West Point News
Jan. 4, 2006 

Funeral services for Kim (Mrs. John) Donahey, 49, of Wisner, will be Thursday
Jan. 5, 2006, at 10:30 a.m. at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Wisner. Father 
Timothy Podraza will celebrate the Mass with burial in St. Joseph’s Cemetery. 
A vigil service will be held at 7 p.m. at the church. Kim died on Sunday, Jan. 1, 2006, 
at her residence.

Thomas Levi Bales, 81, West Point, died Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2005, at the Veterans 
Hospital in Omaha. A funeral service was held Saturday, Dec. 31, 2005, at St. Mary’s 
Catholic Church in West Point. Burial was at St. Michael’s Cemetery, West Point, with 
military honors.

Funeral services were held Monday, Jan. 2, 2006 in the Delhomme Chapel of the Flowers, 
for Dayton William Daberkow, age 70, who died on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2005, in 
Jackson, Miss. Rev. Sam McPeek officiated. Interment was in Calvary Cemetery.
Delhomme Funeral Home, 1011 Bertrand Drive, Lafayette, La., was in charge 
of funeral arrangements.

January 11, 2006

Funeral services for Herman George (Ham) Prawitz, 85, of Conroe, Texas, were 
Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2006, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Interment was in Conroe 
Memorial Park. He died Thursday, Dec. 29, 2005, in Conroe, Texas. Survivors include 
his wife, Helen Prawitz; sons, Gary and Aimee, Richard and Elizabeth, John and Cathy; 
sister, Della Bowman; five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements were by Metcalf Funeral Directors.

Laura Christina Guenther, 89, West Point, died Saturday, Jan. 7, 2006. Mass of Christian 
burial was Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2006, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in West Point. 
Burial will be at St. Michael’s Cemetery. Survivors include her daughters, Mary Ann Guenther 
and Doris Raasch, both of Grand Island; Jeanette and Jack Kindschuh of West Point; sons, 
Gerald of Scribner and Ron and Teresa of Lincoln; six grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; 
sisters, Eleanor Spenner and Beatrice and Mac Seeman, both of Beemer.
Stokely Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements

Funeral services for Mrs. Wilma D. Lawson, 85, of Pilger, were Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2006, 
at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Pilger. Burial in the Pilger Cemetery. 
Wilma died on Saturday, Jan. 7, 2006, in Wayne.

Harold Edward Woerman, 90, formerly of West Point, died Saturday, Jan. 7, 2006, at 
a Sioux Falls, South Dakota Hospital. Services will be Thursday, Jan. 12, 2006, at 10:30 a.m. 
at Grace Lutheran Church in West Point. Burial at Mount Hope Cemetery.

Funeral services for Mrs. Anita Beune, 86 of West Point, were Sunday, Jan. 8, 2006, at 
Zion-St. John Lutheran Church, rural Wisner. Burial was in Zion Lutheran Cemetery. Anita 
died on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2006. Survivors include her children Nadine and Myron Drevlow of 
Holdingford, Minn., Boyd and Jeanette Beune of Wisner, Myrene and Jerry Johnson of 
Guymon, Okla.; two granddaughters; two great-grandsons; sister, Beata Brockmann of 
West Point; sisters-in-law, Naoma Toelle of Beemer and Mildred Toelle of West Point.

A memorial service for Rosemary Drieling (Mervin), 75, are Saturday, Jan. 14, 2006, at 11a.m. 
at Grace Lutheran Church in West Point. Rosemary died Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2006, at her rural 
West Point home. Stokely Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Theresa Martens, 78, passed away Sunday, Jan. 15, 2006, at her son and daughter-in-law’s 
home in West Point. A memorial service was held Wednesday (today), Jan. 18, 2006, at First 
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oakland. Burial in St. Mark’s Cemetery, rural Pender.
Survivors include her sons, Tim and Donna Martens, Greg Martens all of West Point; six 
grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.

Billy VonSeggern, 78, of Pender, died Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2006 in Sioux City, Iowa. 
Funeral services were Saturday, Jan. 14, 2006, at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, Pender. 
Survivors include his wife, Maryalice of Pender, three sons and their wives, Clifford and 
Wilda VonSeggern of Jacksonville, Fla., Clayton and Kathy VonSeggern of Lincoln, Curtis 
and Cathy VonSeggern of Pender; a daughter, Cindy and Gaylen Hingst of Emerson; 9 
grandchildren, 8 great-grandchildren and a brother, Ted and Carolyn VonSeggern of Pender.

Memorial services for Rosemary Drieling, 76, West Point, were Saturday, Jan. 14, 2006, at 
Grace Lutheran Church in West Point. Burial will be at Prospect Hill Cemetery, Elkhorn. 
Rosemary died Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2006, at her rural West Point home.

Paul Betzelberger, 66, West Point, died Friday, Jan. 13, 2006, in West Point. 
Funeral services were Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2006, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, West Point. 
Rev. Frank Lordemann officiated with military honors by West Point Veterans’ organizations. 
Burial will be in Omaha. Survivors include his wife, Carole of West Point; sons, John and 
Carol of Omaha, Bob and Jim, both of West Point; and three grandchildren.

Funeral services for Edward B. Stutzman, 79, Beemer, were Sunday, Jan. 15, 2006, at the 
Beemer Mennonite Church in Beemer. Pastor Lewis Miller officiated with burial in the Beemer 
Cemetery. Edward passed away on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2006.

Memorial services for Alice (Mrs. Glenn) Meyer, 76, of Wisner were Monday, Jan. 23, 2006
at the Christ Lutheran Church in Wisner. Burial was in the Wisner Cemetery. Alice passed 
away Jan. 18, 2006, at her residence.

Mildred M. Brdicko, 87, Fremont, died Sunday, Jan. 22, 2006. A funeral services is Thursday, 
Jan. 26, 2006, at First Lutheran Church. Committal will follow in Memorial Cemetery.
Survivors include her daughter Diane (Dee) and Gary E. Hansen of Lincoln, formerly of 
West Point; son Dennis and Joan Mareie Brdicko of Sun City, Ariz.; 10 grandchildren 
and 10 great granchildren. 

Ervin F. Smith, 84, of Oakland, died Monday, Jan. 23, 2006. A funeral service is 
Friday at 10:30 a.m. First United Methodist Church in Oakland. with burial at Westside 
Cemetery, rural Oakland.

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