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Deanna Barnum Obituary
Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Island.
Mrs. Barnum was born on Feb. 12, 1953, in Grand Island to George and Doris (Bennett) Welch.
Survivors of the immediate family include her husband, Terry of Prescott; a son, Dustin Ward of Phoenix; two brothers and a sister-in-law, Oren Welch and Jim and Connie Welch, all of Grand Island; and four sisters and brothers-in-law, Carol and Bruce Starkey of Omaha, Barbara and Chuck Core of Austin Texas, Donna and Steve Magnuson of Grand Island and Julie and Howard Cottam of Escondido, Calif.
Also surviving is one grandson, Dustin Ward Jr. of Phoenix.
Deanna was preceded in death by her parents; one brother, George Welch; and two sisters, Wendy Welch and Gayle Newman.
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