Obituary Record

Effie Edna (Olson) Ray
Died on 3/23/1922
Buried in Thone Cemetery

#1 Enterprise, March 23, 1922

Mrs. Ralph Ray is still very ill at the Blair hospital, pneumonia and other complications having developed making necessary another consultation with Dr. Finley of Omaha. Mr. Ray is staying in Blair to be in constant attendance, while the baby, Ethel May, is with the grandmother, Mrs. Joe Olson. The friends of Mr. and Mrs. Ray are hoping for their happiness in her return to health.

#2 Enterprise, March 30, 1922

MRS. RALPH RAY

Funeral services for Mrs. Ralph Ray were held last Saturday afternoon from the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Olson, who live near Herman.

Effie Olson’s girlhood days were spent on the farm, where she was born March 17, 1902 and was therefore only twenty years of age at the time of her death.

She attended the Blair schools, graduating but a few years ago.

She prepared herself for teaching and taught the Kindred school north of Blair prior to her marriage last summer to Mr. Ralph Ray, who with an infant daughter survives.

Her parents and one sister, Bessie, are also left to mourn the passing of a loved one.

The services were conducted by Rev. Underwood and burial made in the Thone cemetery.

#3 Pilot, March 29, 1922

Mrs. Ralph Ray died at the Blair hospital last Thursday, following the birth of a baby girl, Ethel May, February 18th, from which she never recovered rightly. The funeral was held at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Olson, who live west of Herman, on Saturday, Rev. W.H. Underwood, of the Crowell Home, officiating.

Effie Edna Olson was born on the farm where her funeral was held just 20 years ago the 17th of March. She was married to Ralph Ray by Rev. W.B. F. Robb in this city June 12th, 1921. Besides the grief stricken husband she leaves an infant daughter, her parents and one sister, Bessie, who lives at home. Also many friends who deeply sympathize with the bereaved relatives.

#4 Thursday, March 30, 1922

The community was saddened last Thursday when it was known that Mr. Ralph Ray had departed this life. She was about nineteen years of age, and leaves a husband and five weeks old baby, her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Olsen, and a sister, Miss Bessie.

#5 30 Mar., 1922 - The Tribune - Effie Edna (Olson) Ray

YOUNG WIFE AND MOTHER IS SUMMONED TO FUTURE LIFE

Mrs. Ralph Ray passed away at the Blair hospital Thursday March 23, having been a patient in that place for three weeks.

Effie Edna Olson was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Olson, who reside about seven miles north of Blair, and was born March 17, 1902, and was educated in the rural school near her home until she attended the High school in Blair, from which place she graduated in 1920. She fitted herself herself for a teacher, but soon after became the bride of Ralph Ray, a farmer living near Blair.

Five weeks previous to her death a little daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ray, and her condition from that time until passing was known to be a critical one, and while everything was done for her that was possible to do, she was beyond earthly assistance and passed to the Beyond as above stated.

Mrs. Ray had a large circle of acquaintances throughout the county, and was very popular among them and will be sadly missed from their ranks as well as in the home circle.

The funeral services were held at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Olson on Saturday and was largely attended, Rev. W. H. Underwood officiating. Many floral tributes were offered as mute testimonials of the esteem in which this young girl - who was only twenty years of age - was held.

She is survived by her husband, her five weeks old daughter, whom she named Ethel May; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Olson, and one sister, Miss Bessie Olson, two brothers having preceded her in death.

All that was mortal of Effie Olson Ray was laid away in the Thone cemetery near her home.

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

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Printed in the Washington County Enterprise on 3/30/1922


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