Elsie Ruth (Mitchem) Detragiacke Bishop

Elsie Ruth (Mitchem) Detragiacke Bishop

May 3, 1913 - Feb. 8, 2014

McCOOK, Nebraska -- Elsie Ruth (Mitchem) Detragiacke Bishop, age 100, passed away Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014, at the McCook Community Hospital.

Elsie was born in McCook on May 3, 1913, to Florence E. (Bales) Mitchem and Alonzo M. Mitchem. She attended McCook High School and North Platte Community College.

Elsie married Frank Detregiacke in 1932, in Sterling, Colorado; he passed away in 1976. She married Delbert Bishop on Jan. 12, 1977, in North Platte, Nebraska, he passed away in 1984.

She attended First Congregational Church in McCook. She worked as a tax preparer, LPN and a caregiver. She was on the committee that selected the sculptures along Interstate 80. She enjoyed knitting, crocheting, making Barbie doll clothes, collecting dolls, but mostly spending time with her family.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her siblings; husbands, Frank Detragiacke and Delbert Bishop; her son, Stanley F. and his wife, Mary F. Detra.

Survivors are her grandchildren, Randall Detra of Vancouver, Washingtom, Debra Yakel of Gainesville, Missouri, and a great-grandson, Sean Yakel; nieces and nephews, Luanne and Jim DeVoll of Tekamah, Nebraska, Fred Wright of Osceola, Nebraska, Bob and Laurie Wright of Pueblo, Colorado, Jerry and Shirley Wright and Donna Cole all of Osceola, Nebraska, and their families; also the families of their sister, the late Sharon Goscha; cousins from the Bales and Mitchem families, especially Margie Brown, Sherry Hornkohl, Floyd Bales; and other relatives, friends, and extended family.

Memorials are suggested to the donor's choice.

Visitation will be Friday, Feb. 14, 2014, from 6-8 p.m. at Carpenter Breland Funeral Home.

Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014, at Carpenter Breland Funeral Home in McCook with the Rev. Steve Bales officiating. Gravesides services will follow at 2:30 p.m. at Floral Lawns Cemetery in North Platte, Nebraska.

Carpenter Breland Funeral Home of McCook is in charge of arrangements.