KEARNEY — Thelma I. Scheidies, 87, of Kearney died Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, at her home.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Kearney with the Rev. Duane Duley officiating. Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. at Minden Cemetery. Layton-Craig Funeral Home in Minden is in charge of the arrangements.

Thelma was born on May 29, 1929, in Minden to Anton and Hannah (Smith) Jepsen. Thelma grew up in the Minden area and attended Minden Public School. Thelma worked as a hairdresser for a time in Minden.

On Jan. 12, 1951, she married Robert Scheidies at the United Methodist Church in Minden. They lived and farmed near Lowell.

Thelma was a busy farm wife who raised chickens, gardened and canned for her family. She was a great cook, and her children will always remember her egg salad sandwiches and the rhubarb custard pies. Thelma enjoyed playing cards with friends and family. They retired and moved into Kearney in 1986. She was a caregiver for her husband until he passed away in 1993.

She was a member of Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Kearney, Red Hat Society in Kearney, Danish Brotherhood in Minden, Birthday Club and card clubs. Thelma worked the gift shop at Holiday Inn and also volunteered at the gift shop at Good Samaritan Hospital.

Survivors include her children, Michael Scheidies and wife Mary of Farmington, Mich., Carol Prussa and husband Mike, and Roger Scheidies and wife Elizabeth, all of Kearney, and Tammy Olson and husband Darcy of Gibbon; three grandchildren; two stepgrandchildren; one great-grandson; two stepgreat-grandchildren; sister, Nina Garrelts of Minden; sister-in-law, Nita Rae Jepsen of Shelton; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband; five brothers; three sisters; friend, Dick Moffett; and several brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law.