Wilfred "Bill" Clinch

Wilfred "Bill" Clinch, 80, of Grand Island died April 17, 2011, at Tiffany Square.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at St. Mary's Cathedral. The Rev. Jonathan Sorensen will officiate. Burial will be in the Grand Island City Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Livingston-Sondermann Funeral Home, with a Scripture wake service at 7.

Mr. Clinch was born April 10, 1931, in Greeley to Joseph Francis and Margaret Rita Mahoney Clinch.

Survivors of the immediate family include three sons and a daughter-in-law, Jerry and Amber Clinch and William Clinch, all of Grand Island, Thomas Clinch and Samantha Osenbaugh of Colorado Springs, Colo.; a sister and brother-in-law, Helen and Ernie Martinez of Omaha; a brother and sister-in-law, Jerome and Dorothy Hehner of Gibbon.

Additional survivors include two grandchildren, Makenna and Mikyla; his first wife, Ella Husmann Clinch and their three daughters, Phillis Dewey of Commerce City, Darlene Rosswick of Florida and Lois Beckman of North Platte; his second wife, Dodi Mudloff Clinch; numerous nieces and nephews.

Bill grew up in Greeley, moving with his family to Grand Island in 1943. He spent a few years working on a ranch in the Halsey area, until he joined the United States Army at the age of 17. He was an officer for the Humane Society in Hall County, but devoted the majority of his adult life to the field of alcoholism counseling. He worked at the Hastings Regional Center, and was a probation officer for the state of Nebraska until 1980. He worked for a short while at Valley Hope and the Friendship House, then moved to Omaha and worked at St. Gabes from 1981 to 1983. In 1984, he moved to Kearney and served as a counselor at Marriage and Family Counseling Center. He continued his career in the field of alcoholism, working for Holy Family Hospital in Estherville, Iowa, Northwest Nebraska Community Alcoholism Council in Alliance and Eppley Treatment Center Resources in Omaha. He later worked as security at St. Francis Medical Center in Grand Island, but also continued counseling with programs for the Hall County and Platte County Ag Associations during racing season.

He married Ella Kruse Husmann on Dec. 4, 1964. He married Dodi Mudloff on May 12, 1983.

Bill was an avid collector of whatever suited his fancy at any given time, ranging from bottles to deer antlers, antiques to knives and guns. He enjoyed fishing, playing poker, rock hunting and metal detecting. He was a member of Alcoholics Anonymous for the past 43 years.

He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers, Jerry and Tom, and one sister, Darlene Wallace.

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