A slightly different version was published on Friday, December 2, 2011

Allan F. Sorensen, 83

Allan F. Sorensen, 83, of Arlington, died Monday, Nov. 28, 2011, at Methodist Hospital in Omaha.

A memorial service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 1, at the Arlington Community Church in Arlington. Interment will be in the Arlington City Cemetery.

There is no viewing however friends may sign the register book 4-8 p.m. Wednesday with family receiving friends 6-8 p.m. at Reckmeyer-Moser Funeral Home in Arlington. Book signing will continue one hour prior to the service at church Thursday.

Allan F. "John" Sorensen was born Oct. 2, 1928, in Arlington, to Chris and Lovina (Winset) Sorensen. He grew up in Arlington where he attended Whitford Grade School and then graduated from Arlington High School in 1946.

He married Nadine Buchardt on May 3, 1953, at the First Lutheran Church in Blair.

In 1957, he moved to Blair and then returned to Arlington in 1967.

Mr. Sorensen drove stock cars at the Arlington Playland and Sunset Speedway racetracks. He won the Race of Champions at Arlington in 1955. He was also an avid bowler, winning the Nebraska State Singles Championship in 1965 and, in May of 1994, he represented Nebraska at Mobile, Ala., in the Senior Championship Bowling Tournament. He had several jobs before working as a road grader for the Washington County Highway Department, retiring in 1999. After retirement he helped at Sorensen Sod Farm.

He was a member of the Arlington Community Church.

He is survived by his wife, Nadine; sons and daughter-in-law, Steven and Linda Sorensen of Nickerson, and Kevin Sorensen and special friend, Cari Brodd of Valley; sisters and brothers-in-law, Lila Bartlett of Fremont, Alice and Richard Hayes of Topeka, Kan., and Phyllis Brunmeier of Omaha; six grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his brothers, Merle, Melvin, Leslie and Paul Sorensen; and sisters, Margaret Vitols and Mary Kay Johnson.

Memorials are suggested to the Arlington Community Church.