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Hilda Scheve, 95, of Beatrice, died Saturday morning, Oct. 25, 2014, at the Beatrice Community Hospital.

Memorial services will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29, at First Trinity Lutheran Church of rural Beatrice with Pastor Timothy W. Wagner officiating. Private burial will be at the Evergreen Home Cemetery of Beatrice. The body will lie in state at the Fox Funeral Home from 5 p.m. Monday until 9 p.m. Tuesday (not at the church on Wednesday.) The family will greet relatives and friends Tuesday evening from 6 to 7 p.m. at the funeral home.

Hilda was born Feb. 11, 1919, at Brookfield, Ill., and graduated from Beatrice High School in 1936. She worked at the candy counter at Woolworth’s and J.M. McDonald’s in Beatrice.

On Feb. 1, 1942, she married William J. Scheve at First Trinity Lutheran Church of rural Beatrice. They lived and farmed west of Beatrice all of their married life.

She was a member of First Trinity Lutheran Church, was a member of Ladies Aid and a charter member of LWML. She served on the Red Cross Board and the Republican County Board, receiving the Outstanding Political Award in 1993. She also took care of the food department at the Gage County Fair and was a Braille worker.

Survivors include two daughters: Mary Ann Ring and husband Larry of Alliance and Susan Miller and husband Arden of Lodgepole; three sons: Bill Scheve and wife Jean of York, Richard Scheve and wife Mary of Beatrice and Lloyd Scheve and wife Jeanne of Blair; nine grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; two step-grandchildren; four stepgreat-grandchildren; five stepgreat-great-grandchildren; two sisters: Margaret Blettner of Indianapolis, Ind., and Dorothy Keller and husband Jim of Zionsville, Ind.; sister-in-law Addie Scheve of Norfolk; brother-in-law Don Herther of Vallonia, Ind.; numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Rev. F.W. and Anna (Cohrs) Falkenroth; her husband, William, who died on August 19, 2000; daughter-in-law Sallie Scheve; two sisters: Esther Barker and Leona Herther; infant sister Anna; and two brothers: Martin and Rev. Fred Falkenroth.

A memorial has been established to First Trinity Lutheran Church and the BCH Hospice Program with the church elders in charge.

A guestbook for signatures and messages of condolence is available online at www.foxfuneralhome.net.

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