Steven Delay

Steven E. Delay, 77, was born August 31, 1944, in Hastings. Steven died Wednesday, March 23, 2022, at Bryan-East Hospital in Lincoln, Neb.

He attended Guide Rock Public Schools and graduated with the Class of 1962. During his time in Guide Rock at his father’s grocery store, he dealt with putting his fingers into rotten potatoes and onions, cleaning up broken honey jars and dodging tropical spiders and snakes coming out of wooden banana crates.

He earned a bachelor of arts degree in education in 1966 and a master of science degree in education in 1970 from Kearney State College and did graduate work at South Dakota State University, the University of Wyoming and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

During his educational career in Nebraska, he taught at Madrid, Holstein, and more than 30 years in Hebron.

Delay was a member of the National Education Association and

the Nebraska State Education Association. He was also a past member of the Hebron Lions Club, past member and president of the Thayer County Historical Society, a past member of the Hebron Library Board. He was a member of the Hebron Presbyterian Church; the Thayer County Visitors Committee; the Arts Council of Thayer County and his investment club.

Cooking, historical research and football were his favorite activities.

Preceding him in death were his parents: Earl and Amelia(Boom)Delay,

half-brother: Arden Delay killed in World War II, and his brother: Billie E. Delay; and half-sister, Earlene Delay.

Survivors include his sister, Joanne Kennedy of Fort Collins, Colo.; and brother: John Delay of Eugene, Ore.

His funeral was held March 28, at the Presbyterian Church in Hebron. Officiant was Steven’s great-nephew Douglas Kennedy.

Interment was at Guide Rock Cemetery.