Mr. Steyer Succumbs

Farmer Near Florence Died Tuesday; Services Will Be Friday

William Steyer, 72, for many years a farmer north of Florence, died Tuesday afternoon at Booth Memorial Hospital in Lincoln after a lengthy illness.

The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Florence Masonic Temple, 30th and Mormon Streets, in charge of the Sievers Funeral Home of Fort Calhoun.

Mr. Steyer was a member of the State Fair Board of managers. He had been a member of the Douglas and Washington County school and election boards and was a past president of the Douglas County Fair Association and Douglas County Farm Credit Association.

Mr. Steyer is survived by his wife, Mary; three sons, Harold and Martin of Omaha and Ralph of Clay Center; two daughters, Mrs. Waldo Kruse and Mrs. Edward Lorenzen of Fort Calhoun; a brother, John, of Papillion; and three sisters, Mrs. John Libke of Elgin, N. D., Mrs. Rufus Amis of Kansas City, Mo., and Mrs. Harvey Stanley of Elkhorn.

#2-5 Sept., 1946 - The Enterprise

WILLIAM STEYER SERVICES FRIDAY

Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 pm. at the Masonic Temple in Florence for William Steyer, prominent Douglas County farmer and president of the Douglas County Agricultural Association who died at a hospital in Omaha early Tuesday morning at the age of 72. Mr. Steyer was long active in Fair work and was a member of the Board of Managers for the Nebraska State Fair. He was also President of the Omaha National Farm Loan Association.

Long active in Masonic Work, he was a member of the Masonic Boys’ Home at Omaha. He was a past member of the Florence Lodge and past High Priest of the Royal Arch body there.

He leaves to mourn his passing his wife, the former Mary Mortensen of Fort Calhoun whom he married in 1902; three sons, Harold and Morton of Omaha and Ralph of Clay Center; two daughters, Mrs. Waldo Kruse and Mrs. Edward Lorenzen of Fort Calhoun; one brother, three sisters, and several grandchildren.

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

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