Linda Marie Nutt’s work on Earth is done. She went to be with her Savior Dec. 1, 2017, after a brave fight against cancer. She spent her last days in hospice at Lindon Court with her family and a very caring staff.
Linda was born on June 1, 1952, in Kimball to Orville and Viola Hammond. The daughter of a railroad man, she moved often throughout her childhood, attending school in North Platte and graduating from Brady High School. She was the youngest of six children.
Linda met the love of her life when she was 14. She married Louis “Louie” Nutt in Curtis on Dec. 23, 1969. Louie and Linda raised three daughters, Melanie, Kasey and Lindsey.
They made their home in Wellfleet for 45 years. Linda was the wife of a railroad man. She stayed home with her children while they were raised. She later worked at the agriculture college in Curtis as a dorm night guard and as a janitor for the Maywood Public Schools for several years. Everything she did, she did with love, from cleaning to making sure every new baby in the family had a crocheted blanket (or two).
She loved spending time with family, and she enjoyed creating graphics on her computer. She loved sewing and crocheting and organizing. She made everything look easy, especially baking pies. She always took time for everyone, and she absolutely loved going to church and Bible study at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Curtis.
Linda was preceded in death by her parents and a sister, Penny Ziegler.
She is survived by her husband, Louie; three daughters, Melanie (Shawn) Standiford of North Platte, Kasey (Todd) Helmut of Wichita, Kansas, and Lindsey (Corey) Corey of Elwood; grandchildren, Levi (Amber) Doyle of Bellevue, Brooklynne (Cooper) Gydesen of Elwood, Karni (Stephan) Vath of Grand Island, Lukas Doyle of Kearney, Wryleigh, Sophia, Louie and Giavanna Doyle of Oconto, Houston Standiford of North Platte, Kaitlyn and Allison Helmut of Wichita, Shannon Kennicutt and Bree and Bodhi Corey of Elwood; great-grandchildren, Abel Doyle of Bellevue and Nixxon and Sawyer Gydesen of Elwood; two brothers and two sisters; many nieces and nephews; and other and family and friends.
Linda was very brave during her fight with cancer. She had a quiet faith and an absolute certainty of Jesus Christ and His promises.
Memorials are suggested to St. John’s Lutheran Church, 504 Wallace, Curtis, NE 69025. Online condolences may be shared at blasestrauser.com.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 5, at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Curtis with Pastor Derek Brown officiating. Burial will be at the Curtis Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4-8 p.m., with the family present from 4-6 p.m., on Monday, Dec. 4, at Blase-Wetzel-Strauser Memorial Chapel, Curtis, which is in charge of arrangements.