Services for W.B. “Belt” Kolbo, 86, of Fremont, who died March 8, 1993, at Memorial Hospital of Dodge County in Fremont, were Thursday, March 11, at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Fremont. Rev. Gierke officiated the service. Burial was at Memorial Cemetery in Fremont.

W.B. “Belt” Kolbo was born October 1, 1906, at Lodi in Custer County, the son of Hilmer and Flossie Kolbo. He was baptized in the Christian faith on July 7, 1907, and confirmed in 1968 at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church.

After graduating from high school in 1923, he worked in Sumner with his father in the Ford agency, and then for the Chevy agency until 1930. He went to radio school at Tyler (Tx.) Commercial College until 1932, and finished with a first-class radio and telephone license and a second-class radio telegraph license.

He started his own radio repair shop in Sumner in 1933, and worked for the city as an electrician until 1936. He worked as a radio station operator at Kearney and Scottsbluff, and as a radio service manager in Denver, Colorado, until 1942. He then worked as an inspector of radio materials at Schenectady, New York, for the Signal Corps, a part of the United States Air Force, and later managed an electrical concern in Denver until 1947.

He started his own radio repair shop in Fremont in 1947, which he operated for 38 years. He took training with Philco engineers in Omaha to sell and repair televisions.

He was a member of the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church and was active in volunteer work.

He married Florence Waggoneer in 1945. She died in 1962. He married Adeline Redfield February 16, 1965, in Omaha, and she survives.

Others preceding him in death were his parents, two sisters, Gladys Trew and Mae Kalous, a step-grandchild, Terri Lee Dye and three step-great-grandchildren, Greg Lee Sutton, Randy Gail Hobart and Emily E. Hobart.

Survivors include a sister, Helen Johnson, of Callaway; children Ramona Oehlerking of Nurdock, Richard Kolbo of New York, New York, and Douglas Kolbo of Dallas, Texas; step-children Sharon Dunaway of Hooper, Barbara Sherrod of Fort Worth, Texas, and Lt. Col. Gary Redfield of Honolulu, Hawaii; three grandchildren, 18 step-grandchildren and 20 step-great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers were David Oehlerking, Harvey Clatanoff, Ed Bloemker, Lawrence R. Johnson, Rev Wendall Hamilton, Willard Beck and Paul Buntemeyer.

Memorials may be given to the Good Shepherd Church Debt Fund.

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