Irving Wedeking

Funeral Services were held 2:00 P.M., Friday, December 18, 1998 at the Aurora United Methodist Church. Interment was held in the Aurora Cemetery.

OBITUARY: Irving Wedeking

Irvin Curtis Wedeking, the son of Henry and Irene Fern (Waterman) Wedeking, was born at Ohiowa, Nebraska, on September 21, 1931, and died at his home at Aurora, Nebraska, on December 14, 1998, at the age of 67 years, 2 months, and 23 days.

At the age of 7 years, his family moved to Daykin, Nebraska, and in 1945, they moved to a farm four miles south of Daykin. He graduated from Daykin High School in 1950, and worked at a grocery store and hardware store.

He served his country in the United States Air Force, during the Korean Conflict, form April 18, 1951, until his discharge on April 17, 1955. In 1960, he graduated from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. After graduation he moved to Aurora where he was a vocational-agriculture teacher for 34 years, retiring in 1994.

On October 4, 1951, he was united in marriage to Ila May Long at Daykin.

He was a member of the Aurora United Methodist Church, the American Vocational Association, was a life time member of the Nebraska State Education Association, a life time member of the NEA, belonged to the Nebraska Vocational Agriculture Association, was a member of the FFA Alumni, and belonged to the Aurora Chamber of Commerce. He was a member of the District 4-R School board, and had been re-elected to his second term. On December 10, the received the National Association of Agriculture Educator’s outstanding service citation at the annual conference in Louisiana.

He was preceded in death by his parents, and step-mother Dora.

Those who remain to cherish his memory are his wife Ila of Aurora; two sons, Jeff and his wife Elizabeth of Lincoln, and Gregg of Wheaton, Minnesota; one daughter Beth Stark and her husband Greg of College Station, Texas; one sister Gloria Deke and her husband Wilferd of Beatrice; step-brother Raymond Gaston of Daykin; four grandchildren, Rebecca Jo, Roger Curtis and Randay Lewis Stark, and Valerie Ann Wedeking; one niece and nephew.