Marlene E. Seevers

Funeral services for Marlene E. Seevers, age 91, of Norfolk, Nebraska will be 11:00 a.m. Friday, July 12, 2024, at Home for Funerals Chapel, 708 Georgia Avenue, in Norfolk. Reverend Paul Harder will officiate, with interment in Crown Hill Cemetery in Madison, Nebraska.

Visitation will begin Friday at 9:30 a.m. at the chapel.   The Service will be livestreamed on the funeral home website.

Home for Funerals is in charge of arrangements.

Marlene passed away Thursday, July 4, 2024, at the Homestead in Norfolk.

Marlene Edith (Neidig) Seevers was born November 23, 1932, on a farm north of Madison, Nebraska. She was the second of two children born to Percy and Edith (Chapman) Neidig, and grew to adulthood there, the fourth generation of Neidigs to own or live on that farm.

Marlene attended area schools, first at the nearby, one-room school in District #48, and then Madison High School, from which she graduated in 1950. She attended Wayne State Teachers College for a year to earn a certificate to teach rural public school, which she would do for the next four years near Madison and Davey, Nebraska.

In 1954, Marlene married Vernon Seevers, also from Madison, and they first lived in Lincoln while Vernon studied Agriculture at the University of Nebraska. The family would later live in York and O’Neill, Nebraska, where Marlene and Vernon raised their four children: Marlin, Lennae, Boyd, and Drew.

Marlene always showed a particular interest and skill in art, and eventually became a professional China painter and calligrapher. For more than thirty years, she ran a home-based business doing her art and giving lessons across the state. Over the years Marlene won scores of awards at art shows and at the Nebraska State Fair and had more than fifty pieces of her work published in various China magazines from 1981-2016. In addition, Marlene had a place setting of China chosen for use and permanent display at the Nebraska governor’s mansion.

Marlene’s grounding in life grew out of her upbringing and family of origin, and through her faith in Jesus Christ, which crystalized through the preaching and teaching in the church the family attended in O’Neill beginning in the 1970s. Marlene also had an adventurous spirit, expressed in a love of traveling and other activities like zip lining, parasailing, and hot air ballooning. She began tandem parachuting at age 75 and went for the final time in 2023 at the age 90, always with grandchildren.

Marlene passed away Thursday, July 4, 2024, at Homestead Assisted Living of Norfolk.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her brother, Bryce; and husband, Vernon.

Marlene is survived by son, Marlin (Lori) of Norfolk; daughter, Lennae Seevers of Omaha; son, Boyd (Karen) of Spring Lake Park, Minnesota; son, Drew of Henderson, Nevada; grandchildren, Kent (Jenny) and Eric (Pae) Seevers; Joshua, Jonathan (Emily), and Rebecca Seevers; Rachel (Will) Ricci; and Deborah (Robert) Prines; and great-grandchildren, Isla and Ada Seevers, Emma Seevers, Declan and Ethan Ricci, Aurora and Milo Seevers, and Romeo and Josue Prines.

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