Barbara MacLean, 75, of Wymore died unexpectedly Saturday morning, Jan. 21, 2006, at the Beatrice Community Hospital and Health Center. 

Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 25, at the Wymore United Methodist Church, with the Reverend Richard Sykes officiating. Burial will be at the Blue Springs Cemetery. The body will lie in state at the church one hour preceding the service. Laughlin-Hoevet Funeral Home in Wymore is in charge of arrangements.   

Survivors include her husband, Charles MacLean; three sons, Kemmit (Kimberly) MacLean of Sumter, S.C., Chauncey MacLean and his special friend Michelle Barden of Seattle, Wash., and Greg (Nancy) MacLean of Lincoln; a niece whom they raised, Jeneta (Chris) Smith of Lincoln; three grandchildren, Suzanna, Madison, and Jackson MacLean; two step grandchildren, Misty and Tanea Clover; four step great-grandchildren; a brother, Jeffrey (Sue) Jensen of Parker, Colo.; two sisters, Marilyn (Norman) Nelson of Springview; and Elaine Shanks of Winston-Salem, N.C.; two sisters-in-law, Lin Jensen of Scottsdale, Ariz., and Dorothy Naugle of Hooversville, Pa.; along with nieces and nephews.   

She was preceded in death by her parents; a brother and sister-in-law, Neil and Viola Jensen; a brother, Bruce Jensen; and a brother-in-law, Kenneth Shanks.   

Barbara was born Dec. 22, 1930, on a farm near Cozad to Uffe and Beuhla (Boggs) Jensen, where she spent most of her childhood.    

She moved to Lexington when she was in the tenth grade and was a 1948 graduate of Lexington High School. She attended Grand View College in Des Moines and Kearney State College. She taught rural school in Dawson County.     

On June 6, 1954, she married Charles MacLean at Lexington. They lived in Japan, Kearney, Lincoln, Alma, Pawnee City and moved to Blue Springs in 1964, where they established the Pinecrest Tree Farm. She served as the general manager until they moved to Wymore in 1995. She then assisted her husband in the Homestead Fence Company, which was operated from their residence.   

Barbara was an active member of the Wymore United Methodist Church, where she served as president of the United Methodist Women, served as delegate to the Nebraska Annual Conference, and also served on every board and committee within the Wymore church. She was also district president of the United Methodist Women, served as district membership, nurture, and outreach chairman, was chairman of the district nominating committee, and served as a Nebraska delegate of the United Methodist Women national convention.   

Together with her husband, they were members of the Nebraska Christmas Tree Growers Association and the National Christmas Tree Growers Association. She was a member of the Blue Springs Community Improvement. She worked with the Mother-To-Mother program, was a member of the Wymore Book Club, Friends of the Wymore Library, Break and Swing Square Dance Club at Wymore and the Rusty Gate Square Dance Club at Lexington, and was a past member of Chapter Q of P.E.O.Memorial to the establishment of an endowment fund for the Wymore United Methodist Church with Letha Boerrigter in charge.