Funeral services for Norma J. Zeleny, 51, of Arlington, who died September 3, 1986, in the Immanuel Medical Center in Omaha, were held Saturday at the Arlington Community Church. The Rev. Robert Saunders officiated and burial was in Memorial Cemetery in Fremont.

Mrs. Zeleny was born April 23, 1935, the daughter of Chester and Clara Best of North Bend. She grew up in North Bend and lived in Fremont for six years until moving to Arlington 20 years ago.

She married Eugene R. Zeleny on April 14, 1954, in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

She was a member of the Arlington American Legion Auxiliary and a member of the First United Methodist Church of Fremont.

Survivors include her husband; one daughter, Mrs. Steve (Cindy) Wiblishouser of Blair; her mother, Mrs. Clara Best of North Bend; father and mother-in-law, Edward and Bessie Zeleny of Hooper and a grandson, Mike Wiblishouser.

She was preceded in death by her father.

Pallbearers were Robert French, Dick Totten, Herman Allen, LeRoy Brown, Don Lottman and Loren Knoell.

Organist was Mrs. Ruby House and soloist was Melvin Misfeldt.

Reckmeyer-Moser Funeral Home of Arlington was in charge of arrangements.

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

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