Oral Herbig

Oral Herbig, age 86, of Aurora died Thursday, December 7, 2000, at the Hamilton Manor in Aurora.

Funeral services will be held at 10:00 A.M., Monday at the United Methodist Church in Aurora. Dr. Joe Scahill will officiate. Interment will be in the Aurora Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 P.M., Sunday at Higby Mortuary.

OBITUARY: ORAL HERBIG

Oral Evelyn Herbig, the daughter of Ora and Florence (DaMoude) Day, was born in Aurora, Nebraska on May 4, 1914 and died in Aurora, Nebraska on December 7, 2000, at the age of 86 years, 7 months and 3 days.

She grew up in Aurora and graduated from Aurora High School in 1932. Oral worked for the Aurora Creamery cutting butter until 1935.

Oral was united in marriage to Kenneth Herbig on March 31, 1935. They farmed in Marquette. She was a mother and homemaker. In 1972, after the children were grown and gone from home, she went to work at the Aurora Auto Store doing bookkeeping. During several winters while they were still farming, they went to Phoenix. In 1975 when they left farming, they built a new home in Aurora. Ken and Oral enjoyed traveling to Europe, the Caribbean, Alaska, and throughout the United States.

Oral and a group of friends organized the SOS Club (Service of Society) in 1935. They did extension work with different projects. The living members of the club still have met on a limited basis with the same members who have been members since 1935. Oral and Ken joined a Pinochle Club in 1935 with a group of friends who continued the club until the last few years. Oral guided 4-H Club projects as well as all of the activities Bob and Sandra participated in throughout their school years. She was a faithful and loyal supporter of all of the school and church activities her children participated in. She set high standards for her children to follow. Oral was a woman of great personal strength. She has always set an outstanding example for having high integrity and strength. In the past 12 years she has been strong in spite of the cancer, which ultimately took her life. She has been able to rise above the suffering and inconvenience of illness to prevail over physical malady and continue with a positive and cheerful outlook on life. Her personal vigor and her unceasing faith in God have been a guiding light for all that knew her.

Oral was the President of the Women’s Church Society at the Marquette EUB Church where she was a member. When they moved to Aurora, she became an active member in the Aurora Methodist Church and Women’s Society.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, and one sister, Dorthea Clawson.

Survivors include her son, Robert J. Herbig and his wife Evelyn of Central City; daughter, Sandra Burvant and her husband Dr. Michael Burvant of Folsom, California; five grandchildren, Blake Simmons of New Orleans, Louisiana, Suzie Simmons of Omaha, Michael Herbig and his wife Ann and Steven Herbig and his wife Julie all of Central City and Diana Kula of Lincoln; four great-grandchildren and three sisters, Jean Davis of Roundup, Montana, Bess Day of Lincoln and Edith Reisinger of Aurora.