Keith N. Bomberger

Keith N. Bomberger, 65, of St. Paul, died unexpectedly, Saturday, June 8, 2024, at the Jennie M. Melham Memorial Medical Center in Broken Bow.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Friday, June 14, 2024, at Peters Funeral Home in St. Paul. The Rev. John Doolittle will officiate. Burial will be in The Elmwood Cemetery in St. Paul.

Visitation will be held one hour before time of service at the funeral home.

Memorials are suggested to the family.

Peters Funeral Home of St. Paul is assisting the family.

Keith was born on March 30, 1959, in Lincoln, the son of Arcya R. and Twilla D. (Bowman) Bomberger. He received his education in Havelock, Ceresco and Crete. During the summer months he helped local farmers putting up hay. He later went to work at Shoemaker Truck Stop in Lincoln in the tire repair department. While working at Shoemaker’s he met his future wife, Debra J. Little.

The couple were united in marriage On Oct. 15, 1982, in Lincoln. They lived in Lincoln where he worked as a heavy equipment operator in construction. In 2005, the couple moved to a farm south of St. Paul, where they ranched and raised horses. He had also worked for Hulcher Services of Grand Island in railroad derailment repairs and later began working for Mid-Nebraska Aggregate, where he was still working at the time of his passing.

Keith belonged to the Quarter Horse Association. 

He dearly loved his wife, children and grandchildren. He also enjoyed raising his horses and his tractors.

He is survived by his wife, Debra J. Bomberger of St. Paul; mother, Twilla Bomberger of Lincoln; three sons and one daughter-in-law, Brian and Jamie Bomberger of Anthony, KS,  Kenneth Bomberger of Anthony, KS and Christopher Bomberger of Williston, ND; seven grandchildren, Nathan, Natalie, Arreyana, Landon, Stetson, Hunter and Hailey; siblings and spouses, Tony and Karen Bomberger of Lampasas, TX, Marcia and Kurt Kukuchka of Hickman, Suzanna Aughe of Dorchester and Dean and Deb Bomberger of Griswold, IA.

He was preceded in death by his father, Arcya Bomberger; grandparents, Joe and Dorothy Bowman and Jerry and Ethel Bomberger; and his in-laws, Jeanette Fightmaster and Tommy Little, Sr.