Alta Alice Koehle

NORFOLK — Graveside service for Alta Alice (Freeman) Koehler, 99, formerly of Osmond, will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021, at the Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery in Norfolk. Officiating will be Rev. Leon Rosenthal. Alta will be buried next to her husband, Art, in Norfolk.

Alta passed away on Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021, at the age of 99. Stonacek Funeral Chapel in Norfolk is in charge of the arrangements.

Alta Alice was born on Jan. 7, 1922, to Cashey and Edith Freeman in Knox County. She was raised on a farm in Niobrara. Alta's father died from cancer when she was just a teenager and she took a job as a live-in housekeeper to the Folkers family in Osmond, where she met and married Arthur Koehler. Art and Alta operated Koehler Motor Company, a Chevy dealership and auto repair business. They were longtime residents of Osmond where they raised four children: Gerald, Jerry, LeRoy and Judy. She had nine grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren and many great-great-grandchildren. Alta enjoyed making quilts, knitting and crocheting. She made afghans well into her nineties which she donated to the Veterans Hospital. She received a letter of appreciation from the Department of Veterans Affairs for her work.

Condolences may be expressed to the family on-line at www.stonacekfuneralchapel.com.