Funeral services: Friday, June 15, 2012, at 10:30 AM at Price Funeral Home Chapel
Visitation: Thursday, 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM at Price Funeral Home
Memorials to: The Beatrice Animal Shelter
Mary E. Graning, daughter of Joseph and Hattie (
Norman
) Miller was born on February 2
nd
, 1923 in
Hebron
,
NE.
She was the 4
th
of 4 children. She passed away on June 12, 2012, at the age of 89 years, 4 months, and 10 days at the
Beatrice
Manor
Care
Center
in
Beatrice
,
NE.
Mary was united in marriage to George Glen Edward Graning on February 14, 1940. This union was blessed with three children, Robert, Marjorie and Joanne. Mary was a member of the First Christian Church. Mary was a devoted mother raising her children. She started working as a medication aide at the Blue Valley Care Home. She then became Activities Director at the Blue Valley Lutheran Nursing Home in
Hebron
. Mary also cared for an elderly woman in her home. She also did sewing for people, reupholstered furniture, enjoyed rock collecting, camping, gardening, reading, cooking, her pets, giving her grandchildren ice cream at bedtime, her many friends and most of all her family. Mary was preceded in death by her parents, brothers, husband George and daughter Marjorie. She is survived by one son, Robert (Judy) Graning of Red Cloud, NE. One daughter, Joanne (Bob) Gaylord of Beatrice, five grandchildren: Debra (Rick) Sanne of Beatrice, Diana (Robert) Ford of Plant City, FL, Amy Reinke of Deshler, Doug Marquart of Kansas City, MO and Chelsea Gaylord of Lincoln, NE; numerous great and great-great-grandchildren.
