Published in the Tribune December 19, 1918

There was a very large attendance at the funeral of Mrs. Hans Mathiesen of Douglas County in the Ft. Calhoun, Nebr., Cemetery, on December 14, 1918. Mrs. Mathiesen and her husband were both taken from the farm to an Omaha hospital, where he still remains. Mrs. Mathiesen, one of her neighbors tell us, was a bright, happy, cheerful wife and mother. She leaves her widowed mother, Mrs. John Kruse, her husband, and two small children and three brothers and sisters, beside other relatives. Rev. Graham of Ponca Creek conducted the services followed by the Remington Lodge of the W. O. W. Circle with their beautiful ceremony at the grave. Mrs. Remington, whom this lodge was named for, Mrs. George came up from Omaha to conduct the services and were kindly entertained by Mrs. Ralph Rowley at the Johnson Hotel. The pall bearers were Louie Lund, Chris Christensen, two of her cousins, W. and E. Kruse, Sommers Skow, and Abe Krambeck. She was born on the farm in March 1893, and having been brought up there will be much missed, not only by her family, but the neighbors for miles around. The grave was nicely lined and the flowers extremely beautiful, as the funeral was on the top of the hill in clear sunshine, there was nothing to interfere with a gathering of the people.

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