Marsela Ann Rudolf

Marsela Ann Rudolf, 91, Central City resident formerly of Palmer, passed on Friday, December 5, 2025 at Tiffany Square in Grand Island. Memorial services will be held on Tuesday, December 9, 2025 at 1:00 p.m. at Archer Zion United Methodist Church with visitation held beginning at 12 noon until the memorial service at 1 P.M. Inurnment will be at Rosehill Cemetery, Palmer, Nebraska. Memorials are suggested to the family to be designated at a later date. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.soltwagnerfuneral.com . Marsela was born on July 10, 1934 to Stanley and Dorothy (Ruge) Svitak near Chapman, Nebraska. She grew up in Central City and graduated from High School there in 1952. After graduation she went to work at the dental office for Dr. Scott until she was united in marriage to LeRoy Rudolf on August 15, 1954 at Archer Zion United Methodist Church. To this union were two daughters, Kathryn(Kathy) and Tina. Marsela and LeRoy lived the majority of their 50 year marriage on the family farm near Palmer before Marsela moved to Central City. A city girl, Marsela was both industrious and versatile transitioning to a farm wife with enthusiastic ease as a helpful hand to her precious LeRoy, especially during harvest. In addition to raising two girls she worked part time at the Palmer Coolidge Center briefly with the majority of her twenty year tenure spent working part time at Central City Litzenberg Hospital housekeeping department. She retired at age 84 moving from the farm to Central City in 2018. Marsela was a member of Palmer United Methodist Church, the American Legion Auxiliary and a volunteer at the Central City Merrick Medical Auxiliary Thrift Shop for nearly a decade. Her hobbies included an incessant passion for mowing her large yard on the farm transitioning to her smaller yard in town until age 89. This delightful and spirited woman enjoyed running errands with her car, gardening, canning, raising chickens, sewing, crocheting and embroidering sets of T-towels. Her greatest love was time spent with her family and caring for her treasured “Dottie Kitty” a gift from her young grand daughters Allison and Clair. Those left to cherish her memory are her two daughters, Kathryn (Kathy) and Bill Stovall of Palmer, Tina and Joe Dush of St. Libory, two beloved granddaughters, Allison Dush partner Will Atkinson of Boston, MA and Clair Redman and Josh of Kearney; sisters, Levada Nielson of Chapman, Norma Neemeyer of Belgrade, Vera Kracman of Bellwood, Nebraska. She was preceded in death by her, parents, husband LeRoy and brother, Richard Svitak.

Marsela Ann Rudolf

July 10, 1934 - December 5, 2025