Obituaries

Willard Roedel

Willard James Roedel, 82, lifelong resident of McCook, Nebraska, passed away Sunday, Feb. 17, 2019 at Hillcrest Nursing Home in McCook.

Donna Eileen Powell Saum Brodbeck, 89 of Grant, Nebraska, passed away Feb. 11, 2019, at the Golden Ours Convalescent Home in Grant.

Nancy Lee (Chapman) Hoagland, 80, of Ogallala, Nebraska, passed away on Feb. 16, 2019 at Perkins County Health Services in Grant.

Calvin Lester Burge, 93, was born July 5, 1926 on a farm near Bladen to Lester and Margaret (Andersen) Burge.

School years were spent in Bladen, Cowles and Ayr, Nebraska.

Frank Svoboda, who ran for Senate last year as the oldest candidate for a Nebraska statewide office, died Jan. 29, 2019 at the age of 94.