Mamie Hadenfelt

Funeral Services were held 10:30 A.M., Monday, September 18, 1995 at Higby Mortuary. Interment was held in the Aurora Cemetery.

OBITUARY: Mamie Hadenfeldt

Mamie Erma hadenfeldt, the daughter of Otis and Minnie (Sample) Meaders, was born September 25, 1925, at Phillips, Nebraska, and died September 14, 1995, at Aurora, Nebraska, at the age of 69 years, 11 months, and 19 days.

She was raised in the Phillips area, and graduated from Phillips High School. After graduation, she worked at the Cornhusker Army Ammunition Plant in Grand Island.

On October 11, 1944, she was united in marriage to Melvin Hadenfeldt, of Ravenna, Nebraska, in a ceremony at the Methodist Church in Las Vegas, Nevada. While Melvin served in the Merchant Marines, she worked as a housekeeper in New York City. After the war they ran the M and M Café and gas station in Odessa, Nebraska for 10 years. In 1957, Melvin became an insurance agent and the family moved to Kearney, Nebraska, in 1961, the family moved to Aurora, where they have since resided. Melvin preceded her in death on February 10, 1983.

Mamie did housekeeping for private individuals and businesses, and was a school bus driver for many years. She was also employed by the City of Aurora for 17 years as custodian at the City Library until her retirement in 1993.

Mamie and Melvin were regular faces at the many school and sporting events their children and grandchildren were involved in, and spent many years as Band Booster Parents, loyal Huskie fans of football, basketball, track, and baseball. Mamie was known as “Mom” to many baseball players as they opened their home to the participants in the Legion Baseball tournaments.

She has served in the past as a volunteer for meals on wheels, hospital volunteer, and had done housekeeping for the elderly. She enjoyed collecting antiques, coins, Sebastian figurines and had sewn together many quilts as well as collecting items. She enjoyed gardening, working in her yard and rose gardens.

Mamie and Melvin enyoyed traveling together, and had visited many interesting places abroad.

She was a member of the Trinity Presbyterian Church in Kearney. She enjoyed visiting with friends and family and grandchildren, and as hostess of the Meaders Family Reunion, every 3 years, she opened her home and generously provided lodging, food, hospitality and a special display of the state flags of everyone in attendance.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, and one brother John Meaders.

Those who remain to cherish her memory are her 7 children; a daughter Marcia Spiehs and her husband Glenn of Phillips; 6 sons, Mike and his wife Zitha of San Diego, California, Marvin of Anchorage, Alaska, Mark and his wife LaJean of Central City, Marlin and his wife Cindy of Aurora, Merliln and his wife Gale of Lincoln; 1 brother Donald Meaders and his wife Martha of Okemos, Michigan; 3 sisters, Ruth Kelly and her husband Ed of Carefree, Arizona, Maxine Tucker and her husband Neal of Fort Worth, Texas, and Nellie Rudolph of California; 14 grandchilldren, Jeanette and Rick Lakely; Jeff, Shari, and Toby Spiehs; Katie, Lindsey and Lauren Hadenfeldt; Stephanie, Aaron, Jerilyn and Alison Hadenfeldt; and Tiffany, Jereme and Katherine Hadenfeldt; 1 brother-in-law, Donald Hadenfeldt and his wife Dee of Burlington, Iowa; 3 sister-in-law Ruby Meaders of Los Alamos, New Mexico, Eldine and Lloyd Dove of Lincoln, and Lucille Hadenfeldt of Lincoln.