SERVICES FOR GERTRUDE MEAD ARE HELD TODAY

Well Known And Loved Musician Answers Call. Aged 74 Years

A. Gertrude Mead, aged 74 years, died Monday at 1:15 p.m. She had been in failing health for over a year, and had been a patient in an Omaha Hospital some time ago for several weeks.

Her condition improved, and she was brought to her home and was able for a time to meet her friends and make her trips uptown where her old acquaintances hailed her with great pleasure.

Gertrude, as we all knew her, was born in Marengo, Iowa in July of 1871. The family came to the county in 1882, and for a time resided in Herman. Later they moved to Blair, and she became a student in Blair High School where she graduated in 1888.

Later she specialized in music and graduated from the music department of the Wesleyan University in Lincoln. After graduating she taught music in Blair and Herman and was most thorough in her work, and numbers people, now many of them middle aged, have gained their knowledge of music through her instructions.

She was a great church worker, and for over fifty years was a member of the choir of the Methodist Church. She was devoted to her church and was a living example of true Christian virtues.

Her friends were legion, and in all her life spent among us she was always spoken of in the highest of terms, and there are many friends who feel a personal loss in her passing.

Words are so weak that expression cannot be made of the sentiment that has surrounded her life of constant effort to always do the right thing. Her respect and interest in her fellow beings and her love for justice put her on a high plane of living that made her the idol of those who knew her.

Deceased was never married. She leaves a brother, Dr. C. R. Mead of Blair and a sister, Mrs. Ethel Byrd of Alabama to mourn, but they do not mourn alone for there are a legion of friends who also mourn the passing of an ideal life.

Funeral services are being held this Thursday afternoon at two o’clock from the Methodist church where she had been a constant attendant for so many years, with interment in the Blair cemetery.

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

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