Published in the Enterprise January 13, 1927

M. H. B. Rosenbalm Called

M, H, B, Rosenbalm, age seventy-nine years, passed away at his home on South Street on Monday evening January 10, 1927 of heart failure.

Deceased was born in Washington County, Virginia and when a young man came to this county in the year 1868 where he homesteaded forty acres of land just east of the Wm. Harrison farm. Here he resided until 1883 when he moved to Blair.

Since moving to Blair Mr. Rosenbalm has been in several lines of business, at one time occupying the building just east of the Haller Proprietary Company and later known as the Rhoades Coal and Feed Store. Here he was in partnership with H. H. Reed in the grocery business. Later he was in the livery business and conducted a barn on the site now occupied by the Blair post office.

For the past several years he has resided on South Street where he owned a very comfortable home. He was a home loving man and as he grew older he spent most of his time about home where he always busied himself with the garden and other duties.

Always a good citizen and a good neighbor he has many friends and relatives who will miss him and who will join with the bereaved wife in mourning his loss.

The funeral services were held this Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock from the Methodist Church with Rev. Underwood officiating and interment was made in the Blair Cemetery.

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