Miss Mary Wilson was born at Edgewater, Ill., August 27, 1853, and was married there to Fred Tookey on Jan. 1, 1873. From Edgewater they moved to Chicago where they lived for ten years. From there they went to Blair, Neb., and almost twenty years ago they came from there to their present home near Hooper, where her death occurred last Wednesday afternoon, April 3, 1918, at 1:30 p.m.

Mrs. Tookey leaves a husband and nine children to mourn the loss of a loving wife and devoted mother. The children are George of Sioux City, Iowa; Fred, Harvey, Mrs. L. E. Davies, Mrs. Harvey Shaffer, William, Elizabeth, Carrie and Evelyn, all of this vicinity. She also leaves four grandchildren, and eight brothers and sister to mourn her passing. The later are: Mesdames Eliza Barton and Ellen Charlot, and William and Robert Wilson of Blair; Mrs. Wright Spurlin and Frank and Charles Wilson of Edgewood, Ill., Mrs. Charles Voesta of Laclede, Ill.

Her death as mentioned last week, was the result of a long period of ill health caused by a complication of diseases.

Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock from the Methodist Church in Hooper, of which the deceased was a member of long-standing. Rev. A. H. Brink had charge of the services. Burial was in the Hooper Cemetery.

Out of town relatives and friends present at the funeral were: Frank Wilson of Edgewood, Ill., Robt. Wilson and Mesdames Ellen Charlot and Eliza Barton and son, Elmer, of Blair; Solomon Barton and daughter, Ethel, of Arlington and son Arthur of Camp Funston; Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Davies of Bethany, and Mrs. Maude Peterson of Fremont.-Hooper Sentinel.

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