Janice "Jan" June Salestrom

Janice "Jan" June Salestrom, 87 of Kearney, died Wednesday, February 5, 2014 at the Madonna Hospital in Lincoln. Funeral services will be 10:30 AM, Tuesday, February 18, 2014 at First Lutheran Church in Kearney. The Rev. Eric Lesher will officiate. Interment will be in the Kearney Cemetery. Visitation will be 5-7pm, Monday at O'Brien Straatmann Redinger Funeral Home in Kearney and one hour prior to service time at the church. Memorials are suggested to the family for future designation. On-line condolences may be submitted to osrfh.com. O'Brien Straatmann Redinger Funeral Home in Kearney is in charge of arrangements. Jan was born in Brancroft, NE on June 2, 1926 to Clinton and Claire (Ransom) Copple. She was married to Virgil Salestrom in Bancroft on Nov. 7, 1947. They lived in Ralston until 1962, then Beatrice from 1962-65; Holdrege from 1965-69 and Kearney from ’69 to the present. She was proud to be a registered nurse and a graduate of Bishop Clarkson Nursing College. She was a member of PEO Chapter GG in Kearney and was an active member at First Lutheran Church where she enjoyed singing in the choir and serving in the church committees and circles. She and Virgil were charter members of Trinity Methodist Church (formerly EUB-Evangelical United Brethren) in Ralston, NE and helped form the Golden K Kiwanis group in Kearney. She loved antique furniture and in later years loved to shop thrift, second hand and antique stores everywhere she traveled. She and Virgil traveled extensively in Europe, the British Isles, and the motherland of Sweden and the rest of Scandinavia. They also explored Canada, Mexico, Hawaii, cruised the Panama Canal, Alaska, the islands in the Caribbean, and spent several winters in the gulf ports of Texas. She leaves three sons, Chuck (Kristi) of North Platte, NE; Jim, (Pam) of Arvada, CO; and Tom (Angela)of Sioux Falls, SD; six grandchildren, Josh (Shelby), Jenny, Casey, James, Benjamin and Jack and one great -granddaughter, Sheridan Claire. She is also survived by a sister-in-law, Rebecca Copple of Billings, MT., and numerous nieces and nephews. Jan was preceded in death by her parents Claire and Clinton Copple of Bancroft, NE; husband Virgil Eugene Leonard Salestrom of Kearney, NE; brothers, sisters and spouses: Bill and Berniece Copple of Bancroft, NE; Rockne Copple of Billings MT; Ransom and Gladyce Copple Hayden of Chicago, IL; and sisters Theresa Claire Copple (infant); Mary Belle Knott of CA; Charlotte Thuman (Cliff) Fox and George Thuman of Ralston, NE and later Kearney, NE and daughter-in-law Jolene Hansen Salestrom of Sioux Falls, SD.

Janice "Jan" June Salestrom

June 2, 1926 - February 5, 2014