JOHN WILL DIES AT AGE 85 YEARS

John Will, a resident of Blair since 1933, died suddenly at this home on West Nebraska Street last Sunday, apparently a victim of a heart attack.

Deceased was born in Bavaria November 2, 1859, and came to this country in 1887. Before he left his mother country, he took his army training, and after that served his apprenticeship as a butcher. Arriving in this country, he went to the home of relatives in Keokuk, Iowa where he made his home for a year.

In 1888 he went to Madison, Wisconsin where he worked for a time, and later worked in the packing houses at St. Paul, Minnesota and in Omaha. In 1892 he went to Hooper where he was engaged in the butcher business, and from there he later went to Herman.

On May 25, 1895 he was married to Miss Mary Thedvaus in Hooper, and two sons, Robert of Norfolk and Walter of Sioux City, who with the aged mother mourn deeply their loss. Besides the immediate family, two granddaughters, two grandsons, and one great granddaughter survive.

Funeral services were held Wednesday at two o’clock from the Campbell Mortuary, and interment was made in the Blair cemetery.

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

Note: The Washington County burial records lists his burial as being in the Herman Cemetery. The Vig Files at the Danish American Archives has his death recorded on May 28, 1944 and that his wife is Marie (Thedens) and his sons are Robert and Walter. Find a Grave Memorial #98756960