Emily Marie Sando June 9, 1937 ~ December 11, 2011
		Draucker Funeral Home 700 N. Spruce Street Post Office Box 296 Ogallala, NE 69153 Ph:  308.284.4021

 OBITUARY

 
Emily Marie Sando, 74, of Ogallala, died Sunday, December 11, 2011 in the Ogallala Community Hospital.

Emily was born June 9, 1937 in Rockham, SD. She was the third of six children born to James and Lillie Kissner Pedersen.

She graduated from Ipswich, So. Dak. High School with the class of 1955. Emily then worked for an attorney in Ipswich before getting a job at the South Dakota Department of Labor in Aberdeen, So. Dak. There she met and, in 1959, married her husband of 52 years Delmar E. Sando. They made Aberdeen their home and raised three children.

In 1971 the family moved to Denver, Colo. where they resided until moving to Ogallala in 1994. Emily co-owned the Ogallala Dairy Queen along with her family.

Her hobbies included sewing, crocheting, and playing bridge. Emily especially enjoyed working with the Girl Scouts.

Preceding her in death were her parents.

Survivors include her husband Delmar Sando and her son James Sando, both of Ogallala; and two daughters: Ellen and her husband Michael Taylor of Ogallala and Pamela and her husband John Prokop of Tuscon, AZ. Also four sisters: Dorothy Ernst of Roscoe, SD; Rosene Royce of Faulkton, SD; Linda Epperly and Jane Tumbleson, both of Mobridge, SD. One brother Marcus Pedersen and his wife Judy of McPherson, KS. Nine grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to the time of Funeral Service at 11 a.m. MT on Saturday, Dec. 17, in Draucker Funeral Home. Rev. John Stubenrouch of St. Pauls Lutheran Church will officiate. A memorial has been established in her memory.

Cremation will follow and inurnment will take place at Fort McPherson National Cemetery near Maxwell on Monday, Dec. 19 at 11 a.m. Central Time. Online condolences may be sent by clicking here.

Draucker Funeral Home of Ogallala is in charge of arrangements.