Marge Hardy, 91, of Seneca, Nebraska, died June 17, 2026. Her family will hold visitation June 23 and funeral services June 24 at the Seneca Auditorium, followed by burial at Seneca Cemetery. Memorials are suggested to Seneca United Church of Christ or the Sen
Marge Hardy spent her life showing up—at the bedside, at church, and beside kids who wanted to learn music by ear.
Marge Hardy, age 91, of Seneca, Nebraska, died on June 17, 2026. Her family will hold funeral services on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, at 10:30 AM Central Time at the Seneca Auditorium in Seneca, Nebraska. Burial will follow in the Seneca Cemetery.
There will be a visitation and time to greet the family on Tuesday. June 23. from 6:00 to 8:00 PM Central Time (5:00 to 7:00 PM Mountain Time) at the Mullen Funeral Home in Mullen. Online words of remembrance or condolences may be left at govierbrothers.com. In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested to Seneca United Church of Christ or Seneca Auditorium.
Marjorie Lou was born August 8, 1934, at Red Cloud, Nebraska, to Hiram and Marguerite (Peggy Suey) Moger. She attended Red Cloud Public Schools. Marge accepted Christ as her Savior at a very young age and loved walking to church with her Grandmother Mary Ella Suey.
She married Don E. Herbig on September 24, 1950, at the home of her grandparents, Walter and Mary Suey, in Red Cloud, and the couple made their home in Mullen, Nebraska. They had two daughters: Peggy Irene, born October 9, 1951, and Donna Lou, born October 20, 1955. The Herbig’s later divorced.
Marge graduated from LPN school in March 1969 and received her nursing license in May of that year. She was employed by Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Mullen and often did private duty nursing at area hospitals.
On June 7, 1969, Marge and John Hardy were married and made their home on his family ranch east of Seneca. She became an EMT in August 1974, and later became an instructor after a nephew’s death in 1982. She was named EMT of the year in 1989 and was honored by the Nebraska Legislature in 1992. She dearly loved nursing and emergency work.
Her love of music ran alongside her service. Marge played piano, organ, or accordion for many occasions. She taught many Sandhills kids to play accordion and especially loved playing for church and with the Golden Classics and Sandhills Shamrocks bands.
Marge was preceded in death by her beloved husband John Hardy and Grandson John William Holbrook and his mother Donna Sevier.
She leaves her beloved daughter and son-in-laws Peggy and Rahn Bek and Tom Sevier. and precious grandchildren Robin and Dan Graves and their two children. and Tim Sevier and three great grandchildren. She also leaves sisters Dorothy (Albert) Wood. Karon Baily. and brothers Douglas (Marcene) Moger. Alvin (Jeneane) Crawford. Jim (Eva) Crawford. and many loving nieces. nephews. and cousins. She also leaves a great many friends and students of EMT and music.
Marge Hardy Seneca NE Sandhills nursing EMT music funeral
91 is a long time, RIP.
The article says she was an EMT then an instructor?? Like I thought EMT was already trained, but ok. Also “music by ear” sounds like church folk magic or something.
Wait so is this the same Marge Hardy that played accordion at the nursing home? My mom said she knew someone like that in Seneca. I dunno the details but this just makes me sad. Hope they got the dates right for the visitation.
June 23 visitation 6-8 at Mullen Funeral Home and then funeral June 24 at 10:30 at the Seneca Auditorium… got it. But why does it say memorials are suggested to the Seneca United Church of Christ or the Sen Marge Hardy spent her life showing up—at the bedside—like the sentence is messed up. Still sounds like she did everything, nursing, EMT, teaching kids, bands, Nebraska Legislature award?? Kinda wild. RIP Marge, wish I could’ve heard her play accordion.