Leta Rose Jobman

Leta Jobman, 79 Kearney Resident Leta Rose (Taubenheim) Jobman, 79 of Kearney died Saturday, April 22, 2017 at CHI Good Samaritan in Kearney. Funeral services will be 10:30 AM, Wednesday, April26, 2017 at First Lutheran Church in Kearney. The Rev. Sylvia Karlsson will officiate. Interment will be in Kearney Cemetery. Visitation will be 5-7 PM, Tuesday at O’Brien Straatmann Funeral Home in Kearney. Memorials are suggested to the family for future designation. On-line condolences may be shared at osrfh.com. She was born July 16, 1937 near Riverdale to Otto and Telma (Beers) Taubenheim. She was educated in Buffalo County, attended Kearney State College, and Central Nebraska Community College. She was married to Donald. D. Jobman in Kearney on April 23, 1961. They lived their entired married life in Kearney. She worked for Bahr Schall Music Company in Kearney. After her daughters entered school she was employed with Kearney Public Schools as an elementary school librarian at Northeast Elementary for 25 years. Leta was awarded “Education Support Staff of the Year” award in 1998. After retirement she enjoyed working as a convention hostess for Kearney Visitors Bureau. Leta was active member of First Lutheran Church in Kearney, serving as Sunday School secretary, church council secretary, Naomi Circle secretary and chairman, WELCA president, Bible School, Evangelism committee, H.A.T.S. visitations, Bible studies, and adult Bible School. She was an active member in DOES, AS chapter of PEO, past board member of Friends of the Library, past president of KVFD Auxiliary, part board member of Senior College. She loved reading the Hub’s “Annie’s” mailbox column for the visually impaired. She enjoyed playing Bonco, bridge, reading, and traveling, especially with their special travel friends, Marv and Jill Franzen, and the fellowship of the mission trips with First Lutheran groups. Her legacy was to Live, Love & Laugh. Her friends were her greatest treasure. A special past time for her was to write notes and take gifts to people during illness or difficult times of their lives. Survivors include her husband, Don of Kearney, two daughters, Janna Burton and husband, Troy of Kearney and Jill Jobman of Kearney, sister, Venia Whitesel of Broken Bow, two brothers, Gerald of Broken Bow and Maurice of Grand Island, two grandsons, Blake Swartwood of Overton and Bo Burton of Highland, CA, one granddaughter, Jenna Swartwood of Brownwood, TX, 2 great-granddaughters, one step-grandson, Jared Burton, Highland, CA, sister-in-law, Velma Taubenheim of Broken Bow and hosts of nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents and two brothers.,

Leta Rose Jobman

July 16, 1937 - April 22, 2017