Daughter of Joseph and Erma (May) Shaneyfelt.
With family, moved to Hastings in 1924; graduated from Hastings High School, 1929; briefly attended Hastings Business College.
Was secretary in offices in Orleans and Hastings for several years.
Married: Sept.19, 1942, Hastings, to Frank E. Howell of Grand Island.
Lived in Omaha; 1943, moved to Kearney; was a legal secretary for Blackledge and Sidner, later H.L. Blackledge; retired in 1973.
Husband died Dec. 20, 1973.
Activites: Buffalo County Historical Society when it reorganized in the early 1970s; 1978, she helped develop the society's publication of Buffalo Tales by researching, writing and editing historical stories. She did that work until 1999.
1991, received the Sertoma Club's Service to Mankind Award; 1998, she received the Friend of Kearney Award presented by the Envoys of the Kearney Area Chamber of Commerce.
Member of Kearney Women's Club, PEO Chapter GG, and a life member of the historical society; deacon of the church and was active in its library and the Presbyterian Women's organization; volunteered at the Museum of Nebraska Art and the George W. Frank House.
Survivors include: son, Michael of Council Bluffs, Iowa; daughters, Mary Mais of Woodland Park, Colo., and Eloise Carpenter of Kearney; brothers, William Shaneyfelt of Rockford, Minn., and Lyndal Shaneyfelt of Alexander, Va.; sisters, Marjorie Peterson of Gowrie, Iowa, and Inella Burns of Mankato, Minn.; four grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Preceded in death by husband, a brother and a great-grandchild.
With family, moved to Hastings in 1924; graduated from Hastings High School, 1929; briefly attended Hastings Business College.
Was secretary in offices in Orleans and Hastings for several years.
Married: Sept.19, 1942, Hastings, to Frank E. Howell of Grand Island.
Lived in Omaha; 1943, moved to Kearney; was a legal secretary for Blackledge and Sidner, later H.L. Blackledge; retired in 1973.
Husband died Dec. 20, 1973.
Activites: Buffalo County Historical Society when it reorganized in the early 1970s; 1978, she helped develop the society's publication of Buffalo Tales by researching, writing and editing historical stories. She did that work until 1999.
1991, received the Sertoma Club's Service to Mankind Award; 1998, she received the Friend of Kearney Award presented by the Envoys of the Kearney Area Chamber of Commerce.
Member of Kearney Women's Club, PEO Chapter GG, and a life member of the historical society; deacon of the church and was active in its library and the Presbyterian Women's organization; volunteered at the Museum of Nebraska Art and the George W. Frank House.
Survivors include: son, Michael of Council Bluffs, Iowa; daughters, Mary Mais of Woodland Park, Colo., and Eloise Carpenter of Kearney; brothers, William Shaneyfelt of Rockford, Minn., and Lyndal Shaneyfelt of Alexander, Va.; sisters, Marjorie Peterson of Gowrie, Iowa, and Inella Burns of Mankato, Minn.; four grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Preceded in death by husband, a brother and a great-grandchild.
Daughter of Joseph and Erma (May) Shaneyfelt.
With family, moved to Hastings in 1924; graduated from Hastings High School, 1929; briefly attended Hastings Business College.
Was secretary in offices in Orleans and Hastings for several years.
Married: Sept.19, 1942, Hastings, to Frank E. Howell of Grand Island.
Lived in Omaha; 1943, moved to Kearney; was a legal secretary for Blackledge and Sidner, later H.L. Blackledge; retired in 1973.
Husband died Dec. 20, 1973.
Activites: Buffalo County Historical Society when it reorganized in the early 1970s; 1978, she helped develop the society's publication of Buffalo Tales by researching, writing and editing historical stories. She did that work until 1999.
1991, received the Sertoma Club's Service to Mankind Award; 1998, she received the Friend of Kearney Award presented by the Envoys of the Kearney Area Chamber of Commerce.
Member of Kearney Women's Club, PEO Chapter GG, and a life member of the historical society; deacon of the church and was active in its library and the Presbyterian Women's organization; volunteered at the Museum of Nebraska Art and the George W. Frank House.
Survivors include: son, Michael of Council Bluffs, Iowa; daughters, Mary Mais of Woodland Park, Colo., and Eloise Carpenter of Kearney; brothers, William Shaneyfelt of Rockford, Minn., and Lyndal Shaneyfelt of Alexander, Va.; sisters, Marjorie Peterson of Gowrie, Iowa, and Inella Burns of Mankato, Minn.; four grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Preceded in death by husband, a brother and a great-grandchild.
With family, moved to Hastings in 1924; graduated from Hastings High School, 1929; briefly attended Hastings Business College.
Was secretary in offices in Orleans and Hastings for several years.
Married: Sept.19, 1942, Hastings, to Frank E. Howell of Grand Island.
Lived in Omaha; 1943, moved to Kearney; was a legal secretary for Blackledge and Sidner, later H.L. Blackledge; retired in 1973.
Husband died Dec. 20, 1973.
Activites: Buffalo County Historical Society when it reorganized in the early 1970s; 1978, she helped develop the society's publication of Buffalo Tales by researching, writing and editing historical stories. She did that work until 1999.
1991, received the Sertoma Club's Service to Mankind Award; 1998, she received the Friend of Kearney Award presented by the Envoys of the Kearney Area Chamber of Commerce.
Member of Kearney Women's Club, PEO Chapter GG, and a life member of the historical society; deacon of the church and was active in its library and the Presbyterian Women's organization; volunteered at the Museum of Nebraska Art and the George W. Frank House.
Survivors include: son, Michael of Council Bluffs, Iowa; daughters, Mary Mais of Woodland Park, Colo., and Eloise Carpenter of Kearney; brothers, William Shaneyfelt of Rockford, Minn., and Lyndal Shaneyfelt of Alexander, Va.; sisters, Marjorie Peterson of Gowrie, Iowa, and Inella Burns of Mankato, Minn.; four grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Preceded in death by husband, a brother and a great-grandchild.
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