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He was administrator for his mothers estate.
He left home at age 14 or 15. He went and worked on area ra nches.
Oliff enjoyed playing instruments. He played the mouth har p amoung others.
Obituary,
Oliff Niswender,
70, a long time resident of Gillette and Campbell County, d ied Wednesday, Dec. 13, 1989, in the Campbell County Memori al Hospital after a heart attack.
The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Friday in the Noecker Funera l Home Chapel, with Pastor Seth Johnson of the Antelope Val ley Baptist Churc h officiating. Burial will be in the Mt . Pisgah Cemetery. Mr. Niswender was born Nov. 1, 1919 in C hariton, Iowa, to Harley and Alice Cozetta ( Scott ) Niswen der. at age 3, he moved with his parents to a homestead sou th of Gillette, where he grew up and attended a country gra de school. For many years Mr. Niswender worked on area ranc hes as a ranch hand. On Aug. 16, 1954 he maried Pauline Hal l in Terre Haute, Indiana. They lived in Paris Illinois fo r a short time before moving back to Gillette, where they h ad lived since.
Mr. Niswender worked for the Campbell County Road and Bridg e Department and retired from there in 1981 a fter 25 years . he was a member of the Antelope Valley Baptist Church, th e Moose Lodge and the F.O. Eagles Aerie Lodge NO. 2711.
Survivors include his wife, Pauline; one son, Lyle L. Niswe nder of Buffalo; for daughters, Mary Jane Brendel and Hele n Harper, bolth of Gillette, and Genia Berry and Loretta Mo rrison of Helena Montana; one brother, Dorvin Niswender o f Westville, Illinois; two sisters, Veta Bell of Gillette , and Desma Doyle of Alliance, Nebraska; and 10 grandchildr en and four great-grandchildren.
Visitation is at the Noecker funeral Home Chapel today fro m 2 to 7 p.m., and Friday from 9 a.m. until the service . A mem orial has been established to the Campbell County h ealth Care Foundation for ca ncer care and may be sent in c are of Noecker Funeral Home, P.O. Box 734, in Gil lette.
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