Obituary Record

Lyle G Hindley
Died on 9/29/2004
Buried in Blair Cemetery

Lyle G. Hindley, 78

Former Herman resident Lyle G. Hindley, 78, died Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2004, at his home in Fremont.

Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Friday, Oct. 1, at the First United Methodist Church in Blair, with interment in the Blair Cemetery.

Lyle G. Hindley was born Feb. 24, 1926, at the family farm near Fort Calhoun to George and Gladys (Sappenfield) Hindley. His family moved to the Herman area when he was 4 years old. He attended Brodersen and New England Country School, and graduated from Herman High School in 1943.

On April 2, 1949, he married Margaret Wrich in Bennington.

Mr. Hindley spent his life farming in the Herman area until his retirement in 2002. He started the Brodersen Rockets 4-H Club and served as a leader for several years. He also was a member of the Washington County ASC for 10 years, serving as chairman for part of that time; Washington county Fair Board, where he served as president for two years; member of the First United Methodist Church in Blair, where he served as an usher, trustee and on various committees.

He was a long-time breeder of purebred Chester White hogs, and he loved to exhibit hogs at shows and fairs throughout the state.

He is survived by his wife, Margaret, of Fremont; son and daughter-in-law, Ron and Brenda Hindley of Omaha; daughter and son-in-law, Diane and Gary Kubicek of Schuyler; five grandchildren; and sisters, Lorraine Schlichting of Beatrice and Marge Henderson of DesMoines, Iowa.

Memorials are suggested to the American Heart Association or the American Cancer Society.

Campbell-Aman Funeral Home is in Charge of arrangements.

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

Note: there was a brief obituary printed in the September 29, 2004 Omaha World-Herald, Omaha, Nebraska that did not have any additional information

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Printed in the Washington County Enterprise on 10/12/2004


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