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Darlene A. Mattes

Darlene A. Mattes, 70, of Grand Island, died Saturday, April 21, 2007 at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney.

Services will be 11:00 a.m. Wednesday at the Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church in Grand Island.  The Reverend Wayne Oblender will officiate.  Cremation will take place following the services.

Visitation will be one hour before services at the church.  All Faiths Funeral Home in Grand Island is in charge of arrangements.

Darlene was born April 5, 1937 at Carroll, NE the daughter of Leonard and Irene (Wacker) Blecke. 
She was raised on a family farm near Carroll.  She attended country school and graduated from H.H. Hahn Campus School in 1954 at Wayne, NE.  She was united in marriage to Gilbert Mattes on June 20, 1954 at St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church in Carroll. 

She had a passionate love for her grandchildren, growing flowers and crocheting.  She also loved to cook and served in that capacity in several schools.  She loved her Lord, and was quite busy with church activities most of her life.  She also loved the fellowship of other church members. 

Those left to cherish her memory are her husband Gilbert, sons and daughters-in-law, Barry of Corvallis, OR, Bradley and Ellen of Fairfield, Ohio, Lane of Hayden, ID, Curtis of Grand Island, and Christian and Allyn of Lakewood, CO, her mother Irene Blecke of Wayne, NE, sisters Fauneil Pospishil of Irene, SD and Barbara Harrison of Waterloo, NE and brothers Merlin Blecke of Brighton, CO, Dennis Blecke of Loveland, CO, Lowell Blecke of Waterloo, NE, William Blecke of Wakefield, NE, 14 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren. 

Her father preceded her in death.

Memorials are suggested to the Life Issues Institute.