After an illness of about three months Miss Jeaneve, daughter of Supt. and Mrs. W. H. Myers, died at the Wise Memorial hospital in Omaha at 6 o’clock last Friday morning. She had made a brave fight for life and at times the chances seemed to be in favor of recovery, but for each rally there was a relapse and in the end Death won. She was taken ill shortly after school closed last June and was taken to Omaha July 8th. The next day an operation was performed and another about two weeks later. Everything possible was done to retain her fresh, young life but the Master thought it was best to transplant the flower to his vineyard and we should not complain. The body was brought up Friday evening and the funeral held at 1 o’clock Saturday afternoon, Rev. C. P. Lang, her pastor here and also her former pastor at Oakland, officiating. He read her favorite verses from the bible and spoke words of comfort and of a sure hope to her sorrowing parents and schoolmates. Dr. C. R. Mead sang “Homeland,” which was the only music during the service. Three High School friends from Oakland and three from the Blair High were the pallbearers. Interment was made in the Blair cemetery. The casket was fairly buried in flowers and the room in which it stood was almost filled with those tender tributes of loving hearts. Those present from out of town were: Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Myers, of Ponca, Mr. Myers parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. Conner, and Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Conner, and son, of Omaha, Mr. and Ms. W. P. Logan, of Norfolk, Neb., Mrs. A. S. Wasson, of Sioux City, Ia., C. W. Penney, of Lincoln, E. W. Harding and Mr. and Mrs. Pedon, of Oakland, Mrs. H. Tunberg, of Tekamah and a number of former classmates from Oakland. Jeaneve was born at Ponca, Neb., and was 16 years, 1 month and 18 days old, just entering into womanhood. Her face was as fresh and beautiful as her life, and her mind as bright as the prospects for the future of one at her age. She was in love with life and to end it so young would be cruel if she were not to live it on in a larger sphere. The separation is hard but there is a refining influence in sorrow the world would soon miss if it came not into most of our lives at some time. Jeaneve will be missed greatly but remembered long by all who knew her. The entire community will share the loss and the sorrow with Superintendent and Mrs. Myers and wish for them strength and courage as strong as is their hope.

Tribune 13 Sept 1911

The Peaceful End:

Jeaneve Myers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Myers, superintendent of the Blair City schools, passed this life at the Wise Memorial hospital at Omaha September 8 at 6 a.m. having attained the age of 16 years, 1 month and 8 days. Jeaneve was one of the brightest and most promising that one could ever hope to meet. She was full of the love of life and was a bright ray of cheer wherever she was, and was always the center of a wide circle of friends from her early childhood. Since the close of the schools the last of May she was confined to her room and on the 8th of July was conveyed to the hospital in Omaha where after two months the bright life slowly ebbed away, during which time her large circle of friends was anxiously awaiting the final issue, for at times hope would glimmer, but only to be elapsed by a denser cloud. Brief funeral services were conducted at the home Saturday afternoon at 1 o’clock by her former pastor, Rev. Chas. P. Lang, at Oakland, who is the Methodist pastor in charge at present at Blair. Dr. Mead sang “Homeland,” and the scripture passages were favorites of the deceased. The body was buried in the Blair cemetery.

Out of town attendants were Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Myers of Ponca, Mr. and Mrs. I. Conner and D. W. Conner and son of Omaha, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Logan of Norfolk, Mrs. D. A. S. Wasson of Sioux City, Prof. Penney of Lincoln, Mrs. H. Tuneberg of Tekamah, and E. W. Harding and Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Peden of Oakland, and the Misses Maudlin, Sallander and Rosen, teachers in the Oakland schools, besides a number of classmates from that place. Three of the Oakland High school boys and three of the Blair High school boys served as bearers. The rich floral offerings were but a slight token of the great esteem in which the deceased was held. Life is a commodity and wholly our own, and its field of action may be transferred from this sphere to the great eternal realm even in the bloom of youth. Nevertheless, this life has been a great blessing, and memories of her will be an inspiration to many.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~