The sudden death of Mrs. Clarence Gossard occurred last Thursday at an Omaha hospital. Mrs. Gossard was formerly Miss Ethel Loomis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Loomis of Benson. The Loomis’ are former Blair residents, and are well known in this vicinity, having lived here a number of years before moving to Benson. Mrs. Gossard leaves to mourn her sudden and untimely death besides her husband, a new born baby, three small children ranging in age from three to nine years, a brother and her father and mother. The many friends in this vicinity who knew Mrs. Gossard as a school girl here join the relatives in this their sad hour of bereavement.

#2-Omaha Daily Bee, March 27, 1921, Page 10:

GOSSARD - Mrs. Ethel Bell, aged 32 years. She is survived by her husband, Clarence E.; parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Loomis; three sons and one daughter; two brothers, Arthur and Roy Loomis. Funeral Sunday afternoon from John A. Gentleman's mortuary, at 2 p. m., to Benson Methodist church at 2:30 p. m. Interment, Mount Hope cemetery.

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

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