Robert Harold Culver Sr., age 97, of Lincoln died on March 14, 2023. He was born in Silver Creek, Nebraska, to William and Hilda (Rann) Culver on July 11, 1925. While working for the Bell Telephone Company, he met Monita Heitman in 1946. They married in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1947. Together they raised four children.

He was a proud Navy veteran of WWII seeing action at Iwo Jima, Okinawa and Tokyo Bay. He served with his shipmates on the destroyer Samuel N. Moore 747. He retired from Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph in 1990. During his life, he took great pride in volunteering with Lions Int...