Elsie "Elaine" Curry
January 6, 1938 - December 19, 2016

Elsie "Elaine" Curry, 78, of Ponca, NE passed away on Monday, December 19, 2016 at Elms Health Care Center in Ponca, NE.

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 P.M. on Thursday, December 29, 2016 at the Gospel Chapel in Newcastle, NE. Burial will be in Silver Ridge Cemetery in rural Ponca. Visitation will begin at 5:00 P.M., with the family present at 6:00 P.M. and a prayer service at 7:00 P.M. on Wednesday, December 28, 2016 at the Evangelical Free Church in Ponca, NE. Arrangements are under the direction of Mohr Funeral Home in Ponca, NE.

Elaine was born to Reo and Thelma (Smith) Weeks on January 6, 1938 in Ogallala, NE. She attended school in Texas, before moving to Nebraska and graduating from Palmer High School in Palmer, NE. She was saved at an early age and attended many summer Bible camps at Maranatha Bible Camp, near North Platte, NE. She worked as a telephone operator until March of 1957. She met Don Curry at the Evangelical Free Church in Grand Island, NE, where he lived while he was attending business college in Grand Island. Elaine married Donald Curry on March 2, 1957 at the Evangelical Free Church in Grand Island. The couple moved to the Newcastle/Ponca area, farmed and were blessed with four children, Pam, Debbie, Rick and Keith. Elaine was a wonderful farm wife, milking cows by hand, crating sows, driving a two row corn picker, then two and four row combines. She disked about 1000 acres every spring the past several years of farming, and she rode horses with Don, too!

She was a member of the Ponca Evangelical Free Church, where she served faithfully, and the Gideons, where she helped to distribute free Bibles for many years

She was a loving wife and mother. She was very helpful, organized and neighborly. She enjoyed gardening and canning, and her flowers. She loved this time of the year, because she loved making things for Christmas. She was an excellent seamstress, crocheted afghans and baked all kinds of Christmas goodies to eat and share. She loved the Christmas season most because that's when she celebrated her Savior's birth.

Survivors include her husband, Don Curry of Ponca, NE; children, Pam (Wes) Jones of Nashville, TN, Debbie (Dave) Schultz of Lennox, SD, Rick (Denita) Curry of Fullerton, NE and Keith (Shelly) Curry of Davenport, IA; 10 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; siblings, Rollin (Wendy) Weeks of Santa Barbara, CA, Jean Patchin of Central City, NE, Dottie (Rex) Beam of Alberta, Canada, Marilyn (Wes) Rowe of Central City, NE, Reo (Marilee) Weeks of Lincoln, NE, David (Delores) Weeks of Lincoln, NE and Robert Weeks of Vietnam; and brother-in-law, Harold Curry of Waterbury, NE.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Reo and Thelma Weeks; father-in-law and mother-in-law, Orval and Hazel Curry; and a sister-in-law, Ardel (Curry) Moore.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to The Gideons International.

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