Jeanine V. Pesek
Jeanine V. Pesek, age 71, of Gibbon, passed away Tuesday, January 4, 2022, at CHI Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney.
Funeral services were held Wednesday, January 12, 2022, at St. James Catholic Church with Father Art Faesser officiating.
Memorials are suggested to the family for future designation. Condolences may be shared online at www.osrfh.com. Services are entrusted to O’Brien Straatmann Redinger Funeral and Cremation Services.
Jeanine was born in Loup City on July 26, 1950, to Maxine (Gallaway) and Boyd Gregory. She was raised by her parents Maxine and Lyle Diefenbaugh. Jeanine attended Litchfield Public Schools, graduating in May of 1968.
On August 17, 1968, she married Robert L. Pesek, Sr., in Kearney. Together, they farmed and raised cattle north of Gibbon until they retired.
Jeanine attended the University of Nebraska at Kearney, graduating with a bachelor’s of science degree and a master’s in art education. She taught glassblowing at UNK. She loved her art, especially glassblowing and casting iron and bronze. She was a talented artist, who held many shows of her work in Nebraska and surrounding areas.
Jeanine loved to travel, read, and garden. She also loved raising cattle, and her favorite thing was to go out in the morning to watch the calves play in the morning sun.
She was a longtime member of the Kearney Art Guild and St. James Catholic Church.
She is survived by her three children, Angeline Pesek-Brown and her husband Stacy, of Gibbon, Mary Anderson and her husband Michael, of Gibbon, and Robert Jr. and his wife Cyndi, of Kearney; grandchildren, Mikalah Brown, of Clay Center, Blake Brown and his wife Kali, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Christopher Anderson, of Kearney, Zoe Anderson, of Gibbon, and Madelyne and Alexander Pesek, of Kearney; brother-in-law, Steve Pesek, of Gibbon; sister-in-law, Rebecca Cyza, of Omaha; as well as several nieces and nephews.
Jeanine was preceded in death by her parents, Maxine and Lyle Diefenbaugh; husband, Robert Pesek, Sr.; and brother, Michael Gregory.