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Delores Darlene (Riggs) Snell  

 

Services for Delores Darlene Snell 58 co-owner of an electrical contracting business will be at 10 a.m. Friday at the First Church of God. The Rev. Rich Cloyed will officiate, Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. at Fort McPherson National Cemetery near Maxwell.


Mrs. Snell died Tuesday July 12, 1988 at the Good Samaritan Hospital.


The family plans memorials to the hospital's Hospice program or the church. Visitation will be 1-8 p.m. Thursday at Godberson Mortuary in Kearney.


She was born Jan 31, 1930 in Manila, Utah to William and Edith Deck Riggs. She grew up and attended school in Manila. On August 31, 1952 she and John Snell were married in Kearney. They returned to Kearney in 1959 and made their home here. She was co-owner with her husband of their electrical contracting business in Kearney. She was a member of First Church of God and its Missionary Society.


Survivors include daughter Julia LaVassaur of Kearney, mother and step-father Edith and Fred Yendra of Kearney, a grandson, brothers Warren Riggs of Mountain View, Wyo., Larry Riggs of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Robert Yendra of Kearney and sisters, Evelyn Narramore of Arizona, Susan Oppermann of Salt Lake City, Lila Schmidt of Upland and Judy Montgomery of Gibbon. She was preceded in death by her husband who died in 1985, her father, two brothers and two sisters.

 

Transcribed and Submitted by:   Pat White

 

Maxine (Lamborn) Christiaens   


Maxine Christaens, 76, of Boise, died on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 1995, at a Boise hospital.  Funeral services
 will be conducted at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 9, 1995 at the Alden-Waggoner Funeral Chapel, Boise, 
with the Reverend Don Wilson officiating.

Maxine and her twin brother, Max, were born in Wilcox, Nebraska on August 4, 1919, to James and Grace
 Lamborn.  She attended high school in Wilcox, Neb., and later married Adolphus Olney.  They had four 
children and resided in Holdrege, Nebraska where Maxine was a homemaker.  Adolphus died of cancer 
in a San Francisco hospital on Oct. 31, 1948.

Maxine later married Paul Christiaens in Weiser, Idaho, on Aug. 4, 1950.  Paul, a World War II veteran, 
passed away in a V.A. hospital in Salt Lake City in 1987.

She is survived by three daughters, Marilyn DeWitt, of Wichita, Kan., Karen Beamguard and her husband, 
Robert, and Janine Littlefield, all of Boise, Idaho; one son, Roger Olney, of Cascade, Idaho; two brothers, 
Max Lamborn of Boise, Idaho, and Raymond Lamborn, of Lincoln, Neb.; one sister, Beth Lytle, of Soap 
Lake, Wash.; 19 grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren.



clipping, unknown newspaper, Sept. 1995

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Dorothee M. (Miller) Conway   

Dorothee M. Miller Conway, 88, of Nampa, [Idaho] died Friday, April 19, 1996 at home of natural causes.  
No services will be conducted at her request.  Local arrangements are under direction of the Cloverdale 
Funeral Home, Boise.

Dorothee was born April 25, 1907, at Minden, Nebraska to Lawrence L. L.  Miller of Denmark and Florence 
A. Maucher of Minden.  She moved to Nampa, Idaho in 1909, where she was raised.  She graduated from 
Nampa High School and Nampa Business College.  She worked in the family ranching business in Cascade 
and Nampa for several years.  Dorothee married Leo [Daniel] Conway.

She was active in Civil life.  She resided in Oak Harbor, Washington for many years.  Dorothee was a 
parishioner of St. Mark’s Catholic Church in Boise and St. Augustine Catholic Church in Oak Harbor.

Dorothee is survived by her daughter, Patricia Bennett of Nampa; her sister, Karen Young and a brother-
in-law, Art Steele, both of Boise; numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband Leo and several siblings.

 

Newspaper: Unknown
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Mrs. Thomas N. Nelson   

 

Minden – Mrs. Thomas N. Nelsen, who had lived in this section for a half century, died Wednesday at her home here.

 

Omaha World Herald – 16 Sept. 1921

Transcribed and contributed by:  Dan Zwakman

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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