Aged Resident Dies in Omaha

Mrs. Esther Kingdon Lived at Kennard Many Years

Mrs. Esther Kingdon, 74, passed away Saturday morning at the home of her son, D.E. Kingdon, in Omaha. She had suffered a stroke last Tuesday from which she did not rally although all that human hands could do was done for her. For more than three years she had been a wheel chair invalid after suffering a stroke while living at Kennard next door to her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Holland, and from that time on she has been practically helpless but always patient and cheerful during her invalidism.

As a young woman Mrs. Kingdon had lived with a Mrs. Pemberton near the Whitford school for a long time and in the early 90’s she and her family moved to Kennard where she had resided continuously until her illness began three years ago when she went to live with her daughter.

She was a member of the Methodist church and for many years a member of the ladies aid society at that place.

She is survived by ten children, four sons, W. E. Kingdon; Chas, J.; Alfred M., Decatur, and Delbert E. of Omaha; six daughters, Mrs. William Durand, Albion; Mrs. William Johnson, Flagler, Colo. Mrs. Joseph Morrison, Herman; Mrs. Frank Holland, Kennard; Mrs. O.J. Barnett and Mrs. Thos. Boyle, of Omaha; a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren and scores of other relatives and friends. Funeral services were held at the Kennard Methodist church at 1:30 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 30, Rev, Carl Bader of Blair, officiating, interment being made at the Morley cemetery west of Kennard.

Enterprise 2 Jan 1930

KENNARD WOMAN DIES

Mrs. Esther Kingdon, who had been an invalid at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Boyle of Omaha, for the past two years, suffered a stroke Tuesday and was unconscious from then until her death which occurred Saturday at one o’clock.

Mrs. Kingdon came to Kennard in the early nineties and resided here until a few years ago when, on account of illness she went to Omaha to live with her daughter.

Funeral services were held at the M. E. church Monday at 1:30 P.M. and interment followed at the Morley cemetery near Arlington where her husband and two children, who preceded her in death, were buried.

Review Herald 2 Jan 1930

Word was received here Sunday of the death of Mrs. Esther Kingdon at the home of her son, Delbert Kingdon and wife in Omaha. Funeral services were held at the M.E. church here, and burial made in the Morley cemetery near Arlington.

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