Mrs. Wagner, 94, died on Monday, August 21, 2000, at Manning Plaza nursing home following a brief illness.

Rev. James McAlpin will celebrate the Mass. Her sons will participate in the service, with Jack Wagner as lector and Bud Wagner as Eucharistic Minister.

Mass servers will be Alan Kirmse, Cody Kirmse, and Ben Longnecker, and gift bearers will be Carol Deuninck, Amy Wagner, Barb Snyder, Pam Anderson, and Kristy Huerter.

Casket bearers will be Rick Longnecker, Kevin Stangl, Brian Wagner, Ron Wagner, Dan Wagner, and Marty Popp. Kirk Wagner will be an honorary casket bearer.
Burial will be at Sacred Heart Cemetery.

Visitation will begin at 3 p.m. and a rosary by the Catholic Daughters of the Americas will be at 4 Thursday at Ohde Funeral Home in Manning. A prayer service will take place at 7:30 Thursday night in the funeral home, followed by an 8 p.m. rosary by the Altar Society.

A daughter of Frank and Wilhelmine (Felder) Dalhoff, she was born on January 1, 1906, at Halbur. Her mother died when she was 4, and she was schooled at Sts. Peter and Paul in Carroll, after which she lived with her sister.

She and Mathew Wagner were married on June 7, 1926, at Halbur.

The couple resided in Hartington, Nebraska, for a year, then moved to Manning, where Mrs. Wagner was a homemaker while her husband worked as a plumber. She later worked as cook, babysitter, and housekeeper.

Mrs. Wagner was a member of Sacred Heart Church in Manning, its Rosary and Altar Societies and the Catholic Daughters of the Americas.

She enjoyed crossword puzzles, playing cards with relatives, and baking.

Survivors include seven children, Delores Longnecker and her husband, Richard, of David City, Nebraska; Alice Stangl of Manning; Eugene "Bud" Wagner and his wife, Marj, of Carroll; John "Jack" Wagner and his wife, Darlene, of Benson, Minnesota; Vernon Wagner and his wife, Judy, of Audubon; Kathy Popp and her husband, Larry, of Albany, Oregon; and Don Wagner and his wife, Diane, of Audubon; 23 grandchildren; 28 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; 15 step-grandchildren; 20 step-great-grandchildren; and a sister-in-law, Cecilia Wagner, of Carroll.

Mrs. Wagner was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Mathew; a son-in-law, Donald Stangl; two grandsons, Martin Longnecker and Kirk Wagner; two brothers, Monsignor J.J. Dalhoff and Fred Dalhoff and his wife, Anna; three sisters, Sister Mary Agnetis, Mary Kohn and her husband, Pete, and Bernadine Eischeid and her husband, Bill; and a sister-in-law, Nettie Wagner.