Robert D. Prettyman

Hastings resident, Robert Dee Prettyman, 74, passed away Wednesday, May 07, 2014 at Mary Lanning Memorial HealthCare.



Services will be Saturday, May 10, 2014 at 10 am at the Apfel Funeral Home Chapel, Hastings with Pastor Larry Harvey officiating. Graveside service will be at 1:30 pm at the Alma Cemetery, Alma, NE. Visitation will be 4 pm to 7 pm, Friday, May 9, 2014 at the Apfel Funeral Home Chapel, Hastings. Condolences may be sent to the family from www.apfelfuneralhome.com. Apfel Funeral Home, Hastings, is in charge of the arrangements.



Memorials may be given to the First Baptist Church, Good Samaritan Society-Hastings, the American Heart Association or the American Lung Association in Nebraska.



Robert was born January 5, 1940 to John and Lola Polly (Stauffer) Prettyman in Alma, NE. He attended Alma schools graduating in 1958. He served in the United States Army during the early 1960s and was stationed in Germany. He married Jeanne Harkens and they later divorced. In 1965 he married Lorraine Kohl in Superior, NE, to this union two sons were born, Curtis and John, they later divorced. On May 22, 1982 he married Marjorie Marr Fuller and they lived in Blue Hill, NE with their blended family of three sons and two daughters. They moved to Hastings, Good Samaritan Society, December 2004. He worked as a truck driver and for the BNSF Railroad from 1979 to 2002.



He was a member of the First Baptist Church, the Harness Hustlers/ Horse and Wagon Group, AARP and the Hastings Caregivers Coalition, all in Hastings, NE, and the American Legion Post 0176 in Blue Hill, NE. He volunteered at Good Samaritan Society in Hastings.



He is survived by his wife Marjorie of Hastings, son, John (Lesyle) Prettyman, of Yuma, CO, three step children, Michelle Michener of Doniphan, Vicki Fuller of Hastings and Rick Fuller (Tara Nielsen) of Hastings, two grandchildren, Daniel and Micaela Prettyman of Yuma, CO, four step grandchildren, Jason (Jessica) Michener, Shane Michener Sidnee and Rylee Fuller, five step great grandchildren, Jocelyne and Lillyan Michener, Kadence, Bradyn and Cimarron Michener, numerous nieces, nephews and friends, and his beloved horse Willow.



He was preceded in death by his parents, one son, Curtis Dee Prettyman, one sister, Pearl Atkison, one brother Paul Prettyman, two nephews, Gale and Dennis Stone and a grand-nephew, Jason Stone.