Dawson-Custer County NeArchives Obituaries.....Kutsch, Gertrude R. McCarthy May 1, 2011 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ne/nefiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Danny Gruber danny.gruber@gmail.com May 2, 2011, 10:39 am Lexington Clipper-Herald May 4, 2011 Gertrude R. Hickey Kutsch, age 88 of Cozad, died Sunday, May 1, 2011 at the Golden Living Care Center in Cozad. Mass of the Christian Burial will be held on Saturday, May 7, 2011 at 10:30 a.m. at Christ The King Catholic Church in Cozad with Father Don O’Brien as celebrant. Burial will be in the St. Anselm’s Cemetery east of Anselmo at 2 p.m. Visitation will be held on Friday, May 6, 2011 from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Berryman Funeral Home in Cozad with a Rosary to be recited at 7 p.m. Gertrude was born Aug. 11, 1922 at York to Cornelius and Sylvia (Gess) McCarthy. Her early education was at the convent in York. The family moved to Custer County where she completed grade school at District 129. She attended high school at Anselmo. On March 26, 1940, she married William J. Hickey at Anselmo. He passed away in April of 1974. To this union five children were born, Bill, Mike, Jim, Kenny and Karen. On Aug. 29, 1975, she married Lyle Kutsch; who later preceded her in death on March 1, 2011. Also preceding her in death were her parents; a son, Mike; daughter-in-law, Connie; great grandson, Lane; six brothers, Henry, Neil, Dennis, Jerry, Thomas, John and a sister, Mary McDermott Kuta. Survivors include her children, Bill (Lois) Hickey of Willow Island, Jim Hickey of North Platte, Kenneth Hickey of Fairfield, Karen Brooks of Holdrege; two sisters, Mildred Pinkston and Margaret Eastburn of Arnold; 15 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren and numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ne/dawson/obits/k/kutsch708gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nefiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb