08/09/2019 - Noreen Carol Plooster

Funeral services for Noreen Carol Plooster, age 80, long-time resident of Chadron, NE will be at 10:00 AM on Friday, August 9, 2019 at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Chadron, NE with Pastor Peter Bertram officiating.

Burial will be at Greenwood Cemetery in Chadron, NE.
 
A memorial has been established for Our Savior’s Lutheran Church. Donations may be sent to Chamberlain Chapel, PO Box 970, Chadron, NE 69337.

Noreen passed away peacefully with family by her side at Chadron Community Hospital and passed into the arms of the Heavenly Host on August 5, 2019. She was born on December 1, 1938 in Stickney, SD to Anna (Dkystra) and Peter Donker. She was the fifth of seven children.

On June 15, 1956, Noreen married husband Arlin Plooster and were blessed with two sons, Curtis and Kevin. The couple moved to Chadron in 1967 and were married 44 years before Arlin’s death on July 31, 2000.

Noreen was a stay-at-home mother until her children were in school, but she wanted to finish her incomplete secondary education, so she took night classes and received her GED. This accomplishment opened doorways to employment in the Chadron area. She worked at The Meat Center, Benjamin Franklin, and Chadron State College before opening A & N Standard and Husky gas stations with her husband. Later, she worked for Donald’s Liquor and Hot Stuff Pizza and would end her employment career working for her son, Curt, as a bookkeeper at Culligan & The Spa Center.

However, her work always came second when it came to her family. She invited her widowed mother to live with her family, was a Cub Scout Den Mother, and attended plays, music concerts, or events involving her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. She loved being a mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother and looked forward to seeing them as much as she could. She was so proud of her family and would share their accomplishments with all.

She was preceded in death by parents Anna and Peter Donker; husband Arlin Plooster; sisters and their husbands Nellie (Ernest) DeHaai and Amaine (John) Buurma; brother and his wife Albert “Rusty” (Grace) Donker; sister-in-law Cornelia Donker; and brother-in-law Norbert Petersen.