Ellen Vossler

Ellen (Simons) Vossler, 102 of Cairo, Nebraska went to be with the Lord on Sunday, January 22, 2017 at Wedgewood Care Center in Grand Island, Nebraska.



Services will be 11:00 A.M. Thursday, January 26, 2017 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Grand Island. Pastor Adam Snoberger will be officiating. Visitation will be 1 hour prior to services at the Church. Interment will be 2:00 P.M. Friday, January 27, 2017 in the Elk Point Cemetery in Elk Point, South Dakota. Apfel Funeral Home in Grand Island is serving the family.



Memorials are suggested to Trinity Lutheran School, Grand Island, NE; Cairo Quick Response Team (QRT) in Cairo, NE or to Donors choice.



Ellen (Simons) Vossler, went to be with the Lord on January 22, 2017. She was born August 4, 1914 in Walthill, NE to Rudolf and Lizzie (Burger) Wenger. She attended rural school in Thurston County, NE, attending high school in Walthill, graduating in 1933. She was baptized and confirmed into the Lutheran Church in 1934. She helped her parents on the farm until she started working out cleaning/cooking in Jefferson, SD where she met Albert Simons. They were married in December 1938. They had 2 children. They made their home on a farm near Jefferson, SD and later in the Sioux City, IA area. Ellen also worked as a Nurses Aide for several years at the Lutheran Hospital in Sioux City. Albert passed away December 1970.



Ellen met Fred Vossler, Sr. and they were married June 1979 and made their home in Dorchester, NE until Freds death December 2009. Ellen remained in her home until 2010 when she moved in with her daughter in Cairo, NE and most recently resided at Wedgewood Care Center in Grand Island.



She loved her family and helping others. She enjoyed sewing, quilting, crocheting & baking bread. Ellen had a great faith and loved the Lord and enjoyed reading her Bible every day.



Ellen was preceded in death by her parents; husbands; three brothers, Sam, Frank and Ruben; three sisters, Susie, Rosa and Nellie; step-son, Fred Vossler, Jr; granddaughter, Suzanne Stuenkel; great-granddaughter, Emily Tharp; son-in-law, Marvin Lang.



Survivors include 2 daughters, Mary Sue (Stuenkel) Lang of Uehling, NE and Rose Marie (Charles) Hollingsworth of Cairo; 1 step-daughter Janice (Larry) Casey of Alfred Station, NY; 8 grandchildren; 5 step-grandchildren; 18 great grandchildren; 12 great-great grandchildren 3 step-great grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.



Online condolences may be directed to the family at www.apfelfuneralhome.com