P. A. TIETSORT DIES SUDDENLY OF HEART ATTACK

P. A. “Dick” Tietsort of Kennard was stricken with a fatal heart attack Monday afternoon as he was returning from Klotz Brothers farm sale. Eye witnesses said that Tietsort had driven his automobile onto Highway 30 near the Klotz farm when apparently his heart failed without warning; the car, although out of control, continued to back up until it struck a parked pick up, and stopped, blocking the roadway.

Born at Logan, Iowa on March 5, 1872, Tietsort was one of a family of eleven. He moved to Central City as a child, and then came to Kennard where he grew to manhood. On July 4, 1901 he and Myrtle Weed, the daughter of a prominent Kennard man, were married. The couple lived for five years in Deadwood, South Dakota, and in 1906 moved to Scottsbluff, Nebraska where they homesteaded. In March, 1941, they returned to Kennard where they made their home.

Six children were born to the Tietsorts - a daughter, Olive, died in infancy and a son, Perry, passed away in 1939. Surviving are the widow and four children, Hazel Fugate of San Diego; Verona Green of San Francisco; Layea Dieter of Los Angeles; and Claar of San Diego; also two brothers and two sisters.

Mr. Tietsort had been elected an elder in the Blair Church of Christ within the past few months, and had attended church in Blair on the Sunday preceding his death.

Services will be held at the Kennard Methodist Church at eleven o’clock Saturday morning, with Rev. Ronald Cochran, pastor of the Blair Church of Christ, interment in the Kennard cemetery. Pallbearers will be Harry Blaco, Elmer Wright, Chris Nelson, A. D. Anderson of Kennard; Pete Petersen and D. A. Compton of Blair.

#2-Published in Pilot-Tribune, January 14, 1943

FALLS DEAD AS LEAVING FARM SALE

DICK TIETSORT, 70, DIED SUDDENLY MONDAY; FUNERAL TO BE SATURDAY

Dick Tietsort, 70, of Kennard, collapsed and died of a sudden heart attack late Monday afternoon just as he was preparing to drive home in his car after attending the Klotz Bros. farm sale south of Kennard.

He had just started to drive his car out of the parking space at the Klotz farm when stricken. His car backed into a vehicle owned by Alfred Hansen of Tekamah, formerly of Kennard. Those investigating the crash found Mr. Tietsort slumped over the steering wheel, dying.

The body was removed to the Campbell Mortuary here. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Kennard Methodist Church, interment to follow in Kennard cemetery.

CAME TO COUNTY AS BOY

Born at Logan, Iowa, March 5, 1872, Mr. Tietsort came to Washington county as a boy with his parents, the late Lemia and Nancy Tietsort. He resided near Kennard until young manhood, and on July 4, 1901, was married in Blair to Myrtle Weed of Kennard.

They went to the Deadwood region in the Black Hills of South Dakota, where they remained five years before going to Scottsbluff, Nebraska, where they farmed 35 years. Two years ago the Tietsorts returned to Kennard.

Surviving Mr. Tietsort are his wife, Myrtle; one son, Claar, San Diego, California; and three daughters, Mrs. Hazel Fugate of San Diego, California, Mrs. Verona Green of San Francisco, and Mrs. Lyda Dietiker of Los Angeles. There are four grandchildren.

Note: Buried in Blk 5 Lt 10 Sp 5 ~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~

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