Funeral Services For Germaine Berry

​Mass of Christian Burial for Germaine Berry, age 97, of Neligh, Nebraska will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday, July 13, 2019, at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Neligh. Reverend Pat Nields will be Celebrant, with burial in Laurel Hill Cemetery in Neligh.
 
Visitation will be Friday from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the church, with a 7:00 p.m. Wake Service.
 
Brockhaus-Harlan Funeral Home in Tilden, Nebraska is in charge of arrangements.
 
Germaine died Monday, July 8, 2019, at Antelope Memorial Hospital in Neligh.
 
Germaine Gwendolyn (Schmidt) Berry was born near Windhorst, Kansas on June 8, 1922, to Esther and Rudolph Schmidt. She grew up and attended school in Kansas, graduating from high school in 1940 at Burns, Kansas. Germaine graduated from Halstead Hospital School of Nursing in 1943 and began her career as a Registered Nurse. In 1945, she married Lewis “Si” Berry. After living in Topeka, Kansas, where their oldest daughter Diane was born in 1946, they moved to Orchard, Nebraska and began farming. After Si was discharged from the Army at the end of World War II, two more daughters were born, Karen in 1949 and Sheila in 1952.
 
Germaine worked as a RN at Antelope Memorial Hospital in Neligh until retiring in 1985. Germaine continued to volunteer at the hospital after she retired. She was an active member of St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, serving as a Eucharistic Minster. Her hobbies included quilting, playing the piano, playing cards, and bingo. Germaine was also a member of the Highlanders Extension Club for many years. She belonged to other organizations as well including, the American Legion Auxiliary, a bridge club, and pitch card clubs. Germaine lived the last seven years of her life at The Willows assisted living facility in Neligh, where she continued to play bridge and bingo.
 
Germaine was preceded in death by her parents; sisters; husband, and two daughters, Diane and Sheila.
 
She is survived by her daughter, Karen; four grandchildren; and ten great-grandchildren.