Hildegard Yurk

Funeral Service will be held at Trinity Lutheran Church in Cordova, NE on December 27, 2022, at 10:30 a.m. with a luncheon to follow. Burial will be at Wolbach Cemetery at 2:30 p.m. the same day.

Visitation Monday December 26, 2022, from 1pm to 8pm with family greeting relatives and friends from 6pm to 8pm at Lauber Funeral and Cremation Services, Friend, NE.

Hildegard Yurk, 96, formerly of Cordova, passed away December 16, 2022, at South Haven Nursing Home in Wahoo, Ne. She was born September 13, 1926, in Rummelsburg, Pommerania (now Poland), to Albert and Berta (Gutknecht) Schulz.

As a teenager, Hildegard moved with her family to Germany following WWII. She married Henry Yurk on January 31, 1948, in Kolbermoor, Germany and started a family. In January 1952, they immigrated to the United States and settled in Hastings, NE. Five years later, after becoming US citizens, they moved to Fremont, NE where Henry attended Central Seminary to become a Lutheran pastor. Following ordination he served parishes at Platte Center, Lewiston, Gurley, Cordova, and Wolbach, all in Nebraska.

During this time, Hildegard was a busy homemaker and mother. She loved spending time outdoors following her passion of flower gardening, providing many beautiful arrangements for the church altar. She also discovered another passion, quilting. Working with the quilting groups at church, she made hundreds of quilts and blankets. Her children and grandchildren were grateful recipients of carefully crafted quilts and blankets. Later she added crocheting afghans and donated many of these to relief and shelter centers.

After Henry’s death in 1982, she moved back to Cordova continuing her flower gardening and quilting. She also joined a card club and became an avid pitch player

Hildegard is survived by her sister, Elsbeth Wagner of Denver, CO, children, Klaus Yurk of Lincoln, NE, Renate (Dana) Mark of Fremont, NE, Helmut (Jodeen) Yurk of Fremont, NE, Harry Yurk of Lincoln, NE, Linda (Tom) Casey of Lincoln, NE, Arnold (Patty) Yurk of Eagle, NE, ten grandchildren, twenty great grandchildren, and a great-great grandchild.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, Henry Yurk, brothers, Carl, Rudy and Heine Schulz, sisters, Gertrude Schulz, Giesela Staddlebaur, Lizbeth Garcia, and Inge Scharinger.

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