Extracted from The Kearney Hub (Kearney, NE)
Monday, April 28, 2008
HENDRICKSON, Leora
HENDRICKSON, Leora, 74, of Kearney died Friday, April 25, 2008, at her home
Services: Tuesday, Faith United Methodist Church
Burial: Riverside Cemetery, Gibbon
Mortuary: Horner-Lieske-Horner
Memorials: Asera Care Hospice, Faith United Methodist Church and Good Samaritan Hospital Cancer Fund
Born March 28, 1934, in Louin, Miss.
Parents: Benjamin and Virgie (McCarty) Halford
Grew up in Louin, graduated from Rose Hill High School; lived in Harlingen, Texas, moved to Kearney in 1954
Married: Nov. 3, 1951, to Donald Hendrickson in Alexandria, La.
Activities: member of Faith United Methodist Church; enjoyed her family and friends, especially her grandchildren, whom she took on trips and vacations; liked to sew, being involved with her church, rock gardening, planting flowers and traveling south to visit her sisters and brothers
Survivors include her husband; daughters, Vickie and her friend, Dennis Riley, of Beatrice and Tami Trampe and her husband, Rollie, of Riverdale; granddaughter, Tiffany Pracheil and her husband, James, of Laramie, Wyo.; grandson, Nick Trampe of Kearney; great-grandson, Josiah Pracheil of Laramie; brother, Lavon Halford and his wife, Janice, of West Berlin, Vt.; sisters, Betty Lou Brock of Greer, S.C., and Mary Edith Turner of Marietta, Texas; many nieces and nephews
Was preceded in death by her parents, five brothers and six sisters