Evelyn Mae (Schwabauer) Reichert passed away on Wednesday, November 1, 2023, in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. Cremation was chosen. A Memorial Service will be held at 10:00 A.M. on Saturday, November 25, 2023, at Bridgman Funeral Home with Karen Anderson officiating. Burial of ashes will follow at Fairview Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Brookstone Health and Hospice, 3701 Avenue “D” Scottsbluff, NE 69361.
Evelyn Mae (Schwabauer) Reichert was born September 11, 1932, in Gering, Nebraska (“in the shadow of the Scotts Bluff National Monument”) to Frederick and Amelia Schwabauer. She was the second of three children; joined by her older brother Eugene and younger sister, Mary Ann. She graduated from Scottsbluff High School in 1951 and went on to work for the United Telephone Company for 18 months.
Evelyn married Donald D. Reichert on February 8, 1953, and they had three daughters, Jean Ann, Linda, and Mary Jane. They were stationed at Fort Belvoir, VA for two years when Don was in the Army. Evelyn was a busy mom, as she was a Blue Bird and Camp Fire Girls leader, Sunday School Superintendent and teacher, Parent Teachers Association (PTA) President, room mother, Cosmospals, etc.
When the girls entered high school, she went to work for her sister in the surgery department of St. Mary’s Hospital in Scottsbluff, eventually transferring to Regional West’s surgery department. She retired in 1997 after 27 years. She then helped Don schedule for their bus company, Good Tyme Charter.
Evelyn’s hobbies included fishing, camping, bowling, pinochle, angel, and rooster collecting, and she and Don would teach anyone who wanted to learn to water-ski! In retirement, her sister and her leaned on each other to “keep each other out of the nursing home”, as they put it! They traveled, shopped, and Linda joined them for some of their adventures. A recent trip to see grandson Billy Boyer and his family in Minnesota was a highlight.
In retirement, she enjoyed watching tv, reading, WNCC Volleyball and Basketball games, Husker Volleyball (sitting courtside behind Coach Cook was a highlight), and “watching a good sunset”.
Preceding her in death are her parents; husband Don in 2015; infant daughter Mary Jane; brother Eugene in 2019; parents in law, Sarah and Dave Reichert, and sister-in-law Judy Krausie. Evelyn is survived by her daughters and sons-in-law Jean Ann (Greg) Doxtater of Grand Island, New York and Linda (Tim) Harimon of Scottsbluff; Jean Ann’s son and wife Billy (Sheila) Boyer, as well as their children Ally, Lucy, and Jay of Osakis, Minnesota, and Breanden of Antioch, Illinois; sister Mary Ann Schwabauer; sisters-in-law Violet Irene Schwabauer of Scottsbluff, and Violet Kelley of Hereford, Texas, as well as many nieces and nephews.