Richard Hayden

Richard Rolland Harden entered eternal peace early Monday morning, April 24, 2023, at Prestige Care Center in Nebraska City at the age of 82 years.

A memorial service will be held at a later date in Wood River.

Richard Rolland Hayden was born on February 9, 1941, in Grand Island; the son of Cecil R. and Laveda R. (Hill Cronk) Hayden. He attended school and graduated from the Cairo High School at Cairo with the Class of 1958.

He was united in marriage to Barbara English on May 5, 1962, in Wood River and to this union three daughters were born: Michelle, Sheila and Shawna.

The couple later divorced and he married Valorie K. Gallagher on January 14, 2006, in Utah.

Richard worked for numerous years in maintenance at Eaton Corporation in Kearney. He retired from Eaton’s in 2002.

He is survived by his wife Valorie “Val” Hayden, of Omaha; three daughters, Michelle Wiseman and husband Martin, of Wood River, Sheila Hayden. of Atlantic, Iowa, and Shawna Garland and husband Larry, of Ohiowa; six grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and other family and friends.

Richard was preceded in death by his parents, Cecil and Laveda; and his sisters, Sandy Woitaszewski, Gloria Burton, Jackie Denman, and Rosemary Stoker.