#1 Death Notice

Vera L. Husk, 99, of Blair, died Thursday, June 16, 2011, in Blair.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday, June 20, at Campbell-Aman Funeral Home. Interment will be in the Blair Cemetery.

Visitation will begin at 1 p.m. Sunday, June 19, at Campbell-Aman Funeral Home.

A complete obituary will follow.

#2 Printed in the June 21, 2011 Pilot-Tribune

Vera L Husk, 99

Brought Love of Gardening and Animals to Blair

Vera L. Husk, 99, of Blair, died Thursday, June 16, 2011, in Blair.

Funeral services were Monday, June 20, at the Campbell-Aman Mortuary in Blair. Interment was in the Blair Cemetery.

Vera L. McCowan was born July 4, 1911, in Omaha, to Samuel and Stella (Barton) McCowan. She grew up on a farm northwest of Blair and attended Glendale School through the eighth grade. After school she remained on the farm helping with the usual farm chores. It was in this area that she met and married Lloyd Husk.

The couple moved to a farm in Burt County where they rented for a number of years. Eventually, they bought a farm on Silver Creek in Burt County where they resided until her husband's death in 1973. After his death, Mrs. Husk learned how to drive and got her license so that she could continue the egg route that they had in Tekamah. In 1974, she moved to Blair to be nearer relatives. Mrs. Husk always had a large garden, a flock of chickens, a flock of sheep, milking cows and hogs on the farm and she brought a love of gardening and her animals with her to Blair.

She is survived by a sister-in-law, Gracie Husk of Herman; nieces and husbands, Marilyn and George Zuniga of Ault, Colo., Eleanor Miller of Herman, Marlene and Willis Lucht of Blair, Dorothea and Richard Olson of Waterloo, Donna and Larry Hintz of Fremont, Mary and Wayne Panning of Hooper, Shirley and Richard Libby and Addie and Arda Lomax, all of Peeples Valley, Ariz., Jeannine and Vincent Grothouse, and Susan Chase, all of Sun City, Ariz., Sharon and Perry Gydesen of O'Dell, Jacque and Larry Orvis of Norfolk; nephews and wives, Roland Husk of Fort Calhoun, Donald Husk of Indian Trail, N.C., Wayne and Merline Husk of Phoenix, Ariz., Garry and Janie Husk and Robert and Charlotte Husk, all of Fremont, Dennis Husk of Colorado Springs, Colo., Richard and Lucy Husk of Hollis, N.H., John and Judy Husk of Cincinnati, Ohio; and many great-nieces, great-nephews, great-great-nieces and great-great-nephews.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by two sisters, including her twin, Viva Husk, and Hazel Johnson; brothers and sisters-in-law, Burr and Wilma Husk, Wallace and Mildred Husk, Harry and Evelyn Husk, Donald and Kathryn Husk, Clarkson Husk and Eugene Husk; nephew, Lyle Husk; and three nieces, Carol Jean Van Kirk, Karen Kuhr, and Jane Puhl.

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

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