Printed in the Thursday, January 29, 1925 Enterprise, Blair, NE

The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Diestel of Omaha died at the Methodist hospital in Omaha on Monday, being only seven hours and thirty minutes old.

The funeral services were held at the home of Mrs. Mary Siekkotter in Blair at 2 o’clock Tuesday with Rev. Underwood officiating and Mrs. Geraldine Kemp Stewart and Mrs. J.P. Jensen furnishing the music and interment was made in the Blair cemetery.

Mrs. Diestel will be remembered to Blair people as Miss Odella Reeh.

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

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Note: Additional information as to Shirley’s parents, Peter August and Odella (Reeh) Diestel, from the 1940 US Census is to be found on the FindaGrave website. The name comes from the tombstone in the Blair Cemetery.