Funeral services for Mrs. Gilbert (Thelma) Echtenkamp, 70, of Fremont were held January 8, 1988 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Fremont.

Rev. Donald Levenhagen officiated. Burial was in Memorial Cemetery.

Thelma died January 4, 1988, at Memorial Hospital of Dodge County, Fremont, from diabetic complications.

She was born May 18, 1917 in Indianapolis, Indiana. She moved to Fremont in 1968.

The former Thelma Seaman Stanley, she was married in Fremont at Trinity Lutheran to Gilbert Echtenkamp on October 25, 1968. Mr. Echtenkamp is a native of Arlington.

She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church.

Survivors include husband Gilbert, son Nicholas Stanley of Houston, Texas, daughter Patricia Stanley of Dallas, Texas, step-daughter Mrs. Gilbert (Judy) Holstein of Wichita, Kansas, five grandchildren, one great-grandchild and brother Charles Seaman of Indianapolis.

Ludvigsen Mortuary of Fremont handled the arrangements.

Memorials may be given to Trinity Lutheran Church Building Fund and the American Diabetes Association.

~~~Obituary courtesy of Washington County Genealogical Association; newspaper clippings on file at the Public Library, Blair, Nebraska ~~~