LaMar Cunningham, 74, of Fremont, died Saturday, April 5, 2008, at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.

Funeral services are 10 a.m. Wednesday, April 9, at Salem Lutheran Church of Fontanelle. Interment will be in the Salem Lutheran Cemetery.

Visitation is from 2 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 8, at Ludvigsen Mortuary in Fremont, with the family receiving friends from 6:30 to 8 p.m.

LaMar Kroenke was born Aug. 21, 1933, in Snyder to Lawrence and Martha (Hoge) Kroenke. She grew up in Snyder, attending St. Peter’s Lutheran School and graduating from Snyder High School in 1951. She was baptized and confirmed in St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, and married there. She also graduated from the Norfolk Business College in Norfolk in 1952.

On May 24, 1953, she married Rolland Cunningham. They lived in Cheyenne, Wyo., while he finished his military service in the Air Force. Following his discharge in 1956, they moved to a farm near Fontanelle. They moved into Fremont in 1990.

Mrs. Cunningham had been a member of the Salem Lutheran Church of Fontanelle where she served on several of their committees, taught Sunday School, Vacation Bible School, and she was a member of its Lutheran Women. She also had belonged to the Fontanelle Extension Club and the Pleasant Hour Club, serving two years as its president.

She worked for K-Mart in Fremont and received a ‘Customer Service Award’ from the company.

She is survived by two daughters and sons-in-law, Sandy and Terry Nielsen of Bellevue and Jayne and Neil Gustafson of Fremont; son, Randy Cunningham of Nickerson; two grandchildren; two sisters and brothers-in-law, Ardine and Bernie Merwald of Omaha and Lou and E. W. “Dutch” Feuerstein of Fremont; two brothers-in-law, Russell Cunningham of Nickerson and Luvern and Lila Cunningham of New Albany, Ohio.

Memorials are suggested to Arbor Manor or Salem Lutheran Church.