FORMER BLAIR ATTORNEY, 74, DIED OF HEART ATTACK IN OMAHA TUESDAY

Herman Aye, 74, native of Blair and for a number of years a local lawyer and Washington county attorney before moving to Omaha, died Tuesday of a heart attack at Lutheran Hospital in Omaha.

The Aye home is at 1110 So. 79th St., Omaha. The family had moved from Blair in 1911.

The body was brought to the Campbell Funeral Home, and services are being held there at 2 p.m. today. Burial is to be in Blair Cemetery.

Son of Hans and Caroline Aye, Mr. Aye was born here Mar. 29, 1873, and was educated in the local schools. From 1888 to 1893 he assisted his father in farming, and in 1983 began two years of the study of law under the supervision of Luther W. Osborn, well-known Blair attorney of other years. Mr. Aye was admitted to the bar in 1895, and thereafter practiced law in Blair until 1911, serving as Washington county attorney from 1898 to 1902.

#2-17 July, 1947 - The Enterprise

HERMAN AYE RITES THURSDAY

Native Of Blair, Practiced Law For 50 Years Last Of Family Herman Aye, 74, of 1110 South Seventy Ninth St. died of a heart attack at the Lutheran hospital in Omaha last Tuesday.

Deceased was a native of Blair where he grew to manhood and received his education. He was admitted to the practice of law after studying under the late Col. L. W. Osborn.

After his admission to the bar he practiced in Blair for ten years. He served as county attorney and as attorney for the Chicago and Northwestern Railway.

About the year 1915 he moved to Omaha where he took up his practice of law in Omaha, but on account of ill health he retired in 1945. After completing his law course in Blair he was married to Miss Nellie Haller of Blair. Three children were born to them, who with the wife survive him. The children are Mrs. Fred Evener and Mrs. Frank Cosgrove of Omaha; son, Frederick of Omaha and two grandchildren.

Services were held this Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the Campbell Mortuary, and interment was made in the Blair cemetery.

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

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