Doris Hirchert

Funeral Services were held 10:30 A.M., Friday, October 16, 1998 at the Aurora United Methodist Church. Interment was held in the Greenwood Cemetery in Chadron, Nebraska.

OBITUARY: Doris Hirchert

Doris Viola Hirchert, the daughter of William and Mary (Wheeler) Macklem, was born at Laurel, Nebraska, on June 9, 1909, and died at Aurora, Nebraska, on October 13, 1998, at the age of 89 years, 4 months, and 4 days.

She spent her early years in Laurel, where her father was a farmer and operated a hotel and café. She graduated from Laurel High School in 1928. She taught school and began her career as a telephone operator in Laurel.

On June 28, 1930, she was united in marriage to Herman “Red” Hirchert, at Boone, Iowa. His father owned a trucking company and she drove a truck in early years. She also worked in her father’s café, and she and her husband ran a carmel corn wagon for many years at the County Fair. Her husband preceded her in death on November 7, 1965.

They lived in Chadron for many years, where she worked as a telephone operator for 30 years, until she retired in 1973. She moved to Aurora in 1991, to be close to her daughter Janice Shaw. In 1994, she entered the Hamilton Manor in Aurora.

Doris was a member of the United Methodist Church, the Laurel Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star, and had received her 50 year pin, belonged to the V.F.W. Auxiliary for 40 years, was a member of the Elks Does, Telephone Pioneers, and was an avid bowler.

She was preceded in death by her beloved husband, her parents, 2 brothers, Ivan and Harold Macklem, and one sister Rachel Macklem.

Those who remain to cherish her memory are her son William Hirchert and his wife Marion of Indianapolis, Indiana; two daughters, Geraldine Armstrong and her husband Robert of Tucson, Arizona, and Janice Shaw and her husband Robert of Aurora; 10 grandchildren, and 19 great grandchildren.