Barry K Waid

Barry K. Waid, 71, passed away Thursday, February 1, 2024 at Nebraska Medicine in Omaha, NE.

A memorial service will be held 2:00 p.m., Sunday, February 25, 2024, at Grace Lutheran Church, 11640 A Street, Walton, NE 68461. Barry will be cremated, and at a later date his ashes placed in Rose Hill Cemetery in Albion, NE overlooking the hospital where he was born and the acreage where he was raised.

Memorials to Grace Lutheran Church in Walton and Zion Lutheran Church in Albion.

Colonial Chapel Funeral Home in Lincoln, NE and Levander Funeral Home in Albion, NE are in charge of local arrangements respectively.

Barry was born to Francis Ray Waid and Lauraine Lottie Schultz Waid on October 20, 1952 at the Boone County Community Hospital in Albion, Nebraska. On November 10, 2011, he began a battle with Aspergillus Fumigatus which he lost on February 1, 2024.

Barry graduated from Albion High School in 1971; UNL with a BA in 1975; and the UNL College of Law in 1978. He married Rebecca Bodmer on December 20, 1980, in Gering, Nebraska.

Barry's life was enriched by the birth of their son, Jay, on January 23, 1985, and their daughter, Britain, on January 7, 1987. Barry married Kathryn Huff on October 31, 2012.

Barry served as a Deputy Scotts Bluff County Attorney from 1978 to 1987. In 1987, he was hired to start the Hall County Public Defender's Office in Grand Island, Nebraska and was elected to the office in 1988. In 1990, he accepted the position of Assistant Attorney General for the State of Nebraska and served until he retired in 2019 due to ill health. While at the Attorney General's Office he helped to start the Drug and Violent Crime Prosecution Division and the Child Protection Division. From 2000 to 2019, Barry provided civil litigation services for the Attorney General's Office at the Nebraska Department of Transportation.

Barry is survived by his son Jay (Carly) of Omaha; daughter Dr. Britain O'Connor (Denis) of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin; granddaughters, Sive Elizabeth O'Connor and Eliana Marie Waid; step granddaughter Laikyn Rose Templin; sisters JoAnn Christensen of Orange Park, Florida, Shelley Bode (Charlie) of Elgin and Sherry Mitchell of Destin Beach, Florida; brothers Brian (Ruthie) of Seattle and Michael (Lori Hansen) of Yankton, South Dakota; and brother-in-law, Bill Splinter of Lincoln as well as many nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his mother and father and his beloved sister Lori J. Splinter.

Barry's life was made more memorable by his children, grandchildren, family, friends and his church family at Grace Lutheran Church, Walton. He was especially fond of his involvement in the Nebraska and American Quarter Horse Associations as a youth and living and working in the great State of Nebraska. Barry was very grateful for the medical care provided by Drs.Steven Krueger, Andrew Merliss, Kelly Pierce and Gina Mentzer of Lincoln and Drs. Mary J. Kasten, Timothy Aksamit, Joseph Butterfield, Margaret "Peg" Lloyd, Margaret Redfield, and Samuel Asirvatham of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.