WASH. COUNTY NATIVE DIES

Louie Dornacker Victim Of Accident At North Dakota Home

Louis Dornacker, a native of this county, met his death by accident on Tuesday, Jan. 30 at his home at Steele, North Dakota.

Deceased was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Nick Dornacker, pioneer settlers of the southern part of this county just north of Bennington. He was born May 20, 1882, and was reared and educated in this county, living on the home farm until the death of his father when he was seventeen years of age. At that time he and his mother moved to Blair where for a time he attended Dana College, and later went into the grocery business.

After the death of his mother, he closed out his business and at the age of twenty he went to North Dakota where for years he engaged in the banking business at Steele.

In 1911 he was married to Miss Amanda Holland, who was a teacher in the Steele schools. To this union four children were born, Eldred, John, Charles and Betty and they, with their mother, feel deeply their great loss of a loving husband and father.

For the past four years following the crash in business which was nationwide, Louie had acted as rural mail carrier out of Steele.

On the morning of the accident he had gone to the basement with the intent of cleaning his gun preparatory to going hunting, and the accidental discharge caused instantaneous death.

He leaves three brothers and two sisters residing in this community, John and Henry of Bennington and Fred of Kennard and Mrs. Gottlieb Kruse of Ft Calhoun and Mrs. Nick Witt of Elkhorn, besides a host of other relatives and friends.

The body was taken to Mayville, N.D. where interment was made on Monday, Febr. 3.

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

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