Marilyn Elaine Schader Nutt went in search of her beloved daughter, Nancy on Sunday, May 24, 2026. Born to Evelyn and F.B. Schrader on August 6, 1930, she lived in Herman, NE and Mondamin, IA before moving to Lincoln in 1939. After her marriage, she lived in Dorchester, Elwood, Arapahoe, and Gordon, NE and Boulder, CO before returning to Lincoln in 1965.

Marilyn was leader for her children’s Scouts, 4-H, Methodist Youth Fellowship and Guardian for Job’s Daughter’s Bethel #50.

She was past president of the Gordon Art Department, the Lincoln Civic Newcomers, and the Pink Lake Ladies Golf Association. She was a member of P.E.O. Chapter F.G., Fifty-Fifty Dinner Bridge Club, and played marathon bridge for Symphony Guild and the Daughters of the Nile. She loved to play bridge, especially when dessert was served.

Marilyn was a member of St. Paul United Methodist Church.

She worked at Miller & Paine as supervisor of the Books and Camera department and was proprietor of the “Nuttshell” Gift Shop located in the Gunny’s Building at 13^th & Q Streets in Lincoln.

Marilyn loved to travel and except for Alaska and Hawaii, had visited all 50 U.S. states plus Mexico and Canada. In addition, she had enjoyed a forty days and forty nights jaunt touring Europe and the U.K. Her favorite days on the trip were spent at the Sistine Chapel viewing the work of Michelangelo and the day she walked the Old Course at St. Andrew’s Golf Course in Scotland.

She enjoyed designing and sewing clothing and costumes, and interior decorating. She wrote a light-hearted autobiography book, “What’s Luck Got to Do with It?” and was working on a biographical novel about family from 1830 to the present time.

At age 85 she had only two things left on her bucket list. Since she had already learned to country western line dance and dance to Celtic music, she needed to learn origami and painting. After conquering the origami bird, she tackled oil painting lessons with gusto and created some satisfactory work while in class but liked painting in whimsical animal settings at home, including “We Shall Gather at the River”, “Love Ya to the Moon”, and “You are My Sunshine”, none of which may ever be hung.

Surviving Marilyn are her daughter, Nikki Scott, Lincoln, and son, Bob Nutt and wife Melanie, Cozad. Grandchildren include Eric Scott and his wife, Deanna, Elizabeth (Libby) Scott, Amber Fredericksen, Samantha Medlock, Tom Fredericksen, Michaela Nutt, Mallory Nutt, Amber Cochran and her husband, Joey, and Brandon Ross and his wife, Kelsey. Great-grandchildren include Alexa (Scott) Caulkins and her husband, Tyler  and Braxton Scott and his wife, Olivia; Darien and Granger Medlock-Fredericksen; Brantley and Lennox Bradshaw; Carter, Mackenzie, Lawson, Jameson (JJ), Cy, and Marissa Cochran; and Austyn and Kannon Ross. Great-great-grandchildren are Baker, Banks and Barringer Caulkins and Ledger Green.

She was preceded in death by her parents, daughter Nancy Fredericksen, husband, George Nutt, sister Yvonne Marron, brother Robert Schrader, brother-in-law Rollin Soderling, son-in-law Rex Scott, and special aunts and uncles.

Marilyn was cremated and requested no funeral service. She said if there was one, she wouldn’t come. She always said her epitaph should read: “See, I told you I was sick.”

According to poet Henry Scott Holland: “Death is nothing at all…whatever we were to each other, that we have still. Laugh as we always laughed at little jokes and enjoyed each other. Play, smile, think of me and pray for me. All is well.”

Memorials may be made to St. Paul United Methodist Church, 11^th & M Streets, Lincoln, NE. 68508.

A Graveside Service will be held on Monday, June 1, 2026, at 1PM, at Wyuka Cemetery, 3600 “O” St., Lincoln.