Dolores M Depeel

Funeral services for Dolores DePeel age 88 of Brunswick will be held at 2:00 P.M. Monday, November 19th at the Brunswick Community Church.  Visitation will be from 3-5 P.M. Sunday at the Brunswick Community Church.  Visitation will also be held Monday from 10:00 a.m. until service Time. Burial will be in the Clearwater City Cemetery.  Dolores passed away in Brunswick on November 14, 2018.  Ashburn Funeral Home in Plainview are in charge of arrangements.

Dolores Maxine (Meyer) DePeel was born December 25, 1929 at Orchard, Ne., the youngest child of William "Bill" and Mabel (Brandt) Meyer.  She attended rural school in District #37 north of Royal and graduated from Creighton High School with the class of 1947.

On February 19, 1948 she was married to Mearl DePeel at the home of her mother.

Mearl and Dolores lived and worked on farms in the Royal/Orchard area before moving to Plainview in 1957.  In 1963 they bought the Brunswick Locker and moved to Brunswick.  She helped at the Locker until it closed, and was a news correspondent for area newspapers for many years, first typing on an old manual typewriter, before moving on to an electric machine, and finally a computer.  She was active in the Brunswick Community Club, Evening Missionary Fellowship of the Brunswick Community Church, and was a church musician for many years.

While raising their 5 children they had large gardens, spent time fishing, and in later years she enjoyed traveling and working crossword puzzles.

Survivors include her husband of 70 years Mearl, and children Ardith (Don) Carr of Elgin, Merlin of Omaha, Roxie (David) Boschult of Neligh, Willetta (Steve) Lindsay of Oakdale, and Arlyn (Jalene) of Lincoln, 8 Grandchildren, 15 Great Grandchildren, 4 Step-great grandchildren, her sister Wilma Morrison of Tilden, sister-in-law Betty Meyer of Lincoln, and a host of other relatives and friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents William and Mabel Meyer, In-laws Millard and Jennie DePeel, brothers Charley, Bernard, and Lester Meyer.