DIES TUESDAY OF HEART AILMENT

Mrs. Inez Marie LeLaCheur, who had been in poor health for some time died Tuesday, December 20. The attributing cause of her death was heart trouble.

She was taken to the Immanuel hospital in Omaha nine days before her death but scientific care did her no good. She leaves to mourn her death, one daughter, Diane Margaret who was six years old on the day of her mother’s death, and the bereaved husband.

She was born in Alton, Iowa, November 1, 1903 and was married to Ross E. LelaCheur on July 31, 1926 at Glenwood, Iowa. She and her husband and daughter came to Blair three years ago and her personality and charm had made her many friends here.

She was a woman of more than ordinary ability and was for six years secretary to the chairman of the Union Pacific Trainmen, an organization well known throughout the nation.

She was a consistent member of the Methodist church and will be greatly missed by the membership.

Funeral rites will be held tomorrow, Friday, from the Brailey and Dorrance mortuary chapel in Omaha with Rev. Ralph P. Rasmussen of the local Methodist church officiating and interment will be made in the Forest Lawn Cemetery.

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Mrs. Le LaCheur Dies in Omaha-Wife of Forestry Foreman Here Dies on Daughter’s Birthday

Mrs. Inez Le LaCheur, 35, of 316 West Washington Street, wife of Ross F. Le LaCheur, forestry foreman at the Blair CCC Camp, died at Immanuel Hospital in Omaha Tuesday after a brief illness.

Her death came on the sixth birthday anniversary of her daughter, Diana.

Mrs. Le LaCheur was born at Alton, Iowa, November 1, 1903. Before her marriage at Glenwood, Iowa, July 31, 1926, she was for six years secretary to the chairman of the Union Pacific trainman in Omaha.

The Le LaCheur’s were transferred to Blair from Tekamah in the fall of 1935.

Surviving Mrs. Le LaCheur are her husband and daughter; her mother, Mrs. Marie Roberts of Los Angeles, formerly of Omaha; her twin sister, Geraldine Roberts of Los Angeles and another sister, Mrs. H. D. Wollmer

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