Albert McKnight

BRIDGEPORT -- Albert R. McKnight, 79, of Bridgeport, formerly of Grand Island and Dannebrog, died Monday, Dec. 6, 1999, at Western Nebraska Veterans Home in Scottsbluff.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Church of Christ in Bridgeport. The Rev. Jonathan Seng will officiate. Burial will be at 10 a.m. MST Monday in Fort McPherson National Cemetery in Maxwell.

Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday at Christensen-Bridgeport Memorial Chapel in Bridgeport. Memorials are suggested to the family or donor's choice.

Dugan-Kramer Funeral Home in Scottsbluff is in charge of arrangements.

Mr. McKnight was born June 17, 1920, to Lee and Nora (Ellison) McKnight at Etna in southwestern Custer County. He attended Callaway schools.

He enlisted in the U.S. Navy on Nov. 29, 1943, and served until being discharged in 1946. He served during World War II in which he was wounded three times and received the Purple Heart and several other medals.

He married Gloria Sherlock on May 3, 1961, at York. He farmed near Broadwater in Morrill County and worked as a hot mix plant operator for road construction. He then moved to Grand Island, where he served as a power plant engineer at Cornhusker Army Ammunition Plant for 18 years. He next moved to Dannebrog, where he was a business owner and owned thoroughbred race horses and quarter horse show horses.

He retired and moved to Bridgeport in 1982 because of poor health. He and his wife spent their winters in the Arizona desert from 1982 to 1991. He entered Heritage Care Center in Gering in 1992, and moved to Western Nebraska Veterans Home in Scottsbluff, where he lived until his death.

He was a member of the Masons and American Legion. He enjoyed golfing and raising horses.

Survivors include his wife; one daughter, Sharon (Mrs. Dale) Dixon of Hastings; two stepsons, Tom Hethcote of Holyoke, Colo., and Bob Goeman of Wellington, Colo.; three grandchildren; eight step-grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; three step great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandson.

He was preceded in death by one great-grandson, three brothers and one sister.