Burial: Blair Cemetery, Blair, Nebraska

Findagrave Memorial: 113992250

#1 Obituary The Pilot Tribune 26 February 1931

Aged Blair Resident is Buried Monday

Claus Bolln Dies of Heart Attack Friday Afteroon

Funeral services for Claus Bolln, who passed away at his home on west South Street last Friday afternoon, were conducted from the Lutheran Church on west Lincoln Street at 2:00 o’clock Monday afternoon with the Rev. H.C. Jul. Frese officiating. Burial was in the Blair Cemetery.

Mr. Bolln was born September 20, 1843 at Reher, Holstein, Germany and was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran Church in that city. In 1870 he was united in marriage with Marie Rickers and to this union seven children were born, four being born in Germany. In 1884 the Bolln family migrated to American and they lived at Calhoun for three years but later moved to Douglas County where they lived on a farm for eight years. In 1895 they moved to Blair where the family has since resided. The deceased had been a Washington County resident for over thirty-five years and held a wide acquaintance of friends. Last fall he was taken ill with a siege of pneumonia and although he recovered, he had not enjoyed the best of health this winter.

Surviving him are his aged wife; a daughter, Mrs. Emma Wheatley of Blair and five sons, Joachim of Calhoun, Herman of Pender and John, August and William of Blair; twelve grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. A brother and sister also survive him.

#2 Obituary The Enterprise 26 February 1931

Claus Bolln

Claus Bolln, a resident Washington county since 1884, passes away at his home on west South Street at one o’clock Friday afternoon of February 20th. He had been ailing since last November when he contracted pneumonia, which he never fully recovered.

He was born in Holstein, Germany in 1843 where he grew up to manhood. In 1870 he married Miss Marie Rickers. While still living in Germany four of the seven children comprising the family were born. The family came to this county direct from Germany in 1884 and since have known no other home.

For a number of years, Mr. Bolln was actively engaged in farming at which business he laid aside a competency large enough to insure him and his wife a comfortable old age.

The family moved to Blair in 1904 retiring from the active work of the farm he spent his declining years quietly. His was a life well worth emulating. Of a quiet disposition, strictly honest and with a good word for everyone he drew to himself the respect of all who knew him and his memory will linger long in the hearts of a large circle of friend.

He leaves to mourn him, his aged wife, now past eighty years and six children as follows: Joe of Calhoun, John of Blair, Herman of Pender, August and Will and Mrs. Emma Wheatley, all of Blair, Henry the remaining son passed away in June, 1918. He also leaves a brother, Ely Bolln of Cheyenne Wyoming, and a sister, Emma of Denver, Colorado.

The funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Monday, February 23 from the German Lutheran Church of which he was a consistent member and interment was made in the Blair Cemetery.

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