The Niemuth
Family -- Generation 9
-- Irvin
Rudy Losh's obituary --
- VALENTINE -- Irvin Rudy Losh, 75,
of Valentine died Saturday, Nov. 14, 1998, at the Cherry County
- Hospital in Valentine after a nine-year
battle with cancer.
- Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday
at the United Church of Christ in Purdum. The Rev. David Hansen
- will officiate. Burial will be in
the Purdum Cemetery.
- Visitation will be from 8 a.m. to
8 p.m. Wednesday at Govier Brothers Mortuary in Broken Bow.
- Mr. Losh was born on April 29, 1923,
at his parents' home near Calf Creek in Cherry County to Earl
and
- Dora Losh. He attended District
97 School. As a youngster, he raised, broke and sold many Shetland
ponies with his grandfather, Clyde Losh.
- He graduated from Thomas County
High School in Thedford in 1941. He played high school basketball
- and especially enjoyed the state
basketball tournament.
- He married Vera Zella Keller on
Dec. 27, 1943, at Broken Bow. The couple lived with her mother
for
- about a year and then moved to the
house next door on the ranch. His mother-in-law lived with them
for 12 years. They later took care of his parents during their
later years.
- He loved ranching, cattle and horses
and enjoyed roping and participating in local rodeos. He also
liked
- to travel and play cards.
- He was a member of the Purdum Rural
Fire District, the Nebraska Cattlemen's Association and the
- United Church of Christ in Purdum,
which he had served as a deacon and on numerous committees.
- He previously had been a member
of the Broken Bow Elks Lodge and Sandhills Cattle Association
for
- many years.
- Survivors include two daughters,
Twyla (Mrs. Tom) Witt of Malcolm and Merrial Baxter of Thedford;
- four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
-
- [Source: Grand Island Daily Independent,
Tuesday, November 17, 1998]
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