Dawson County NeArchives Obituaries.....Furry, Harriette Pickering August 30, 2010
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Danny Gruber danny.gruber@gmail.com August 31, 2010, 3:42 pm

Lexington Clipper-Herald Sept. 1, 2010
Harriette Pickering Furry, 99, longtime Overton resident, died Monday, Aug. 30,
2010, at Tri-County Hospital in Lexington. 

Funeral Services will be Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010, at 10:30 a.m. at the First
United Methodist Church in Lexington with the Rev. Tess Hufford officiating. 
 
Burial will be in the Robb Cemetery south of Lexington. 

Visitation will be held Friday, Sept. 3, 2010, from 5-7 p.m. at the
Reynolds-Love Chapel in Lexington.  

She was born May 16, 1911, in rural Lexington, to James E. and Bessie L.
(Howard) Pickering, growing up on their Dawson County farm north of Lexington,
attending Dist. 56 rural school.  As a young girl, she became a member of the
Mt. Pleasant Methodist Church near Lexington.   

She graduated from Lexington High School in 1929, earned a teaching certificate
at Kearney Normal School, and taught at Dawson County Rural School Dist. 96,
until her marriage to Glen Furry of Lexington.  Together they farmed east of
Lexington until 1947, at which time they bought a Phelps County farm south of
Overton, remaining there 10 years, until they sold that farm and moved into
Overton.  Harriette then worked at Plectron Mfg. in Overton for 16 years until
her retirement in 1976.  After that she worked part-time at Smith’s Store in
Overton for 10 years.  
 
At various times in her adult life Harriette was an active member of the
Lexington, rural Williamsburg and Overton Methodist churches. 
   
She is survived by her children, Harlan (Dorothy) Furry of Kearney, Meredith
Keep of Elm Creek, Edie Zetterman of Lexington, and Jean (Philip) Stahla of
Gillette, Wyo.; eight grandchildren, Russell (Jennifer) Furry of Centennial,
Colo., Joan (Brian) Gutierrez of Fontana, Calif., Chuck (Becky) Keep of
Columbus, Willie (Barb) Keep of Elm Creek, Jenny (Jeff) Spaulding of Arapahoe,
Suzan (Kevin) Culver of Owensboro, Ky., Stuart (Kim) Zetterman of Lincoln, Randy
(Susie) Stahla of Gillette, Wyo.; 21 great-grandchildren and her sister, Ella
Brown, of Olathe, Kan.   

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Glen, in 1986; her
brother, Howard Pickering, in 1996, and her sisters, Irene Swanson in 2006 and
Edith Andersen in 2008.   


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