MRS. NANCY RYAN DIES NEAR HERMAN

Old and Respected Old Settler to be Buried on Friday

Mrs. Nancy Ryan, widow of the late James Ryan and a resident of Washington county since 1869, died at 5:40 Tuesday afternoon, February 12, at the home of her son, Jess Ryan, north of Herman. She had been ill only a short time. She was 80 years old on September 24, 1934.

Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at two o’clock from the old farm home near Rose Hill where Mrs. Ryan had spent the greater part of her life. Rev. Thomas J. Reese, pastor of the Baptist church of Blair, will conduct the services, and interment will be in the Rose Hill cemetery.

Surviving Mrs. Ryan are five sons and four daughters. They are Jess Ryan, farmer north of Herman; Mrs. Carrie Curtis of Lincoln; Van Ryan of Norfolk; Mrs. Clarence Jensen of Fremont; Mrs. Rudolph Mencke of Blair; James Ryan of Blair; Mrs. Mike Larsen of Irvington; Will Ryan of Blair and Jack Ryan of Fremont.

Also surviving are 29 grandchildren, ten great grandchildren, two brothers and a sister. The latter are Henry Lamb of Grand Island and Charles Lamb of Carter, Oklahoma.

Mrs. Lamb came to Washington county with her parents, the late Mr. And Mrs. William Lamb, in 1869, the family first locating at DeSoto. A few years later they moved to the Rose Hill vicinity.

One of Washington county’s typical old time farm women, sturdy, courageous and always self-sacrificing, Mrs. Ryan, following her marriage, united with her husband in helping develop their first farm from unproductive prairie land into one of the most fertile regions in the middle west. Bit by bit they added to their holdings until at the time of Mr. Ryan’s death in 1926, he was one of the county’s most extensive landowners.

Mrs. Ryan’s survivors have the sympathy of hundreds of the county’s residents, particularly that of scores of older persons who, over a long period of years, had come to love her and to respect her as one of the few remaining representatives of the hardy group that first broke virgin soil in this vicinity.

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

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