- YUCAIPA, Calif. - Leonard F. Rohrbouck, 85, formerly of Scottsbluff, died Tuesday March 20, 2007.
Funeral Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, March 24, at the Jolliffe Funeral Home Chapel in Scottsbluff with Father Gerald Harr officiating. Interment will follow at the Bayard Cemetery.
Visitation will be prior to the funeral service Saturday morning.
Memorials can be made to the Regional West Cancer Services. Online condolences may be offered to the family at www.jolliffefuneralhome. com.
Leonard was born Oct. 25, 1921, in Alliance to Chris and Bertha (Fredericks) Rohrbouck. Leonard was education in rural schools outside Alliance prior to his enlistment into the U.S. Army. While stationed in California, Leonard married Patricia Pullen in 1944, his sweetheart he had met in Bayard.
Following his honorable discharge from the U.S. Army, the couple remained in California where Leonard worked as a diesel mechanic in the trucking industry until his retirement in the mid 1980's. The couple adopted a son, Doug as a newborn in 1951.
Leonard enjoyed fishing, hunting (which he would return to Nebraska yearly to deer hunt locally), and collecting guns, cacti, and rocks. He was considered quite a rock-hound, as he was an avid collector of Apache' Tears, a rare black stone Leonard would scour the desert landscape for hours to acquire. Besides his many collections, Leonard enjoyed constructing benches out of wagon wheels.
He was a fun-loving, generous member of his family with a great sense of humor, and he would yearly bring to local family members bushels of fresh Pomegranates from Nevada.
Survivors include his wife Pat of California; son, Doug of California; sisters, Lorene Newton and her husband Dale of Scottsbluff and Rose Marie Dyke and her husband Bill of Plaza, N.D.; brothers Richard Rohrbouck of Gering and Raymond Rohrbouck of Alliance; and numerous nieces and nephews.
His parents and sister Helen Bostron preceded him in death.
Star-Herald (Scottsbluff, NE)
Date: March 23, 2007
Author: Staff Writer
Record Number: fd5a9fb7140aff9ef6af8aa57278aeeac0c7e2
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