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Hit by Engine While Crossing Railroad Track Dies Instantly-Unable To Hear Train Approach

Instantaneous death came to Jens Clausen last Friday morning when he was struck by an engine on the Chicago, Northwestern track west of Blair. He had been to call on a neighbor and on his return home had stopped at his mailbox and was apparently reading when he stepped in front of the engine.

Deceased was born in Aidjutland, Denmark, on March 13th 1868. He came to Weeping Water, Nebraska in 1892 and married Amelia Mikkelsen in 1893.

Five children were born to them, Mrs. Dorothy Henricksen, Fremont; Mrs. Ellen Johnson, Boulder, Colorado; Leo Clausen, who died in January, 1938; Mrs. Florence Bauder, Green Bay, Wisconsin, and Andrew Clausen of Waterloo, Nebraska. Beside his wife and four living children he leaves six grandchildren to mourn his passing.

He was the only one of his family to immigrate to this country and with the exception of four years in Wisconsin, he has made Nebraska his home.

The wife, who for years has been in very poor health, was taken to the Immanuel Hospital almost two years ago and is now in the Swedish Immanuel home where she can be near the attending physician and she, with a trained nurse, came to the funeral services but she was unable to leave the car.

Funeral rites were held Monday afternoon at the First Lutheran Church with Rev. H. C. Jorgensen officiating and interment was made in the Blair Cemetery.

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

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