Obituary for Dee Dughman
Delores “Dee” Dughman, age 89, passed into the Loving Arms of her Lord and Savior on Saturday, February 20, 2021. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 P.M. Saturday, February 27, 2021 at Gehrig-Stitt Chapel in Sidney, NE. Burial will be in the Pleasant View Cemetery in Lodgepole, NE. Friends may stop at the Gehrig-Stitt Chapel on Saturday from 9-2:00 P.M. to sign Dee’s register book and leave condolences for the family. You may view Dee’s Book of Memories, leave condolences, photos and stories at www.gehrigstittchapel.com. Services will be recorded and available on our website for viewing.
Gehrig-Stitt Chapel & Cremation Service, LLC is in charge of Dee’s care and funeral arrangements.
Delores Amelia (Lehn) Dughman was born in Chappell, NE on January 25, 1932, to Herman and Ada (Petz) Lehn.
Dee was the youngest of six children and was preceded in death by her parents and siblings, Floyd (Gladys), Esther Pulley (Charles), Dorothy, Jim (Mary), and Ruth Wise (Dale). She is survived by her husband, Duane, and her three children; Terry and wife Judy, JoLene Lampinen and husband Dave and Todd and wife Amy, three grandchildren; Amber Strycker and husband Nate, Breonna Redding and husband Aaron, Toby Grauberger and wife Jennifer, and five great grandchildren; Allia, Dylan and Lucy Strycker, as well as Madison Redding, and Zinnia Grauberger.
Dee completed all of her schooling in Chappell, NE and participated in many school activities. She was a drum majorette, played clarinet in the band, was a twirler and cheerleader, and was voted “Most Popular” and “Most Beautiful” in her senior year of high school, as well as being elected Prom Queen. She finished as Salutatorian in her class of 1950. Throughout junior high and high school, Dee also worked after school and on weekends.
On her “Senior Sneak Day” in Denver, CO, Dee and Duane Dughman became engaged. They married in Chappell, NE on August 23, 1950, following Dee’s high school graduation.
Dee was so much more than “just a housewife” as she called herself. She was an amazing wife, mother, homemaker, Girl and Boy Scout leader, room mom for the children’s school parties, active in church, amazing gardener, seamstress, cook and baker, avid golfer and friend to many. Most of all she was a nurturer and supporter of her husband and children in all of their endeavors.
Dee and Duane spent their 70 years of marriage in Nebraska, Maryland, Tennessee, California, Wyoming and Colorado.
At Dee’s retirement community her caregivers kept telling the family how much they loved Dee and how her smile always lit up a room. Many of them went into her room as she was dying to tell her how much they loved her and to say, “Good-bye”. This was quite a testimony to the kind of loving woman Dee was.
Dee will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved her.
Gehrig-Stitt Chapel & Cremation Service, LLC is in charge of Dee’s care and funeral arrangements.
Delores Amelia (Lehn) Dughman was born in Chappell, NE on January 25, 1932, to Herman and Ada (Petz) Lehn.
Dee was the youngest of six children and was preceded in death by her parents and siblings, Floyd (Gladys), Esther Pulley (Charles), Dorothy, Jim (Mary), and Ruth Wise (Dale). She is survived by her husband, Duane, and her three children; Terry and wife Judy, JoLene Lampinen and husband Dave and Todd and wife Amy, three grandchildren; Amber Strycker and husband Nate, Breonna Redding and husband Aaron, Toby Grauberger and wife Jennifer, and five great grandchildren; Allia, Dylan and Lucy Strycker, as well as Madison Redding, and Zinnia Grauberger.
Dee completed all of her schooling in Chappell, NE and participated in many school activities. She was a drum majorette, played clarinet in the band, was a twirler and cheerleader, and was voted “Most Popular” and “Most Beautiful” in her senior year of high school, as well as being elected Prom Queen. She finished as Salutatorian in her class of 1950. Throughout junior high and high school, Dee also worked after school and on weekends.
On her “Senior Sneak Day” in Denver, CO, Dee and Duane Dughman became engaged. They married in Chappell, NE on August 23, 1950, following Dee’s high school graduation.
Dee was so much more than “just a housewife” as she called herself. She was an amazing wife, mother, homemaker, Girl and Boy Scout leader, room mom for the children’s school parties, active in church, amazing gardener, seamstress, cook and baker, avid golfer and friend to many. Most of all she was a nurturer and supporter of her husband and children in all of their endeavors.
Dee and Duane spent their 70 years of marriage in Nebraska, Maryland, Tennessee, California, Wyoming and Colorado.
At Dee’s retirement community her caregivers kept telling the family how much they loved Dee and how her smile always lit up a room. Many of them went into her room as she was dying to tell her how much they loved her and to say, “Good-bye”. This was quite a testimony to the kind of loving woman Dee was.
Dee will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved her.