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BURDETTE HANCOCK DIES IN OMAHA M. E. HOSPITAL

SERVED IN MAIL SERVICE FOR SEVENTEEN YEARS

Burdette Hancock passed away Wednesday morning at 1:30 at the Methodist hospital in Omaha. He had been ill for nearly two years and had been a patient in the hospital since last May

Deceased was a native of this county having been born June 7, 1878, and reared on a farm in the western part of the county where he received his early education in the rural school, and later attended Fremont Normal.

On March 25, 1903, he was married to Miss Grace Pilcher, the ceremony being performed by Rev. S. W. Richards of the local Baptist church. After their marriage they farmed for a number of years, but in 1920 he gave up farming and moved to Blair and later entered the mail service where for seventeen years he served as city mail carrier.

As a man no words of censure or of the slightest reproach can be said. He was a man of the highest type, faithful to whatever trust was given, honest and upright and with a kindly disposition and a manly bearing that brought respect from all who knew him.

In 1903 he became a member of the Baptist church and he lived the life always thoughtful of others and setting an example in plain living and high ideals that all would do well to emulate.

Besides the wife he leaves four sisters, Mrs. May Baldwin of Anadarko, Oklahoma; Ethel Hancock at home; Mrs. A. H. Schmidt of Columbus, Nebraska, and Amy Hancock of Blair, and two brothers, Frank of the Micklin Lumber Co of Omaha and Orville on the home farm.

Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2:30 from the Methodist church in Blair and interment will be made in the Blair Cemetery.

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

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