Memorial Graveside Services for Victor "Vic" Burrell, age 78, of Chambers, will be at 11:00 A.M., Saturday, June 4, 2016, at Chambers Cemetery in Chambers, NE. Military Rites will be conducted by the Chambers American Legion Post #320.

Memorial Visitation will be Friday, June 3, 2016, from 5-8 P.M. at Biglin's Mortuary in O'Neill.

Vic passed away Monday, May 30, 2016, at his home in Chambers, and following his wishes, he has been cremated.

Memorials may be made to the family for future designation.

Victor "Vic" Lou Burrell was born on June 23, 1937 to Ernest and Estella (Whitsell) Burrell near Chambers, Nebraska. He attended Country School #178 through the Eighth Grade.

Vic worked for a time at the Lakeview Ranch before he enlisted in the US Army on July 21, 1955. He served with the 11th Airborne in Germany where he met Gerlinde Eichhorn. Vic was Honorably Discharged on July 8, 1958.

Vic married Gerlinde in September of 1959 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The couple made their home in Lincoln, where he worked for National Manufacturing, and then Miller Seed Company. In 1969, the family moved to Longmont, Colorado, where he started Vic Burrell and Son Hay Company. After his father had died 1995, Vic purchased the ranch he grew up on from his mother.

Vic truly enjoyed his cattle and his dogs.

Vic is survived by his two children, Duffy Burrell and wife Patty of Chambers, NE, and Sandra Burrell of Mack, CO; four grandchildren, Christopher Burrell and wife Adrien, Rebecca Jensen and husband Adam, Kimberly Behnk and husband Jason, and Gage Levi, eight great grandchildren, 3 brothers and 3 sisters: Virgil Burrell and wife Wilma of Page, NE, Latrella Vanderbeek and husband Duane of Minnesota, Rachel Johnson and husband Cecil of Enders, NE, Foster Burrell and wife Sue of Chambers, NE, Fay Burrell and wife Carol of Minnesota, Wanda Swenson and husband Dale of Minnesota; sister-in-law, Carol Burrell of Colorado, and several nieces and nephews.

He is preceded in death by his parents, brother Roscoe Burrell, and one sister Virginia.