Daughter of Wert D. & Mary (Cassidy) Whitney.
Married to Howard "Bud" Connell on 5-1-1948 at Grand Island, NE.
Worked for Safeway District Offices.
Couple opened and operated Grandpa's Steakhouse, 1952. She continued to operate the business after husband died in 1993.
Activities: member of the church, American Legion Auxiliary and Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary, Nebraska Restaurant Association, Kearney Eagles and DOES; was named in Who's Who of Nebraska and was an honorary member of the Kearney Volunteer Fire Department.
Survivors include: son, Jim of Tucson, Ariz.; daughter, Elizabeth Merrifield of Kearney; brothers, Carl Whitney of Kearney and Edward Jones of Carlsbad, Calif.; sister, Ollie Dady of Kearney; and two grandchildren.
Preceded in death by her husband, three brothers, a sister and two stepsisters.
Married to Howard "Bud" Connell on 5-1-1948 at Grand Island, NE.
Worked for Safeway District Offices.
Couple opened and operated Grandpa's Steakhouse, 1952. She continued to operate the business after husband died in 1993.
Activities: member of the church, American Legion Auxiliary and Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary, Nebraska Restaurant Association, Kearney Eagles and DOES; was named in Who's Who of Nebraska and was an honorary member of the Kearney Volunteer Fire Department.
Survivors include: son, Jim of Tucson, Ariz.; daughter, Elizabeth Merrifield of Kearney; brothers, Carl Whitney of Kearney and Edward Jones of Carlsbad, Calif.; sister, Ollie Dady of Kearney; and two grandchildren.
Preceded in death by her husband, three brothers, a sister and two stepsisters.
Daughter of Wert D. & Mary (Cassidy) Whitney.
Married to Howard "Bud" Connell on 5-1-1948 at Grand Island, NE.
Worked for Safeway District Offices.
Couple opened and operated Grandpa's Steakhouse, 1952. She continued to operate the business after husband died in 1993.
Activities: member of the church, American Legion Auxiliary and Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary, Nebraska Restaurant Association, Kearney Eagles and DOES; was named in Who's Who of Nebraska and was an honorary member of the Kearney Volunteer Fire Department.
Survivors include: son, Jim of Tucson, Ariz.; daughter, Elizabeth Merrifield of Kearney; brothers, Carl Whitney of Kearney and Edward Jones of Carlsbad, Calif.; sister, Ollie Dady of Kearney; and two grandchildren.
Preceded in death by her husband, three brothers, a sister and two stepsisters.
Married to Howard "Bud" Connell on 5-1-1948 at Grand Island, NE.
Worked for Safeway District Offices.
Couple opened and operated Grandpa's Steakhouse, 1952. She continued to operate the business after husband died in 1993.
Activities: member of the church, American Legion Auxiliary and Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary, Nebraska Restaurant Association, Kearney Eagles and DOES; was named in Who's Who of Nebraska and was an honorary member of the Kearney Volunteer Fire Department.
Survivors include: son, Jim of Tucson, Ariz.; daughter, Elizabeth Merrifield of Kearney; brothers, Carl Whitney of Kearney and Edward Jones of Carlsbad, Calif.; sister, Ollie Dady of Kearney; and two grandchildren.
Preceded in death by her husband, three brothers, a sister and two stepsisters.
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