| The date and place of publication of the newspaper article was not recorded but had a hand written date of 1979.
Herman Cemetery records list his death date in 1979.
HERMAN PIONEER FARMER AND BUSINESSMAN DIED OCT. 18
Services were held Saturday, October 20th, at 2:00 p.m. for 93 year old James Waldo Hancock of Herman, Nebraska. The services were at the Herman Legion. Mr. Hancock died October 18th at the Blair Memorial Community Hospital after a lengthy illness.
Mr. Hancock had been a pioneer in the farming and farm implement business in Burt and Washington Counties.
Reverend Barbara Schenkel conducted the services, with burial at the Herman Cemetery. Campbell Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Waldo Hancock was born October 16, 1886 in Burt County, Nebraska of pioneer parents, James K and Sarah Hancock, who immigrated to Nebraska from Pennsylvania in the early 1880’s. Of their family of ten children, three still survive.
Waldo Hancock has been active in farming and the implement business during his entire adult life.
Survivors are: One daughter, Lucille Anderson of Herman and three sons Paul and Harold of Herman and Lee of Corrales, New Mexico; eight grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren and 2 great-great-grandchildren; one brother, Roy of Tekamah; 2 sisters, Alice Bovee, Tekamah and Irene Zerkel, Anderson, Indiana, and nieces and nephews.
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