Loretta Mae Foreman

February 4, 1922 - November 14, 2016

Loretta Mae Foreman, 94, of Central City died Monday, November 14, 2016 at Litzenberg Long Term Care in Central City. Funeral services will be Thursday, November 17, 2016 at United Methodist Church in Central City with Rev. Thomas Lucas officiating. There will be no visitation. Burial of ashes will be in Montecello, Indiana at a later date. Loretta was born on February 4, 1922 in Archer, Nebraska to George and Marie (Haake) Retzlaff. She grew up in the Archer area and attended grade school at District 58 near Archer. She graduated from Archer High School in 1939. Following graduation she worked at the AAA Office in Central City and then during World War II she went to Califiornia and worked at a service station, an airplane factory and for the Santa Fe Railroad in the Accounting Office. Loretta returned to Nebraska in 1945 and on July 3, 1947, was married to Earl Doan. She and Earl lived in Grand Island until September of 1952 when Earl died unexpectedly of a heart attack at the age of 29. On May 28, 1953, she was united in marriage to Herbert L. Foreman and in the following years they lived in Grand Island, Kearney, Gibbon, Sidney, Broken Bow, Papillion, Chicago and finally settling in Monticello, Indiana in 1975. In each community Loretta found employment and a bowling team to join. She worked as the secretary of the Monticello Christian Church and then in Accounts Payable Office, Cost Control and Respiratory Therapy at the Monticello Hospital until she returned to Central City in 1991 following Herbert’s death. She was an active member of the Central City United Methodist Church, volunteering in the church office each week and singing in the church choir and for weddings and funerals. Loretta was also a member of the American Legion Auxiliary Lone Tree Unit. She enjoyed bowling and continued to bowl into her nineties. She bowled a 200 game at the age of 89. Loretta was preceded in death by her parents, her husbands, brother, Delbert Retzlaff, and sister Lucille Rudolf. Survivors included three nieces, Geraldine Hansen and her husband Mike of Omaha, Gloria Evers of Clarks and Rose Anne Sieler and her husband Warren of Colorado and one nephew, Dennis Retzlaff of Anchorage, Alaska; her care giver and closest friend, Denice Dietz of Central City and many other family members and friends.