Freida Ann Perkins, 81, died Monday, November 30, 2020 at the Mitchell Care Center in Mitchell, Nebraska.
She was born February 6, 1939 in Cortez, Colorado to Clyde and Viola M. (Messman) Morris.
After graduating from high school, she attended Walla Walla College in Walla Walla, Washington, graduating from their nursing program as an LPN.
She worked for a short time at hospitals in Cortez, CO and Tempe, AZ where she met her future husband, Dale Perkins. She then moved back to Battle Creek, MI where they were married. Freida worked at the Battle Creek Sanitarium for a few years before finding her niche at the Battle Creek Veterans Hospital, where she would spend the next 42 years serving the needs of our country’s military men and women. She loved her work. After retirement, she moved to Nebraska to be closer to her family.
Freida is survived by her sisters, Mary Lou Brunson of Wills Point, TX, and June (Jim) Wilson of Alliance, NE; her brothers, Kenneth (Mary Alice) Morris of Quincy, MA, and Don Morris of Cortez, CO. She is also survived by her sister-in-law, Kathryn Morris of Los Banos, CA; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, and her brother, Wayne Morris.
Graveside services will be held Friday, December 4, 2020 at 1:30 p.m. at the Hemingford Cemetery. Pastor Mark Magnuson will officiate. Burial will be in the Hemingford Cemetery.
Memorials in her memory may be given to the Mitchell Care Center, 1723 23rd Street, Mitchell, Nebraska, 69357.
Online condolences may be left at www.batesgould.com