Vernene Kanive

V ernene Mae (Lynes) Kanive peacefully passed away at Mount Carmel Home in Kearney on March 22, 2024, at the age of 70.

Vernene, the daughter of Clive and Treva Lynes, was born in Sutherland on February 5, 1954.  She graduated from Hershey High School in 1972 then attended Mid-Plains Community College in North Platte.  She was an avid member of the Salvation Army church.

Vernene had a love for plants.  When she was younger, she enjoyed playing in the flower beds with her mother and, like all the women in her family, Vernene liked house plants.  She also enjoyed crafts of all kinds and had really taken up painting ceramics in her later years.

Vernene was proud of her son, Lonnie, for being in the military and passed her love for houseplants on to her daughter, Carrie.  She absolutely adored her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Ezra and Leitha Lynes and Herbert and Elizabeth Leach; her parents, Clive and Treva Lynes; sister, Mavis Poland; and infant granddaughter, Nichole Russell.

Vernene is survived by her children, Carrie Ritter (Tom) of Holdrege and Lonnie Bruce (Kimberly) of Colorado; siblings, Arlis Lynes (Bev) of California, Deb Nelson (Kevin) of Omaha, and Lois Lynes-Miles and CJ Lynes (Kandi) of North Platte; her grandchildren, Raymond Howell (Dani), Clive Russell (Dana), Stacey Brown (Conner), Stefanie Russell (Matt Howell), Anthony Russell (Bre Judd), David Bruce, Katrina Bruce, Samuel Bruce, Riley Edwards (Christian) and Tristan Hassman; 11 great-grandchildren; and many other family members.

Graveside service and inurnment will be 1 p.m., Friday, March 29, in Floral Lawns Memorial Gardens.  Online condolences may be shared at odeanchapel.com.  Odean Colonial Chapel at C & Sycamore is in charge of arrangements.