Zale Quible
News Staff
Thursday, April 25, 2024
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Zale Kenneth Quible, 79, of Merriman, Neb. passed away at his home surrounded by his loving family on April 13, 2024 after a months-long battle with pancreatic cancer. Zale was the youngest of three children born to Kenneth and Clare (Beyersdorf) Quible on June 27, 1944. He attended school just across the highway at a rural schoolhouse on the Quible Ranch through seventh grade and eighth grade in Merriman. Zale then attended high school at the Nebraska School of Agriculture in Curtis, NE, and graduated in 1962. After graduation, he returned to the family ranch where he lived the remainder of his life. He began working on the ranch with his parents and liked to spend some time riding down the road on his motorcycle and burning the back tires off his cars. This need for speed led to him racing cars at area race tracks for several years and later doing some off-road racing.