Stanley B. Pearson

Stanley B. Pearson died in Kimball on August 12, 2024 at the age of 95. He was born March 13, 1929 in Arnold, Nebraska to Alvin and Esther (Smith) Pearson. Stan grew up in the Dirty Thirties on a homestead north of Arnold. He met and married Beverly June Rimpley of Arnold on July 14, 1950.

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 Povonka from Sterling, Colorado where he learned to operate heavy equipment and worked in the oilfield. During that time, Stan started his heavy equipment company, Stan Pearson Construction.

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.

Stan was preceded in death by his wife Beverly in 2016, his parents, his brother Don of Farmington, New Mexico, his brother-in-law Louis Schuster of Callaway, and his daughter-in-law Reba Pearson of Casper, Wyoming.

Survivors include Stan and Bev’s children: Roger of Greeley, Colorado, Melinda of Kimball, Brian of Kimball, and Aleta of Kimball; grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; 4 great-great-grandchildren; brother, Jim, of Montana; sister Joan Schuster of Arnold; brother-in-law, Lynn Rimpley of Florida; and many family and friends.

Funeral services will be held on Friday, August 23, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. MT, at the Cantrell Funeral Home in Kimball. Lunch will be served following the services. Internment will be held on Saturday, August 24, 2024 at 1:00 a.m. CT at the Arnold Cemetery with lunch being served afterwards at the Arnold Community Center.

In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested for Veterans organizations, the Kimball Historical Society, and the Arnold Community Center.

Cantrell Funeral Home in Kimball is in charge of arrangements.

Happy Trails.