Lifelong Arlington resident, Eleanor M. “Sis” Rosenkilde, 81, died Saturday, March 22, 2008, at Nye Pointe Health and Rehab in Fremont.

Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 26, at Arlington Community Church. Interment will be in the Arlington Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 2 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 25, at Reckmeyer-Moser Funeral Home in Arlington, with the family receiving friends from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Visitation will also be held at the church on Wednesday, one hour prior to services.

Eleanor M. Hall was born Feb. 7, 1927, in Arlington to Lawrence and Maude (Menking) Hall. She lived in Arlington her entire life until moving to Fremont in May of 2006.

On June 29, 1947, she married Leo Ray “Buster” Rosenkilde in Arlington.

Mrs. Rosenkilde worked for the Arlington Public Schools for several years in the late 1960’s, and kept the books for her husband’s construction business.

She was a member of the Arlington Community Church and the Community Church women, and for many years, she coordinated the lunches for funerals and the church. She was a member of the VFW Auxiliary of Post 8332 in Arlington.

She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Cindy and Rodney Grefe of Arlington; three grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; sister, Marilyn “Toby” Wilkins of Ennis, Mont.; brother-in-law, Jerry Fagerquist of Fremont; and a sister-in-law, Kathrine Cook of Arlington.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Leo Ray, in November 2006; two sisters, Faye Hall, and Patricia Fagerquist; and a brother Merle Hall.

Memorials are suggested to Arlington Community Church.

# 2 - - Also Published in the World Herald, March 24, 2008

Rosenkilde-Eleanor M. “Sis”, age 81 years, of Fremont, formerly of Arlington. Survived by daughter, Cindy (Rodney) Grefe of Arlington; sister, Marilyn (Toby) Wilkins, of Ennis, MT; brother-in-law, Jerry Fagerquist of Fremont, sister-in-law, Kathrine Cook of Arlington; grandchildren, Jeff and Nicki Flynn, and Kelly Grefe; great-grandchildren, Cody and Cheyenne Flynn.

FUNERAL 10:30am Wed., Arlington Community Church, Arlington, NE. VISITATION Tues 2-8pm, with family receiving friends from 6:30-8pm at Funeral Home. VISITATION Wed. at church 1 hour prior to Service. Burial Arlington Cemetery. Memorials to the Church.

Reckmeyer-Moser Funeral Home, Arlington, NE 402-721-4490

#3 Funeral Leaflet

In Loving Memory of Eleanor M. “Sis” Rosenkilde

February 7, 1927 Arlington, Nebraska ~ March 22, 2008 Fremont, Nebraska

Funeral Service 10:30 AM Wednesday, March 26, 2008 Arlington Community Church, Arlington Nebraska. Officiating: The Rev. Burt Williams. Music Selections: “Amazing Grace”, “The Lord’s Prayer”. Melvin “Red” Misfeldt, Soloist. Ellen Thompson, Organist

Pallbearers: Marv Meier, Rusty Fagerquist, Kelly Grefe, Will Sheets, Jeff Flynn, Randy Fagerquist

Interment: Arlington Cemetery, Arlington, Nebraska

Arrangements by Reckmeyer-Moser Funeral Home, Arlington, Nebraska

~~~Obituaries 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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