Rev. Harold J. McBride, 92

The Rev. Harold J. McBride, 92, of North Bend, formerly of Tekamah, died April 12, 2003, at Birchwood Manor in North Bend.

Funeral services were April 17, at Moser Memorial Chapel in Fremont. Interment was in the Killian Hill Cemetery, located west of Morse Bluff.

The Rev. Harold J. McBride was born Dec. 2, 1910 in Monument, Kan., to John A. and Ella (Kroeze) McBride. He was raised at Oakley, Kan., and graduated from high school in Oakley. He was also a graduate of Owosso Bible College in Owosso, Mich.

On Nov. 10, 1940, he married Mae Louise Durham at Owosso. He pastored churches at Lexington, Ky., and in Nebraska at Brownville, Stratton, Bladen, Tecumseh, Omaha and Blair.

He retired from full-time ministry in 1957 and ran an egg business from Oakland, then from Herman. He also often filled in for pastors of the Baptist, Covenant and Evangelical Free Churches at Oakland and the Salvation Army Church in Fremont.

After retiring he moved to Tekamah in 1978, but continued to work part-time for several years as a custodian for Blair Public Schools and the Burt County Public Power District at Tekamah.

He was a member of the Church of the Nazarene at Missouri Valley, Iowa.

In 1995 he moved to Camp Hill, Penn., to live with a daughter and son-in-law. He moved to Birchwood Manor in September 2002.

He is survived by his wife, Mae, also a resident at Birchwood Manor; three daughters and sons-in-law, Sue and Charles Smith of Camp Hill, Penn., Lois and Fred Lambley of Morse Bluff, and Fae and James Jones of Albuquerque, N.M., two sons and daughters-in-law, Wes and Suzanne McBride of Exter, R.I., and Joe and Kathy McBride of Tekamah, 21 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by three brothers, Ted McBride, Ken McBride and Ben McBride, two sisters, Lela Kroeze and Verna Wegforth, and a grandson, Rocky Smith.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska library.~~~