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Memorials to the Class of 1946
Nyle Forrest Pierce, 80, of Ontario, Ore., died Monday, March 16, 2009, at Presbyterian Community Care in Ontario. A graveside service will be held Saturday, March 21, 2009, at 10:30 a.m. at Overton Cemetery in Overton, Nebraska with the Rev. Todd Karges officiating. Visitation will be Friday, March 20, 2009, from 4-7 p.m. at the Reynolds-Love Funeral Home in Lexington.
Graduated from Lexington High School with the class of 1946.
David Laurence Stuckey, age 80, of St. Petersburg, Fla., died Feb. 11, 2009 in St. Petersburg, Fla. Funeral Services will be held at the David C. Gross funeral home in St. Petersburg, Fla., on Saturday Feb. 21, 2009. There will be no visitation as David chose to be cremated.
David is survived by his sister, Helen Barrett of Lexington; one daughter, Gretchen Miller of Morgantown, W.Va., and two sons, William Stuckey of Bowie, Md., Joel Stuckey of San Jose, Calif.; six grandchildren, Graham of Morgantown, W.Va., Rachel of Morgantown, W.Va., Caroline of Morgantown, W.Va., Christopher at the US Merchant Marine Academy, Great Neck, N.Y., Alexandra of Bowie, Md., and Toby of San Jose, Calif.; one great-grandchild and four step-children.
His parents; four brothers; James, Robert, John (Jack) and Dean; a sister, Ruth, and second wife, Janice, preceded him in death.
David was born June 13, 1928, at Lexington City General Hospital to G.E. (Ed) and Gertrude (Memmott) Stuckey. He grew up on a farm north of Lexington and attended Lexington High School where he was a star basketball player. He graduated in 1946 and attended Hastings College for three years and graduated from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln with a degree in business administration.
In 1951 he was inducted in the U.S. Army where he spent two years. He was stationed in Hawaii and Indiana. In Dec. 1956 he married Jane Ann Fortmann of Bardonia, N.Y., at the First Presbyterian Church in Lexington. They were divorced in 1982. He re-married to Janice M. Bracken in 1983 in Buffalo, NY.
David was a bank examiner for the State of Nebraska and later became a co-owner of the Ravenna Bank in Ravenna and a housing appraiser for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development in Buffalo, N.Y. He retired from this job and moved to St. Petersburg.
Memorials are kindly suggested to the First Presbyterian Church, Lexington Community Foundation or donor's choice.
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