FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. MARY SICK WERE HELD MONDAY

Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Sick, 80, who died Friday night at her home in Fremont after suffering a stroke early last week, were held at 2:30 p.m. Monday at the Salem Lutheran Church, Fremont. Dr. A. O. Frank, pastor of the church, officiated. Burial was in the Fontanelle cemetery.

Mrs. Sick, widow of Rev. Christian Sick, who died two years ago, has been prominent in church activities during the 18 years she has lived in Fremont and particularly in the affairs of the Salem Lutheran church at Fremont. She served in WCTU and Red Cross offices among other social and welfare groups. She was the first president of the Midwest Synodical Missionary society.

Born July 22, 1861 at Fontanelle, Nebraska, she was the daughter of the late Henry C. Sprick, who were members of the original Quincy, Illinois colony which came to Fontanelle in 1855. She taught school in Washington County for three years and on May 3, 1885 she was married to Rev. Christian Sick, who was pastor of a Lutheran church at Ponca.

They came to Fontanelle in 1886 and stayed there until 1903 when Rev. Sick accepted a church call to Sterling, Nebraska where he remained until his retirement in 1923 when they moved to Fremont. Rev. Sick died in 1939.

Surviving are five children, Miss Mary Ann Sick, Fremont North school teacher; Mrs. Emma Gardiner of Hot Springs, South Dakota; Robert P. Sick of Los Angeles; Theodore A. Sick of Lincoln; and Alfred O Sick of Blair; two sisters, Mrs. Carl Krueger of Tuckahoe, New York; and Mrs. George D. Roth of Quincy, Illinois; and three grandchildren. Four children preceded her in death.

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

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