MRS. LUDWIG JENSEN DIES SUDDENLY

Mrs. Ludwig Jensen, living south of Blair, died at 2 a.m. Wednesday the result of a heart attack which lasted but a few minutes.

Deceased was born at Muscotah, Illinois November 8, 1878, and came to Nebraska at the age of nine years. She was married February 18, 1903 to Ludwig Jensen, and to this union two daughters were born, Mrs. Weston Long of Blair and Mrs. Merritt Cook of Arlington. Besides these and the grief stricken husband, she leaves two sisters, Miss Anna Fuess of Herman and Mrs. George Wachter of Pender; also two half brothers, Walter of Rosalie and Clarence Wachter of Herman and six grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held Friday morning at 9:30 from the Catholic church, and interment will be made in the Blair cemetery.

#2-November 18, 1937- The Pilot Tribune- Tillie (Fuess) Jensen

DEATH TAKES MRS. LUDWIG JENSEN, 59

SERVICES TOMORROW MORNING FOR BLAIRITE WHO DIED WEDNESDAY

Suffering a heart attack, Mrs. Ludwig Jensen, 59, died suddenly at 2 a.m. yesterday at her home a mile south of Blair. Mrs. Jensen, well known in Blair and Herman, had been a resident of Washington County 50 years.

As Tillie Fuess, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fuess, she was born November 8, 1878, at Mascoutah, Illinois, and came to Herman with her parents when nine years old. She returned to a convent at Mascoutah for her education.

She was married to Ludwig Jensen in Blair February 18, 1902. Mr. Jensen survives, as do two daughters, Mrs. Weston Long of Blair and Mrs. Merritt Cook of Arlington. Other survivors include two sisters, Mrs. Anna Fuess of Herman and Mrs. George Wachter of Pender; six grandchildren and two half-brothers, Walter Wachter of Rosalie and Clarence Wachter of Herman. A sister, Mrs. Lizzie Ackermann of Herman, preceded her in death by six years.

Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Friday at St. Francis Borgia Catholic church, the Rev. Daniel O’Sullivan officiating. Interment will be in Holy Cross cemetery here.

Note: The Vig Notes at the Danish American Archives list her name as Mathilda Jensen (Fuess).

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

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