Lyle D. Colsden

Lyle D. Colsden, age 82, of Kearney, passed away Monday, July 22, 2024 at Mother Hull Home in Kearney. A celebration of his life will be 1:00 p.m., Monday July 29, 2024 at Horner Lieske McBride & Kuhl Funeral Home with Chaplain Holden Barry officiating. Burial will follow at the Kearney Cemetery. There will be no visitation. Memorials are suggested to the family for future designation. Please visit www.hlmkfuneral.com to leave a tribute or message of condolence. Horner Lieske McBride & Kuhl Funeral and Cremation Services in Kearney are in charge arrangements. My father was the most resilient man I have ever been blessed to know. He went through so many trials and tribulations on his journey here on earth. Where most of us would have cried why me and given up, he persevered and kept fighting and “rolled with the punches” as he would have put it. The Doctors were always in a state of awe of his health struggles and how he kept going when no hope was to be seen on the horizon. I believe his faith is what held him up when everything else was pushing him down. Lyle was born in Stanton Nebraska along with his twin Lyla. He graduated from Stanton High School and started his college life at Northeast Community College where he earned a plaque on the wall of most likely to succeed. He was a principal in Oakdale after graduating from Wayne State. He then moved to Kearney and taught at the college for 40 years, starting the GED program and was the Director for the Vocational Center of Education. He loved to teach and loved all of his students. He was always kind to whomever he met, showing interest in their lives and always there to lend advice and just a listening ear. He will be missed every single day. Now you can see, walk, and run, don’t look back we will see you in the sunrise, sunset and know you will be beside us in our hearts. Left to honor his memory is his two sons, David (Theresa) and John. His daughter Julie (Daniel) Grandchildren Joshua (Lisa), Megan (Jacob) and Hannah. Great grandchildren Savannah, Chyanne, Christian, Brooklyn, and all of the friends he met along the way, especially all of his outstanding nurses at Mother Hull. Thank you all for taking such good care of him.

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Lyle D. Colsden

February 28, 1942 - July 22, 2024