Darlene A. Skrdlant 08/19/1926 to 10/15/ 2011

Blue Hill resident Darlene A. Skrdlant 85, died Saturday October 15, 2011 at Blue Hill Care Center in Blue Hill. 
Services are 10:30am Thursday at the United Methodist Church in Bladen with Rev. Steve Marsh officiating.  Burial will be at Plainview Cemetery , south of Bladen.  Visitation is one hour prior to services at the church.  A memorial has been established.
Darlene Artus Chaplin Haller was born on August 19, 1926 She attended school in Bladen and graduated from high school there.  She began her teaching career the following fall at Harmony and took summer classes, night classes and correspondence courses, as she continued to teach the rural schools in Webster County. 
She married Glen Skrdlant of Bladen, Nebraska on June 8, 1947. They lived on a farm a mile south of Bladen and later moved to the farm three miles south and a half mile west of Bladen where they would spend the rest of their lives. She taught at Five star and Catherton school before she quit teaching when their son Kelly was born in 1951.
Besides her role as a farm wife and mother, she continued her education, eventually received a Bachelors degree and two Masters degrees from Kearney State College.  She returned to teaching in 1962 and taught first and second grades in Bladen and Silver Lake Schools for 31 years.
Darlene loved gardening and tending her flowers.  She was creative and artistic and enjoyed painting, etching, and other art forms.
She and her husband enjoyed traveling to Husker games and made many bowl trips.  Darlene retired from teaching after her husband's death in 1997.  In January of 2002, she moved to the Blue Hill Care Center and spent the remainder of her years in the fog of Alzheimer Disease.
She is survived by one son, Kelly of Bladen, one grandson, Riley and his wife Debbie of Bladen, one granddaughter  Ashley Skrdlant of  Denver Colorado.  one great grandson, Lanham Skrdlant ; three brothers-in-law.
She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband.  

Glen Skrdlant

Friday, Sept. 26, 1997
Rural Bladen resident Glen Skrdlant, 74, died Friday, Sept. 26, 1997, at Community Care of Blue Hill.
Services are 2 p.m. Wednesday at United Methodist Church in Bladen with the Rev. Baldeo Singh officiating. Burial will be in Plainview Cemetery south of Bladen with military rites provided by American Legion Shirley Post No. 176 of Blue Hill. Merten-Butler Mortuary of Blue Hill is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Skrdlant was born July 7, 1923, to Joseph and Stella (Koertner) Skrdlant on a farm west of Bladen. He attended Harmony and Five Star schools in the Bladen area. He graduated from Bladen High School in 1940. He farmed near Bladen. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He became staff sergeant while serving in combat in the European Theater with Company H, 11th Regiment of the Fifth Division from 1944-46. He returned to Bladen. He worked for Hubert's Truck Service. On June 8, 1947, he married Darlene Haller in Bladen and returned to farming.
He was a member of Bladen United Methodist Church. He served on the Bladen Board of Education and Webster County Fair Board.
Survivors are his wife; one son, Kelly of Bladen; two sisters, Clara Skrdlant of Blue Hill and Esther Bartley of Abilene, Kan.; four brothers, Edward of Bladen, Norman of Hastings, Irvin of Doniphan and Harold of San Antonio, Texas; and two grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by two sisters.
A memorial fund has been established.