Deanna C. Lockwood
Longtime Three Hills resident Deanna C. Lockwood died on Oct. 19, 2022, at Coronation Hospital and Care Centre in Coronation, Alberta. The Prairie Tabernacle will hold a memorial service in Three Hills at 10 a.m. MST on Saturday, November 12. Graveside services will be in the West Lawn Cemetery in Grand Island at 11 a.m. CST on Saturday, December 10.
She was born in Holdrege, Neb., on May 10, 1939, to Herbert and Goldie Lockwood, and she graduated from Grand Island Senior High in 1957. After attending Trinity Christian College in Illinois for a year, she transferred to Prairie Bible Institute in Three Hills, graduating in 1963. She became a Prairie staff member thereafter, and remained on staff until she retired in 2015. During her tenure, she worked in the mail department, taught piano, music theory, and accordion, and then became the music department and library secretary.
She edited Three Hills’s community history, A Town on the Move, vols. I and II. She also served on the Prairie Heritage Museum Committee for many years. She returned to Nebraska regularly until her health no longer allowed.
Survivors include her nieces and nephews Roxie (Eric) Yonkey of Goodland, Kan., and Kevin (Stefaney) Lockwood, Foxworth, Miss.; Rachelle Whited of Albion, Neb.; Steve (Tina) Whited of Grand Island; Susan (Corey Quigley) Johnson of Columbus, Neb.; and Scott (Jennifer) Whited of Albion; their children, grandchildren, and many friends.
Her parents, her brother Eugene J. Lockwood, sister Sharon A. Whited, sister-in-law Mary Lockwood, and brother-in-law Roger L. Whited all preceded her in death.
Memorials should go to Prairie’s Joan Chapman Memorial Scholarship Fund at prairie.edu/donate.