MRS. JENS NIELSEN BURIED WEDNESDAY

Anna Bernice Angersen was born on a farm south of Kennard and in childhood attended the Rispin school. Later the family moved to Blair where she attended the Blair High School.

On August 24, 1926 she was married to Jens Nielsen in Blue Island, Illinois, and afterward returned to Blair where Mr. Nielsen was engaged in the grocery business.

Over a year ago Mrs. Nielsen suffered a stroke from which she apparently recovered and was in fairly good health until a little over a month ago when she was suddenly taken ill and was taken to the hospital where after four weeks she died last Sunday, April 25th at 9:55 p.m. at the age of 60 years.

Mrs. Nielsen was a woman of conscientious scruples and of a high Christian character. She lived as nearly a perfect life as it is possible to live, always kind and considerate with those with whom she came in contact and she thus made many friends who will always cherish her memory.

Besides the husband she leaves two stepchildren, Madeline and Gwyer, all of whom grieve deeply their great and irreparable loss. She spent her entire life in this vicinity with the exception of three years spent in California, she was a native of the county and she was content to make this her abiding place.

Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon, first a short service at the home and at 2 p.m. a service at the Bendorf Funeral Home from which place the body was taken to the West Lawn Cemetery in Omaha for interment.

#2-April 29, 1937- The Pilot Tribune- Anna Bernice Angersen Nielsen

MS. JENS NIELSEN DIES HERE SUNDAY AFTER OPERATION…WIFE OF BLAIR MERCHANT HAD SUFFERED THREE STROKES RECENTLY

SERVICES HELD AT LUTHERAN CHURCH

NATIVE OF COUNTY, MRS. NIELSEN WAS BORN NEAR KENNARD; WAS INVALID MANY MONTHS; HUSBAND AND TWO STEPCHILDREN SURVIVE

Mrs. Jens Nielsen, 60 wife of the North Side store proprietor, died at 10 p.m. Sunday in Court View hospital, where she had been confined since suffering a stroke March 27. She had submitted to a serious operation last week.

Mrs. Nielsen had been in poor health since suffering a stroke two years ago. Another stroke late last December virtually left her an invalid.

Long prominent in Danish circles of the community, Mrs. Nielsen was a member of First Lutheran church, and had been active in its work until her illness.

As Anna B. Andersen, daughter of Jens C. and Marie Andersen, she was born on a farm five miles south of Kennard July 15, 1876. She attended the Rispin School and later, when the family moved to Blair, enrolled in the schools here.

ONCE LIVED IN OMAHA

From 1901 to 1903 she visited in California and upon her return she went to Omaha, where her parents had moved during her absence.

Her sister, who was married to Mr. Nielsen, was killed in an auto-train crash in northwest Blair in 1922, and a short time later the present Mrs. Nielsen came here from Omaha to care for the family. She was married to Mr. Nielsen August 24, 1926.

Surviving her are her husband and the two stepchildren, Madeline and Gwyer. Her parents preceded her in death.

Funeral services were conducted Wednesday at 2 p.m. at First Lutheran church, the Rev. James N. Lund, pastor of the church officiating. Interment followed in the family plot at West Lawn cemetery in Omaha.

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

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