Dolores A. “Peg” Niehues, 86, of Goff, KS, died Wednesday, January 11, 2006, at the Nemaha Valley Community Hospital in Seneca.

She was born September 27, 1919, on a farm north of Centralia, the daughter of Henry A. and Clara Reinecke Grollmes. Her mother died in a flu epidemic when she was about two years old. She grew up on the farm and attended Sherman School near her home. She did domestic work and helped on the family farm before her marriage.

On May 4, 1943 she married Albert H. Niehues at St. Bede’s Church in Kelly. They lived on a farm east of Kelly until the spring of 1944 when they moved to their farm southeast of Kelly. They celebrated their 50th and 60th wedding anniversaries. She took care of her husband Albert for many years while he was in ill health following a stroke in 1993. He preceded her in death on February 16, 2005.

She was a member of St. Bede’s Church and the Altar Society at the church in Kelly. Peg enjoyed gardening, flowers, sewing, baking, and collecting recipes.

Survivors are five sons, Glen of Wetmore, Wayne, Max, Marvin, and Thomas, all of Goff; two daughters, Mary Koch of Centralia and Doris Haug of Vermillion; 36 grandchildren and 39 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a brother, Andrew Grollmes; and four sisters, Elizabeth Graney, Mary Smith, Katherine Duryea, and Leona “Bobbie” Grollmes.

Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:30 AM Saturday at St. Bede’s Church in Kelly. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Rosaries will be prayed at 2 & 7 PM Friday at Lauer Funeral Home in Seneca.

Memorial contributions may be given for St. Bede’s Cemetery, and sent in care of the family.