Richard Russell

Funeral Services were held 2:00 P.M., Friday, February 24, 1995 at the United Methodist Church in Aurora. Interment was held at the Aurora Cemetery.

OBITUARY: Dick Russell

Richard Dean Russell, the son of Gerald and Irene (Hyatt) Russell, was born at Ansley, Nebraska, on July 14, 1928, and died at the Nebraska Veteran’s Home in Grand Island, Nebraska, on February 21, 1995.

He attended rural schools and Ansley High School through the tenth grade, and moved to Aurora in 1944, and graduated from Aurora High School in 1946. He served his country during World War 2, from September 6, 1946, to January 24, 1948, and served in Korea.

On June 8, 1952, he was united in marriage to Idonna Proctor, at the Aurora E.U.B. Church. He was employed at the Aurora Co-op from 1948 to 1951, the Hastings Ammunition Depot and the Grand Island Ordinance Plant until 1953. He served as a Nebraska State license examiner for 7 years, living at Norfolk, West Point, and Omaha. In 1961, they lived at Syracuse, Nebraska and later moved to Junction City, Kansas, where he was a crane operator. In 1963, they moved back to Aurora, where he operated his own backhoe-trencher business. In 1970, he started work at the Aurora Post Office, retiring in 1990, after 20 years of service. During this time he also worked part time for the City of Aurora as a police officer and at Century Manufacturing.

Dick was a member of the Aurora United Methodist Church, was an avid sports fan, enjoyed working in his garden, and building trailers in his shop.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

Those who remain to cherish his memory are his wife, Idonna, of Aurora; one son Richard Jr., of Santa Rosa, California; two daughters, Kristy Mattison of Marquette, and Barbara Hoffman of Grand Island; two brothers, Larry of Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Keith of Casper, Wyoming; 3 sisters, Naomi Hammond of Aurora, Doris Senff of Lincoln, and Lois Janzen of Hampton; and 5 grandchildren.