MRS. MADS MADSEN

Mrs. Mads Madsen, well known in this county, passed away last Thursday afternoon, May 31, at 5:45 pm. at the Court View hospital in this city. She had been ailing for some time, and submitted to an operation hoping that she might regain her health, but she could not rally and passed away at the age of 63 years, 1 month and 12 days.

Mrs. Madsen was born in Denmark and came to America when eleven years of age where she grew to womanhood and where she met and married Mads Madsen. The ceremony being performed in 1889 in Fremont.

After their marriage, they started farming in Washington county, and have since that time been identified with the farming interests of the county. To them a large family was born, nine of whom are living, seven sons and two daughters. The sons are Robert, Edward, Elmer, Nels and Walter at home and Albert and Harry married and on nearby farms. The two daughters are Mrs. Chris Korshoj of Herman and Mrs. Edward Mencke also of this county, and they, with the father, grieve deeply the loss of her, who faithful to her trust as wife and mother, has gone never to return, but whose memory will always remain sweet and lovely in their minds.

Mrs. Madsen was a member of the Danish Lutheran church and lived a real Christian life, and will be missed by a large circle of friends who respected her for her many virtues, and the Enterprise joins with these friends in extending sympathy to the entire family, and especially to the bereaved husband in his great loss.

The funeral services were held from the home last Sunday at 1 p.m. and from the Danish Lutheran church at 2 p.m. and interment was made in the Orum cemetery. Rev. M. W. Tolo and Immanuel Peterson were the officiating ministers at the ceremony.

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

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