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Portrait of Linda Catherine Formanek
Gone but Never Forgotten

Linda Catherine Formanek

April 21, 1948 – January 29, 2022
Lived 73 years
Holy Family Cemetery · Lindsay, NE
"Goodbye is not forever...Goodbye is not the end...it simply means we'll miss you until we meet again"
Life story

Linda C. (Fehringer) Formanek was a devoted wife and mother of 4. She spent her life giving of herself...to her family, to her faith, to her friends, and to her community. All those who were lucky enough to know her loved her. She was one of 11 children born to Theodore (Ted) and Isabel Fehringer of Lindsay. Linda married her high school sweetheart, Larry Formanek, on August 9, 1969. From this union they were blessed with 4 children...Laura Lynn (Boyce), Louis Lawrence (deceased), Leigh James, and LaVonne Catherine (Guthard). She was also blessed with 6 grandchildren...Nathan and Austin Pfeifer, Connor and Mason Formanek, and Hailee and Hayden Guthard. She was preceded in death by her parents and in-laws (James and Viola Formanek), brother Richard and sister Gertrude (Trudy) and son Louis, all of whom are buried in Holy Family cemetery.

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1948
Born April 21
1949
Linda was 1 when Gene Autry recorded "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"
1958
Linda was 10 when the Hula Hoop craze swept the country
1969
Linda was 21 when Apollo 11 landed on the Moon
1971
Linda was 23 when Walt Disney World opened in Florida
1982
Linda was 34 when Michael Jackson released "Thriller"
1997
Linda was 49 when "Titanic" opened in theaters
2001
Linda was 53 when Apple introduced the iPod
2015
Linda was 67 when "Hamilton" opened on Broadway
2020
Linda was 72 when SpaceX launched astronauts into orbit for the first time
2022
Passed away January 29, age 73
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