Dawson County NeArchives Obituaries.....Ramsay, William February 11, 2009
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Lexington Clipper-Herald Feb. 14, 2009
Bill Ramsay, age 78 of Cozad, died Feb. 11, 2009 at the Cozad Community 
Hospital.

Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 14, 2009, at the First 
United Methodist Church in Cozad with the Rev. Lyle Schoen officiating.  

Burial will be in the Fairview Cemetery south of Cozad.  

Visitation will be held from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday at the Berryman 
Funeral Home in Cozad.

Survivors include his wife, Marilyn Ramsay of Cozad; son, William (Colleen) 
Ramsay of McCook; daughter, Robin (Clay) Etherton of Cozad; two sisters, 
Margaret Cordle of Hastings, Evelyn (Wayne) Maska of Franklin; a brother-in-
law, Howard Sjogren of Chicago, Ill.; four grandchildren, Lauren and Eric 
Ramsay and Rebecca and Abigail Etherton; and many other relatives and friends.
He was preceded in death by his parents and a sister, Jean Sjogren.

He was born Aug. 21, 1930 at Bloomington to William and Rebecca (Heaton) 
Ramsay.  He graduated from Franklin High School in 1948.  He attended the 
University of Nebraska at Kearney where he majored in both English and history 
in pursuit of a master’s degree in education. 

On June 6, 1954, he married Marilyn L. Wrede at Gibbon. The couple made their 
home in Grant where Bill served as a teacher and coach of several sports, 
primarily basketball and track.  In 1967, the couple moved to Cozad where Bill 
taught history and coached at Cozad High School.

As a basketball coach, he received the 1966 Coach of the Year Award from the 
Lincoln Journal Star.  In 1971, he earned the Coach of the Year Award from the 
Omaha World-Herald.  In 1983, Bill achieved his 400th win as a basketball 
coach.  He was honored as the 1991-1992 Boys Basketball Coach of the Year by 
the Nebraska Coaches Association; he was also the Grand Marshal of the 
Cornhusker State Games in 1992.  In 1994, he was the recipient of the Mike 
Heck Memorial Award given by the Nebraska Coaches Association.  He was 
inducted into the High School Sports Hall of Fame in 2001; and in 2004, he was 
honored by the dedication of “Coach Bill Ramsay Court” at Cozad High School. 

He was inducted into the National High School Athletic Coaches Hall of Fame in 
2007.   
   
He was a long-time member of First United Methodist Church of Cozad, the Cozad 
Elks Lodge #2250, the Cozad Country Club, the Nebraska Coaches Association, 
the Cozad Education Association and the Nebraska Education Association.  


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