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- CRETE - Sandra Breitkreutz, 64, of Crete died Saturday, Jan. 15, 2005, at home of ovarian cancer.
A celebration of life will be at 5:30 p.m. Friday at Benne Memorial Museum.
Graveside services for the cremains will be at 12:30 p.m. Saturday at St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery in Wisner, with a lunch to follow afterward at the home of Bev and Jim Hubschmidt.
Mrs. Breitkreutz was born Oct. 18, 1940, at Sioux City, Iowa, to Charles and Beulah (Oliva) Jones.
Survivors of the immediate family include her husband, LeRoy; daughter and grandson, Leah and Alexander Mason of Greeley, Colo.; daughter, son-in-law, granddaughter and grandson, Jennifer Rae, David, Sarah Rae, and William Case Griffis of Anaconda, Mont.; daughter and son-in-law, Audrey and Keith Minahan of Crete; and former son-in-law, Tracy Mason of Greeley.
She spent her early years in Homer and Winnebago, relocating with her parents in about 1946 to Wayne. She was graduated from Wayne High School, and attended classes at Wayne State College, University of Nebraska, Doane College, Crete and Southeast Community College. Most of her career was focused on journalism and photography, and she worked for The Wayne Herald, Blake Studio in Wayne, Viales B. Studio in San Francisco, and The Crete News in Crete.
Sandra was baptized in the Winnebago Presbyterian Church, and by emersion in the Blue Lake of Onawa, Iowa, during a teenage Bible camp. She had a deep faith and enduring need to understand the nature of God and man, but clung to no specific religious doctrine as being the single truth.
On April 21, 1963, at the Letterman General Hospital Chapel in San Francisco, Sandra was married to LeRoy Breitkreutz of Wisner. They returned to Wayne, where they made their home until 1976, when they relocated to Lincoln for a year. In the fall of 1977, they bought the Pleasant Hill Store and Tavern southeast of Dorchester, operating it until 1983.
They moved in 1984 to Crete, where LeRoy joined the maintenance staff at Doane College and Sandra became news editor of The Crete News, a position she held for over 16 years.
Outside of her career and family, Sandra's main interests were antique furniture, doll and toy collecting, auctions, and genealogy. She organized the Kuklis Family Reunion, which has continued to meet every two years. She was a charter member of the Saline County Genealogical Society, and compiled and edited a county history, "Saline County Roots." She was also a member of the Nebraska Press Women's Association, National Federated Doll Clubs of America, and Nebraska Writer's Guild.
She had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer on Sept. 4, 2003.
A celebration of life will be held at 5:30 p.m. Friday, January 21, at Benne Memorial Museum, 800 W. 13th Street in Crete. Friends, associates and relatives are encouraged to stop by. The family requests no flowers please. Memorials may be directed to the American Cancer Society or Saline County Eldercare.
Sandra was preceded in death by her parents; two half sisters, Elowise Benscoter of Kansas City, Mo., and a half sister, Madeline Adkins of Champaign, Ill.; and a half brother, Charles Humphrey of Norman, Okla.
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