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Laurena <I>Long</I> Bathke-Gifford

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Laurena Long Bathke-Gifford

Birth
Osborne, Osborne County, Kansas, USA
Death
12 Nov 1961 (aged 76)
Norfolk, Madison County, Nebraska, USA
Burial
Norfolk, Madison County, Nebraska, USA GPS-Latitude: 42.040829, Longitude: 97.428886
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Mrs. Lorena Gifford, 76, 706 N. Eighth St., died at 11:58 p.m. Sunday in a Norfolk hospital, where she had been a patient since Oct. 24.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the First Methodist Church, Rev. Melvon Ireland, minister, officiating. Burial will be in Prospect Hill Cemetery. The body will lie in state from 3 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the Norfolk Home for Funerals.

Mrs. Gifford was born Sept. 7, 1885, in Kansas, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Long. She had resided in Norfolk about 60 years.

She is survived by two sons, Earl and Clarence Bathke of Norfolk; four daughters, Mrs. Leo Marsolek of Omaha, Mrs. Harold Nelson of Arlington, Va.; Mrs. Chester Vogeler of Omaha; and Mrs. Wayne Schlecht of Norfolk, 11 grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, three brothers, Emmet and Lloyd Long of Norfolk, and Cortna Long of Meadow Grove.

She was preceded in death by her husband, C. F. Gifford.

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Mrs. Lorena Gifford, 76, 706 N. Eighth St., died at 11:58 p.m. Sunday in a Norfolk hospital, where she had been a patient since Oct. 24.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the First Methodist Church, Rev. Melvon Ireland, minister, officiating. Burial will be in Prospect Hill Cemetery. The body will lie in state from 3 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the Norfolk Home for Funerals.

Mrs. Gifford was born Sept. 7, 1885, in Kansas, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Long. She had resided in Norfolk about 60 years.

She is survived by two sons, Earl and Clarence Bathke of Norfolk; four daughters, Mrs. Leo Marsolek of Omaha, Mrs. Harold Nelson of Arlington, Va.; Mrs. Chester Vogeler of Omaha; and Mrs. Wayne Schlecht of Norfolk, 11 grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, three brothers, Emmet and Lloyd Long of Norfolk, and Cortna Long of Meadow Grove.

She was preceded in death by her husband, C. F. Gifford.

Memorial managed by 7th cousin


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