Tillie L. Goracke, 87, Phillips County, died Monday, Sept. 24, 2012, at Phillips County Retirement Center, Phillipsburg.

She was born Oct. 21, 1924, in Macon, Neb., to Focke and Catherine (Miller) Diesner.

She married Francis J. Goracke on Aug. 8, 1954, in Macon, Neb.

Survivors include her husband, of the home; a son, Harvey, Phillipsburg; a daughter, Joyce Bretton, Glade; a brother, John Diener, Franklin, Neb.; five grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Olliff-Boeve Memorial Chapel, Phillipsburg; burial in Fairview Cemetery, Phillipsburg.

Visitation will be until 9 p.m. Wednesday, with family receiving friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m., and from 9 a.m. until time of service Thursday, both at the funeral home.

Memorials are suggested to Phillips County Retirement Center or Hospice Services Inc. in care of the funeral home.

Condolences can be sent to the family at www.olliffboeve.com.