Doris Preston

Doris Preston, age 75, formerly of Aurora died Tuesday, December 5, 2000 at her daughter’s home in Lincoln.

Funeral Services will be held at 10:30 A.M., Friday at the Assembly of God Church in Aurora. Rev. Jerry Breese will officiate. Interment will be in the Aurora Cemetery. Visitation will be from 3:00 to 5:00 and 7:00 to 9:00 P.M. Thursday at Higby Mortuary in Aurora.

OBITUARY: DORIS PRESTON

Doris Ivene Preston, the daughter of William A. and Martha (Smith) Kirkpatrick was born in Aurora, Nebraska on June 7, 1925 and died in Lincoln, Nebraska, on December 5, 2000, at the age of 75 years, 5 months and 28 days.

She grew up in Aurora, where she went to school until the 9th grade, when she quit school to take care of her dying mother.

Doris was united in marriage to George E. Preston on December 16, 1948 in Aurora. They raised their three children in Aurora. George passed away on October 2, 1974. Doris lived in Aurora until 1982, then moved to Lincoln until 1997. After a fall in 1997, she moved in with her daughter Georgene till January 2000. In July of 2000, she moved in with her daughter Elsie in Lincoln until the time of her death.

She loved word puzzles, jigsaw puzzles and bingo. Doris enjoyed driving in the country, when she was feeling well she would always say, “Let’s take a ride.”

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, and her three sisters, Maude Zornes, Mary Lantzer and Ollie Kirkpatrick and two brothers, William A. and Robert G. Kirkpatrick.

Those left to cherish her memory are her son, Leland “Lee” Preston and his wife Bonnie of Hastings; two daughters, Elsie Loseke and her husband Larry of Lincoln and Virginia Georgene Nunn and her husband Dick of Aurora; two granddaughters, Kaete Preston of Omaha and Molly Dodson and her husband Kevin of Overland Park, Kansas; step-grandson, Steve Nunn; step great-grandchildren, Nicole, Spencer, and Kandra Nunn; brother, James Kirkpatrick and his wife Jacque of Sheridan, Wyoming and two sisters, Rosie Doell of Aurora and Gertrude Birkinbine of Yakima, Washington.