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April 1, 1931 - January 8, 2013

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Bernita M. Terkildsen, 81, of rural Scribner, died Tuesday, January 8, 2013 at the Scribner Good Samaritan Center. Funeral services will be 1:00 pm. Saturday at St. John’s Lutheran Church on the Cuming County line with Vicar Jeff Schmitz officiating. Burial will be at the church cemetery. Visitation will be Friday from 9:00 am. until 8:00 pm. with family receiving friends 4:00 pm. to 6:00 pm. at Stokely Funeral Home which is in charge of arrangements. Memorials may be made to St. John’s Lutheran Church. Bernita was born a triplet on April 1, 1931, in Cuming County, southeast of West Point, to J. Herman and Henny Meyer Drieling. She was baptized and confirmed at St. John’s Lutheran Church. Bernita attended District 46 country school before graduating from West Point Public High School in 1949. On May 4, 1952, Bernita married Gilmore “G. H.” Terkildsen at St. John’s Lutheran Church. The couple farmed in Dodge County near the Dodge and Cuming County line between Scribner and West Point along the Elkhorn River by Crowell. Bernita was a pitcher for the Hillside Dairy softball team and enjoyed watching baseball games in the evenings. She and Gilmore liked to go polka dancing and listen to polka music on the radio on Sunday afternoons and enjoyed snagging for spoonbill together. Bernita also raised a hatching for Zucker’s Hatchery. She enjoyed being outdoors in the summer while running the tractor cultivating and baling hay. Bernita’s favorite activities were playing cards and bingo. Bernita is survived by her son Clinton (Claudia Schultz) of Scribner; grandsons Michael of Lincoln and David of Scribner, nieces and nephews. She is preceded in death by her husband, parents, sisters Bernice Drieling in infancy, Berdina Wegner, and LeVerna Benne and brother Mervin Drieling.