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Jacqueline Marie Lauritsen, age 90, of Blair passed away November 12, 2016, at Memorial Community Hospital in Blair. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday November 19, 2016 at The Congregational Church in Blair. Graveside services will follow in the Blair Cemetery. Visitation will be held Friday, November 18 with family receiving friends from 6 to 8 p.m. at Campbell Aman Funeral Home.

Jacqueline M. Lauritsen was born on July 18, 1926, in Omaha, the daughter of Roy and Allene Dudgeon. She was raised in the Blair area and graduated from Blair High School in 1944. At the age of 18, she moved to Oregon to work in the shipyards during WWII, working as a steel cutter. After moving back to Nebraska, she was united in marriage to Herman Lauritsen on January 29, 1947. The couple made their permanent home in Blair. Over the years, she worked at Wolff’s Grocery, the brush factory, Sioux Honey, D.L. Blair, and as a Lifeguard, and helped her husband with the trucking company, beekeeping and farming.

She enjoyed swimming, dancing, quilting, bowling, her card club, casinos and scratch-offs, and traveling with Herman for work and pleasure covering large portions of the United States.

She was a member of The Congregational Church in Blair.

Mrs. Lauritsen is survived by her husband, Herman Lauritsen, children: Brian (Pam) Lauritsen, Jeff (Linda) Lauritsen, Lucy (Pat Duffey) Lauritsen and Amy Lauritsen; grandchildren: Amanda Lauritsen-Wrieth, Abby Olson, Jessica Lauritsen, Cody Gorsett, Levi Gorsett and Wyatt Lauritsen-Jurek; great-grandchildren: Keegan Wrieth and Kinzey Wrieth and Alex Olsen; and sister, Elinor Beaver; and her cherished dog, Marcel.

She was preceded in death by her parents; brothers, Wayne and Lyle Dudgeon; and daughter-in-law, Sue Lauritsen.

Memorials may be directed to the family for later distribution to charities and organizations.

Funeral leaflet:

In Loving Memory of Jacqueline M. Lauritsen

Born July 18, 1926, Omaha, NE ~ Entered Into Rest November 12, 2016, Blair, NE

Funeral Service 2:00PM Saturday, November 19, 2016 Congregational Church of Blair, Blair, NE

Officiating: Pastor Shirley Schmidt; Music Provided By: Cheryl Baron; Musical Selections: “In The Garden”; “The Old Rugged Cross”

Pallbearers: Cody Gorsett; Levi Gorsett; Wyatt Lauritsen Jurek; Steve Gorsett; Jim Beaver; Bob Bolton

Honorary Pallbearers: Don Reed; Willis “Willy” Lucht; Scott Lucht; Pat Duffey; Bob Kelley; Charlotte Glaser; Dale Seifert

Graveside Service: Blair Cemetery, Blair, Nebraska

Campbell-Aman Funeral Home

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

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