Merna
R. Wood
Services
will be at 1 p.m. Friday at All Faiths Funeral Home. The Rev. Royce
Rinehart will officiate.
Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
Mrs. Wood was born June 23, 1933, at Ord to Arthur and Clara (Plejdrup)
Lange.
Survivors of the immediate family include her husband, Everett; two
sons, Douglas Mercer of Grand Island and Michael Mercer of Duluth,
Minn.; two daughters and sons-in-law, Susan and Lyle 'Bubba' Conaway
of Muldrow, Okla., and Heidi and Mike Moreland of Littleton, Colo.;
a brother and sister-in-law, Robert and Virginia Lange; and three
sisters and a brother-in-law, Alice Bartlett of Grand Island, Rhoda
and Vernon Grauer of Cherokee, Iowa, and Margaret Kling of Los Angeles.
Also surviving are grandchildren, Tracy Conaway of Lake Forest, Calif., Alex
Conaway of Indianapolis, Ind., Trayce Moreland of Littleton, Colo., Kris Moreland
of Phoenix, Clint Moreland of Boulder, Colo.; and many nieces, nephews and great-grandchildren.
Merna attended grade school at St. John's Lutheran parochial school at
Ord and at Zion Lutheran parochial school in Scotia. She graduated from Ord High
School in 1951.
She was united in marriage to Marvin 'Cotton' Mercer on Sept. 9, 1955, at Trinity
Lutheran Church in Grand Island. She was later united in marriage to Max Shelburne
of Ogallala. She was united in marriage to Everett Wood on Nov. 3, 1994, in Ogallala.
Merna worked for Northwestern Bell, Pacific Northwest Bell and US West at North
Platte, Ogallala, Seattle, Omaha and Grand Island. She retired from the telecom
field with more than 34 years of service.
Mrs. Wood was an accomplished seamstress and enjoyed applying her skills performing
acts of kindness for individuals with developmental disabilities. She especially
enjoyed playing bingo, cards, reading, country music and videos. She was known
as a great cook and made excellent pecan pie and runzas. Her door was always
open and you could count on Merna having the coffee pot on when you stopped by.
She was preceded in death by her parents and a brother, Clarence Lange.
Memorials are suggested to Goodwill Industries.