Obituary Record

Harriet Ruie (Black) Fees
Died on 8/29/1934
Buried in Blair Cemetery

30 Aug., 1934 - The Enterprise

HARRIET R. FEES ANSWERS CALL

The sudden death of Mrs. Harriet R. Fees, who passed away Tuesday at 11:30 p.m., was a real shock to the community. Few of her closest friends knew that she was ailing. She had been about her duties as usual up to a few days before her death.

There are not many people who are better known to Blair than Mrs. Fees. She came here from Fremont in 1907 and her husband, Arthur W. Fees, now deceased, for years was a successful practicing physician, and both made many warm friends who will always cherish their memory for their sterling qualities.

Mrs. Fees was born in Knox county, Ohio on August 16, 1864, and was thus just past seventy years of age at her death. Her family moved from Ohio to Iowa in 1869, and there she grew to womanhood and in 1882 was married to Arthur W Fees at Mt. Etna.

After their marriage, the husband studied medicine and Mrs. Fees did her part in assisting him in every way that only a real wife can do. In 1904, after he had finished his studies, they moved to Fremont and three years later to Blair where they have since resided and where both passed away.

Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Fees, four of whom are still living, Mrs. Inez F Weyer of Wheaton, Ill.; Mrs. Belva E. Green of Gordon, Nebr.; and Don C. and Velma at home, all of whom made haste to the bedside of the stricken mother, although the two from a distance arrived too late to clasp her hand before she died.

The grief-stricken family has the sympathy of the entire community. In her passing, they have lost a real mother, one who could unselfishly perform her acts of motherhood toward them with no thought of self and who had cherished them through stages of childhood and maturity with but one aim in life and that for their good.

The funeral services will be held tomorrow, Friday morning, at 10 o’clock with Rev. W. H. Jackson of the local Methodist church officiating, and interment will be made in the family plot at Lenox, Iowa.

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

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Printed in the Washington County Enterprise on 8/30/1934


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