Pearl Ellen Dexter, 102, of Burwell, Nebraska formerly of Amelia, Nebraska died January 11, 2020 at the Community Memorial Health Center in Burwell.
Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. on January 14, 2020 at the Burwell Baptist Church in Burwell, Nebraska. Burial will be in Cottonwood Cemetery in Burwell. Pastor Joel Wentworth will officiate. Memorials are suggested to the Burwell Baptist Church. There will be no visitation. Hitchcock Funeral Home in Burwell is in charge of arrangements.
Pearl was born June 23, 1917 in Custer County, Nebraska to Peter and Anna (Rhode) Jacobson. She moved with her family as a child to Gibbon, Nebraska. After graduation she received her teaching certificate and started teaching country school in Holt County. She met Raymond Dexter and they were married on January 30, 1942 in O’Neill, Nebraska. Pearl and Ray ranched and always lived on the same place in Holt County. After she raised her family, she went back to college and received her education degree. She taught school for over 25 years. Raymond died March 25, 2009.
Pearl enjoyed gardening, flowers, playing the piano and teaching. She enjoyed providing beautiful bouquets of flowers for Sunday services at church. She attended church for many years at Cedar Creek and enjoyed playing the piano. In later years she became a member of the Burwell Baptist Church.
Pearl is survived by seven children; Coen and Brenda Dexter of Nucla, Colorado, Ruth Miller of Burwell, Nebraska, Marlynn and Kay Dexter of Kearney, Nebraska, Galynn and Carolyn Dexter of Burwell, Nebraska, Carol and Ray DeGroff of Burwell, Nebraska, Sandy and Dave Gideon of Burwell, Nebraska and Earleen and Gary Strong of Chambers, Nebraska. Seventeen Grandchildren, forty-nine great-grandchildren and eighteen great great-grandchildren, three sisters-in-law, one brother-in-law and numerous nieces and nephews.
Pearl was preceded in death by her parents, husband, a sister, Rose Jacobson, a son-in-law, Gary Miller, a grandson, Monte Dexter and two great-grandchildren, Payton Gideon and Katie Kate McClintic.
