Services For Blanch Keller Were Held On Saturday

Services for Blanche Keller of Fremont were at 2 p.m. Saturday at Reckmeyer Funeral Home.

Mrs. Keller died Wednesday evening at the Fremont Hospital Annex.

She was born July 21, 1892 at Tabor, Iowa, and lived in Arlington until 1942, when she moved to Lincoln. She moved to Fremont in 1963.

Mrs. Keller was a member of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, was choir director of the Congregational Church in Arlington, and served as City librarian in Arlington for several years. The former Blanche Wood married Carl Keller June 23, 1915 in Omaha. He died in 1937.

Survivors include a son, Omar of Fremont, daughters, Mrs. Arthur (Anna Frances) Els, Lincoln; Mrs. Bernard (Mina Estelle) Leppink, Milford, Utah; Mrs. (Donna) Sevanson, Omaha and 15 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Leonard Wulf, Dr. Jack Cady, Gordon Plugge, William Evans, Sterling Plugge and Howard Marshall.

Burial was in Arlington Cemetery.

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