Birth: August 24, 1930
Death: May 24, 2017
Location: Lot 30, Section 4, Outside the Old Cemetery
WOOD RIVER — Delene M. “Dee” Wiseman, 86, of Wood River died Wednesday, May 24, 2017, at CHI Health St. Francis, Grand Island.
Services will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 31, at First Presbyterian Church, Wood River with Pastors Brad Jepsen and Darrel Holzinger officiating.
Burial will be in Wood River Cemetery.
Delene (Dee) M. Wiseman was born Aug. 24, 1930, in Chadron. She was adopted right after birth by Fred Vaughan.
She later moved to Grand Island, where she was raised by her grandparents, Harry and Ethel Vaughan.
She was a member of First Baptist Church.
She attended West Lawn Elementary, Walnut Jr. High and Grand Island Senior High School where she graduated in 1948. While in school Dee played violin and was first chair in Ms. Pinder’s Symphony Orchestra. She got to play in the Hastings Symphony Orchestra and took pride in driving her Model A Ford to Hastings.
Dee worked at Walklin’s Drug Store and JC Penney.
Dee met her husband square dancing with Hall County Rural Youth in Grand Island. Dee married Marvin Wiseman on Sept. 14, 1952, in Grand Island.
They lived in Wood River on the family farm for 64 years where she helped with the farm. The couple had four children.
Dee was a very active member of First Presbyterian Church in Wood River.
Dee loved music, singing, reading, golf and animals, but most of all she loved her children.
She will always be remembered for her smile and her love of laughter. She thanked God every day that she was adopted by a loving family.
Dee is survived by her husband, Marvin Wiseman of Wood River; daughters, Joydene (Dave) McCarville of Sidney, Sylvia (Jim) White of Omaha, Merilee (Larry) Callahan of Grand Island; a son, Martin (Shelly) Wiseman of Wood River; and 14 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.