Hortense Sorensen

BROKEN BOW -- Hortense Sorensen, 100, of Broken Bow died Monday, Dec. 6, 1999, at Heritage Hall Nursing Home.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Govier Brothers Chapel in Broken Bow. The Rev. Cliff Reynolds will officiate. Burial will be in the Dannebrog Cemetery. Further services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Our Saviour's Lutheran Church in Dannebrog with the Rev. Bob Carlson officiating.

Memorials are suggested to Heritage Hall Nursing Home and to Our Savior's Lutheran Church, both in Broken Bow.

Miss Sorensen was born on Nov. 16, 1899, on a farm near Dannebrog to William and Anna Sorensen. In 1914, the family moved into Dannebrog, where she attended school and graduated from high school in 1917.

She attended college at Kearney Normal School and earned her two-year certificate to teach. She taught in several rural schools in Howard County and then taught first and second grades in her hometown school for 15 years.

She later attended Colorado State College at Greeley, where she received her bachelor's degree in education in 1941. She then taught first and second grades in Weldona, Las Animos and Brighton, Colo.

A few years after that, she moved to Wyoming. She taught in Cheyenne and Evanston and later became endorsed in special education.

She then moved to California and taught at Modesto, Bakersfield and San Diego. Altogether, she taught about 50 years. After she retired, she lived in a retirement complex in San Diego for 15 years.

When her health began to fail, she moved to Broken Bow in November 1986 to live with her brother and his wife. Since March 1987, she had resided at Heritage Hall in Broken Bow.

Among survivors is a sister-in-law, Althea Sorensen of Broken Bow.

She is preceded in death by three brothers and one sister.