MRS. JOHN JENKINS BURIED TUESDAY

Mrs. John Jenkins, after an illness from which she had suffered since last June, died Saturday evening at 6:30 at the University hospital in Omaha, a victim of cancer of the liver.

Deceased, as Willa May Wade, was born in Edgerton, Missouri May 16, 1878, coming of one of the oldest families in the United States. She grew to womanhood in her native city.

On May 16, 1912 she was married to John Jenkins in Blair, and they have made Blair their home since that time. For several years past they have run a specialty business, making fancy linen goods and knitted goods of various sorts for which they found a market outside of Blair.

She leaves to mourn her death, besides the bereaved husband, her mother in Richmond, Missouri and also a brother there, also a half brother and two half sisters. The half brother resides in Los Angeles and one half sister in Bucklin, Mo, and the other in Wichita, Kansas.

She was a devout member of the Baptist church, and was a woman of conscientious scruples and a most kindly disposition, and she has a large circle of friends in Blair who will greatly miss her from their midst. She was also a member of the Monday Afternoon club in which she took great interest.

Funeral services were held on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the Baptist church at Richmond, Missouri with Rev. T. J. Reese officiating, assisted by the minister of the church at Richmond, Missouri.

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

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