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Services are 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 3, at the Tekamah City Auditorium. Interment will be in Tekamah Cemetery. Visitation is 4-8 p.m. Thursday at Pelan Funeral Home in Tekamah and one hour prior to the service on Friday at the auditorium.

Sandy was born Oct. 27, 1943, to Clyde V. and Mary A. (Weber) Stork. She grew up on the family farm near Tekamah and was involved in its operation throughout her life.

Sandy graduated from Tekamah High School in 1962. She participated in 4-H, winning many awards for food, sewing and speech. She showed Shorthorn cattle and was chosen Shorthorn Lassie Queen by the Nebraska Shorthorn Association.

In 1966, Sandy earned a bachelor of science in food and nutrition degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She attained her master’s degree from Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1969.

Sandy began her professional career as an outpatient clinical dietitian at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. In 1974, she was promoted to assistant director of the Department of Dietetics, and in 1978, she became director of the Department of Clinical Dietetics at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. She was instrumental in the creation and initiation of the dietetic internship at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Most recently, she taught nutrition to nursing students at the Nebraska Methodist College and to culinary students at the Metropolitan Community College’s Institute for the Culinary Arts in Omaha. She was a gifted, engaging, and loved teacher who saw the potential in others and helped them reach it. Sandy lovingly cared for her bedridden mother in their home for many years, and later, also provided home care for her father.

Her personal relationship with Jesus Christ was most important to her and that relationship was visible in her daily life.

She was preceded in death by her parents; sisters: Mary Alice Stokes Brown and Patricia June Stokes Hovendick; and nephew Mike Brown.

She is survived by her dearest friend, Barbara Robertson; brother-in-law Earl Hovendick; nephews and niece: Earl Jr. “Butch,” Kevin and Tim Hovendick, Christy Reser and Jeff and Steven Brown; many other relatives and friends.

Memorials are suggested to the Lied Tekamah Public Library or the Sandra S. Stork Trust to be used for charitable organizations or individuals she supported during her lifetime.

Omaha World Herald 30 Sept 2014

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Stork, Sandra S. Oct 27, 1943 - Sep 26, 2014 Age 70 of Tekamah, NE. FUNERAL SERVICE Friday, October 3, 2014, 10am, Tekamah City Auditorium. VISITATION: Thursday, October 2, 2014, 4-8pm at the funeral home. VISITATION will also be held Friday one hour prior to the service at the auditorium. Burial: Tekamah Cemetery. Memorials to the Lied Tekamah Public Library or Sandra S. Stork Trust and Sandra S. Stork Trust to be used for charitable organizations or individuals that she supported during her lifetime. PELAN FUNERAL SERVICES TEKAMAH Tekamah, NE 402-374-1551 www.pelanfuneralservices.com

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