(KLZA)-- A longtime Southeast Nebraska pharmacist is being remembered.

Densel Fankhauser, of Tecumseh and formerly of DuBois, died Wednesday, June 5 at the age of 93.

Following his  release from the Navy in 1946, Fankhausker graduated from the College of Pharmacy at the University of Nebraska.  

Following graduation he returned to DuBois and started a small drug store.  In 1954 Fankauser started to work at the Colwell  Drug Store in Pawnee City.

In 1957 he moved to Tecumseh to work for the Nachtigall Drug Store.  In 1969 he and his wife Irene purchased Chief Drug in Tecumseh and worked there until they sold the store in 1991.

Densel continued to work at the store part-time until July of 2015. In all, he spent 65 years in the pharmacy profession. 

Fankhauser was also a co-founder of the former Maple Grove Nursing home in Tecumseh.

Funeral services for Densel Fankhauser will be Monday morning at 11 at the St. Paul's United Church of Christ ( Maple Grove) of rural Tecumseh with an interment service Monday afternoon at 2 at the Friedens United Church of Christ Cemetery of rural Bern, Kansas.