Obituary Record

Anna Paulina (Brodersen) Nielsen
Died on 4/9/1944
Buried in Thone Cemetery

Since the death date was not given the burial date was used.

13 Apr., 1944 - The Enterprise

MRS. NIELS NIELSEN BURIED SUN., APRIL 9

Anna Paulina Brodersen was born in Schleswig Holstein, Germany on June 29, 1864, and came to the United States in the spring of 1880. On July 1, 1884 she was married to Niels Nielsen, and to them five children were born. The husband died in 1903, and she never remarried.

Mrs. Nielsen resided in this county for 67 years, and her neighbors knew her as an energetic, kindly soul always ready with a helping hand for those who were in need.

She will be greatly missed by her friends which are legion and more especially by the four remaining children who are Chris of Plentywood, Montana; Herman of Longview, Washington; Mrs. Fred R. Hansen of Herman, Nebraska; and Mrs. Francis Christensen of Fremont. She also leaves seven grandchildren and six great grandchildren and one sister, Mrs. M. G. Cook of Fremont.

Funeral services were held Sunday, April 9th from the Bendorf funeral Home with Rev. H. C. Jorgensen officiating, and interment was made in the Thone cemetery.

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

FindaGrave # 207827997

Printed in the Washington County Enterprise on 4/13/1944


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