Obituary Record

Milrae (Johnson) Bayer
Died on 4/6/1994

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Date of Death: 6 April 1994

Milrae Bayer, 82

Services for Milrae Bayer, 82 of Minden, Nebraska who died April 6, 1994 at the Hearthstone Nursing Home in York were Saturday, April 9 at the Westminster United Presbyterian Church in Minden. Rev. Terry Palmer officiated. Burial was in the Minden Cemetery.

Milrae Bayer was born January 14, 1912 in Kearney County, Nebraska to Jens N. and Lillie Nielsen Johnson. She grew up in the Minden area and graduated from Minden High School.

She married Joseph Elliott Bayer March 23, 1929 in Holdrege, Nebraska. They farmed in the area for a short time.

He worked in the oil fields of Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Illinois before they returned to the Minden area and farmed northeast of Minden. For many years, she taught children in the Minden area piano and organ.

She was a member of Westminster United Presbyterian Church in Minden.

She was preceded in death by her husband in 1976.

She is survived by two daughters and their husbands, Joan and Gerald Jacobs of Herman and Cheryl and Arlin Stuhr of Waco, Nebraska; one son and his wife, Joe R. and Marilyn Bayer of Temple City, California; 12 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; two brothers, Cecil Johnson of Minden and Eugene Johnson of Hastings and two sisters, Evelyn Sorensen of Minden and Lorraine Allard of Holdrege.

Layton Funeral Home in Minden was in charge of arrangements.

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

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