All Obituaries

     Yvonna Lee (Price) Hayes was born July 3, 1934, to Ethridge (Bounce) and Adrienne (Howard) Price in Beaver City, NE. They moved to the Orafino Community in Frontier County soon after.  She attended her first eight years of schooling at the Orafino school and graduated from Cambridge High School in 1952.       She married Richard (Dick) B. Hayes, Jr. at Orafino EUB Church on September 23, 1952.  Dick...

Betty Meyerle, MONUMENT, Colorado - Betty Meyerle, 94, formerly of Cambridge, passed away on Saturday, May 6, 2023. Family has chosen cremation.  Memorial services have been set for Saturday, July 15, 2023 at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church at 10:00 A.M. in Cambridge. Inurnment will follow in Fairview Cemetery. Friends may send online condolences to lockenour.com. Lockenour-Jones is entrusted with the arrangements. A full obituary will be printed at a later date.

     Roger Dean Jones was born in Woodruff, Kansas, January 11, 1930 to parents, Reverend Harrison Morton and Ruby (Achen) Jones.  The family lived in Imperial, NE., after Woodruff, Kansas and then Oconto, NE., before moving to Cambridge, NE in 1944.  Roger met Dorothy Anne Lockenour in Cambridge and they were married June 12, 1951 in her parents' home, Monte and Jeanie Lockenour, which at that time was the Lockenour Mortuary.      Roger was...

Tracy Lavern Deminski was born on December 28, 1953 in McCook, NE to V.I. “Bud” Deminski (deceased) and Vene DeMoss Deminski.  His two older sisters, Kathy (Jim) Salts and Jeri Barber were expert teasers. He passed away on Wednesday, April 19, 2023 in Methodist Hospital, Omaha, NE after a short battle with lymphoma. Tracy was educated in the Cambridge (NE) public school system, graduating with the Class of 1973.  He lived on “kid row” in Cambridge and...

Mary Patricia “Pat” Innocence Young, age 95, of Cambridge, passed away at the Ridgeway Senior Living in Lexington, NE on April 18, 2023.  She was born in Lawrence, NE on December 28, 1927, to Clement and Elisabeth (Ostdiek) Witte.  The family moved to Cambridge when Pat was three years old.  Pat attended Cambridge schools and graduated from Cambridge High School in 1945.  She was the only child of 11 children of the family to graduate high...

Loren Alton Mooney, age 39, passed away at his home in Nipomo, California.  He was born at Long Beach Memorial Hospital to Rockie and Susan (Locklair) Mooney on March 28, 1984.  Loren attended Lampton Elementary, Glazier Elementary, Los Alisos Middle School and graduated from El Camino High School in La Mirada, the class of 2002.  He participated in Little League, soccer, and Boy Scouts of America Troop 911 and 533.  Loren became an Eagle Scout in February 2002.  He...

Preston Phillips CAMBRIDGE, Neb. - Preston Phillips, age 90, formerly of Cambridge, passed away at the Hillcrest Estates in Gothenburg, Neb. on April 11, 2023. Graveside services will be held at Fort McPherson National Cemetery on Friday, June 2, 2023 at 3:00 p.m. Military Honors will be performed by the Cambridge American Legion Post. Friends may leave online condolences at lockenour.com

Anita Marie (Smith) Sisson, 88, passed away on Wednesday, April 5, 2023 at UC Health in Greeley, Colo. after a brief illness. She was born May 27, 1934 to Berton & Bernice (McElroy) Smith in Bartley, Nebr. She attended school in Bartley and after graduation went to work at the bank, also in Bartley. She married Gareld E (Gary) Sisson on August 24, 1956 and they were married for 63 years at the time of his passing in 2020. They lived in Sterling, Colo., where their three sons were born....

      Franklin D- Carroll, 86, passed away Wednesday, December 18, 2019, in Fort Collins, CO. He leaves his wife of 64 years Marilyn (Englert) Carroll, his sister Norma Carroll, his children Laurie and her husband David Hasenburg, Lisa and her husband Dan Green, and Mark and his wife Jodi Carroll, along with 9 grandchildren and 5 great-children.       Born and raised in Cambridge, NE, Frank enjoyed reminiscing about his years growing up in...

Donna Mae Frandsen, age 92, of Oberlin, KS, formerly of Cambridge, passed away at the Community Hospital of McCook on Sunday, March 5, 2023.  Donna was born on the family farm southeast of Atwood, KS to Ralph and Eleanor (Kundysek) Urban.  She attended rural school near her home.  Being the oldest, Donna helped her mother with the younger children. From a previous marriage, Donna had two children: Larry and Adelaide.  She later married Allen Frandsen on July 21, 1959. He...