Eileen M. Belville

PIERCE — The funeral for Eileen M. Belville, 86, of Pierce, will be Friday at 10 a.m. at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Pierce with the Rev. Keith Rezac officiating. Visitation will be Thursday from 4 to 7 p.m., with a Rosary service at 7 p.m. at Stonacek Funeral Chapel in Norfolk. Graveside services and burial will be Saturday at 1 p.m. at Mount Hope Cemetery in Valentine. She died on Monday, Dec. 29, 2014, at Faith Regional Health Services in Norfolk. Stonacek Memorial Chapel of Pierce is in charge of the arrangements. Eileen Belville was born June 8, 1928, in Stuart to Joseph William and Johanna (Batenhorst) Ramm. Eileen grew up in Stuart and graduated from St. Mary’s Academy in O’Neill in 1946. She later attended St. Catherine’s School of Nursing at Creighton University in Omaha, graduating in 1949. After graduating as a registered nurse, she accepted a position as a charge nurse with Sandhills General Hospital in Valentine. Eileen married Dewey Lee Belville on April 10, 1951, in Stuart. They had five sons and four daughters, with one daughter dying in infancy. Dewey passed away on Sept. 28, 1977. The family moved to Norfolk in 1967. Eileen worked at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Norfolk from 1968 to 1988 and at the Lutheran Community Hospital (now Faith Regional Health Services) from 1988 to 1998. She retired in 1998. While in Norfolk, Eileen was involved with the American Legion Auxiliary and the VFW Auxiliary and had been the past president of Sacred Heart’s/St. Mary’s Altar Society. On Jan. 28, 1998, Eileen married H. Donald Cochran in Arizona. Donald passed away on April 7, 2007. Eileen moved to Pierce in 2008 and attended St. Joseph’s Catholic Church there. During her life, Eileen worked tirelessly for the benefit of her family. Along with being a wife and devoted mother, she worked full time as a nurse to provide for her family. She enjoyed reading, cooking, sewing, quilting, dancing, hiking in the Arizona desert, watching her sons’ wrestling matches, traveling, good food and great wine. Eileen was a dedicated Cornhusker fan and an involved member of the Red Hat Society. She enjoyed spending time with her children and their families. Eileen’s faith was extremely important to her, instilling in her children a devotion to God and family, an ethic of hard work and passion for higher education. Her legacy lives on in the hearts and lives of her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. She was greatly loved and will be dearly missed. Eileen was preceded in death by her parents, Joseph and Johanna Ramm; her first husband, Dewey Lee Belville; second husband, H. Donald Cochran; daughter Mary Kristine Belville; sisters Coletta Stewart and Evelyn Beck and brother Robert Ramm. She is survived by eight children — five sons and three daughters — Dr. Keary Belville of Longmont, Colo.; Dr. Kevin Belville or Port St. Lucie, Fla.; Kandice (Belville) Lange and husband Brad of Pierce; Kyla (Belville) Sprakel and husband Matt of Crofton; Dr. Kent Belville and wife Julie of Oshkosh, Wis.; Kirk Belville and wife Tatiana of Otsego, Minn.: Dr. Kaylan Belville and wife Mei, of Grand Forks, N.D.; Kathleen (Belville) Armstrong of Ankeny, Iowa.; brother Eugene Ramm and wife Dona Jean of Valentine; sisters-in-law Georgia Belville of Valentine, Dorothy Lord, also of Valentine, Sandra Roper of Denver, Colo., and Helen Ramm of Stuart. She is also survived by 26 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Kent Belville, Kirk Belville, Jason Bolz, Kyle Belville, Alex Belville and Christian Nohr. Honorary pallbearers will be Adam Lange, Ethan Belville, Aiden Belville, Ryan Belville, Colin Belville, Nick Belville, Spencer Belville, Christopher Belville, Grant Belville, Josh Belville, Blake Belville, Ashton Belville and Kersan Khokhlyshev. Condolences may be expressed to the family online at www.stonacekfuneralchapel.com.

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Eileen M. Belville

June 8, 1928 - December 29, 2014