Miss Ella O’Brien died at 11 o’clock Tuesday forenoon at the Robinson hospital where she has been nursing for some time past. The funeral will be held at 10 o’clock tomorrow at the Catholic church, and interment made in the Blair Cemetery. Miss O’Brien had not been well since last August when she had an attack of typhoid fever and was operated upon a couple of weeks ago for stricture of the esophagus, which was caused by that attack. The stricture caused a cancerous condition which finally caused her death. She was born in Canton, Ohio May 16, 1869, and came with her parents to this state in 1896. They lived on a farm northwest of this city for a year after the death of their father in August, 1897, Mrs. O’Brien having died in February of that same year, when the two unmarried sisters, Ella and Emma, moved to this city and began nursing for Dr. C. O. Robinson. Besides her sister, Anna, she leaves two other sisters, Mrs. J. W. Sherman of Tekamah and Mr. Chas. Fassnacht of this city, and two brothers, Charles of Birmingham, Mich. and William who lives in Seattle, Washington.

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

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