Gene Lienemann

Gene Lienemann, 93, died April 19, 2022 at Alliance, NE.

He was born November 17, 1928 in Norfolk, NE to Henry D and Emma (Wachter) Lienemann who farmed south of Randolph, Ne. Gene graduated from Randolph High School in 1946. His mother died as the result of an accident in 1944 and his father died of colon cancer in 1947. As a result Gene farmed for two years and then went off to school as he had planned before his father’s illness.

Gene was working at a radio station in Sioux Falls, S. Dakota when the Korean conflict began and the South Dakota National Guard was activated. He became the Radar...