Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Saturday, March 10, at St. Francis Borgia Catholic Church for Ralph R. Frederick, 71, of Blair who died March 7, 1990, at Memorial Community Hospital in Blair. There will be a rosary Friday, March 9 at 7:30 p.m. at Campbell-Aman Funeral Home’s Chapel. Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery.

Ralph R. Frederick was born August 11, 1918, in Rulo, Nebraska, to Mose and Sarah Prenatt Frederick. He graduated from Rulo High School.

He served in the United States Army in 1944. He had worked as a heavy equipment operator for Anker Construction Company in Omaha.

He married Doris Olson on June 11, 1936, in Hiawatha, Kansas.

He was preceded in death by his parents, four brothers, and five sisters.

He is survived by his wife, Doris, Blair; three sons and daughters-in-law, William “Bill” and Annette Frederick, Herman; Robert and Carol Frederick of Blair; and Ralph Frederick of Las Vegas, Nevada; two daughters and sons-in-law, Kathryn and Nick Fiore, Henderson, Nevada; and Patricia A. and Tom Terlitsky, Las Vegas, Nevada; 15 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; a brother, Paul Frederick of Rulo, Nebraska; and a sister, Henrietta Connor of Wheatland, Wyoming.

Campbell-Aman Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements for the services.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library~~~