Karen "Nancy" Ann Hamar

Karen “Nancy” Ann Hamar, 77 of Omaha, Nebraska, formerly of the Siouxland Area, passed away on August 26, 2025, surrounded by family.

A Celebration of Life Service will be at 11 am, Saturday, September 27, 2025, at Sioux City First Church in Sioux City, Iowa, with Pastor Joshua Potter officiating. The visitation, with the family present, will begin at 10am on Saturday prior to services at the church. The Mohr & Becker-Hunt Funeral Home of South Sioux City, Nebraska has assisted with arrangements.

Karen was born on the 14th of March in 1948 in Sioux City. She attended and graduated from South Sioux City Public schools, graduating with the Class of 1966. “Nancy” and Bob married in the July of 1966. Bob served our country with the US Army in many locations. Bob and Nancy welcomed their first daughter Michele in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. After a year following North Carolina, Nancy then kept the fort in South Sioux City, NE while Bob then was stationed in Fort Campbell, Kentucky and Bob transferred to the 101st Screaming Eagles Division and left for Vietnam in December of 1967. Nancy loved people and worked for Beeline Fashions in the 1970’s.

In June 1971, Bob and Nancy welcomed their second daughter Kimberlee in a Siouxland hospital while living in South Sioux City for over fifty years. Nancy worked for JC Penny in Sioux City for 10 years. She then went on to work for, and retired from, Great West Casualty Company after 20 years in South Sioux City, Nebraska as an Underwriting Support Specialist. After retirement, they moved to Omaha.

Nancy loved being with family and friends, boating, vacations, and cookouts. She was a member of the Lynn Broyhill Assembly International Order of Rainbow for girls in South Sioux City and served as Mother Advisor and Grand Mother Advisor for the State of Nebraska. Nancy was also a past member of the Eastern Star religious group and a member of the Assembly of God Church.

Survivors include her children: daughters: Michele (Steve) Wendte, Kimberlee (Thad) Trosper; grandchildren: Anthony and Schylar Hamar, Kiefer Schuttpelz, Ethan Wendte, Elizabeth and Katheryn Trosper; great grandkids: Maranda Hamar, Zayden Harbeck, Xaiver Noah Hamar and Isabella Hamar, Nikelye Schuttpelz, and great-great granddaughter Zariah; and sisters-in-law: Luann Jager and Jodi Doughty.

She was preceded in death by Darold Hamar, her husband, who just recently passed on July 11, 2025, and her parents: Sigford and Esther (Bobier) Fredrickson; her siblings: Darold Bobier, Delores Suber, Dwayne Fredickson, Ron “Ronnie” Fredrickson and Rodney Fredrickson; and Katheryn’s life partner Tony Lyle.