Dawson-Buffalo County NeArchives Obituaries.....Bacon, Alfreda Elizabeth Roach January 27, 2010
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Lexington Clipper-Herald Jan. 30, 2010
Alfreda Elizabeth Bacon, 96, of Kearney, formerly of Lexington, died Wednes-
day, Jan. 27, 2010, at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney.  
 
The family has honored Alfreda’s wishes that her body be cremated. 
  
A memorial service celebrating Alfreda’s life will be held Saturday, Jan. 30, 
2010, at 3:00 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church in Kearney with the 
Rev. Gary Main officiating.  
 
Inurnment will be held prior to the memorial service at Greenwood Cemetery in 
Lexington.  
 
There will be no visitation.

She was born Aug. 15, 1913, in Cozad, to Floyd and Nellie (Harrington) Roach. 

Alfreda was a young girl when her parents divorced.  Her mother remarried and 
they went to live on a WWI veterans’ land grant in Colorado.  After two years 
digging for water and her stepfather dying her mother moved back to Cozad.  
Her youth was spent with relatives in Cozad and Orange County in California.  
Her mother married again and she moved to Lexington the last semester of her 
senior year of high school. This was where she met Carl Bacon.  She graduated 
from Lexington High School in 1930.  She pursued her nurses’ training at 
Presbyterian St. Luke’s in Denver and after three years married Carl on Dec. 
18, 1934, at Lexington.  
 
Life on the farm was not easy in the 1930s.  During WWII she helped Carl as 
they cared for an additional farm besides their own.  
  
As her life went on, Alfreda became more involved in Christian education.  She 
conducted education workshops all over the state.  Personally, she loved 
ceramic painting and produced many fine pieces.  She had a love for people and 
opened her home to exchange students, housed foreign guests, immigrants, and 
foster children.  
  
She loved her church and her church’s camping program.  She also adored her 
children and grandchildren and their activities, and her life with Carl on the 
Bacon family farm.  
  
Alfreda moved to Kearney in 1997, after the passing of her husband Carl.    
She is survived by three children, David (Phyllis) Bacon and Barbara (Dennis) 
Reed, all of Kearney, Jean (Bob) Fujimura of Lodi, Calif.; 12 grandchildren; 
28 great-grandchildren and eight great-great-grandchildren.   

Alfreda was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Carl in 1996; and 
stepsister, Patricia Rodebaugh.

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