Obituaries

Leona Joan Emry, 82, lost her fight with cancer on November 12, 2021 in Kearney, NE. Graveside services will be held at the Ainsworth Cemetery on Saturday, June 11, 2022 at 11:00 a.m.

A funeral service was held in Lincoln, NE in December 2021 for Ruby Doll (Jackson Larsen) Garrett, former Ainsworth and Springview resident. Ruby’s burial service will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 4, 2022, at the Ainsworth Cemetery south of town. Please feel free to bring a lawn chair. A time of fellowship with family and friends will be held at the Ainsworth Methodist Church immediately following the service.

A Celebration of Life honoring Shirley Burger will be held Saturday, June 11, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. at the United Methodist Church in Ainsworth, NE. Shirley passed away at the Sandhills Care Center in Ainsworth, NE on December 2, 2021, at the age of 93. A private family graveside service was held on Monday, December 6, 2021.

Terry and Kendra (Dougherty) Woods of Prescott Valley, AZ (formerly of Ainsworth, NE and Winner, SD) passed away in the spring of 2021. A joint funeral service was held Tuesday, May 17, 2022 at the Congregational Church in Ainsworth. Inurnment was in the Ainsworth south cemetery.

Thomas Eugene Collin was born July 13, 1940 at Aitkin, MN to Arthur Eugene and Vera Illeen (Mulvihill) Collin. He passed away Friday, May 13, 2022 at the Rock County Hospital in Bassett, NE at the age of 81 years and ten months. Tom grew up in Cloquet, MN. He graduated from Garfield Elementary School there. The family moved to Dunedin, FL, where he graduated from Junior High School. He completed the 8th grade at Clearwater (FL) High School and then transferred to Sacramento, CA graduating from C. K. McClatchy High School in June of 1958.

Funeral service for Thomas E. Collin, age 81 of Long Pine, NE, will be held on Thursday, May 19, 2022 at 10:30 a.m. at the Hoch Funeral Home in Ainsworth. Burial will follow in the Grandview Cemetery at Long Pine with Military Honors by Ainsworth American Legion Post #79.

Bernice (Nunnenkamp) Trautman was born September 18, 1926, on the family farm south of Aurora, NE. Her mother and father, Elizabeth and William Nunnenkamp along with her six brothers welcomed her into the family. Bernice began her domestic career ironing shirt collars standing on a chair at the ironing board at the age of five. From that time on she was her mother’s “right hand helper” which eventually included helping with the care of an additional brother, twin sisters, and the youngest and final sister. Bernice’s hard work ethic continued through the years. She found much joy in all the work that came to her whether hard or easy.

Terry and Kendra (Dougherty) Woods of Prescott Valley, AZ (formerly of Ainsworth, NE and Winner, SD) passed away in the spring of 2021. A joint memorial will be held on May 17th at the Ainsworth Congregational Church at 11:00 a.m.

A funeral service was held in Lincoln, NE, December 2021 for Ruby Doll (Jackson Larsen) Garrett, former Ainsworth and Springview resident. Ruby’s burial service will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 4th, 2022, at the Ainsworth Cemetery south of town. Please feel free to bring a lawn chair. A time of fellowship with family and friends will be held at the Ainsworth Methodist Church immediately following the service.

Funeral service for Doris A. Hughes, age 99 of Ainsworth, NE, will be held on Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. at the Hoch Funeral Home in Ainsworth. Burial will follow in the Ainsworth Cemetery. Dorie Hughes died Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at the Rock County Hospital Long Term Care in Bassett.