Elyda Carole (Allely) Bagby passed absent on February 27th, 2022. A funeral assistance will be held on Saturday, June 25th at 10am, at First United Methodist Church in Blair, with burial to observe at the Blair Cemetery. A celebration of lifestyle accumulating honoring Carole and her late spouse Chuck (Doc) Bagby will be held at Ralph Steyer Park in Blair subsequent the burial, close to 12pm. Lunch will be served.
Carole was born in 1936 in Curtis, Nebraska, on January 4th – her mother’s birthday. Sharing each birthday and to start with name with her mom Elyda, she went by her middle title, Carole. The spouse and children quickly moved to Tekamah, NE, where by her father George served as the city dentist. Developing up, Carole was impressed, and teased, by her two adored older brothers, Don and John, and at age 9, was overjoyed at the delivery of her sister, Genie.
Carole enrolled at Nebraska Wesleyan College in 1954, in pre-nursing. In 1959 she gained a dual Bachelor of Science from Wesleyan and an R.N. from Methodist Hospital College of Nursing in Omaha.
While at Wesleyan, Carole achieved Kenneth Charles Bagby in her Intro to Biology course. They have been seated alphabetically from the back again of the place, the place they had the opportunity to share glances, and husband or wife in dissecting a useless frog. Carole generally remarked that she was baffled by this upper-classman’s fascination in her, but her pals would preserve her posted on “Chuck sightings” so she could conveniently bump into him all-around campus.
Carole and Chuck were being married on December 18th, 1956, and lived in Omaha where by Chuck was ending clinical university. Carole labored as a staff members nurse at Nebraska Methodist Healthcare facility, and as a summer substitute at healthcare offices in Omaha and hospitals in Oakland and Blair.
Their 1st son David was born in 1959, and the small loved ones moved to Greeley, Colorado, where Chuck joined a health-related apply with Carole’s uncle Jim. In response to the setting up of the Berlin Wall, Chuck was drafted into the US Army in fall 1961, soon prior to 2nd son Rick was born. Just after living on the military foundation at Ft. Knox, Kentucky, Carole and the boys moved back to Tekamah, across the road from her mom and dad, while Chuck deployed to South Korea for 8 months. After his discharge, they moved to Omaha in 1963 for a residency in relatives practice at UNMC.
Their nomadic lifetime finished in 1964 when they observed their forever residence in Blair, Nebraska, where Chuck joined the Blair Health care Group with Drs. Rudy Sievers, Cliff Howard, and Les Grace. Rick and David savored the adventures they observed in Blair, and the spouse and children joyfully welcomed two far more young ones – son Jeff in 1967, and daughter Kathleen in 1970.
Carole loved the chaos and energy her kids supplied, and loved to obtain with other neighborhood moms although their youngsters performed out in the community (yes, there was a cowbell to phone them house for supper). She relished the mental discussions in excess of espresso, which fueled her electrical power for caring for her small children.
Carole was also passionate about serving the Blair neighborhood, and she stepped into several management roles in well being routines, unexpected emergency expert services, and civic companies.
She was a strong advocate for community health care volunteer organizations. In 1964 she joined the Blair Memorial Group Medical center Auxiliary, now the Burt-Washington County Professional medical Association Alliance, and served as its President in the early 1980s. Carole worked to organize the 1st three wellbeing fairs at any time held in Washington County in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Carole initiated and led “Child Consider It Around,” a regional teenager-being pregnant avoidance method of the American Health-related Affiliation Alliance, offered in Burt and Washington County schools. As President of the Washington County Nurses Affiliation in the 1970s, Carole helped observed and instruct the first childbirth training classes and the initial continuing instruction classes for nurses in the county.
Carole served establish and maintain a neighborhood 24-hour crisis line and information and referral support, Household and Kid’s Emergency Expert services (FACES), very long ahead of these kinds of providers became usually readily available.
Starting in the early 1970s, Carole participated in the founding and promotion of the Black Elk-Neihardt Park in Blair, and fundraising for construction of the Tower of the Four Winds, dedicated in 1987 at the best of the hill higher than Dana College. Carole served with the BE-NP board from its beginning, and as president from 1989 to 2007.
Other civic perform incorporated serving on the Board of Administrators of the John Neihardt Foundation in Bancroft, NE and the Board of Administrators of Crowell Memorial Property, exactly where she also worked as a nurse for several years. A member of Blair Very first United Methodist Church because 1964, she served with Blair Methodist Girls, taught Sunday Faculty for 13 many years, and was a Cub Scout Den Chief.
Carole and Chuck generally considered them selves as partners in all that they attained they were being honored with the Dana Higher education Local community Provider Award in 1999 and the Blair Region Chamber of Commerce Group Service Award in 2000.
As Chuck and Carole reflected upon their life’s achievements throughout their later many years, they carefully relished being surrounded by their young children, grandchildren, and wonderful-grandchildren – all of whom they regarded as their crowning accomplishment. “We did excellent,” they would say.
Carole is preceded in dying by her partner Chuck her mothers and fathers, George and Elyda (Kennedy) Allely brother Don Allely of Greeley, CO brother John and spouse Shirley (Magill) Allely of Elkhorn, NE and sister Genie Allely of Tekamah, NE.
She is survived by son David of Lincoln son Richard of Lincoln and his relatives, grandson Brandon Mullen-Bagby and his wife Melissa Lee, and good-granddaughter Ruby Lee of Silverton, OR, and granddaughter Kerstin Mullen-Bagby of Lincoln son Jeff and his wife Melanie of Cloverdale, CA daughter Kathleen Coate and her partner Paul, and grandchildren Genevieve and TJ Coate of Bloomington, MN and sister-in-law Joyce (Johnson) Allely of Greeley, CO.
In lieu of flowers, memorials could be sent to: Blair Initial United Methodist Church Foundation, Blair Memorial Group Healthcare facility Basis, Washington County Local community Basis take into account directing it to Black Elk-Neihardt Park.

Released by Legacy on Mar. 4, 2022.