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     Nyle R. Hageman
 
Born: January 22, 1949    Lincoln, Nebraska
Died: December 5, 2009       Ithaca, Nebraska
   
Services: Thursday, December 10, 2009
11:00 AM at United Methodist Church, Ithaca, Nebraska
Interment with Military Honors
VFW Post #4502 & American Legion Post #82
Indian Mound Cemetery, Ithaca, Nebraska
Visitation: Wednesday, December 9,  2009
5:00-8:00 PM at Svoboda Funeral Home
Memorials: In care of family
   


Nyle was born to Robert W. and Leora M. (Nygren) Hageman.  He grew up on the family farm southeast of Ithaca, NE and attended District #16 grade school. He graduated from Mead High School in 1967 and attended a technical school in Des Moines, IA where he studied electronics. He was drafted into the US Army in 1969 and served as an Acetylene Gas Specialist in Okinowa, Japan. Nyle began a long career at Burlington Northern Railroad in 1976 as a car/man welder and worked there until his health prevented him from working in recent months. Nyle was united in marriage to Julie Polacek on April 13, 1985 at the Ashland United Methodist Church. They lived in Ashland until moving to the country near Ithaca in 2000. Besides taking care of some ponies, Nyle also raised turkeys and ducks. Nyle and Julie opened their home to many foster children through the years, helping them in any way they could. He was a member of the Ithaca United Methodist Church and a former member of the Iliff Chapel Methodist Church in Memphis, NE.

Preceded in death by parents, brother in law, Kent Thomsen, uncle, Leslie Hageman.

Survived by wife Julie, children, spouses, Carmella and Bret Uptagraft, Oshkosh, WI, Vanessa and James Thompson, Lockesburg, AR, Brandon and Shannon Hageman, Yutan, NE, eight grandchildren, sisters, Sandra Thomsen, Ceresco, NE, Renae (Joe) Knight, McKinney, TX, Roxanne (Jack) Blake, Lincoln, brother Brad Hageman, Wahoo, NE, uncle and aunt, Joe and Ginger Hageman, Lincoln, many nieces and nephews.