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Ollie Whitney Custer County Chief (Broken Bow) June 11, 1964

Funeral services for Mrs. Ollie Whitney, 76, will be held at the Evangelical United Brethren church in Broken Bow Friday, June 12, at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Lester Boilesen officiating.

Mrs. Whitney, a former resident of the Custer center community, died Monday in a Grand Island hospital. She had been residing in Grand Island.

Survivors include a son, Burnard Whitney of Broken Bow, a daughter, Mrs. Robert (Ruth) McCauley of Grand Island, five grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, two sisters, Mrs. Ina Whitney of Long Beach, Calif. And Mrs. Mabel Raymond of Trona, Calif., and a brother, Dr. Zone Street of Lynnwood, Calif.

Interment will be in Custer Center cemetery with Apfel-Butler-Geddes funeral home of Grand Island in charge of arrangements.

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Ollie Whitney Custer County Chief (Broken Bow) July 6, 1964

Funeral services for Mrs. Ollie L. Whitney, 76, were held the afternoon of June 12 at the Evangelical United Brethren church of Broken Bow with the Rev. Lester Boilesen officiating. The rev. E. M. Phillips assisted.

Vocalists Miss DeAnn Browning, Mrs. Edwin Sears, Mrs. Lester Boilesen and Mrs. Russell Ullrich sang Let There Be Peace and The Old Rugged Cross. They were accompanied by Mrs. Iola Browning..
Pallbearers were Floyd Raymond, Ross Jacobsen, John Dietz, Owen Dainton, Keith Reeder and Frank Jenkins. Interment was in the Custer Center cemetery with the Apfel-Butler-Gedtes Funeral Home of Grand Island in charge.

Ollie Loretta Whitney was born to John and Maggie Street Jan. 11, 1888 at Broken Bow, Nebr., and died in Lutheran hospital at Grand Island, Nebr., June 8, 1964.

She spent almost her entire life in the Custer Center and Prairie Center communities of Custer county with a short span of her early married life on her husband s Kincaid homestead near Anselmo and the last four years of her life next door to her daughter in Grand Island.

She was a graduate of Broken Bow high school, graduating with second highest honors in her class. She then taught school until her marriage to Harlan Porter Whitney on June 18, 1913.
To this union were born five children of whom Burnard M. of Broken Bow and Ruth D. McCauley of Grand Island are living. Alveva, Charles and John Harlan died at birth. Mrs. Whitney was preceded in death by her husband on Dec.. 23, 1955.

While a child, she was converted and baptized in the United Brethren church at Custer Center. In 1960, she transferred her membership to the Broken Bow EUB church. She was affiliated with the Custer Center, State and National Grange at the time of her death. She was treasurer of the Central Nebraska Antique Dealers association.

Her entire life was spent working for her church and for the betterment of the communities in which she lived.


Survivors are two children, five grandchildren, three great grandchildren, sister, Mrs. Iva Whitney of Long Beach, Calif., Mrs. Mable Raymond of Trona, Calif., and brother, Dr. Zone Street of Lynwood, Calif.