Dr. Frank Kamm

Dr. Frank Kamm, 93, of Kearney, formerly of Blue Hill and Hastings, Neb., died Wed- nesday, June 30, 2021, at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney. Services were held at First Baptist Church in Kearney on Wednesday, July 7, with Rev. Mark de Kluyver officiating. Interment will take place at the Roselawn Memorial Cemetery in Columbus, Neb., in a graveside service at 10 a.m. today (Thursday), July 8, with military honors graveside and a reception to follow.

Frank was born on July 1, 1927, the ninth of 11 children, to Elsena (Husmann) and Harry Kamm in Platte Center, Neb. He grew up spending summers working on an uncle’s farm near Platte Center, and at the time of his graduation from Platte Center High School in 1944, entertained dreams of becoming a farmer or a veterinarian. At the end World War II, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, serving at Fort Riley, Kansas, in the massive military demobilization process from October 1945 to December 1946, continuing service as a 1st Lieutenant in the Army Reserve through December 1959. He attended York College in York, Neb., where he met and married his wife of 71 years, L. Faith Megill, on Aug. 30, 1949, graduating from that college in 1950. His long career in family practice then began after graduation from the University of Nebraska College of Medicine in 1955.

Frank and family then moved to Blue Hill, Neb., in 1955, where he provided family practice services to a large area of South Central Nebraska until 1987. He often logged 33,000 miles per year in travel with his business vehicle, between daily visits to one or both of the hospitals in Hastings and Red Cloud, and many house calls to outlying communities and nursing homes.

In 1987, Frank became medical director at the Hastings (NE) Regional Center, serving in that capacity for several years. He then embarked on a period of providing locum tenens services to a far-flung array of medical practices in need of temporary medical service coverage. His fill-in services to private practices extended from Craig, Alaska, in the Alaskan panhandle, to North Dakota, New Hampshire and Maine.

He moved to Kearney in 1994.

Dr. Kamm is survived by his wife, Faith; daughter, Diane Aleem and husband, Jeff; sister-in-law, Mary Fae Kamm; son, Phillip Kamm and wife, Kristen; grandchildren, nieces and nephews, friends and relatives.