Deloris L Zuege

Deloris Louise (Bier) Zuege was born September 16, 1928 in Cheyenne County, Kansas to Emauel and Louise (Lampe) Bier. She fell asleep in death on February 3, 2014 at the age of 85 in Wray, Colorado.

Deloris spent the early years of her life living in various places in Kansas and Colorado. In 1940, her parents moved to a farm southeast of Haigler, Nebraska. There she finished her elementary education in a one room school house and completed her education by attending High School in St. Francis, Kansas graduating in 1947.

On August 3, 1947, she was united in marriage to Herman Zuege. They made their home on a farm in Kansas next to the farm she had grown up on. To this union were born four children, Marsha, Louise, Gary and Roger. During the next 53 years, she helped her husband farm and raised three children. Besides being a busy homemaker, she enjoyed quilting, embroidering and crocheting, which were used as gifts throughout the years.

In 2000, she moved to Haigler, Nebraska and in the years that followed she continued to be very active in the community activities. She was a member of the Lady’s VFW Auxiliary, The Red Haters Club, and the Golden Inn. One of her most rewarding activities was going to the Elementary School in Haigler and having the young students there read to her.

As an infant, she was baptized in the Lutheran Church, and years later she was confirmed. When she died she was still an active member of the Lutheran Church in Haigler.

Preceding her in death was her husband of 53 years and an infant daughter, her parents, and one brother, Loren.

She is survived by a sister, Almeda Bier of Longmont, Colorado, three children, Louise Thomsen & husband, Harry of Watts, Oklahoma, Gary Zuege & wife, Pam of Wray, Colorado, and Roger Zuege of Haigler, Nebraska, ten grandchildren, two step-grandchildren, ten great-grandchildren and two step-great-grandchildren, plus a host of brothers and sisters-in-law, nieces and nephews.

She will be dearly missed by all, and we look forward to the day when we will see her again in the resurrection.

Funeral services were held Monday, February 10, 2014, 2:00 p.m. at the Zion Lutheran Church in Haigler, Nebraska with Pastor Chris Farmer officiating. Interment was held in the Haigler Cemetery in Haigler, Nebraska. Memorials may be made to the Golden Inn Senior Center in Haigler, Nebraska.

Spellman-Schmidt Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.