Lowell Chadwick, age 85, of Oshkosh, Nebraska passed away on Friday evening, March 12, 2021 at Great Plains Medical Center in North Platte, Nebraska.
Funeral Services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Mountain Time on Friday, March 19, 2021 at the Oshkosh Community Wesleyan Church in Oshkosh, Nebraska with pastor Bruce Neal officiating. Burial with Military HOnors provided by the United States Navy will follow in the Ash Hollow Cemetery near Lewellen, Nebraska.
Visitation will be held on Thursday afternoon from 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Mountain Time at the Holecheck-Bondegard Funeral Home in Oshkosh, NE.
Memorials in Lowell's name can be made to the family for later designation C/O Marlene Chadwick, PO Box 74, Oshkosh, NE 69154.
Holecheck-Bondegard Funeral Home & Cremations in Oshkosh, NE is serving the Chadwick Famly.
Lowell Joy Chadwick was born on January 26, 1936 to Joy Ellsworth and SaxieL. (Church) Chadwick in Otis, Colorado.
Lowell joined the Navy in 1954. He married his soul mate, Iva Marlene Hicks on December 18, 1955. They started their new life together in Long Beach, California. They then moved to Denver, Colorado after he got out of the Navy in 1957. They had four children: Debbie, Tamie, Joy, and Rodney.
While in the Navy, Lowell traveled to Japan, Alaska, and Hawaii, as well as other ports. After the Navy, Lowell became a truck driver for Solid Carbonic Dry Ice and worked there for 21 years. In 1978, they moved to Oshkosh, Nebraska where he worked for John Deere, Cold Water Fish Farm, Farm & Ranch Fertilizer, and various other jobs. He made Oshkosh his home for almost 42 years until his precious life ended.
Lowell loved to travel with his family, camping and sightseeing all over Colorado, California, Wyoming, South Dakota, and Montana, visiting places like Yellowstone National Park, Four Corners, National Redwood Forest, and Mount Rushmore.
Lowell & Marlene loved to take each of their grandkids to the USS Belle Grove ship reunions all over the United States. Lowell loved to collect ink pens, hats, and hat pins wherever he traveled. Great times and great memories! Lowell was an avid lover of sports. He loved the Denver Broncos, but he especially loved watching his kids, grandkids and great grandkids games. You could hear him hooting and hollering from down the street. He always said his family was his greatest accomplishment.
Lowell leaves behind his loving wife of 65 years, Marlene; daughters Tamie (Rick) Steiner of Aurora, Colorado and Joy Nadene (Kevin) Kugler of Elsie, Nebraska; his son, Rodney (Angela) Chadwick of La Belle, Florida; ten grandchildren: Dedra (Darrell) Wyatt, Amber (Sergio) Perez, Neal (Brittany) Kugler, Dustin (Chelsea) Kugler, Jared (Kristina) Steiner, Sara Feldkamp, Tiffany (Chris) Hoaglund, Mark Noel, Bobby Kugler, and Lilly Chadwick; 14 great grandkids; and lots of nieces, nephews and longtime friends.
He was preceded in death by his daughter, Debbie Noel; 2 babies (lost due to miscarriage); his parents, Joy & Saxie Chadwick; brothers Ellsworth Chadwick and Bill Chadwick; and sisters Mary Jean Fincher and Grace Hendricks.