Scottsbluff Star Hearld Scottsbluff, NE 5 Apr 2007 Linda Dietz, 94, of Scottsbluff, died Sunday, April 1, 2007, at the Mitchell Care Center. Her funeral services will be held at 10 a.m., Thursday, April 5, at the First Presbyterian Church in Scottsbluff, with Pastor Brad Gustafson officiating. Interment will follow in the Fairview Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Mitchell Care Center. Friends who wish may call at the Jolliffe Funeral Home in Scottsbluff Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Thursday at the church. Her obituary may be viewed online at www.jolliffefuneralhome.com where condolences may be left to be forwarded to the family Linda was born in Kolb, Russia Oct. 3, 1912, to John and Anna (Kampbell) Henkel. She came to the United States on a ship when she was six months of age. She received her education in Colorado while living in Loveland until 1927 and Brighton until 1932, when she moved to Scottsbluff. In 1936, she married George Wheeler in Scottsbluff. She worked at the Montgomery Ward Store here for over fifteen years. Her husband died in 1958, and Dec. 30, 1966, she married Fred Dietz in Loveland, Colo. The couple farmed in the Mitchell Valley area until their retirement in 1977 when they moved to Scottsbluff. Linda served as a Foster Grandparent at Roosevelt School in Scottsbluff for over 13 years and was a proud member of the First Presbyterian Church. She is survived by her sons, Larry Wheeler of Gering and Roger and his wife Vicki Wheeler of Scottsbluff; step-daughters, Lenora and her husband Walter Lundgren of Bayard and Alice and her husband Bill Ockinga of Wheatland, Wyo.; stepson-in-law, Ed Ebel of Kimball, Neb.; sisters, Esther Martin of Scottsbluff and Kathryn and her husband Bill Groskopf of Gering; brother, Henry and his wife Wanda Henkel of Gering; 16 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and 12 great great-grandchildren. Her parents; both husbands; an infant son; stepdaughter and her husband, Eileen and Leonard Sieb; stepdaughter, Delores Ebel and brother and sister-in-law Raymond and Helen Henkel preceded her in death.