Deb McCurdy, 64, of Cumberland passed away Sunday, November 28, 2021 at CHI Health Creighton Bergan Mercy Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska. Funeral Services will be at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, December 3, 2021, at St. Timothy Catholic Church-Reno, south of Cumberland. Father Michael Berner will officiate. Burial will be at a later date in the St. Timothy Catholic Cemetery. Open visitation will be from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 2, 2021, with family receiving friends from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at Pearson Family Funeral Service & Cremation Center in Corning. Memorial contributions may be directed to the family, to be determined. Memories and online condolences may be left at www.pearsonfuneralhomes.com.
Debora “Deb” Lou Swope the daughter of Beryl Ellsworth and Dorothy Lavena (Albers) Swope was born on April 12, 1957 in Atlantic, Iowa. She graduated from Cumberland- Massena High School with the class of 1975. On February 24, 2003, Deb married Jerry Dean McCurdy in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Deb was a hard worker. She worked at Casey’s in Corning prior to her 23 years at Dollar General where she would become store manager.
Deb enjoyed traveling, fishing, quilting and doing her cross stitch. Most of all Deb cherished her time spent with family, especially her grandchildren.
Left to cherish Deb’s memory is her husband, Jerry McCurdy of Cumberland; children: Bradley (Dawn) Penton of Cumberland, Crystal (Kyle Kolthoff) Joyce of Corning and Curtis Penton of Cumberland; step-children: Kristen Ramirez of Colorado and Calie (Kevin) Freestone of Colorado; grandchildren: Ayla, Tyra, Emma, Devon, Jordan, MaRiya and Dominic; step-grandchildren: Amanda, Emily, Megan, Camron, Dominic, Calvin, Keagan, Kylie and KC; great-grandchildren: Alexander and Carter; step-great-grandchildren: Serenity, Lylah, Memphis, Dante, Kahlil, Winston, Larie and James; sisters: Sheryl (Jim) Heldt of Omaha, Nebraska and Doris Baumfalk of Underwood, Iowa, along with many other relatives and friends.
Preceding Deb in death were her parents, Beryl and Dorothy and brother-in-law, Robert Baumfalk.
