Mrs. Wm. Bryant Dies Wednesday

Services to be Held Sunday from Methodist Church

Mrs. William Bryant passed away at her home on east Colfax street at 2:45 o’clock yesterday morning following an illness of lengthy duration. She suffered a severe attack of pneumonia last Sunday evening and had been seriously ill the fore part of this week. About sixteen months ago, Mrs. Bryant suffered a broken leg and a fractured wrist when she fell at her home and she was confined to her bed up until a few weeks ago when her health had improved sufficiently to allow her to go about her work as usual. About a month ago she visited with relatives t Tecumseh and Syracuse and had returned home but a few days before she was taken ill with pneumonia.

As Catherine Pauline Lane, she was born March 15, 1852, at Kenosha, Wisconsin. When she was about ten years of age, she came with her parents to Brownville, Nebraska, and a few years later the family removed to Tecumseh where the deceased attended the schools. In 1893 she was united in marriage to William Bryant at Ida Grove, Iowa, and since that time the family had resided in Blair. Three sons were born to this union. A son, Burdette, died at the age of twenty-one. Mrs. Bryant held a very wide acquaintance in this community and was loved and respected by her many friends. Although she had been bedfast the greater part of the past year, she was always cheerful and greatly enjoyed a visit with her friends.

She is survived by her bereaved husband; two sons, S. S. Bryant of Cheyenne, Wyoming, and N.W. Bryant of Grand Junction, Colorado; an adopted son, Lane Bryant of Frederickston, New Brunswick, Canada. Two nephews and a niece, besides a brother, Timothy Lane of Tecumseh, also survive her.

Funeral services will be held from the Methodist church on Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock with the Rev. A. F. Newell, officiating. Burial will be in Blair cemetery.

Enterprise 29 May 1930

Mrs. Wm. Bryant

Catherine Pauline Bryant passed away Tuesday morning at 2:45 o'clock at her home on Colfax St. after an illness of ten days which developed into pneumonia.

Deceased was born at Kenosha, Wisconsin where she grew to womanhood. Later the family moved to Tecumseh where they lived for some time.

She was married to Wm. Bryant at Ida Grove, Iowa in 1893 and from then on until her death she made her home in Blair.

Mrs. Bryant was a great lover of horses and for years made a specialty of breeding trotting stock and at her death she still was the owner of several good ones.

She had no children of her own but mothered two step-children and an adopted son. These are: Norman Wm. Bryant, Grand Junction, Colorado; Burroughs S. Bryant, Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Lane Bryant of Frederickston, New Brunswick, Canada who with the bereaved husband, mourn her death. She was a member of the Congregation church and also of the Pythian Sisters, Royal Neighbors and the W.R.C.

The funeral services will be held at the M.E. church next Sunday at 2:30 p.m. and interment will be made in the Blair cemetery.

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

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