After almost $600 to my Geek tech for serious computer problems and in the fourth week of near pneumonia, supposedly caused by severe allergies with many victims according to a doctor and nurse at the UN Med Center, I have not had a happy spring. I also lost the second Luckert cousin this year, earlier Kay Vanness Sanger, recently Elizabeth Evelyn Davids, whom we nicknamed Bubbs (b. 3 October 1919-d. 4 June 2009). Kay had had a long struggle with cancer and was a year older than I; energetic, darkly pretty Bubbs lasted to 89, a very full life.
The afternoon after Evelyn's funeral on 8 June, sister Sue chauffeured me over to the cemetery to make up for some earlier lapses of mine and settle a great grandparent question, after which we went up to Niobrara to the old ferry landings to take photos for third cousin Mark Donley Feddersen, who had sent me some 1968 photos of the ferry.
I had embarrassingly forgotten Uncle Vern's stone when I did my last cemetery set, including Aunt Lizzie's, and I wanted to add to the Stocking record with Harold and Anne Stocking Alexander and Clark and Dorothy Stocking. Vern Venever Stocking is next to his wife, Elizabeth Mae Luckert Stocking, in the old north section directly west of George and Anna Jones Luckert, as I've tried to indicate. The entry's beginning photo looks east, with Sue about even with Grandma and Grandpa Luckert's gravestones.
This is the view west, up toward the cemetery highway, with Uncle Vern and Aunt Lizzie in the foreground. In that area are buried Harold and Anne Stocking Alexander, a bit southwest of her parents, as shown in the photos below.
The (Vern and Elizabeth) Stocking gravestone is in the next row beyond the top center here. Below is what Hollywood calls an establishing shot (to help viewers see where they are) northwest toward the entrance to the oldest (north) section of the cemetery.
About as far as you can go to the newer, south end are where Clark and Dorothy Stocking rest, not that far from my parents.
Clark and Dorothy are in the immediate foreground (silver vase with purple flowers), the south central entrance in the background.
I had been fussing about where John Christopher's second wife, the Widow (Julia) Dannert, was buried, so we also went to the big Luckert grouping at the central hilltop.
In the foreground is Caroline next to John C., as husband and wife should be, and the giveaway was her death date, Christmas Day 1944, which I knew was the Widow Dannert's, so that her full name is Caroline Juliana Witt Dannert Luckert, whom we always referred to as Julia.
On the other side of the big Luckert marker is his mother, Henraetta, our great great grandmother married to Andrew Jackson Luckert (whose burial site I don't know).
And, as a reminder, the Jones great grandparents are just down the hill under the cedars to the west, as below, with John C. and Caroline's graves in the immediate foreground.
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