MELVIN G. STEINERT, 78

(veteran)

Former Bennington resident Melvin G. Steinert, 78, died Wednesday, March 23, 2005, at the Nye Pointe Health & Rehab Center in Fremont.

Visitation is from 2 to 8 p.m. Sunday at Ludvigsen Mortuary with the family receiving friends from 6 to 8 p.m.

Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Monday, March 28, at Salem Lutheran Church in Fremont. Interment will be in Omaha’s Evergreen Cemetery.

Melvin G. Steinert was born Sept. 26, 1926 in Irvington to George and Katie (Wulf) Steinert. He grew up on the farm near Bennington and graduated from Bennington High School. He attended the Ag College at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.

He was inducted into the U. S. Army in July 1945. He served in Korea, and was the recipient of the World War II Victory Medal and the Army of Occupation Medal. He was discharged in January 1947.

He farmed near Bennington until moving to Fremont in 1967. He began working in Fremont in 1966 for Fremont Cake & Meal, now known as Archer-Daniels-Midland Co., a soybean processing plant. He retired as plant superintendent in 1989.

He was a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church in Bennington, where he served on the building committee. After moving to Fremont, he joined Salem Lutheran Church, where he served on the church council and property committee.

He volunteered at the Low Income Ministry, and was a member of the Fremont Eagles Aerie 200 and the Golden “K” Kiwanis Club. After retirement, he worked part-time for Immanuel Medical Center.

On Aug. 15, 1953, he married Frances Thompson at Bethany Lutheran Church in Elkhorn. Along with his wife, he is survived by two daughters and sons-in-law, Julianna and Nate Lintzman of Omaha, and Lisa Jo and Barry Bennett of Merced, Calif.; three grandchildren; two sisters-in-law, Bernice Steinert of Tempe, Ariz., and Marjorie Steinert Misfeldt of Fremont.

He was preceded in death by two brothers, George Jr. and Kenneth Steinert.

Memorials are suggested to Salem Lutheran Church, the Low Income Ministry and Golden “K” Kiwanis Club.

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