CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF  Eldon Sperry

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Eldon Dwain Sperry

ROYAL- Eldon Dwain Sperry, 70, Royal, died March 24, 2000, at the 
Plainview Area Health System, Plainview.

Services will be March 29 at 2:00 p.m. at the United Methodist Church, 
Royal.  Rev. Norma Jean Andrews and Pastor Joel Wentworth will 
officiate.  Military Rites will be conducted by American Legion Post 
136 with burial in the Orchard Hill Cemetery, Orchard.

Pallbearers will be Jerry Sperry, Philip Risinger, Bill Sperry, Dean 
Carlson, Kelly Whitehorn and Kirk Cleveland.

Honorary pallbearers will be Charles Carhart, George Grubbs, Larry 
Test and Tim Pfanstiel.

Eldon was born March 10, 1930, to Horace and Mildred (Phillips) Sperry 
at Dennis, Kan.  As the family moved to different locations, Eldon 
attended various schools.  He moved to Nebraska in 1947 where he worked 
as a farmhand around Laurel until he enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1951 
for three years.  He was stationed in different areas including Germany 
and Korea.  After his discharge in 1954, he married Margaret Graham.  
They had four sons and one daughter.

Eldon was employed at RADEC and MARRA Construction Companies until he 
began his own company, Sperry Construction, Wayne.

He married Janice Sampson in 1969.

As well as woodworking, Eldon enjoyed fishing and gardening.

He and Ellen "Jo" Carlson Peterson were wed March 28, 1986, and moved to 
Houston, Texas.  Eventually they came back to this area and have lived 
in Royal since October 1998.

Survivors include his wife, Jo; sons, Gayle "Butch" and wife, Cindy, 
Allen; Duane and wife, Laura, Denver, Colo.; and daughters, Tammy and 
husband, Brett Beard, Bailey, Colo.; and Annette Peterson, Sioux City, 
Iowa; brothers, Keith, Eureka, Calif.; Jerry, Wayne; Richard, Clearwater, 
Kan.; Roger, Hermiston, Ore.; Kenneth, Denver, Colo.; Victor, Tecumseh, 
Okla.; and sisters, Joyce Hoppes, Parsons, Kan.; Jeanette Graham, Ottawa, 
Kan.; and Gail Keyser, Keller, Texas; 16 grandchildren and one great-
grandchild.

He was preceded in death by his parents and an infant son.

Wednesday, Mar. 29, 2000-CEDAR COUNTY NEWS