After an illness that has kept her confined to her home most of the time for the last two years, Miss Lucy Hagenbuck passed from earth on Tuesday, March 12, 1912, aged 80 years, 2 months and 12 days. The funeral was held at 11 o’clock Thursday morning from the late residence on First street, Rev. A. T. Davis officiating. The interment took place in the Arlington Cemetery. The deceased was born in Harrisburg, Pa., January 1, 1832 where she resided until 1850, when she moved with her parents to LaPorte, Ind., where they reside until 1871, when the family came to Washington county, settling at Ft. Calhoun, where she resided until 1892, when she came to Arlington to keep house for her brother, R. C. Hagenbuck, whose wife had shortly before been called from earth, and here she has resided ever since, taking place of mother to the children that were left to her care. Those who knew her best speak only in the highest praise of many womanly traits of character that always characterized her life here; of her devotion to the children that were left in her charge, and of the simple life she lived. Three brothers survive her, Henry Hagenbuck, who resides in California, Robt. D., of Arlington, and Willard, of Wahoo. A large number of relatives and friends from a distance were there to pay their last sad duty to the departed, among them Willard Hagenbuck, of Wahoo, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Osterman of Holly Colo., Chas. Hagenbuck, of Schuyler, Mr. and Mrs. M. J. O’Neil, of Dixon, Neb., Mrs. Allie Swart, of Coldwater, Mich., Miss Grace Pettingill and many others fro Ft. Calhoun and Blair.—Arlington Review-Herald.

#2 Published in the Tribune March 20, 1912

Miss Lucy Hagenbuck, who was buried in Arlington, Nebraska, March 14, 1912, was one of the grandest women that ever lived in Ft. Calhoun. Thirty-five years ago when nearly every family here were ill with malaria and the old-fashioned ague, Miss Lucy and her mother were like two angels going from house to house where they could do the most good. This writer’s family were indebted to them for many kindnesses. At one time when our whole family were sick and we had to go to Blair on business, we found when we got home that they had brought some other ladies and a carpet, our front room was carpeted and our family made more comfortable than they had been for weeks. When her brother’s (Robert) wife died at Arlington, leaving several small children, she went over and cared for them. It was expected by her friends here that she would be buried beside her father, mother and sister, Mrs. Newton Clark, but she preferred to be placed beside a nephew that she had been a second mother to. She leaves a nephew, Charles Clark, and a sister, Mrs. Pettingill, here in Ft. Calhoun and many friends among the early residents who knew of her useful life. She still owned the old home now occupied by Section Boss Schumacher, Grandma Aut Beales, Charles Clark and Mrs. Pettingill attended the funeral from here. She was 83, Jan. 1, 1912. W. H. Woods.