Vicki Ensign leaves courthouse after 40 years in treasurer's office

For the first time since 1969 there is not a member of the Thornberry family serving the residents of Nuckolls County at the county courthouse.

Doris Thornberry began working in the county clerk’s office in 1969. With the retirement of her daughter, Vicki Thornberry Ensign, the family presence at the courthouse ended.

Vicki was raised on a farm north of Nelson. She is a Nelson High School graduate. After graduation, she worked at the Nelson elevator and the Nelson Good Samaritan Home. She was a stay at home mother after that.

She married John Ensign in 1976. The couple raised two children: Jes...