Bernard Klawonn

Funeral Services were held 2:00 P.M., Thursday, May 14, 1998 at Zion Lutheran Church in Hampton, Nebraska. Interment was held in the Zion Lutheran Cemetery.

OBITUARY: Bernard Klawonn

Bernard Leslie Klawonn, the son of Arthur and J. Marie (Gustafson) Klawonn, was born at Scottsbluff, Nebraska, on May 10, 1938, and died at Aurora, Nebraska, on May 11, 1998, at the age of 60 years, and 1 day.

He grew up in the Marquette and Hampton area, and graduated from Marquette High School in 1956. Following graduation he served in the Air Force and was stationed in South Dakota and Japan.

On December 18, 1960, he was united in marriage to Lova Nietfeld at Zion Lutheran Church in Worms, Nebraska. Following their marriage they moved to Chicago, where he attended DeVry Technical School. They moved to California, where he was employed by a seismograph company. They returned to Columbus, Nebraska, and later lived in Elm Creek, before they moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma. In September of 1974, they moved to Aurora where they opened the Montgomery Ward Catalogue Store. In 1982, he became self-employed as an appliance repairman and Insurance agent.

Bernard was a member of the Hampton Zion Lutheran Church, served as elder for 3 years, had been Sunday School Superintendent, and was a member of the Lutheran Layman’s League.

He was preceded in death by an infant son Timothy A. Klawonn, and his maternal and paternal grandparents.

Those who remain to cherish his memory are his wife Lova, of Aurora; 2 sons, Kent and his wife Sara of Crooks, South Dakota, and Kevin of Lennox, South Dakota; 2 daughters, Barbara Bliss and her husband Ron, and Brenda Klawonn, all of Aurora; one sister Alma Rohde and her husband Dale of Fremont, his parents Arthur and Marie Klawonn of Aurora, and 5 grandchildren, a brother-in-law Richard Nietfeld and a sister-in-law Lorna Nietfeld both of Grand Island.