Hitchcock-Dawson County NeArchives Obituaries.....Desmond, Thelma G. Gummere September 22, 2009
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Lexington Clipper-Herald Sept. 23, 2009
Thelma G. Desmond, 96, of Lexington, died Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009, at the Elwood
Care Center in Elwood. 

Funeral Services will be Friday, Sept. 25, 2009, at 1:30 p.m. at the
Reynolds-Love Chapel in Lexington with the Rev. Todd Karges officiating.  
 
Burial will be in the Greenwood Cemetery at Lexington. 
  
Visitation will be held Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009, from 3-5 p.m. at Reynolds-Love
Funeral Home.

Survivors include a stepdaughter, Margot Hall of Oceanside Long Island, N.Y.;
one stepson:  James Desmond of Venice, Fla.; one grandson, Peter Hall of Stowe,
Vt.; one local niece, Shirley Reynolds of Lexington as well as grandnieces,
nephews, other relatives and friends.   

Thelma was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Fred in 1988, and two
brothers, Vernard and Ellis. 
   
She was born May 30, 1913, at Stratton, to George W. and Rosa Jane (Boston)
Gummere.  
  
Thelma graduated with honors from Benkelman High School in Benkelman with the
class of 1930.  She attended Colorado Women’s College in Denver as well as
Kearney State.  She taught school and worked as a bookkeeper prior to moving to
Washington, D.C. in 1938.  
  
She was united in marriage to Fred E. Desmond on Jan. 16, 1958, at New York
City.  She worked for the federal government as an administrative assistant from
1938 to 1972.  While working for the government she advanced to the highest
position a women could hold at that time.  Thelma worked in the Civil Service
Ranks in the office of the Regional Director of Federal Mediation and
Conciliation Services.  During this time Thelma and Fred lived in Greenwich
Village, N. Y.   They returned to Nebraska to the Lexington area in 1978. 
   
She was a member of the First United Methodist Church, was active in senior
bowling and loved playing bridge.  


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