Blair native Louise M. Hale, 96, died Sept. 16, 2006, at Hospitality Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Kenosha, Wis.

Memorial services will be 11:30 a.m., Friday, Sept. 22, at Campbell-Aman Funeral Home in Blair. Visitation with the family will be from 10:30 a.m. to the time of the service.

Louise Marie Case was born Nov. 26, 1909, in Blair to Samuel and Eva (Marple) Case. Her family farmed in Washington County and in the Divide Center community in Burt County, where she attended school and church. She graduated from Oakland High School.

On Dec. 23, 1931, she married Earl Wayne Hale at the Divide Center Presbyterian Church. The couple farmed in Burt County and later lived and worked in Decatur, Grand Island, Blair, and Upland, Calif. Mrs. Hale moved to Kenosha in 1986 following the death of her husband in 1985. She was a member of the First Methodist Church in Blair.

She was a loving and caring woman and was the mainstay of her family. She was a wonderful cook and took great pleasure in creating dishes and desserts for family celebrations and reunions, as well as sampling those prepared by others. She was gifted at sewing and fancywork and made cherished items for her family and others. Above all, she is remembered as a wonderful role model for her family, consistently demonstrating her inner strength, fairness, humility and selflessness.

She is survived by her sons and daughters-in-law, Earl and Maxine Hale of Langley, Okla., and Donald and Mayra Hale of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.; daughter, Donna Bragg of Kenosha, Wis.; 10 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; sister and brother-in-law, Leatha and Harold Poland of Arlington, Va., brother-in-law, Eldon Drummond of Central City; sister-in-law, Margaret Hale of Lyons, and Hazel Christensen of Castle Rock, Colo.; nieces, nephews, and other relatives and friends.

In addition to her husband, Earl, she was preceded in death by her sisters, Gertrude Case, Dorothy Brunton, and Bernice Drummond; and brothers, Robert, Floyd, and Leland Case; and son-in-law, Leon Bragg.

In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested to the charity of the donors’ choice.

(Her burial in Blair Cemetery was established through Blair Cemetery records.)