Obituary Record

Delores E. "Dee" (Tietgen) Schmidt
Died on 5/23/1998
Buried in Prairie View Cemetery

#1 Date and place of publication of this newspaper article was not recorded.

DELORES SCHMIDT, 68

Delores E. Schmidt, 68, of Schuyler, died May 23, 1998, at Immanuel Medical Center in Omaha.

Services were May 26s at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Schuyler with the Rev. Donald Legacie officiating. Burial was at Prairie View Cemetery near Kennard.

Pallbearers were Matt Kroeger, Rod Flogstad, Ed Hardesty, Leon Schmidt, Lloyd Rohwer and Merle Bassett. Honorary pallbearers were Allen Rasmussen, Marv Kroeger, Wally Thompson, Jack Lorenzen, Warren Sunds and Floyd Schmidt. Janet Meyer played the organ and Jack Seckman was the soloist.

Delores D. Tietgen was born on Dec. 27, 1929, to Henry and Elvira (Sunds) Tietgen in Washington County. She attended a rural Washington County School and graduated from Blair High School in 1947.

She married Leonard Schmidt on June 25, 1959, at Kountz Memorial Lutheran Church in Omaha.

The couple moved from Wayne to Schuyler in 1966. She worked at Cunningham Drug for 17 years. She had also worked as an Avon Lady.

She was a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church and Eastern Star in Schuyler. She also served as a mother advisor for Rainbow Girls.

She is survived by her husband, Leonard; daughters, Kerri (Mrs. Ed) Hardesty of Appleton City, Mo., and Audrey (Mrs. Rod) Flogstad of Holstein, Iowa; and two grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; a grandson, Andy; and sister, Opal Kroeger.

#2 Funeral Leaflet

Delores E. (Dee) Schmidt

December 27, 1929 Washington County, Nebraska ~ May 23, 1998 Omaha, Nebraska

Age 68 Years, 4 Months, 26 Days

Funeral Services 10:30 A.M. Tuesday May 26, 1997 St. John’s Lutheran Church, Schuyler, Nebraska. Minister: Rev. Donald Legacie. Music: Jack Seckman, soloist, Janet Meyer, Organist.

Pallbearers: Matt Kroeger, Ed Hardesty, Lloyd Rohwer, Rod Flogstad, Leon Schmidt, Merle Bassett

Honorary Pallbearers: Marv Kroeger, Jack Lorenzen, Wally Thompson, Warren Sunds, Floyd Schmidt, Allen Rasmussen

Interment: Prairie View Cemetery, Kennard, Nebraska

~~~Obituary and funeral leaflet courtesy of Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings and leaflets on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska~~~

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