Kathryn L. Mueller, 81

Kathryn L. “Jean” Mueller, 81, of Fremont, died Tuesday, May 23, 2006, at Fremont Area Medical Center.

Funeral services were Saturday, May 27, at the First Congregational Church UCC in Fremont. Interment was in Fremont’s Memorial Cemetery.

Kathryn L. (Daniels) Mueller was born June 1, 1924, in Norfolk to Harry and Loretta (Bayer) Daniels. She moved with her family to Arlington as a child, and graduated from Arlington High School.

On Oct. 21, 1948, she married Lester Dowty at Elk Point, S.D. and the couple moved to Fremont where Mrs. Dowty worked at the former O.P. Skaggs Grocery Store and at Marcie’s Café. During all her working years, she did babysitting for many families and also delivered the Omaha World-Herald to the route carriers for several years.

She was a member of the First Congregational Church UCC of Fremont. For many years, she was a member of the Starlighters Square Dancing Club and the Wheel & Deal Square Dance Club and was a former member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles Auxiliary in Fremont.

Mr. Dowty died in 1976. On Dec. 20, 1981, the former Mrs. Dowty married Walter H. Mueller in Fremont.

Her second husband survives her, as do six sons and daughters-in-law, Duane and Nancy Dowty of Grand Island, Russell and Pat Dowty and Barry and Jan Dowty, all of Fremont, Curtis and Marva Dowty of Belleville, Ill., Allen and Annette Dowty of Omaha and Timmie and Joyce Dowty of Scribner; two stepsons, Robert and Kathy Mueller of Cheney and Gary Mueller of Lincoln; three stepdaughters, Doris and Duane Knecht of Cleveland, N.D., Jane and Tom Spittal of Melbourne, Fla., and Joyce and Tim Dowty of Scribner; sister-in-law, Marcella Daniels of Omaha; 36 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild.

In addition to her first husband, Lester, she was preceded in death by a sister, Fern Hester, and brother, George Daniels.

Memorials are suggested to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

Moser Memorial Chapel in Fremont was in charge of arrangements.

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