Kenneth H. Kissell

Hastings resident, Kenneth Ken H. Kissell, 87, passed away Sunday, July 10, 2011 at the Mary Lanning Memorial Health Care, Hastings, NE. Services will be Friday, July 15, 2011 at 10 AM at the Brand-Wilson Funeral Home Chapel, Hastings, NE with the Re. Dr. Lee Wigert officiating with Masonic rites. Burial will be at a later date. Visitation will be Thursday, July 14, 2011 from 12 noon to 9 PM at the Brand-Wilson Funeral Home, Hastings, NE. Condolences may be sent to the family from www.brandwilson.com. In lieu of flowers memorials may be given to the family or the Shriners Hospitals for Children. Ken was born June 16, 1924 to Thomas and Maude (Parker) Kissell in Woodruff, KS. He graduated in 1943 from the Long Island High School in Long Island, KS. He married Ida Eileen Richardson in 1944 in Norton, KS. He worked for Debus Bakery, car salesman, and for Prudential as an Insurance Agent all in Hastings, NE. He had lived in the Hastings area for over 55 years. He was a member of Hastings Masonic Lodge #50, Tehama Shriners, past Shrine Circus Chairman, and past Shrine Onion Chairman. He is survived by his wife Ida of Hastings, NE, two sons, Gaylord and wife Mary Kay of Hastings, NE and Todd and wife Marlene of Kansas City, MO and one daughter Connie Nicholson and husband Randy of Las Vegas, NV, ten grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren, and one brother Harold and wife Glendoris of Hastings, NE. He was preceded in death by his parents, four brothers and one sister.