- Date Of Birth: August 31, 1944
- Date Of Death: March 23, 2022
- State: Nebraska
Obit Steven E. Delay-77
of Hebron, NE
402-768-6165
Steven E. Delay was born August 31, 1944 in Hastings, NE. Steven departed this life Wednesday
March 23, 2022 at Bryan-East Hospital in Lincoln, NE at the age of 77 years.
In his younger years he attended Guide Rock Public Schools and graduated with the class of 1962. During his time in Guide Rock at his father’s grocery store, he dealt with putting his fingers into rotten potatoes and onions, cleaning up broken honey jars, and dodging tropical spiders and snakes coming out of wooden banana crates. He did learn how to count change back to customers.
He earned a BA in Education in 1966 and a MS in Education in 1970 from Kearney State College
and did graduate work at South Dakota State University, the University of Wyoming and the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
During his educational career in Nebraska, he taught at Wheatland High School in Madrid, NE, Holstein, and over 30 years in Hebron.
Delay was a life-long member of the National Education Association and the Nebraska State
Education Association. He was also a past member of the Hebron Lions Club, past member and
president of the Thayer County Historical Society, a past member of the Hebron Library Board.
Arts Council of Thayer County(Save the Majestic Theater) and his investment club.
Cooking, historical research, and football were his favorite activities along with trying to get the
Hebron High Bears football coach to throw a forward pass as part of the game plan. He also
enjoyed pushing his liberal views onto the conservative members of his coffee club.
Preceding him in death were his parents: Earl and Amelia(Boom)Delay, half-brother: Arden Delay
killed in World War II, and his brother: Billie E. Delay, half-sister: Earlene Delay and sister-in-law:
Brigitte Delay.
Survivors include his sister: Joanne Kennedy of Fort Collins, CO; sister-in-law: Cheri Delay of
Hastings, NE; and brother: John Delay of Eugene, OR; nieces: Patricia(Jim)Knutson of
Camarillo, CA; Kathy(Jeff)Gordon of Evansville, IN; Chris(Chuck)Wing of Longmont, CO;
Casey Tracy of Hastings, NE and step-niece: Lori(Dean)Homstad of Springdale, AR, and Nicole
(Terry)Burton of Omaha, NE; nephews: Michael(Karen)Kennedy of Amarillo, TX and Kelly
(Barb)Kennedy of Lyons, CO, Paul Dyer of Aurora, CO, many great-nieces and great-nephews,
and the Boom cousins.
Hebron. Officiant will be Steven’s great nephew Douglas Kennedy.
