RITES IN OMAHA FOR WM. SULLY

William Sully, 71, an uncle of Fenton, John and Joe Sully and of Mrs. Chester Bennett, who for some time had made his home near DeSoto with his nephew, Joe, died Saturday at St. Joseph’s hospital at Omaha after an illness of about a week.

Funeral services were held Monday morning from St. Cecilia’s Cathedral in Omaha, and burial was made in Holy Sepulchre cemetery there. The local relatives attended the rites. In Addition, he is survived by his widow and three children, William, Albert and Mrs. Andrus Dunn. Mr. Sully was stricken ill at DeSoto and taken from there to the hospital.

The deceased man had a wife acquaintance in the Blair and DeSoto vicinities, having accompanied the Sully family here several times a week over a period of years.

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