Service Held On Wednesday for C. B. Neumann

Funeral services were held at Siever-Sprick Funeral Home in Fort Calhoun on Wednesday, January 30, 1980 for Clemens Buch Neumann who passed away on January 26 at the Memorial Community Hospital in Blair. Pastor William L. Mulford officiated at the memorial service with a masonic service conducted by Harold Swanson.

Clemens Buch was born to Heinrich and Marie Buch in Budapest, Hungary, on September 24, 1896. With the death of his father, his mother and he came to the United States and arrived in Omaha, Nebraska in 1903.

His mother married William Neumann and they moved to a farm 4 miles west of Fort Calhoun, where Buch resided during his youth, his marriage and until 6 months of his death.

Buch had a diversity of interests and hobbies. He worked as an auctioneer, a barber, an assessor, a sign painter, a salesman, a plumber, a welder, a well digger, an electrician and a blacksmith.

For recreation he played ball for the Fort Calhoun Baseball Team and played drums at barn dances and Chivaris in the ‘Golden Rod’ orchestra. He was a 50 year member of the Solomon Lodge No. 10 A.F. and A.M., Fort Calhoun, Nebraska.

The DeKalb Agricultural Association in 1961 presented him a certificate in recognition for 20 years of service to American agriculture.

Survivors are his wife, two daughters and two grandsons, Douglas Scott Duncan and Todd Buch Cretchfield and the Schneemeyer family, Harold, Norma, Russell, Kathy and Connie.

He donated his body to the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

#2 Funeral Leaflet

In Memory of Clemens Buch Neuman

Austria September 24, 1896; Blair, Nebraska January 26, 1980

Memorial Service at Sievers Sprick Funeral Home, Fort Calhoun, Nebraska Wednesday, January 30, 1980 2:00 P.M. Officiating: Rev. William Mulford. Music: Mrs. Shirley McNew Soloist; Mrs. Carol Sprick Organist “How Great Thou Art”, “In The Garden”

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