CALHOUN GIRL, 14, DROWNED IN RIVER MONDAY EVENING

Helping Father With His Fish Lines and Waded in Deep Water Sylvia Rasmussen, 14, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rasmussen of east of Fort Calhoun, was drowned in the Missouri river last Monday evening.

Mr. Rasmussen had some fishing lines set in the river for fishing, and he and four children, two sons and two daughters, had gone down in the evening to run the lines and take off the fish.

Sylvia had waded out along the line, and had gotten out into deep water when she stepped into still deeper water. She swam for a short distance, but disappeared under the water before her father could reach her.

The alarm was at once given, and the Omaha fire department came with their spot lights and other equipment at once and started dragging the river in the vicinity where the accident occurred, but the last reports were that their efforts were futile.

#2-20 Aug., 1936 - The Enterprise

Attend Ft. Calhoun Funeral

Among those from here who attended the funeral of Miss Sylvia Rasmussen at Fort Calhoun last Tuesday were Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Ericksen and Geraldine, Mr. and Mrs. Pete Larson, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Enger, Mrs. and Mrs. Andrew Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rogert, Mrs. Nels Larson, Mrs. Thorwald Hansen, Priscilla Vance, Alma and Floyd Ackerman, Mrs. Ann Johnson, Florence and Mildred, Andrew Beck and Pete Weber of Tekamah.

Sylvia was a niece of Mrs. Anna Johnson and has visited here less than two weeks ago. Mrs. Rasmussen and family were former residents and have the sympathy of all in their sorrow.

#3 Sylvia Rasmussen died 8/10/1936
Printed in the August 15, 1946 Pilot Tribune (taken from the August 13, 1936 Pilot-Tribune)

Ten Years Ago (Thursday, Aug. 13, 1936)
Fort Calhoun’s notorious Missouri river “chute” claimed another life Monday when Sylvia Rasmussen, 14, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rasmussen of that vicinity, drowned while swimming.

Note: The Vig Files at the Danish American Archives has a recorded in her father Henry's notes that Sylvia drowned in the river on 8/10/1936 and that her body was recovered the next day.Her mothers name is Christine and her siblings are LaVerne, Ross, Bertha and Allen

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

FindaGrave # 18176316