Ellene Euler

Ellene L. Euler ,wife, mother and grandmother, passed away at age 96 on May 20, 2011, at the Northridge Retirement Community in Kearney. Memorial services will be 1:30 P.M. Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at O’Brien ?" Straatmann Funeral Home with the Reverend Rebecca Craig and Roy Rasmussen officiating. Inurnment will be at the Kearney Cemetery. Memorials are suggested to the Kearney YMCA. Online condolences or personal reflections may be submitted at www.osafh.com. O’Brien ?" Straatmann Funeral Home is charge of arrangements. A resident of Kearney since 1937, Ellene was born on a farm near Poole, Nebraska, on February 22, 1915, the daughter of William Zeller and Anna Marie Zeller (Pape). In 1931 she graduated from Ravenna High School at age 16. She worked on her parents’ farm until 1937 when she took a job with the AAA Agricultural Commission in Kearney. There, she met Phillip H. Euler, who was stationed at Kearney Air Force Base. They married on March 18, 1945. Ellene was always very active in her children’s lives and activities, especially as a 4-H leader. To help support the family, she taught piano lessons for over 20 years. Later, she made drapes for a local interior decorator and worked as a legal secretary for Oscar Drake. All through her life, she did volunteer work for the Good Samaritan Hospital Service League, for the Buffalo County Election Commission, for the First Lutheran Church, and for several other organizations. Ellene loved to quilt, make stained glass hangings, and sew. Many of her family and friends wore clothes that she made/altered or have drapes hanging in their houses that she fashioned. She was famous for her apple pies and G-Ma bagels. All of her life she loved reading books and working crossword puzzles. At age 80, she joined the YMCA where she participated in water aerobics classes until she was 93. She lived in her home until 2009, and then she moved to Northridge Retirement Facility where she received excellent care. She is preceded in death by her husband; her brothers, Edward and Eldor Zeller; and her sisters-in-law, Evelyn and Wilma Zeller. She is survived by her three children: Diane Snyder of Englewood, Colorado; Phillip W. Euler of Lincoln, Nebraska; and Timothy D. Euler of Charleston, West Virginia, as well as their spouses, Kirke Snyder, Barbara Euler (Dreeszen), and Mary Lu Euler (McCarville). She has 5 grandchildren: Adam and Aaron Snyder, Adam’s wife, Kim Snyder; Megan and Abby Euler, children of Phillip and Barb; and Kaitlin Euler, daughter of Tim and Mary Lu. In addition, through her niece Abby’s recent marriage to Joshua Mehlin, she became a great-grandmother to Adi and Sonni Mehlin. And…Mr. Bill, of course.

Ellene Euler

February 22, 1915 - May 20, 2011