Donald Maurer, 89, of Hooper NE

Donald Maurer age 89, of Hooper, formerly of Fremont, Nebraska passed away Thursday September 17, 2015, at the Good Samaritan Society in Scribner.  Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, September 22nd, in Redeemer Lutheran Church, Hooper. The committal will follow in Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery east of Winslow. Visitation will be in Hooper at Ludvigsen’s Hooper Funeral Chapel on Monday from 3 to 8 p.m. with the family present 6 to 8 p.m.  Memorials are suggested to Redeemer Lutheran Church and Trinity Lutheran Church.  Online guestbook can be accessed at http://www.hooper-scribner.com.  Ludvigsen’s Hooper Funeral Chapel in Hooper is in charge of arrangements.

Don was born to Arnold and Clara (Meyer) Maurer on November 13, 1925 on the family farm northwest of St. John’s Lutheran Church (county line) near West Point. He attended school district 27, and St. Paul’s Lutheran School in West Point. He was confirmed in St. Paul’s Lutheran Church on April 7, 1939.

In 1946, Don went to live with his grandfather and worked for Irvin and Edna Panning on their farm east of Winslow. He attended Immanuel Lutheran Church where he met Bernice Wolf. On August 7, 1949, they were married in Immanuel Lutheran Church. They lived near the church and Don worked for area farmers and Bernice was a school teacher. In 1952, they moved to Fremont. Don worked for the Ford dealership in Blair, the former Nick Neff Motors and Grant Chevrolet dealerships in Fremont and H.P. Smith dealership in Omaha. In 1977, Don started his own auto repair business in Fremont. During some of these years, he also built and raced stock cars.

Don had been a member of Trinity Lutheran Church in Fremont.

Survivors: daughter – Sandra (Kurt) Brandt of Fremont
3 sons – Dale (Carmen) Maurer of Hooper
Dean (Carolyn) Maurer of Fremont
Dwight (Lori) Maurer of Fremont
9 grandchildren and several great grandchildren
sister and her husband – Loha and Norman Kersten of Beemer
sister-in-law and husband Ruth and Kenneth Bartling of Fremont

Don was preceded in death by his wife Bernice (July 18, 2007), and sister Shirley and her husband Don.

Donald Maurer