Frances Leora (Cobb) Korber, 94 of Pawnee City, Nebraska passed away on Wednesday, November 26, 2014 at the Pawnee Manor, Pawnee City, Nebraska.  Frances was born in Waverly on April 15, 1920 on a howling, blizzard day and they wondered if the doctors would be able to get there.  She lived there until they moved west of Pawnee to Governor Butlers farm and then they moved into Pawnee where she graduated from High School in 1938.

On December 24, 1942 she married Lyle Korber at Judge Hurds home in Pawnee and then they moved to Colorado Springs where his Division of the 66 Black Panthers was formed and he trained there and then was sent to FLorida until he left for Europe in 1944. Frances’s sister Irene came down and helped her move back to Pawnee since she was expecting their first child, which was born on December 8, 1944.  Frances and Mike lived with her parents until Lyle came home from the Service in 1945 and they then moved to Du Bois, Nebraska and bought their first home.  On September 20, 1946, Cheryth was born.

Lyle was in the bull dozing business and Frances and the kids would have to follow him when he moved from place to place, so when he would run out of power with his old lowboy going up a hill she would have to get behind him with the pickup and help push him up the hill, one time northwest of Seneca, Kansas, they were following him and all of sudden all they could see was a cloud of dust, the bridge he had just gone over had fallen in that was the last time she followed him hauling the dozer.

While they were living in Du Bois they bought their farm in 1952 and bought 9 cows to milk.  They would haul the milk home and mom would run it through a separater and bottle it up and then drive Mike and Cheryth around Du Bois to deliver mike and cream. They did this in 1954 and 1955.

They had a Capp Home put on the farm and then moved from Du Bois where she kept busy with her garden and flowers.  She would take meals to the fields when the guys were putting up hay or cutting silage.  Everyone loved her cooking.

 In 1964 they bought the Pawnee Drive-Inn and operated it until 1970.  It kept them busy with farming and could not have done it without the good help of Alice Davis, Lola Hatfield, Cora & Dora Raper, Pam Huber and Sharlet Tiller and Jon and Cheryth helped at nights and weekends.

Frances loved to embroider and crochet afghans.  She made 96 afghans and gave them all away.  She was able to live at home by herself until May 2013 and Connie Dorn came to live with her and be her caregiver.  She was still able to do for herself until the last few months and required more help from Connie and family then the last few weeks she had help from AseraCare and then to the manor for a week.

She was a loving, caring mother, grandmother and great grandmother.  She loved her Lord and Prayed and read her Bible and Daily Bread everyday.  She will be missed.

Frances was preceded in death by her husband Lyle Korber, parents Lee and Lucy Eliza Cobb, brothers, Howard Cobb, sisters, Irene Droge, Rita Howard and grandson Eric Klepper.

Frances is survived by her children, Mike Korber of Pawnee City, NE, Cheryth and Jon Klepper of Du Bois, NE, grandchildren, Brenda and Ron Rowland of Du Bois, NE, Melissa and Todd Stallbaumer of Seneca, KS, Angie Klepper of Beatrice, NE, great grandchildren, Sean Klepper, Justin Klepper, Jacob Rowland, Brady Stallbaumer, Blake Stallbaumer, Bracin Stallbaumer, Alek Klepper, several nieces, nephews and many friends.

Services 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, December 2, 2014 at Friedens U.C.C., rural Bern, Kansas.  Officiating Pastor Steve Gee and Pastor Jacqueline Lamensky.  Visitation on Monday, December 1, 2014 from 4-8 p.m. with family greeting friends from 6-8 p.m. at Wherry Mortuary, 919 G Street, Pawnee City, Nebraska.  Interment at Friedens U.C.C. Cemetery, rural Bern, Kansas.  Memorials to Du Bois Community Foundation, AseraCare Hospice, or Pawnee County Medical Foundation. On line condolence may be left at www.wherrymortuary.com