Lorraine V Carlson

Funeral Services for Lorraine V. Carlson will be held on Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. at the Bethel Lutheran Church in Holdrege, Nebraska with Pastor Jamie Strickler officiating. Interment will be in the Prairie Home Cemetery at Holdrege.

Lorraine Virginia Carlson, 93 years of age, of Holdrege, passed away on Thursday, May 17, 2012 at the Phelps Memorial Health Center in Holdrege. Lorraine was born January 11, 1919 on the family farm north of Holdrege in Phelps County, Nebraska, the youngest of three daughters born to Herman and Anna Marie (Enholm) Harder. Lorraine was confirmed at the Holcomb Evangelical Free Church north of Holdrege and then baptized as a member of the Bethel Lutheran Church in 1941. She received her primary education from a rural school north of Holdrege in Phelps County and then graduated from Holdrege High School with the class of 1936. Following her education, she worked for her father at the East Side Coffee Shop in Holdrege and also worked as a waitress for the Edeal Family.

On June 23, 1940 she was united in marriage to Clinton Carl Carlson and to this union three children were born: Ronald, Bruce and Susan. They continued to make their home in Holdrege, where Lorraine devoted her life to her family as a homemaker and caregiver.

Lorraine was a member of the Bethel Lutheran Church, where she was involved in many capacities. Lorraine and Clinton especially enjoyed the friendship bonds formed in the church couples group. On January 23, 2003 she was preceded in death by her husband, Clinton.

Besides her parents and husband, Clinton, Lorraine was preceded in death by one son, Ronald in 1982; two sisters: Frances Youngquist and her husband, Vincent and Hazel Dunkin and her husband, Howard; brothers-in-law: Sam Carlson and Donald Carlson; and sisters-in-law: Virginia Johnson and Evelyn Carlson.

She is survived by her son, Bruce Carlson and his wife, Janet of West Covina, California; daughter, Susan Johnson and her husband, Kenny of Holdrege; four grandchildren: Brenda Sanders and her husband, Tom of Cedar Park, Texas, Stacy Nollette and her husband, John of Whitman, Nebraska, and Chris Johnson and Tye Johnson both of Holdrege; three great-grandchildren: Chelsea, Ashlee and Brock Nollette; sisters-in-law: Delores "Babe" Carlson and Donna Carlson both of Holdrege; brother-in-law, Ralph Carlson and his wife, Margaret of Lincoln, Nebraska; and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.


Visitation will be held on Monday, May 21, 2012 from 1:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. with family greeting friends from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Nelson-Bauer Funeral Home in Holdrege.

A memorial has been established in her memory and will be designated at a later date.

Expressions of caring and kindness can be sent to the family at www.nelsonbauerfh.com

The Nelson-Bauer Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.