# 1 - - Published in The Pilot, May 3, 1911

Miss Natalie Lage, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gus Lage, died Tuesday, April 25th, at her home four miles southwest of Calhoun, of brain fever, despite the efforts of the best medical skill available. Natalie was an accomplished young girl, just budding into a beautiful womanhood, admired and loved by all who knew her, the idol of her home and of the hearts of her aged grandparents. She would have been graduated from the Blair High School in June. Her classmates attended her funeral Thursday in a body, six of them acting as pall bearers. Four of the High school teachers, Misses Ryan, Carson, Isbell and Robinson were also present. In fact nearly all of her teachers were present. Rev. E. T. Otto, of Omaha, officiated. The floral offerings were many and beautiful. Her grief stricken father, mother and brother have the deepest sympathy of us all. It seems so sad to take from our midst one so young and well fitted for life’s journey. But we can not divine God’s plan. The mystery of life and death is not to be solaced by man. But we can...

“So live that when they summons comes to join - The innumerable caravan which moves – To that mysterious realm where each shall take – His chamber in the silent halls of death – Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, - Scourged to his dungeon; but, sustained and soothed - By an unfaltering trust, approach they grave - Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch - About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.”

# 2 published on April 26, 1911, source not listed

Miss Natalie Lage, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gus Lage, who live down below Ft. Calhoun, died yesterday morning of cerebral meningitis and the funeral is to be held at the house at 12:30 tomorrow. Miss Lage was staying at the N. Thonter (?) place and was in the senior class of the High school. She was a good student and will be greatly missed by her classmates and all who knew her.

# 3 - - from the Tribune, May 3, 1911

It would certainly have been hard to find a quieter, nicer girl anywhere than Natalie Lage, who was buried near her grandfather in our Ft. Calhoun cemetery April 27, 1911. Born June 28, 1894, on her parents’ farm, she first went to school at the Green schoolhouse near her home and then two years here in the Ft. Calhoun High school, and this writer used to watch her go by on her pony and think how proud her parents must be of her. Having graduated here last fall, she began a higher course in the High school at Blair, and in addition to our Ft. Calhoun school, four teachers (Miss Ryan, Miss Isbell, Miss Carson and Miss Robinson) and over twenty scholars came down from Blair and drove out to the home. Her classes also closed here to permit Prof. Cook and her former classmates to attend the funeral. We counted over sixty carriages in the procession that came to town, besides those who drove to the cemetery. Rev. E.T. Otto, Lutheran minister of Omaha, preached the sermon and six High school girls acted as pallbearers.

To all the dear friends and neighbors who desired so much to lighten their sorrow and bereavement, the family wish to present their thanks with the hope that the same sad event may not reach any of their homes. W. H. WOODS

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