Raymond W. Stehno

Raymond W. Stehno, 89, one of five children of Frank and Mary Sis Stehno was born on a farm near Stratton, NE on December 9, 1924 and peacefully departed this life surrounded by family on March 21, 2014.
Ray was a lifelong resident of Hitchcock County in the Stratton area. After graduation from Stratton High School, he attended the University of Nebraska College of Agriculture in Lincoln. He served in the United States Army Air Force during World War II, spending one year in the South Pacific on the island of Tinian, on Iwo Jima, and in the Philippines, as a radar navigator aboard a B-29 superbomber.
Ray and his wife farmed for 45 years. He was also a licensed real estate broker and the District Director for the Nebraska State ASCS from 1961 until 1989.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Adeline Janousek Stehno, in 2002. Ray is survived by his 5 children: Karen and husband Kenneth Stute, Holdrege, NE, Frank Stehno and wife Patricia of Stratton, NE, Jan and husband Gary Faimon of Perry, KS, Lynda and husband Bob Wilkinson of North Platte, NE and Anita and husband Gerard Pochop of Atwood, KS; 3 sisters, 11 grandchildren, and 22 great grandchildren.
Services are scheduled for Tuesday, March 25th at St. Joseph’s Church in Stratton, Nebraska.
Please sign this guestbook at Obituaries.LJWorld.com.