News Staff
Wednesday, January 5, 2022
Eleanor Ruth (Collins) Ammon died Sunday, December 26, 2021 at the Rock County Hospital in Bassett, NE with her family at her side. Eleanor was born in Merriman, NE to Harley and Anna (Arent) Collins on June 15, 1931. At a young age, she moved with her family to a home seven miles south of Ainsworth, NE where she attended a oneroom schoolhouse and later graduated from Ainsworth High School in 1949. Eleanor met the love of her life, Raymond Ammon while babysitting for his sister and they were married on October 16, 1949. To this union three children were born, Bernice, Karen, and Jerry.