Obituary Record

James "Paul" Hancock
Died on 6/23/1992
Buried in Herman Cemetery

Note: Although the newspaper obituary and the funeral leaflet listed him as Paul Hancock, his tombstone reads James Paul Hancock

Services will be 2 p.m. Friday, June 26 at the Herman Legion Hall for Paul Hancock, 91 who died June 23, 1992 at Memorial Community Hospital in Blair. Burial will be in the Herman Cemetery.

Paul Hancock was born July 26, 1910 in Burt County, Nebraska to James Waldo and Blanche Smith Hancock. He married LaVerne Jensen May 12, 1932.

He worked with his father in the Hancock Farm Equipment Company and was later engaged in farming.

He was a member of the Herman Village Board, the Herman School Board, Herman Fire Department and was a member of the Nebraska Hall of Fame.

He was preceded in death by wife, Laverne; his parents and two brothers, Harold and Lee.

He is survived by two sons and their wives, Richard and Pat and James and Shirley; seven grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren and one sister, Lucille Anderson of Herman.

Campbell-Aman Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Funeral Leaflet

In Memory of Paul Hancock

Born July 26, 1910 Burt County, Nebraska; Died June 23, 1992 Blair, Nebraska

Services 2pm Friday, June 26, 1992 Herman Legion Hall, Herman, Nebraska

Officiating: Rev. Mark Richardson; Organist: Gracie Husk; Vocalist: Susan Rogers; Vocal Selections: “Amazing Grace”; “Rock of Ages”

Casketbearers: Joe Fitch, Fred Kjeldgaard, Larry Hansen, Frank Korshoj, Gerald Jacobs, David Rogert

Graveside services; Herman Cemetery Herman, Nebraska

~~~obituary and funeral leaflet courtesy of Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Public Library, Blair, Nebraska ~~~

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