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Eva Maurine Lydiatt, age 98, of Chappell, passed away, peacefully and quietly, on Saturday, January 12, 2019 with her family present at the Indian Hills Manor in Ogallala.
Maurine was born on her grandparents farm/ranch near Bartley, Nebraska on April 6, 1920 to Paul and Nellie (Book) Smith. Her family moved to Lodgepole, NE when she was 4 years old. The oldest of three, she also had a brother, Dick and sister, Donna. She went to school in Lodgepole from first grade through high school graduation where her superintendent was her future father-in-law, Laban Lydiatt.
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