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Joan Kay Heidemann
<p>Joan Kay Heidemann, 79, of Ogallala, passed away suddenly on November 8, 2021 at Regional West Garden County Health, in Oshkosh, NE. </p> <p>Joan was a beautiful, caring mother, grandmother and friend.</p> <p>She was born to Frederick A. and Eunice Maxine (Chirnside) Heidemann on May 28, 1942. Joan grew up as the 6th child of a family of 10 children west of Plymouth, Nebraska on the family farm. Joan had a lively childhood with many wonderful stories of the antics of her brothers and sisters. <br /> <br /> Joan attended cosmetology school in Beatrice after graduating from Plymouth High School in 1960. </p> <p><br /> Joan married Ralph McBride on March 4, 1961 and they moved to Ogallala, Nebraska. Joan and Ralph had five children, JoDee, William, Jill, Joy and Tomi. <br /> Joan enjoyed working as a beautician for Alice (VandeVoorde) Berry when they first moved into the area. Eventually, Joan and Ralph moved to Paxton and she started her own hair salon there. </p> <p><br /> Joan loved riding horses with her husband and children. After their daughter, JoDee passed away from leukemia, they would move to Ogallala again. <br /> Joan opened the Hair Twister on West 5th Street where she enjoyed a wide variety of clients who came weekly to get their hair done. When she had time, she would give riding <br /> lessons to a few young girls who loved horses. <br /> <br /> In 1980, Joan and Ralph divorced. Joan moved to Plymouth and continued working as a cosmetologist. In addition, she began her long career in the healthcare field at the Beatrice Community Hospital. She would work as a CNA in many different hospital/nursing home settings for another 30+ years. Joan loved working with people and helping others. <br /> She made many friends throughout those years. <br /> <br /> Joan moved back to Ogallala in 1986. Upon her return, she enjoyed working at Edgar’s Jewelry Store, the Ogallala Community Hospital and in her hair salon. <br /> She had very little down time but when she did, she would sew items for people at the hospital, for her daughters and her family. <br /> <br /> In the later years of Joan’s life, she enjoyed going to her grandchildren’s activities. You would find her cheering and keeping score for the teams that her grandchildren played on. <br /> She never wanted to miss a game, track meet or rodeo. She loved traveling and had a chance to take a few major trips to visit such places as Europe, the Ozarks, Maine, <br /> Lake Tahoe, Canada and Colorado with her sisters and brothers and their families. Special trips with her children and grandchildren were taken to Hawaii, California, <br /> Texas, and Tennessee. <br /> <br /> Joan is survived by her son, Will, daughters Jill (Scott) Saults, Joy (Scott) Pettit, Tomi (Jason) Daniels, Grandchildren: Jensyn & Jaitlyn Pettit, JoSee, Ralph & Jate Saults and Irelynn Daniels. Her sisters, Eloyde Mueller & Kathleen Nider, and brothers, Howard (Linda) Heidemann, Robert (Nancy) Heidemann, Donald (Susie) Heidemann; sister-in-laws, JoAnn Heidemann & Joyce Heidemann. </p> <p><br /> Joan is preceded in death by her daughter, JoDee, her parents, Fred and Eunice, brothers Orlynn Heidemann, Lee Heidemann & Douglas Heidemann, & sister, Loretta Ruhnke. <br /> <br /> Visitation will be held at Draucker Funeral Home, in Ogallala, Nebraska on Sunday November 14th from 1:00-3:00pm, with the family greeting friends and family.<br /> <br /> Funeral services will be held on Monday, November 15, 2021, 10:00 am at the Draucker Funeral Home,with Pastor Tyler Jordan, of Corner Stone Community Church in Riverton, Wy. officiating.<br /> <br /> Interment will be at the Paxton Cemetery, at Paxton Ne., following the services.<br /> <br /> Memorials are suggested to the Ogallala Community Hospital, and the Garden County Nursing Home in Oshkosh Ne. </p> <p>Online condolences can be given by pressing "Share a Memory" button.</p> <p>Services will be live streamed and posted to the website following the services.</p> <p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RoRrvuxgwhs" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p>May 28, 1942 - November 8, 202105/28/194211/08/2021
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