Debra L. Bedke Murra, 34

Debra L. Bedke Murra, 34, of North Platte, died Tuesday, April 10, 2001 at Great Plains Regional Medical Center in North Platte.

Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Friday, April 13, at Valley Christian Church in North Platte, with the Rev. Dennis Olsen officiating.

Interment will be at Floral Laws Memorial Gardens.

There will also be a memorial service 10 a.m. Monday, April 16 at Country Bible Church in Blair.

Debra Lynn Bedke Murra was born Sept. 23, 1966, in Omaha to Ruth Fletcher Bedke and Sam Bedke. She grew up in Blair and graduated from Blair High School in 1984.

She enjoyed fishing and the outdoors. She also loved schnauzers, especially her dog, “Winnie”.

Survivors include her daughter, Amanda Kephart of Blair, her parents, Ruth Bedke of Blair, and Sam and Cindy Bedke of North Platte, three sisters and brothers-in-law, Marlene and John Warrick, Julie and Monte Flynn, and Terri Sue and Rich Warrick, many nieces and nephews, her grandmother, Elizabeth Fletcher of Shenandoah, Iowa, aunts and uncles, Mary Jo and Marlin Tillman of Shenandoah, Evelyn Speicher of Omaha, Margaret Bedke of Pleasanton, Phyllis and Howard Lux of Ravenna, Marlene and Terry Tatman of North Platte, Lois Varley of Wood River, step-grandparents Harry and Phylis Hancock of Fremont, step-sisters, Angie and Rebecca Wiese, and step-brothers, Ted and Tim Wiese, many cousins, good friends from Alcoholics Anonymous, and special friend, Debra Heimbach of North Platte.

Memorials are suggested to the Amanda Kephart Scholarship Fund.

Adams & Swanson Funeral Home in North Platte is in charge of arrangements.

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