Bernita J. Lunberry, 87, of Grand Island, died Thursday, October 4, 2012 at Tiffany Square.
Funeral services will be at 11 am Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at Messiah Lutheran Church. The Reverend Harvey Johnson will officiate. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Park in Hastings. Visitation will be from 5-7 pm Monday at Livingston-Sondermann Funeral Home.
Memorials are suggested to Tiffany Square.
Mrs. Lunberry was born on August 23, 1925 in Moorefield, Nebraska. She grew up and received her education in Bertrand, graduating from Bertrand High School in 1943. Following high school she attended Kearney State Teacher College and later taught school in Phelps County.
Survivors of the immediate family include her husband, Harold of Grand Island; a daughter, Karen Phelps of Columbia, MD, and a son and daughter-in-law, Ken and Diane Lunberry of Lincoln.
Additional survivors include six grandchildren, Christopher Phelps and his wife Jodi Trautman, Timothy Phelps, Stephanie Caporaletti and her husband Matthew, Gregory Phelps, Ryan Lunberry and Jennifer Lunberry; and two great grandchildren, Kaylen and Justin Caporaletti.
Bernita was united in marriage to Harold Lunberry on June 9, 1946 at Holdrege. The couple made their home in Hastings, Oberlin, KS, and Gothenburg. In 1963 they moved to Grand Island where she worked at the Drapery Den and Sears. She later began creating custom drapery out of her home.
Mrs. Lunberry was a member of Messiah Lutheran Church. She loved sewing, knitting, crocheting and painting. She was also an avid reader.
She was preceded in death by her parents, a brother, Leonard Schult and two sisters, Dorothy Priel and Verda Englund.

Funeral services will be at 11 am Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at Messiah Lutheran Church. The Reverend Harvey Johnson will officiate. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Park in Hastings. Visitation will be from 5-7 pm Monday at Livingston-Sondermann Funeral Home.