Clara M Bissey

In Memory OfClara M. Bissey

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, March 17, 2014 at the Cathedral of the Risen Christ Catholic Church in Lincoln with Fr. Maurice Current and Msgr. Robert Tucker officiating. Interment will be in Lincoln Memorial Park, Lincoln. A Rosary will be at 7:00 p.m. on Sunday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Beaver Crossing. Visitation will be from 1-5:30 pm at Lauber-Moore Funeral Home, Beaver Crossing. Memorials have been established to her churches.

Clara M. Bissey was born January 28, 1930 on a farm southeast of Utica, Nebraska, to Hugh J. and Lucy (Schernikau) Hannon, the 2nd of 3 children and passed away Thursday, March 13, 2014 at Tabitha Nursing Home in Lincoln, Nebraska at the age of 84 years, 1 month and 13 days. As a young girl she attended country school near her home and graduated with the class of 1947 from Beaver Crossing High School. On February 14, 1950 she was united in marriage to Darrell Bissey at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Beaver Crossing.
Together they made their home on a farm north of Beaver Crossing until Clara moved to Lincoln in 2008. She was a clerk for the ASCS office in Seward for 31 years, retiring in 1987. Clara was a former member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Beaver Crossing and the American Legion Auxilary Unit of Lincoln Post #3. She currently was a member of Cathedral of the Risen Christ Catholic Church in Lincoln.

Clara is survived by her brother, Roger Hannon, Beaver Crossing, several nieces and nephews and a host of other relatives and friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Hugh and Lucy Hannon, husband, Darrell in 1991, brother, Jim Hannon, sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law, Judith Ann Hannon, Rosemarie Hannon, Helen and Jean Lang, Donna and Carl Pett.