lit a candle 2d ago84 years. Rest easy, Irlene.
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Irlene Wiechelman was a longtime resident of Coleridge, Nebraska, whose death at age 84 or 85 was reported in an obituary notice carried by KTIV, the television station serving the Siouxland region of Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota. She was born in 1941 and died on October 25, 2026, in…
Irlene Wiechelman was a longtime resident of Coleridge, Nebraska, whose death at age 84 or 85 was reported in an obituary notice carried by KTIV, the television station serving the Siouxland region of Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota. She was born in 1941 and died on October 25, 2026, in or near Coleridge, a small village in Cedar County, Nebraska where she had lived for much of her life.
Public information about Irlene Wiechelman is limited. Unlike many people memorialized on this site, she was not a public figure, celebrity or office holder; she appears to have lived a private life in a small rural community, and the only published account of her death so far is a brief funeral notice rather than a full biography. No Wikipedia article or detailed news coverage of her life has been published, so much of her personal history, including her occupation, education and the full span of her family life, is not publicly documented at this time.
What is known comes largely from local funeral home and family records. Her late husband, Robert M. Wiechelman, died in March 2021 at the age of 82 in Laurel, Nebraska, after the couple had retired and moved back to Coleridge. At that time Irlene was listed as his surviving wife, living in Coleridge, which places her in the village for at least the final years of her life and ties her to the extended Wiechelman family of northeastern Nebraska.
Irlene Wiechelman's death was announced through a standard funeral notice distributed via KTIV's obituary listings, a common practice for families in small Nebraska and Iowa communities who place death notices with local television affiliates and funeral homes rather than national media. As of this writing, no cause of death has been made public, and no further reaction or tributes beyond the family notice have been reported.
Because so little has been published about her beyond the fact and approximate circumstances of her death, this page will be updated if and when more information, such as details of her working life, family, education or community involvement, becomes available through a full obituary or further reporting.
Biography adapted from News reports and the sources cited on this page; death reported by Denver Gazette.
