From Funeral leaflet

In Memory Alfred O. Sick, Blair, Nebraska

Born October 27, 1902, Fontanelle, Nebraska; Died February 15, 1986, Blair, Nebraska

Services 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, February 18, 1986, St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Blair, Nebraska. Officiating: Father Jess Hansen, Father Charles L. Pedersen. Organist: Clare Cowing.

Honorary Pallbearers: Pat Allen, Art Beck, Jess Wright, Frank Drbal, Jerome Jenny, M. Stan Jensen; Louis Murdoch, John O’Hanlon, Walter Huber, J. Hilton Rhoades, Clarence Schreiner, Harold Wright. Casket Bearers: Joe Breithaupt, Ray Harmon, Hugh Hunt; Dean Sapp, Bill Steavenson, John Young, Jr.

Graveside Services: Blair Cemetery, Blair, Nebraska.

Newspaper obituary printed in a 1986 Omaha World Herald, Omaha, Nebraska

Former Blair Mayor Dies of Heart Attack

Alfred O. Sick, 83, former mayor of Blair, Neb., died Saturday at his home of a heart attack, a family spokesman said.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at St. Mary Episcopal Church in Blair.

Born in Fontanelle, Neb., Sick graduated from Sterling High School. He attended the University of Nebraska and received a law degree from the University of South Dakota in Vermillion.

Sick owned the Blair Pilot-Tribune newspaper from 1927 until 1958. He was Blair postmaster from 1939 to 1965 and a Washington County judge in 1966 and 1967.

He served as Blair’s mayor from 1972 to 1980. In 1972, Sick was cited by Dana College for outstanding community service. He worked as a real estate broker from 1967 until his death.

FindaGrave memorial 118869330

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