Herman friends of Mrs. J. Marshall Dunn were shocked and grieved to learn of her death which occurred at her home in Omaha last Friday night. Mrs. Dunn will be remembered at Miss Grace Kepler, who lived on a farm with her parents near Herman and who spent her girlhood days here. She passed away after a lingering illness of cancer for the past six months at the young age of 35 years, 9 months, and 16 days. Everything that loving hands could do was done to relieve her suffering, but death claimed her Friday night at the Hamilton Hotel at Omaha where the family have been making their home for some time. Her friends have remembered her as one who possessed a sweet disposition and one who in her modest, retiring way son friends wherever she went. She leaves to mourn her loss her husband and her three young children, George 10, Margaret 8 and Miriam; her mother, Mrs. J. P. Kepler; two sisters, Mrs. Clyde Genung, of Glenwood, Ia., and Miss Helen, who teaches at Colorado Springs, Colo., brother Dom Kepler, of Lincoln, Paul and Oak Kepler, of Omaha and Harold, of Anselmo, Neb. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the Burket Funeral Home, of Omaha, Rev. Calvin G. Butler, of North Presbyterian Church, Omaha, officiating. Interment was made in Bellevue Cemetery. The family has the sympathy of their many friends here.

#2 Printed in the Thursday, September 16, 1926 Tribune, Blair, Nebraska

Word was received in Herman last Saturday of the death of Mrs. J. Marshall Dunn of Omaha, who passed away Friday night after a lingering illness of six months at her home in the Hamilton Apartments. She was thirty years of age and leaves to mourn her loss, her husband, who is an automobile salesman, and three children, George, 10, Margaret, 8, and Miriam, 2, her mother, Mrs. James Kepler and four brothers and two sisters. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at two o’clock from the Burkett funeral home, rev. C.G. Butler of North Presbyterian church officiating. Interment was made in the Bellevue cemetery. Mrs. Dunn will be remembered by Herman people as Miss Grace Kepler, she was raised on a farm about one mile south of town. She received her schooling here graduating in the class of 1908. She resided here with her parents until about fifteen years ago when the family moved to Glenwood, Iowa, where she became acquainted with Mr. Dunn and was married and lived there until about six years ago when they moved to Omaha and have resided there since that time. Herman friends extend their sympathy to the bereaved family in the loss of their dear one.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file at the Blair Public Library.~~~ FindaGrave #118730426