Obituary-Neligh News and Leader-February 1977

EARL MCNARE

Services for Earl MCNARE, 93, of Oakdale will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the United Methodist Church in Oakdale with the Rev. Gordon J. PRUE officiating. Burial will be in the Oakdale Cemetery. The body will lie in state Wednesday, 2-9 p.m. at the Hoepfinger-Beyer Funeral Home in Neligh. He was born November 8, 1883, at Bruceton Mills, West Virginia to Mr and Mrs James C MCNARE and died Monday, February 14, 1977, at Keahaven Nursing Home in Neligh. An Oakdale resident for 53 years, he was a retired businessman. He operated a grocery store in Oakdale for 49 years, retiring in 1972. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge for 60 years and was a 50-year member of Oddfellows and Modern Woodmen’s Lodge. He served as Oakdale village clerk for 30 years.

Obituary-Neligh News and Leader-December 21, 1978

HELEN MARY DUNHAM MCNARE

Funeral services for Mrs Earl MCNARE of Oakdale were held Tuesday, December 19 at 2 p.m. at the United Methodist Church in Oakdale. The Rev. Gordon PRUE officiated at the services and burial was in the Oakdale Cemetery. Pallbearers were Bennie BRANDT, Orville SHERMAN, Gwyn WINGATE, Raymond CROSIER, Ralph KINNAN and Gene KINNAN. Helen Mary DUNHAM, youngest daughter of Henry WRIGHT and Jessie Fremont ATWOOD DUNHAM, was born June 25, 1885 at Darlington, LaFayette County, Wisconsin and died at the Tilden Community Hospital Friday, December 15, 1978, at the age of 93 years, 5 months and 19 days. When only one year old, she came with her parents and two older sisters to Oakdale where she has resided ever since. She was educated in the Oakdale Public Schools and graduated from Oakdale High School in 1903. She continued her education at Nebraska Wesleyan University where she graduated in 1907. Afterwards she taught school in rural schools near Oakdale, at schools in Petersburg, South Omaha, Fremont and Neligh. On April 30, 1923 she was married to Arthur Earl MCNARE of WOOD Lake at Lincoln. They then lived in Oakdale in Mrs MCNARE’s parental home all their married life, celebrating their golden wedding anniversary there in April 1973. This house was home to Mrs MCNARE for 83 years. She actively helped her husband in their grocery store until December 1970 when at the age of 85 she fell and broke her hip. Mr MCNARE died in February, 1977. The ancestry of Mrs MCNARE has been traced and it was found that she has 234 American ancestors. Survivors include one son, Earl henry of Oakdale, one daughter, Inez Louise (Mrs Dale) WOEPPEL of Phoenix, Arizona, one grandson, Richard WOEPPEL of San Diego, California, and one granddaughter, Miss Nancy WOEPPEL of Phoenix, Arizona. She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents and two sisters.