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Jean Erickson Obituary
December 14, 1928 - July 7, 2024
Jean Lucille (Lindgren) Erickson joined her family in Heaven on July 7, 2024. She was born at her Grandma Anna Lindgren's house in Wahoo, Nebraska on December 14, 1928. She lived with her parents at Walter and Clara (Anderson) Lindgren's farm northwest of Wahoo as number 5 of 6 siblings of 3 girls and 3 boys.
She attended school at District 70 and graduated from Wahoo High School in 1946. Jean studied for 1 year at Luther College in Wahoo during 1946-47; then studied for 3 years at Immanuel Nursing in Omaha. After graduating with a RN degree in August 1950, she worked at Immanuel Hospital for 1 year, and then 2 years at the Fremont hospital until she married Morris Thure Erickson August 12, 1953 at Edensburg Lutheran Church in Malmo.
Jean Erickson moved to her husband's farm southwest of Mead, Nebraska where they raised 3 children together: Timothy, Susan and Thomas. She continued her nursing career for 38 ½ years at the Saunders County Hospital in Wahoo, finally retiring in 1994, when she was almost 75 years old.
Music, reading and oil painting were special hobbies. She was active in her high school band and orchestra, the Alma Lutheran Church choir, adult Sunday School, neighborhood ladies Bible Study, Lutheran Ladies Aid (secretary), Double Circle (couples group).
Jean held almost all of the various church volunteer positions such as board member, VBS teacher, and also volunteered with several community organizations including Lutheran Brotherhood, Thrivent, Blood Mobile, etc. throughout the years.
In their later years, Morris and Jean were blessed with travel to Hawaii, Alaska, Sweden and the Caribbean.
Jean is preceded in death by her husband, Morris; her parents Walter and Clara Lindgren; sisters LaVerne (Elmer) Vermeline, Helen (Richard) Houfek; brothers Duane (Margie) Lindgren, Robert Lindgren and Roger (Janet) Lindgren. Surviving family include her 3 children Timothy, Susan and Thomas Erickson, and daughter-in-law Julie Erickson; sister-in-law Maretta Lindgren from Wahoo; many other nieces, nephews and friends.
Funeral services were held Saturday, August 10 at Alma Lutheran Church in Mead. Interment at Alma Lutheran Cemetery. Memorials may be made to Alma Lutheran Church, Saunders County Historical Society, or Saunders Medical Center Auxiliary. Pruss-Nabity Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangement.
Pruss-Nabity Funeral Home
911 N. Linden St.
Wahoo, NE 68066
402-443-3128
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Becky
August 21, 2024
My first memory of my aunt was of her giving my new baby brother a bath on her farmhouse kitchen table when I was about four years old. She became a mentor to me in our chosen professions as nurses, as well as setting a good example of diligence, hard work, endurance, and dedication in caring for family and others. I will miss her!
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