Memorial Mass of Christian Burial for Norbert A. “Norb” Widhalm, 79, of Norfolk, Neb., will take place at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 18, 2023, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Norfolk. Visitation is 4-7 p.m., Friday, Feb. 17, with a 7 p.m. rosary, also at the church. Following a luncheon at St. Mary’s Parish Hall on Saturday, burial will be in St. Francis Cemetery in Humphrey. Military rites will be conducted in the church parking lot by the American Legion Post 16, V.F.W. Post 1644, and the United States Air Force Honor Guard. In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested to St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Norfolk. The service will be live-streamed on the Stonacek Funeral Chapel Facebook page. Norbert, one of the best-loved sons, husband, brother, uncle and friend, passed away at his home Friday, Feb. 10, 2023, following a brief battle with an aggressive brain tumor. He will be terribly missed by all who had the pleasure and privilege of knowing him.
Stonacek Funeral Chapel is in charge of the arrangements.
Norb entered this world July 6, 1943, in Norfolk, Neb., the sixth of 11 children born to Albert J. and Agnes (McGuire) (Billerbeck) Widhalm. A 1961 graduate of St. Francis High School in Humphrey, Norb attended the College of St. Joseph in Albuquerque, N.M., and later achieved an electrical degree from Northeast Technical College. He served 4 years in the U.S. Air Force and was a military police officer in Vietnam from 1967-1968.
