Obituary Record

Mary Gladys (Knappe) Vinckel
Died on 6/20/1939

22 June, 1939 - The Enterprise

WIFE OF J. R. ViNCKEL SUCCUMBS

Wife of Blair School Supt. Succumbs After Four Years’ Illness

RITES AT RANDOLPH

Mrs. J. R. Vinckel of Arlington died Tuesday morning after an illness of four years. The last six months she has been confined to her bed in her home at Arlington.

Had she lived, the family would have moved to Blair where the husband, J. R., has been elected as superintendent of the city schools.

Mrs. Vinckel, as Mary Gladys Knappe, was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Her girlhood days were spent at Merrill, Iowa and in Omaha. She graduated from the Omaha High school in 1923 and from Duchesne college in 1927.

After her graduation, she taught schools one year, and in the spring of 1928 was married to J. R. Vinckel. They at once moved to Arlington where the husband had been elected as superintendent of the schools. Arlington has been their home up to this time.

Mrs. Vinckel was a woman of more than ordinary ability. In spite of her failing health, she was of a most cheerful disposition, and her gracious manner added to a charming, ladylike personality, made her a favorite of all who came in contact with her.

Besides the husband, she leaves her mother and one sister, residents of Decatur to mourn her death.

On Wednesday morning the body lay in state at the home in Arlington until one o’clock p.m., and then was taken overland to Randolph, Nebraska, where on

at 9 a.m. interment was made in the Randolph cemetery.

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

Printed in the Washington County Enterprise on 6/22/1939


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