Marvel Mary Matlock Freudenberg Moore left this earth on January 22, 2024, and joined the choir of Angels in Heaven; she was 103 years of age. was born October 10, 1920, in Kimball, Nebraska, to LeRoy and Mabel Parris Matlock.The family moved to Gering in 1923. She was baptized in the First Christian Church in Gering.
Her mother died when she was 11 years of age. She made her home with her oldest brother, in Guernsey,Wyo., for a year and attended 6th grade there, then returned to Gering where she was raised by her dad and older brothers and sister. Marvel graduated from Gering High School in 1938.
She was united in marriage to Elmer Freudenberg on December 18, 1937, in Harrisburg, Nebr.They moved to Gurley in 1938. In August of 1939 they were blessed with their first of three children, all being born in the Dalton Hospital: Jeanette, Bernice and Richard. In the mid 1940s Elmer and Marvel owned and operated “The Lunch Room Café,” a popular hangout for the high school kids in Gurley. Marvel was the #1 fan of the Gurley Town Team Baseball in the ’40s and ’50s.
