In Memoriam

We honor the amazing lives of our Midland alumni, faculty and staff. To notify us of a death of a classmate or family member, please email alumni@midlandu.edu or call 402-941-6055.

Memorial Gifts

Gifts made in memory of a family member, teacher, student or friend are generous and thoughtful ways to remember a person's life and accomplishments. When making a gift in memory of someone, please send your gift with a note specifying the honoree's name and address and/or contact information so we can send a notification that a gift has been made.

Please send memorial gifts to: Midland University, ATTN: Institutional Advancement, 900 N. Clarkson, Fremont, NE 68025, or make a gift online.

Florence Larsen

Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Florence Lorena (Spease) Larsen, age 97 of Blair, passed away peacefully August 2, 2024. Memorial services will be held 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, at First Lutheran Church in Blair, Nebraska. Visitation will be held one hour prior to services at the church. Private graveside services will be...

Janet Oldham '83

Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Janet Oldham passed away on July 23, 2024, at Ava’s House in Sioux Falls, South Dakota at the age of 82. Prior to this, she had been a resident of Prairie Creek Memory Care Assisted Living for two years. A funeral service will be held at 11:00 am on Tuesday, July 30, 2024 at Peace Lutheran Church (...

Howard (Jake) Jacobson

Monday, July 22, 2024

Howard Dean (Jake) Jacobson II, 74, of Kearney, passed away on July 18, 2024 after a long, valiant battle with illness. Jake was born July 25, 1949 in Iola, Kansas, to Howard D. and Dorothy A. (Preece) Jacobson. He attended Iola and El Dorado, Kansas, schools graduating from El Dorado Senior High...

Dr. George Stoltenberg '73

Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Dr. George Kenneth Stoltenberg passed away on Tuesday, June 4, 2024, surrounded by his family and friends. George was born Schuyler, Neb., on October 18, 1951, to Kenneth and Betty (Primbnow) Stoltenberg. After a carefree childhood, George became blind at 13. He left home to attend the Nebraska...

Kevin Rhodes

Sunday, July 14, 2024

Kevin T. Rhodes, 72, of Lincoln, NE, passed away on June 25, 2024, following a near decade long journey with Parkinson's and Parkinson's dementia. Born June 6, 1952, in Lincoln to Juanita and James "Willie" Rhodes, the family spent time in North Platte, Kearney, and Johnson Lake where he graduated...

James Sweeney

Sunday, July 14, 2024

James M. "Jim" Sweeney, 88, of Cedar Bluffs, NE passed away Wednesday, July 10, 2024, at Dunklau Gardens in Fremont. He was born January 2, 1936, in Fremont to Milton 'Bill' and Selma (Hansen) Sweeney. Jim graduated from Cedar Bluffs High School in 1953. He served in the US Army In Germany. He then...

Thomas Anderson '57

Friday, July 12, 2024

Thomas D. Anderson, 86, of Kearney passed away Monday, July 8, 2024, at CHI Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney. Graveside services will be 10:00 a.m. Saturday, July 13, 2024, at Kearney Cemetery followed by a celebration of life at First Lutheran Church at 11:00 am. The Rev. Dr. Michelle Holley...

Maurece Engelbart '45

Thursday, July 11, 2024

Maurece Shirley Johnson was born at home in Ceresco, Nebraska to David T. and Orrie Wedberg Johnson on March 5, 1926. She graduated from Ceresco High School and attended Luther College in Wahoo, Nebraska, for two years. She graduated in 1947 from University of Nebraska in Lincoln with a teaching...

Pamela Korth '79

Monday, July 1, 2024

Pamela Ruth Korth, 67, of Greeley, passed away on June 22, 2024 at MCR in Loveland. She was born April 21, 1957 in Landstuhl, Germany on the military base to Paul Robert and Shirley Eloise (Rymerson) Hansen. Her father was serving as a pastor in the military and they lived in Germany for a year and...

Rev. William J. Bullock '66

Thursday, June 27, 2024

The Rev. William Joseph Bullock, age 88, of Atchison, KS, passed away at home, on June 22, 2024, surrounded by his loved ones. He was welcomed by our Lord into the biggest family reunion in Heaven. Joe was born January 7, 1936, to Julius and Lillian (Franklin) Bullock at their home a quarter mile...