Hope Elnora Gatzemeyer, 84, of West Point, formerly of Bancroft, entered into heavenly rest peacfully, Tuesday, March 11, 2008 after a brief illness at St. Joseph’s Retirement Community in West Point. Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:30 am. Saturday at Holy Cross Catholic Church in Bancroft with Reverend Paul Ortmeier as celebrant. Guild Rosary will be 1:30 pm. Friday at Stokely Funeral Home in West Point. Public Rosary will be 7:00 Friday at Holy Cross Catholic Church in Bancroft. Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery. Memorials may be made to St. Joseph’s Retirement Community or St. Francis Hospice. Visitation will be 9:00 am. until 3:00 pm. Friday at Stokely Funeral Home in West Point, continuing at Holy Cross Catholic Church in Bancroft 4:00 pm. until 7:00 pm. Hope was born April 3, 1923, on a farm south east of Lyons in Burt County to Elmer and Irene Babbitt Drummond. She attended several rural schools near Lyons and graduated from Lyons High School in 1940. On August 28, 1940 she married Gordon L. Gatzemeyer at St. Michael’s Catholic Church at South Sioux City. Except for a few months in Los Angeles, CA, they lived and farmed near Bancroft all their married years. Following the death of her husband in 1999, Hope moved to West Point. Hope was a member of Holy Cross Catholic Church in Bancroft, where she served as organist for 35 years. She was currently a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in West Point and St. Mary’s Guild. Hope enjoyed quilting, making a quilt for each of her grandchildren. Survivors include daughter Cheryl Dixon of Lincoln, sons, A. J. (Norma) of Morton, Il, Alan (Carlene) of Bancroft, and Dwight(Kathy) of Lincoln, sisters Ruth Paulsen of Lincoln, Mildred Fox of St. Louis, MO and Janice (Marvin) Daberkow of Bancroft, son in law Dan Dalton of Ogden, UT, 15 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her husband, Gordon, in 1999, daughter Susann Dalton in 2000, her parents, sisters Grace Dose and Lelah Farrens and brother Jesse Drummond.