Many relatives and friends in this city were grieved to hear of the death of Mrs. J. H. Hungate which took place at the Wise Memorial Hospital from the effects of surgical operations on Wednesday afternoon of this week. She was 54 years old and leaves two sons, Charley, who is married and Dick who is 18 years old, and five daughters, all of whom reside in Omaha except a married daughter at Kansas City. Mrs. A. P. Howes of Blair is a sister, her mother, several other married sisters and a brother reside abroad. Deceased was a loyal, large hearted and gifted woman who will be sincerely mourned by many old friends in this city which she left in 1882. The funeral will be Friday at 2 p.m. at the residence at 2104 Maple St., Omaha.

#2-27 Apr., 1904 - Blair Courier - Vesta D. (Cook) Hungate

Mrs. J. H. Hungate died at 2:30 p.m. last Wednesday at the Wise Memorial hospital in Omaha of cancer of the stomach. About ten days before an operation had been performed, but it was found that nothing could be done to save her life, and she waited patiently until the end came. The funeral was held at the family residence, 2104 Maple street, at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon, under the auspices of the W.R.C. of which organization she was a devoted member. Vesta D. Cook was born at Grayson, Ky. in 1849, and in an early day moved with her parents onto a farm near California Junction, Ia. When Cuming City was flourishing Miss Cook taught school there and when Blair was founded in 1869 she moved down here with the town, where she met and married J. H. Hungate in 1870. They lived here for about 18 years and after spending one year in Denver, have lived ever since in Omaha. Besides her husband, two sons and five daughters, she leaves a mother, Mrs. Delinda Cook, aged 74 years, four sisters, one of whom is Mrs. A. P. Howes of this city, and three brothers. She was a bright, vivacious and capable woman who made friends wherever she went, and hence her death will leave a fountain of sorrow in many hearts.

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

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