elementary School and graduated from Hastings High School in 1965. After graduation, Lee graduated from Milford Technical School. He then moved to Omaha and Kennard and worked for 35 years in construction. Lee worked for the union with E & K Drywall and Allied Construction.

Lee’s father worked for the railroad in Hastings and was killed in a train accident when Lee was in grade school. Lee and his mother, Mary Jane, were very close. She operated a beauty shop in her home so that she could always be there for Lee. After Lee’s graduation, Mary Jane moved to Colby, Kan., and married Willie Englehardt.

Lee loved life. He loved to fish and hunt with his lifelong friend, Mike Keeler, and had a trailer in Niobrara for 40 years. Many deer were shot, many catfish had stink bait for supper, and many ducks and geese fell from the 10-gauge guns. Lee hunted for geese in Mexico, Canada and Brazil, wild boar in Texas, caribou and bighorn sheep in Alaska and antelope in Wyoming. He loved to fish in Montana and South Carolina. Lee’s home resembled a taxidermy shop full of mounts. Lee was proud to be a member of Ducks Unlimited and the Safari Club. He often went on hunts with these groups. He will always be remembered by all of his hunting and fishing buddies, his construction friends and the Mike Keeler family.

Leland was preceded in death by his parents and stepfather.

He leaves to mourn his passing: his aunt and uncle, Laurie and uncle Dent Goertzen of Aurora and several cousins.

Memorials may be given to the Leland F. Nordstrom Memorial Fund for a memorial to be established at a later date.

Private condolences may be sent to the family at www.lbvfh.com. Livingston Butler Volland Funeral Home & Cremation Center is serving the family.

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

Printed in the Washington County Enterprise on 8/8/2014


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