Hannelore Bolander

DANNEBROG -- Hannelore Bolander, 71, of Dannebrog died Saturday, Dec. 22, 2001, at St. Francis Medical Center in Grand Island.

Memorial services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Resurrection Catholic Church in Grand Island with the Rev. James C. Schmitt officiating.

A wake service will be at 4 p.m. Wednesday at the church. Private burial will be at 11 a.m. Friday in Winner, S.D.

Kleine Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Memorials are suggested to the donor's choice.

Mrs. Bolander was born Feb. 5, 1940, in Stratsund, Mecklenburg, Germany, to Wilhelm and Elizabeth M. (Magdaline) Geigenberger. She graduated from high school and attended a business college in Germany.

She met Donald P. Bolander while he was stationed with the U.S. Armed Forces in Germany. They were married May 23, 1959, in Idar-Oberstein, Germany.

After arriving in the United States, they lived in Winner, S.D., until May 1967, when the family relocated to Grand Island. She and other friends formed a group known as the "German Club." They had a very special bond and received their U.S. citizenship together. The family moved to Dannebrog in August of 1973.

She worked for J.C. Penney's for 21 years in South Dakota and Grand Island as a catalog sales associate. She was a member of the Catholic church, the "German Club," liked to crochet, played accordion and was a gifted interior decorator.

Survivors include her husband, Donald, of Dannebrog; three sons and daughters-in-law, Mark and Lori Bolander of Blair, Ronald and Teresa Bolander of Dannebrog and Brent and Donna Bolander of Fort Riley, Kan.; eight grandchildren; and one brother and sister-in-law, Rolf and Miya Geigenberger of Pinneberg, Germany.

She was preceded in death by an infant son, James Richard.*