The Golden Record
Volume IV
Evelyn (Halkyard) Vohland
Joan (Vohland) Hemmerling
2006
Page 11
Mark E. McConnell, 89 of Holdrege, formerly of rural Kearney and Gibbon, died Saturday, April 10, 1993 at Phelps Memorial Health Center in Holdrege. Services were today at Faith United Church in Gibbon with the Rev. Ed Millican officiating. Burial was at Riverside Cemetery in Gibbon.
He was born December 6, 1903 at Trenton to Mack and Sadie (Paddock) McConnell. He moved to Gibbon with his parents and attended Gibbon High School. He graduated in 1922. On March 20, 1932 he married Viola Reynolds in Grand Island. They made their home in Gibbon. He worked the family farm until moving to California in 1940 where he worked for Lockheed Aircraft Corp. He returned to Gibbon in 1942 where he farmed and raised potatoes. They moved to a farm south of Kearney in 1956 where he raised potatoes and popcorn until retiring in the early 1970's. He had lived at Methodist Memorial Home in Holdrege the last few years. He was a member of the Church, Cement Lodge of A.F. & M. of Wood River and was a past active member of the Civil Air Patrol of Kearney.
Survivors include sons, Mick, of Gibbon and Gary of Arvada, CO; daughter Marlene Baxter of Riverside, CA; brother Mack of Gibbon; 11 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife, who died in 1988, and a sister.
The Golden Record
Volume IV
Evelyn (Halkyard) Vohland
Joan (Vohland) Hemmerling
2006
Page 11
Mark E. McConnell, 89 of Holdrege, formerly of rural Kearney and Gibbon, died Saturday, April 10, 1993 at Phelps Memorial Health Center in Holdrege. Services were today at Faith United Church in Gibbon with the Rev. Ed Millican officiating. Burial was at Riverside Cemetery in Gibbon.
He was born December 6, 1903 at Trenton to Mack and Sadie (Paddock) McConnell. He moved to Gibbon with his parents and attended Gibbon High School. He graduated in 1922. On March 20, 1932 he married Viola Reynolds in Grand Island. They made their home in Gibbon. He worked the family farm until moving to California in 1940 where he worked for Lockheed Aircraft Corp. He returned to Gibbon in 1942 where he farmed and raised potatoes. They moved to a farm south of Kearney in 1956 where he raised potatoes and popcorn until retiring in the early 1970's. He had lived at Methodist Memorial Home in Holdrege the last few years. He was a member of the Church, Cement Lodge of A.F. & M. of Wood River and was a past active member of the Civil Air Patrol of Kearney.
Survivors include sons, Mick, of Gibbon and Gary of Arvada, CO; daughter Marlene Baxter of Riverside, CA; brother Mack of Gibbon; 11 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife, who died in 1988, and a sister.
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