Rites Held For Mrs. Dee Counts Saturday

Funeral services for Mrs. Ruth "Dee" Counts of Washington D. C., former Blairites, were held at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Saturday afternoon, with interment following in the Blair Cemetery.

Pallbearers were Leslie Reynolds, Clifford Krause, J. Hilton Rhoades, James W. Pounds, Alfred O. Sick, and Wilhelm Grimm.

A large number of friends gathered to pay final tribute to Mrs. Counts, formerly Miss Ruth Cheely, who had spent the greater part of her lifetime in Blair. But 32 years of age at the time of her death in a Washington hospital, Wednesday of last week, Mrs. Counts had been seriously ill for several months, suffering from an incurable ailment.

The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Cheely, Mrs. Counts was graduated from the Blair High School in 1925, and taught at the Rispin School near Kennard for two years. She attended a California Business College, and was employed by an Omaha insurance company for a time. She then served for several years as secretary to I. C. Eller, who was county judge at the time, and after a short period in Omaha, again as an employee of an insurance company, she went to Washington D. C., to serve under Terry Carpenter, who was then a Nebraska Congressman. Lately she had been employed by the Department of Interior, but resigned in November because of her failing health.

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

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