Printed in the April 22, 1971 Enterprise, Blair, Nebraska

Note: the tombstone has his name spelled Josef instead of Joseph, and with the middle initial V.

Father of Nickerson Lady Died April 16th

Mr. and Mrs. Pete Christo received word of the death of her father, Joseph Socha, of Cedar Rapids, Nebraska.

Services were at Primrose, Nebraska at the St. Mary Catholic Church on Monday, April 19, at 10 a.m.

He was born in Czechoslovakia on May 6, 1891 and died April 16 in the Boone Co. Hospital at Albion, Nebraska.

He was preceded in death by his wife and two sons.

Survivors include 3 daughters, Mrs. Leonard (Bessie) Fischer, Albion, Nebraska; Mrs. Ed (Lillian) Rozmus, Omaha; Mrs. Pete (Martha) Christo, Nickerson, Nebraska, and five sons: Emil and Eugene of Omaha, Joe of Spalding, Laddie of Norfolk, Jim of Valley.

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

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