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Nancy Nell (Bang) Janssen was born March 7, 1940 in Fremont to Arthur & Mabel (Knoell) Bang. She passed peacefully on January 1, 2025. Nancy was baptized and confirmed at Bluffs Trinity Lutheran Church. She attended grade school at District #23 and graduated from Fremont High School in 1958. On April 10, 1960, she married Ramon Janssen at Grace Lutheran Church in Hooper. Nancy and Ray lived on a farm north of Nickerson until 1962 and then moved to Nickerson.

Nancy was a member of Salem Lutheran Church of Fontanelle, where she taught Sunday school and was a choir member for many years. She is a former member of the Nickerson Ladies Auxiliary and former member of the Ladies Legislative Organization in Lincoln.

Nancy worked in the grocery stores that she and Ray owned and operated for many years - Nickerson Market in Nickerson and City Meat Market in Hooper. She enjoyed her work and the people she met.

Nancy loved her God and her family. She loved being a wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.

Nancy was preceded in death by her husband Ramon, her parents Art and Mabel Bang, father and mother in-law Earl and Harriett Janssen, brother and sister-in-law Lyle and Jeanyne Bang, brother-in law Duane Brand, sister-in-law Erlaine Plugge, brothers-in-law Monte Janssen and Lyle Plugge, and nephew Colin Janssen.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on files at the Public Library, Blair, Nebraska~~~

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