RAVENNA — David Peter Glinsmann, 84, of Ravenna died Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, at Good Samaritan Society in Ravenna.

Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Loup City, with the Rev. Shawn Kitzing officiating. Burial will be in Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery near Ashton. Higgins Funeral Home in Loup City is in charge of arrangements.

David Peter Glinsmann was born July 1, 1933, at Sacred Heart Hospital in Loup City to Peter Fredrick August and Laura (Obermiller) Glinsmann. He was welcomed home by brothers, Merle and Ervin, and a sister, Ruby. David was baptized on Aug. 6, 1933, at Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Unaltered Augsburg Confession at Haystown, south of Ashton. He was then confirmed in 1948 at the same church. He grew up on a farm near Ashton and attended country school District 26.

On Aug. 18, 1968, he married Arlene M. Bockstadter at Grace Lutheran Church in Wood River. They ranched on the Hillside Ranch north of Rockville. David also worked at the sugar beet factory in Grand Island and for Farwell Irrigation.

He was a lifelong member of the Lutheran Church. He enjoyed working outside gardening, fencing, chopping thistles and raising cattle, especially his Longhorn cattle that he started raising in 1977.


David is survived by his wife, Arlene Glinsmann of Ravenna; brother, Alvin and wife, Marian Glinsmann, of Rapid City, S.D.; sisters, Ruby Niederklein of Tobias, Shirley Ficken of Elkhorn and Ethel and husband, Dale Rasmussen, of Windsor, Colo.; and sisters-in-law, Virginia Glinsmann of Loup City, Rachael Glinsmann of Ord and Frances Glinsmann of Rockville.

He was preceded in death by his parents; brothers, Ervin, Merle, Don and Wendell Glinsmann; brothers-in-law, Eugene Ficken and Dallas Niederklein; and a sister-in-law, Darlyne Glinsmann.