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Robert Eugene Harms

Birth	:	28 Dec 1922 Ragan, Harlan County, Nebraska, USA
Death	:	13 Feb 2013 Alma, Harlan County, Nebraska, USA
Burial	:	Freewater Cemetery, Ragan, Harlan County, USA
Coordinate	:	40.3083000, -99.2071991
Description	:	Alma resident, 90 ALMA - Robert Eugene Harms, 90, of Alma, formerly of Wilcox, died Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, at Good Samaritan Society Home Colonial Villa in Alma. Services will be at 2 p.m., Monday at St. John's Lutheran Church in Wilcox with the Rev. Melvin Mertens officiating. Burial will be at Freewater Cemetery in Wilcox with military honors graveside by Wilcox veterans organizations. The body was cremated. Banta-Torrey Funeral Home in Wilcox is in charge of the arrangements. He was born Dec. 28, 1922, southeast of Ragan to Conrad and Ora (Sodman) Harms. On Nov. 3, 1946, he married Henrietta Ericson in rural Ragan.... Read More	Alma resident, 90 ALMA - Robert Eugene Harms, 90, of Alma, formerly of Wilcox, died Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, at Good Samaritan Society Home Colonial Villa in Alma. Services will be at 2 p.m., Monday at St. John's Lutheran Church in Wilcox with the Rev. Melvin Mertens officiating. Burial will be at Freewater Cemetery in Wilcox with military honors graveside by Wilcox veterans organizations. The body was cremated. Banta-Torrey Funeral Home in Wilcox is in charge of the arrangements. He was born Dec. 28, 1922, southeast of Ragan to Conrad and Ora (Sodman) Harms. On Nov. 3, 1946, he married Henrietta Ericson in rural Ragan. She died Sept. 30, 2005. Survivors include his daughter Jean Nitchie and her husband, Bryan, of rural Holdrege; sons, Robert "Bob" and his wife, Margaret, of Lincoln, Edwin and his wife, Cheryl, of Bridgeport, Gregory and his wife, Julie, of rural Wilcox and Michael and his wife, Carol Jean, of Wilcox; 16 grandchildren; 15 great grandchildren; other relatives; and many friends. Robert was baptized in 1923 and confirmed in 1935 at St. John's Lutheran Church in Wilcox. He attended school at Ragan where he graduated from high school with the class of 1940. He attended Hastings Business College for 1½ years and got acquainted with golf. He caddied at the golf course in Hastings for three years. This began a life-long passion for playing golf. For two years, Robert worked for the Veterans Administration in Washington, D.C. On Feb. 19, 1945, he entered the U.S. Army at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., during World War II. He received the Asiatic Pacific Service Medal, the Army Occupation Medal for Japan, the Good Conduct Medal and the Victory Medal. He was honorably discharged Nov. 25, 1946, as a staff sergeant at the Separation Center at Fort Lewis, Wash. Following his discharge from the Army, he and Henrietta were married at the Harms farmstead home one mile south and three miles east of Ragan. To this union five children were born, Robert Allen, Edwin Owen, Jean Annette, Gregory Lee and Michael James. The family resided on the Harms home place for 36 years. In 1982, they moved to their farmstead 4½ miles south and 3½ miles east of Ragan at 71843 Union Road. In December 2005, he moved to 106 S. Burr St. in Wilcox. Robert resided at the Holdrege Memorial Homes from March 2006 to March 2007. He resided at Well Life Nursing Home from March 2007 until June 2008. He had resided at Good Samaritan Society Home Colonial Villa in Alma since June 16, 2008. He was member of St. John's Lutheran Church in Wilcox. He was a former member of the Alma City Golf Course, had served on the Antelope Township board, and was a past president and secretary of the Ragan Board of Education. For many years, Robert had been involved with and had served as an assistant leader of the Ragan Wranglers 4-H Club. He had played golf for more than 60 years. In addition to his wife, he was preceded in death by his father in 1975; his mother in 1986; brothers, John Conrad at age 10 days old, and Ora "Lee" Harms; sister, Berneda Schepler and her husband, Harold; and great-grandson August Nitchie on Jan. 20, 2011. Published in Kearney Hub on February 15, 2013

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Robert Eugene Harms death on 13 Feb 2013 in Alma, Harlan County, Nebraska, USA
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Latitude: 40.3083000
Longitude: -99.2071991

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Henrietta Jean Ericson Harms

(1925 - 2005)

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Berneda Mae Harms Schepler

(1918 - 2005)

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