Maurine Reier

Maurine B. Reier, 98 of Kearney passed away Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney. Funeral Services will be 10:30 A.M. Saturday, September 3, 2011 at O’Brien-Straatmann-Redinger Funeral Home with Jerry Reier officiating. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. Interment will be 1:30 PM at the Sumner Cemetery. Memorials are suggested to the Charles and Maurine Reier Family Scholarship Fund, c/o the UNK Foundation. Online condolences may be submitted at www.osrfh.com. Arrangements entrusted to O’Brien-Straatmann-Redinger Funeral Homes and Cremations. Maurine Dickerson Reier was born on March 24, 1913, to John and Blanche Dickerson near Litchfield, NE. The family moved to Mason City, then when Maurine was nine, to a farm near Eddyville. She attended country school, graduating from Sumner High School in 1931. In 1933 she married Charles Reier of Sumner, NE. To this union was born Dick (Farrell) of Cozad; Nancy Bowie (Bill) of Delavan, WI; Bob (Dotty) of Lincoln; Kay; John (Peggy) of Broken Bow; Jerry (Vicky) of Arvada, CO; and Joyce Anderson (Dennis) of Tucson, AZ. She was blessed with 12 grandchildren, 30 great-grandchildren and 1 great-great grandchild. Preceding her in death are her husband, Charles; daughter, Kay; son John; granddaughter, Tonia and grandson, Joel. Charles and Maurine raised their family on a farm northeast of Sumner before moving into town in 1956. In 1966 she moved to Denver where she resided until 2005 when she moved into WelLife in Kearney. Maurine and her family lived on a farm northeast of Sumner before moving into town. Maurine worked in the school lunch program until she moved to Denver in 1966. She first worked in the Metropolitan State College before working for the Federal Reserve Bank. She retired in 1977 with special recognition from the bank’s president. Retirement didn’t include a rocking chair! To celebrate her 83rd birthday she went rappelling in the Tucson mountains, and made TV news again the following year by sky diving! In 1998 she was a contestant in the MS Senior Colorado contest, entertaining the crowd with a comedy routine on her violin. She spent the next several years in a group which traveled in the Denver area entertaining at various organizations and retirement homes. In 2005 she moved to Kearney, residing at WelLife, where she received excellent care by a staff that treated her with love and respect. Maurine's priorities were family and friends. She was always willing to lend a hand, open her home and bring laughter into others lives. She was talented (and self taught) on the violin, accordion, piano and organ and gifted in painting, writing poetry and crocheting. For many years people enjoyed her home made Christmas cards and raised donuts. Her family will greatly miss this beautiful lady, however, we will celebrate her life and her joyous reunion with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and her loved ones, waiting and welcoming her with open arms.

Maurine Reier

March 24, 1913 - August 31, 2011