Phyllis D. Wulf

A Funeral Service for Phyllis will be held on Tuesday, April 9, 2024 at 10:00 a.m. at Peace Lutheran Church in Deshler, Nebraska with Rev. Joseph D. Love presiding. Visitation will be held on Monday, April 8, 2024 from 4:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. with family present from 4:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. at Farmer & Son Funeral Home in Geneva, Nebraska. There will also be Visitation 1 hour (9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.) prior to the Funeral Service on Tuesday, April 9, 2024 at Peace Lutheran Church in Deshler, Nebraska. Graveside Services will be conducted following the funeral service in the Saint Paul Cemetery in Deshler, Nebraska. Memorials are to be directed to the family to be designated at a later date in Phyllis's name. Phyllis Dean Poppe was born to the late Emma Bertha Sophia (Weiss) Poppe and Frank George Henry Poppe in Carleton, NE, on February 1, 1932. Phyllis was the seventh of eleven children. She was baptized on March 6, 1932 and confirmed on May 20, 1945, at Trinity Lutheran in Friedensaw, NE. Phyllis graduated from Deshler High School in 1949. On November 13, 1949, Phyllis married Leroy Wulf. They had four daughters and one son. They lived on a farm outside of Deshler until 1980 when they moved to Hebron. They were married for over 70 years when he died in 2020. Phyllis worked extremely hard all her life. She worked at the Deshler Cafe, The Wagon Wheel in Ruskin, the 4-H food stand, and the Quarter horse Cafe in Deshler. She cooked lunch for the students at Peace Lutheran School for 8 years, and she served as a med aide at Blue Valley Care Home for 33 years. In addition to these jobs, she worked hard at the family farm, raising chickens, pigs, dairy cattle, beef cattle, and even a few goats. She helped Leroy with all aspects of the farm. Phyllis and her mother-in-law spent many hours every summer dressing chickens for their own families and many other families in the area. Phyllis was an excellent cook and loved to bake. She especially loved baking Mrs. Schuller’s recipe for chocolate chip cookies. She baked cinnamon rolls and pecan rolls for her family and friends. She baked many birthday cakes and wedding cakes for her children, grandchildren, nieces, and nephews and delivered them as far as Denver and California. For her youngest daughter, Shirley’s wedding, Phyllis, Leroy, and Ruth and Leonard Seibolt flew to California, and each one of them held a cake on their laps that would later be put together as one wedding cake. She baked many hamburger buns for the Legion Auxiliary. She also enjoyed embroidering, gardening, and playing cards and bingo. However, what Phyllis loved most of all was spending time with her family, especially her grandchildren and great grandchildren. All of them remember the silly songs and nursery rhymes she sang to them. Tuesday morning, April 2, Phyllis died peacefully in Bryan West Hospital in Lincoln, Nebraska, at the age of 92. She was preceded in death by one infant daughter, her husband Leroy, her parents, Emma and Frank Poppe, her sisters Lula, Bernice, and Francis, who died when she was 9; and her brothers Harold, Laverne, Virgil, and Leonard, who died as an infant. Survivors include one son Larry Wulf and Carol of Geneva; three daughters, Linda Brown and Dickie of Oaks, OK; Shirley and husband Rick Lindsay of Fresno, CA, and Vickie and husband Chuck Dickinson of Conroe, TX; six grandchildren: Cassie Jezierski and husband Ryan of the Woodlands, TX; Carlie Treinen and husband Nick of Geneva, NE; Darin Dickinson of Winneconne, WI; Rustin Brown and wife Amee of Oaks, OK, Rikki Greenberg and husband Joey of Fresno, CA; and Samantha Lindsay of Fresno, CA. She also leaves behind eight great grandchildren; brother Robert and wife Dee of Hastings; and sisters Orva Hartley of Hebron, Ne; and Lois Burton of Casa Grand, Arizona; and sister-in-law Ruth Poppe of Beatrice, NE.

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Phyllis D. Wulf

February 1, 1932 - April 2, 2024