Obituary-Neligh News and Leader-August 23,1979

HAZEL V DENSON OPPLIGER

Funeral services for Hazel V OPPLIGER, 68, of Tilden were held Saturday, August 18 at the Peace United Church of Christ in Tilden. The Rev. Kenneth HOUGLAND officiated at the service with burial in the Oakdale Cemetery. Hazel DENSON OPPLIGER was born on September 8, 1910 at Meadow Grove to Mr and Mrs Charles DENSON and died Wednesday, August 15, 1979 at an Omaha Hospital. She attended Brunswick schools and on August 5, 1941 married Freddie OPPLIGER at her parent’s home in Tilden. They farmed in the Tilden, Oakdale and Meadow Grove areas and from 1958 to 1974 she worked as a bookkeeper in their livestock market business in Neligh and Tilden. Survivors include her husband, Freddie, three sons, Robert RICHTER of Santa Anna, CA, Eugene OPPLIGER of Gibbon and Ronald OPPLIGER of Kearney, two daughters, Mrs LaWayne (Vella Mae) FINKHAUS of corpus Christi, TX and Mrs Dean (Charlotte) ZURCHER of Omaha, 14 grandchildren, two brothers, Alfred of Spalding and John of Brunswick, and one sister, Mrs Art (Myrtle) JENSEN of Norfolk. She was preceded in death by her parents, five brothers, one sister and two grandchildren.