Funeral services will be Saturday, March 13, at 10:30 a.m. at First Lutheran Church for Velmar Katt, 72, who died March 9, 1982, at Clarkson Hospital.

Rev. Russell Saltzman will conduct the services. Burial will be in the Blair Cemetery.

Velmar Katt was born at Arlington October 28, 1909, to Peter and Julia Meier Katt. He married Marjorie Stokes in Herman on June 6, 1937.

He was a farmer in the Washington County area. He served as a Washington County Supervisor for 12 years and was a member of the Johnson School Board. He was also on the Immanuel Lutheran Church Council.

He is survived by three sons, Phillip, Fremont; David, Fremont; Arnold, Blair; and four daughters, Mrs. Joe (Donna) Orozco, LaMaroda, California; Mrs. Charles (JoAnne) Givson, New Porte Richey, Florida; Mrs. Dale (Janet) Pleyo, Fremont; and Mrs. Gary (Rosemary) Carruth, Marshalltown, Iowa. Thirteen grandchildren: two brothers, Gilbert, Tempe, Arizona, and Alvin, Arlington; and two sisters, Evelyn and Madeline, also survive him.

Campbell Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements for the services.

Funeral Folder

VELMAR KATT

BORN: October 28 1909 Arlington, Nebr.

DIED: March 9, 1982 Omaha, Nebr.

SERVICES: First Lutheran Church 10:30 a.m., March 13, 1982

MINSTER: Rev. Russell Saltzman; Rev. Kurt Sortland

MUSIC: Clare Cowing Jack Jensen

SONG SELECTIONS: “More Love To Thee”; “Amazing Grace”

INTERMENT: Blair Cemetery

ACTIVE PALLBEARERS: Don Cain; Melvin Gieselman; Gary Hilgenkamp; Bruce Krueger; Larry Moravec; Walter Stork

HONORARY PALLBEARERS: William Bisbee; Milton Carlberg; George Mencke; Bill Newkirk; Howard H. Petersen; Larry Petersen

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~