 MITCHELL
PATRICK "Mick" BRITTON was born on March 23, 1914, at
the Britton ranch north of Taylor, NE, in Loup County. He was the 10th
of 13 children born to Charles Nicholas Britton and Sarah Elizabeth
Cross Britton. Mick married Minnie Dimples Predmore on April 24, 1936,
when he was 22 years old. Mick and Dimples moved west to the Platte
Valley area in western Nebraska in the early 40's. Their first child
was Patricia Gail Britton (Bryant), born on October 11, 1946, in Scottsbluff,
NE; and their 2nd child, Wanda Darlene Britton (Palmer) was born 16
months later on February 8, 1948, also in Scottsbluff.Mick worked on ranches in the Platte Valley area, including the Rogers Ranch in Banner County. During WW2, he was foreman of the Peterson Potato Company and was in charge of German POW's working there. He was a building contractor and also worked the seasonal campaigns for Gering's Great Western Sugar Factory. In the 50's, Mick held government contracts for cement irrigation ditches in the Panhandle of Nebraska, before becoming Superintendent of Gering's street department where he was when he retired in 1979. Mick carried on his family musical tradition and played the banjo from the time he was a teenager. In later years, he accompanied his daughter, Wanda...she on the piano and he on the banjo...for church and other events. He was a member of the Pan Handle Rock and Gem Club and a member of the Church of Christ. Mick was very talented at working with his hands...wood-working, carpentry, cement work, rock tumbling and polishing, planting vegetable gardens and flowers. His daughters remember him as a kind and gentle dad. He took his girls fishing, rock hunting, target shooting, out to dinner and for ice cream and told them bedtime stories. Family was very important to him and he loved his brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews, as well as his wife and girls. Mick died at the young age of 70 from cancer on June 24, 1984, and is buried just 3 miles from his long-time home in Gering. |
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