Obituary printed in the Wednesday, May 19, 1915 Tribune, Blair, Nebraska

Sorrow Comes to Former Blair Girl

J.L. Slipp, who died at his residence, 346 Morris street, Wednesday, April 28, was 58 years of age and a native of Blissville, New Brunswick. He came to Oregon in 1872 and engaged in hotel business, but shortly entered the services of the Southern Pacific as passenger agent and was 26 years in its employ.

He leaves a widow, Mrs. Fannie Slipp, and three children, Perly, Ruth and Helen. He was a member of the Webfoot camp, W.O.W., and carried a certificate for $3,000. He has a half-brother, G.T. Slipp, residing in Blissville, N.B.

The funeral was held yesterday at the undertaking parlors of J.P. Finley & Son, with interment in Riverview cemetery. The Woodmen of the World furnished the pallbearers and conducted the ceremonies at the grave.

The above clipped from a Portland, Oregon paper relates to the death of J.L. Slipp whose wife, Miss Fannie Perkins, was a former Blair girl reared to womanhood here. She is the daughter of former county judge Alonzo Perkins.

Her aged father and mother make their home with her.

Mrs. Slipp is to take the place of passenger agent made vacant by the death of her husband and continue in the work.

Many Blair people, some of them former schoolmates of Mrs. Slipp will extend her sympathy in her bereavement.

2nd obituary, printed in the Friday, May 21, 1915 Enterprise, Blair, Nebraska

Former Blair Girl Bereaved

Brief reference was made in these columns a couple of weeks since of the death of Judge Perkins’ son-in-law, his daughter, Fannie’s husband, at their home in Portland, Oregon. Many people who lived in Blair twenty to thirty years ago will remember Fannie, the prettiest, sweetest little girl and young lady in Blair, loved and respected by everybody. In a brief note from the judge, under the date of the 11th inst., was enclosed the following obituary, taken from the Oregon Journal, a Portland newspaper, under the title, “Veteran Railroad Man Laid to Rest”, with a picture of deceased:

“J.L. Slipp, who died at his residence, 346 Morris street, Wednesday, April 28, was 58 years of age and a native of Blissville, New Brunswick. He came to Oregon in 1872 and engaged in hotel business, but shortly entered the services of the Southern Pacific as passenger agent and was 26 years in its employ.

He leaves a widow, Mrs. Fannie Slipp, and three children, Perly, Ruth and Helen. He was a member of the Webfoot camp, W.O.W., and carried a certificate for $3,000. He has a half-brother, G.T. Slipp, residing in Blissville, N.B.

The funeral was held yesterday at the undertaking parlors of J.P. Finley & Son, with interment in Riverview cemetery. The Woodmen of the World furnished the pallbearers and conducted the ceremonies at the grave.”

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

Note: W.O.W. is Woodmen of the World. It was started in Omaha, Nebraska, as a fraternal society, much like the Masons, and they offered life insurance and help with burial. In 1915, the Woodmen of the World building in Omaha was the tallest structure between Chicago and the Pacific ocean at the time. Membership surpassed 750,000 in 1915. Today it is called WoodmenLife.—Source: company website

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