Funeral Services will be held on Friday, April 3, 2026, at 10:30 AM at the United Methodist Church in Broken Bow, NE with Pastor Phil Sloat officiating. Burial will follow in the Grandview Cemetery in Anselmo with a lunch to follow at the Community Center in Anselmo. Memorials are suggested to the Custer County Historical Society or the Masonic Eastern Star Home for Children in Fremont. A visitation and time to greet the family will be held on Thursday, April 2nd from 3:00 to 5:00 PM at Govier Brothers Mortuary. Govier Brothers Mortuary is in charge of arrangement. Online words of remembrance or condolences may be left at govierbrothers.com
Ruth LaVon Lindly was born November 27, 1937, to Oscar and Susie (Hehner) Muhlbach. She grew up with two brothers and one sister on the farm south of Ravenna in Buffalo County. She attended District 65 country school thru 8th grade and attended high school in Ravenna: graduating in 1955. She attended Kearney State Teaching College where she received a teaching certificate. Ruth taught elementary school in Anselmo where she met and married Leonard Lindly, the love of her life on August 10, 1958. To this union four sons were born, Mark, Craig, Kevin, and Ross. Ruth and Leonard lived on the family farm outside of Anselmo. Ruth was a mother, homemaker, a farmhand, a prolific gardener, and an accomplished seamstress and quilter.
Ruth worked several jobs off the farm, including BD, selling Avon door to door, she was the Anselmo librarian for many years and did census collection for the government. Ruth loved history, attending auctions, knitting, embroidery, quilting, painting, reading, her friends and doing word search puzzles. She was a 67-year member of the United Methodist Church, a 50+ year member of the Federation of Women’s Club, where she was chapter and District president several times. Ruth was a member of the committee responsible for compiling the family stories for the local Anselmo history book entitled “Victoria Creek Neighbors”. She was a member of the Custer County Historical Society Board of Directors. Ruth was involved with the Custer County Fair for many years with both the Anselmo community booth and open class where she entered her paintings, canned and fresh produce, hand work and the natives grass competitions. Ruth fell in love with her husband’s passion, old 2-cylinder John Deere tractors,she was seen driving them in parades. Ruth continued keeping track of the weather for NOAA for seven years after Leonard’s passing in 2016. They had a total of 30 years of weather tracking. Ruth felt a calling to make 20 or so quilts for the Masonic Eastern Star Home for Children, because the kids sometimes came to the Home with nothing and she wanted them to have a quilt to call their own and keep.
She is survived by her sons Kevin (Marilyn), and Ross, sister-in-law Donna McCaslin, special longtime friend Shirley Schmidt, her nine grandkids, 15 great-grandkids, eight great-great-grandkids, nieces, nephews, neighbors and friends.
Ruth was preceded in death by her parents Oscar and Susie Muhlbach, two brothers, Donald and Loyal, one sister Arleen Stein, sister-in-law Marie, brother-in-law Francis Stein, Her loving husband of 58 years, Leonard Lindly, and two sons, Mark and Craig.
