Linda M. Mellick

NORFOLK -- Funeral service for Linda M. Mellick, 75, of Norfolk will be held at 10:30 a.m., Thursday, April 27, 2023 at the St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Norfolk. Rev. Paul Hirsch will be officiating. Interment will be at the parish cemetery, Norfolk. Visitation will be from 5:00-7:00 p.m., Wednesday, at the Stonacek Funeral Chapel in Norfolk. Linda’s life journey ended at the Heritage of Bel Air Nursing Home on Monday, April 17, 2023. Stonacek Funeral Chapel is in charge of the arrangements. Linda Marie (Vahsholz) Mellick was born May 25, 1947 in Norfolk, Nebraska, to Walter and Leona (Holtman) Vahsholz. She grew up in Stanton, where her father was a lineman for the Chicago/Northwestern Railroad, and was baptized and confirmed at St. John’s Lutheran Church of Stanton. She attended Stanton Public Schools, was a serious Herman’s Hermits fan, and graduated from Stanton High in 1965. After graduation, she worked as a babysitter as well as for the Holiday Inn in Norfolk when in 1967 she met her friend’s boyfriend, a young farmhand back from serving in the military who soon was more interested in Linda. That was Earl Mellick, and they married at St. John’s on June 23, 1968, and settled in Norfolk, where Earl was employed at Land ‘O Lakes. They attended St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Norfolk for all of their fifty-four years of marriage, and they had two children—daughter Michelle in 1969, and son Mark in 1976. Linda enjoyed card playing and especially bingo, and enjoyed sharing her color pencil artwork with her family and making casual phone calls to family. She also took pride in charity work for Lou Gehrig’s Disease after the death of her dear friend, Judy Suhr. She also enjoyed activities at the Norfolk Senior Center, and later on enjoyed attending the activities of her grandchildren before her health began to fail her. Linda struggled with her health for many years, but it never broke her love for her family or her faith. Survivors include her husband, Earl Mellick of Norfolk; her daughter, Michelle Moeller and her husband, Gregg of Wisner; her son, Mark Mellick and wife Jana of Omaha; and her grandchildren—Elizabeth Moeller of Norfolk, Paige Moeller of Lincoln, SehNa Mellick of Omaha, and Sebastian Mellick of Omaha. She was preceded in death by her parents and an infant older brother, Keith Vahsholz. Organist will be Diane Herbolsheimer. Casket bearers will be Bill Sheppard, Kelly Koch, Mike Moeller, Mike Lundberg, Mark Putman, Sebastian Mellick. Condolences may be expressed to the family on-line at www.stonacekfuneralchapel.com.

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Linda M. Mellick

May 25, 1947 - April 17, 2023