Funeral Services for Wallace "Wally" Warren Zade will be conducted from the Evangelical Free Church of Orleans, Nebraska on Friday, December 29, 2006 at 2:00 p.m. with Pastor Jonathan Bosse, officiating. Interment will be at the Orleans Cemetery, Orleans.
Wally Zade, 62 years of age of Aurora, Nebraska, passed away on Saturday, December 23, 2006 at Lincoln, Nebraska. He was born on October 26, 1944 in Van Port, Oregon, the first son of 5 children born to Lester and Violet (Mays) Zade. He attended school in Oregon and Nebraska.
In November of 1965 he was united in marriage to Ida Kelly in Holdrege, Nebraska and to this union one daughter, Lisa Lyn was born.
In July of 1979, Wally married Linda Mooney of Stromsburg, and the couple has resided in Aurora for the past 26 years. Wally loved life, and especially fishing and hunting. He was always ready for a jaunt to the river or a quick trip to the gun club. His most loved hobby was restoring and refinishing old guns. He was an amateur gunsmith and loved spending hours working on them.
Wally has a very special bond with his granddaughter, Amber, as she had with him. He was content just being with her.
Wally is survived by his wife, Linda, of Aurora; one daughter Lisa Barnes and her husband, Danny of Omaha, Nebraska; 4 sisters: Wyona Koehler and her husband, David, of Las Vegas, NV; Patricia Pohl and her husband, Jerry, of Aurora, Marilyn Cuba and her husband, Jr. of Glenvil, Nebraska; Linda Larsen of Orleans; one brother, Wayne Zade of Orleans; one granddaughter, Amber Barnes of Omaha; mother-in-law, Bonnie Mooney of Stromsburg; one aunt, Mary Svoboda of Concordia, Nebraska; 22 nieces and nephews; 15 great nieces and nephews, and a host of cousins, other relatives and friends. He was preceded in death by his parents and grandparents.
Wally will be greatly missed on earth, but is warmly welcomed in heaven.
Visitation will be Thursday, December 28, 2006 from 1:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Mitchell Funeral Home in Orleans with the family greeting from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Expressions of caring and kindness can be sent to the family at www.nelsonbauerfh.com.
The Mitchell Funeral Home in Orleans is in charge of the arrangements.