Stanley B. Pearson died in Kimball on August 12, 2024 at the age of 95. Funeral services will be held on Friday, August 23, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. MT, at the Cantrell Funeral Home in Kimball with Pastor Randy Bohac officiating. Lunch will be served following the services. Inurnment will be held on Saturday, August 24, 2024 at 1:00 p.m. CST at the Arnold Cemetery in Arnold, Nebraska with lunch being served afterwards at the Arnold Community Center. Friends may visit www.cantrellfh.com to view Stan’s Tribute Wall and share condolences and stories with the family. In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested for Veterans organizations, the Kimball Historical Society, and the Arnold Community Center. The services for Stan have been entrusted to the Cantrell Funeral Home of Kimball.
Stanley Bernard Pearson was born March 13, 1929 in Arnold, Nebraska to Alvin and Esther (Smith) Pearson. Stan grew up on a homestead in rural Arnold. He met and married Beverly June Rimpley of Arnold on July 14, 1950. Stan honorably served in the US Army from 1951-1953 during Korean War.
Stan and Bev moved to Atlanta, Georgia, while he was in the Army. They returned to Arnold for a year and then moved to Sidney where they lived for 18 years. Stan worked for John Pivonka from Sterling, Colorado where he learned oilfield construction. During that time, Stan started his heavy equipment company, Stan Pearson Construction, a business that his family helped with.
In 1972 Stan and Bev moved to Kimball to continue running their business for the next 28 years. After retirement, they traveled the country delivering camper trailers for eight years.
In 2005, they stopped at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, at Pickets Charge, where 10,000 men died in an attempt to cross the battlefield. Standing there, he knew that someday he had to write their story. Stan published “Bound Away, Across the Wide Missouri” a few years later. It was a top 10 read in his family that detailed a Civil War hero who traveled through the American West and eventually settled outside of a newly formed Ft. Robinson in Nebraska Territory. He was a voracious reader of western and military histories, and writer of many stories.
Survivors include Stan and Bev’s children: Roger Pearson of Greeley, Colorado, Melinda Pearson of Kimball, Brian Pearson of Kimball, and Aleta Pearson of Kimball; brother Jim (Arlene) Pearson of Clancy, MT; sister Joan Schuster of Arnold, NE; brother-in-law Lynn Rimpley of Hollywood, FL; sister-in-law Veneda Pearson; 9 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; 4 great-great-grandchildren; and many family and friends.
Stan was preceded in death by his wife Beverly in 2016, his parents, his brother Don Pearson, his brother-in-law Louis Schuster, and his daughter-in-law Reba Pearson.
Happy Trails.