Taleta E. Elfeldt, 87, Hastings, Nebr., died Monday May 5, 1997, at Villa Grace in Hastings.

Services are 2 p.m. Thursday at Hallam Zion Cemetery. Rev. Philip Beade is officiating.

Elfeldt was born July 4, 1909, at Hallam, Nebr. to Ottow and Anna (Schaad) Elfeldt. She grew up in Lincoln, attended Nebraska Wesleyan University and graduated from Dana College in Blair. She was a teacher at Huntley, Minden and Blair and taught for over 40 years. She moved to Hastings in 1987.

She was a member of First United Methodist Church in Hastings.

Survivors are her nieces and nephews, Mary Jo Kubik of Omaha; Janet Cameron of Marshall, Minn.; Shirley Bair of Lincoln; Robert Worley of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and many great-nieces and nephews and great-grand nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; two sisters and a twin sister.

Memorials may be given to Villa Grace.

Brand-Wilson Mortuary in Hastings is in charge of arrangements.