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Mildred M. “Millie” Maixner Nienaber
29 Nov 1921 – 8 Oct 2018
| Birth | 29 Nov 1921 |
| Death | 8 Oct 2018 |
| Cemetery | Kearney Cemetery Kearney , Buffalo County , Nebraska , USA |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/193856354 |
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Mildred M. “Millie” Nienaber, 96, of Kearney, Neb., died Monday, Oct. 8, 2018, in Colorado Springs. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at St. James Catholic Church in Kearney with the Rev. Art Faesser officiating. Inurnment of ashes will be at Kearney Cemetery. Horner Lieske McBride & Kuhl Funeral and Cremation Services in Kearney is in charge of arrangements. She died peacefully. Millie was born Nov. 29, 1921, in Lincoln, Neb., to Jerry and Anna (Pokorny) Maixner. She grew up in the Lincoln/Omaha area and graduated from Beatrice (Neb.) High School in 1939. She then attended St. Elizabeth School of Nursing. On March 9, 1943, she married Andrew P. Nienaber in Omaha. Millie and her husband, Andy, lived in Holdrege and Lexington where he worked for private aviation flying services before moving to Kearney in 1954 and establishing Andy’s Air Service. They owned and operated the fixed base air service operation until retiring in 1985. Millie was actively involved in the business doing the bookkeeping and billing, waiting on customers, flagging down and fueling aircraft, and operating the Unicom radio service with pilots for runway landing instructions, current weather readings and general information. She was a weather observer for the Department of Aeronautics from 1955-80. This entailed taking weather readings throughout the day, seven days a week, with no days off. She received a National Centennial Award from the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Department of Agriculture for being a part of the Cooperative Weather Station Network in 1990. Millie belonged to the Beta Sigma Phi women’s club in Kearney for many years. She was a member of St. James Catholic Church in Kearney. Millie is survived by her sons, David Nienaber of Broken Bow, Neb., and Derald Nienaber of Lincoln; daughter, Denise Hainault and husband David of Colorado Springs; grandchildren, Cyndi Nienaber of Shakopee, Minn., Kirt Whitney of Denver, Christie Klingenberg and husband Adam of Lincoln and Christopher Hainault and Krystal of Colorado Springs; and great-grandchildren, Melissa Nienaber of Nebraska, Mariah Nienaber of Shakopee, Chase and Caiden Bivens and Colt Klingenberg, all of Lincoln, and Michelle and Matthew Hainault of Colorado Springs. She is also survived by numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. She was preceded in death by her husband in 1994 and two brothers, Bob Maixner of Hobbs, N.M., and Jerry Maixner Jr. of Austin, Texas.
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