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Fern V. Stork, 91

Fern V. Stork, 91, of Fremont, formerly of Arlington, died Friday, May 3, 2013, at Arbor Manor Living Center in Fremont.

Services will be 10:30 a.m., Thursday, May 9, at St. Paul's Lutheran Church north of Arlington. Visitation will be 9 to 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the church. Interment will be in St. Paul's Cemetery.

Fern V. Hoegemeyer was born January 9, 1922, at Lyons, to August and Fredericke (Weitzenkamp) Hoegemeyer.

She graduated from Lyons High School and attended business school in Sioux City and Lincoln.

She was employed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Federal Building in Omaha.

In 1943, she moved to California where she worked for the California Farm Production Agency and the U.S. Post Office in Berkeley.

On June 25, 1944, she married Harlan Stork at St. John's Lutheran Church at Lyons. The couple returned to California so Mr. Stork could attend the Army Specialized Training Program at the University of California. After his service in the Army, they returned to Nebraska and settled on the Stork family farm near Arlington.

She was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church at Arlington. She served in various offices in the Women's League, taught Sunday school for 24 years and helped in the school library.

She led a 4-H group for 15 years and was active in the Merimyx Extension Club, Livestock Feeders Auxiliary and the Farm Bureau.

The Storks were named Farm Family of the week by WOW-TV in 1966 and received the Aksarben Pioneer Farm Family Award for family ownership of the farm for 100 years.

In 1986, the couple retired from the farm and moved into Arlington. She then was a member of the Senior Center Council and secretary of the board of directors of the Senior Center for 11 years.

She was a columnist for the Arlington Citizen for seven years.

The couple moved to Arbor Manor in 2007.

She is survived by sons and daughter-in-law, Terry Stork of Omaha and Landal and Uta Crompton Stork of Foster City, Calif.; daughters and sons-in-law, Twyla and David Wells of Omaha and Anita Stork and Judge Richard Ulmer of Hillsborough, Calif.; five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Harlan, on Nov. 20, 2011; three brothers and two sisters.

Memorials are suggested to St. Paul's Lutheran Church Home Budget or the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod World Missions.

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

#2 Funeral Leaflet

In Memory of Fern V. Stork

January 9, 1922 Lyons, Nebraska ~ May 3, 2013 Fremont, Nebraska

Funeral Service 10:30 A.M. Thursday, May 9, 2013 St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Arlington, Nebraska. The Rev. Rick Kanoy, Officiating. Congregational Hymns: “I Know That My Redeemer Lives”, “What A Friend We Have In Jesus”, “Abide With Me”, “I’m But A Stranger Here”—Joyce Dunklau, Organist

Pallbearers: Robert Ortmann, Galen Dunklau, David Brown, Neal Hoegemeyer, Robert Toebben, Dalvin Scheer

Interment: St. Paul’s Cemetery, Arlington, Nebraska

Arrangements by Reckmeyer-Moser Funeral Home, Arlington, 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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