Mrs. Jennie Cruise Decker, 90, resident of Arlington many years, died Wednesday at her home after an illness of two months. Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at 1:30 at the Reckmeyer Funeral Home in Arlington and at 2:30 at the Methodist Church in Elk City. Burial was in Arlington cemetery. Mrs. Decker was born August 1, 1861 at San Antonio, Texas. Survivors are four sons, Ray of Bennington and Bernard, Harry and Ralph, all of Arlington, and three daughters, Mrs. Ora Ingalls of Poughkeepsie, New York, Mrs. Roy McCoy of Denver, Colorado and Mrs. George Samson of Omaha. Her husband, James Forbes Decker, preceded her in death on May 25, 1935.

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

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