The Grand Island Independent (www.theindependent.com)
Published Sunday, March 4, 2001
                    Lester Kealy

                    KEARNEY -- Lester E. Kealy, 90, of Kearney died
                    Thursday, March 1, 2001, at the St. John's Center.

                    Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the First
                    Lutheran Church. The Rev. Jer Gilbreath will
                    officiate. Burial will be in the Kearney Cemetery.

                    Visitation will be from 4 to 8:30 p.m. Monday at the
                    Horner-Lieske-Horner Mortuary and until service time
                    Tuesday at the church.

                    Memorials are suggested to the St. John's Center.

                    Mr. Kealy was born Nov. 25, 1910, on a farm near St.
                    Edward to George T. and Mabel (Preble) Kealy. He
                    graduated from St. Edward High School in 1930.

                    He married Olga B. Linnerson on Dec. 11, 1932 in
                    Genoa. They moved to Kearney in 1942, where he
                    worked as a truck driver for Safeway and later as a
                    supervisor at the Kearney Airbase during World War
                    II. He then worked as a truck driver for Brown
                    Transfer for 32 years until he retired in 1968.
                    Following his retirement, he worked as a custodian
                    at Lincoln Equipment Company and then at the Kearney
                    Junior High School.

                    He was a member of the First Lutheran Church,
                    Teamsters Union No. 554 and the Kearney Lions Club.

                    Survivors include one daughter, Jeanine Goedert of
                    Kearney; one son, Richard "Dick" of Waterloo, Iowa;
                    five grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and
                    one brother, Elwood of Sutherland.

                    He was preceded in death by his wife on Oct. 12,
                    2000; one son, Merle; four brothers and one sister.

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