MRS. FRANK SCHEER RITES SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2ND

Mrs. Frank Scheer, pioneer of this county, passed away Wednesday morning, August 30. At her death she was past 90 years of age.

Deceased was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Jobst Giesselman. She was born in Quincy, Illinois on December 31, 1859. In April, 1867 at the age of seven she came with her parents in a covered wagon to Arlington, Neb. when Nebraska was still a territory, thus making herself and brothers and sisters pioneers of Nebraska.

She attended the Christian Day school of St. John’s Lutheran church on the Logan Creek near Hooper and was confirmed on April 12, 1874.

On September 8, 1882 she was married to Frank Scheer, also a pioneer. Both were members of the Quincy Colony that settled around Fontanelle in 1854. She and her husband had the rare privilege of celebrating their sixtieth wedding anniversary on September 8, 1942. Two sons and four daughters were born to Mr. and Mrs. Scheer. The four daughters and the husband preceded her in death, the husband dying August 3, 1943.

Two sons, Edward of Arlington, and Leonard on the old home farm, survive as well as fourteen grandchildren and 31 great grandchildren and one brother, Gotlieb Giesselman.

Coming here as members of the quincy Colony when the country was a wide open prairie they did their part in its development. They watched the roads laid out, the bridges built, school houses spring into existence and theirs was the privilege of seeing the open prairie gradually change to fertile and well improved farms. They did their part both in the church and the school of which the husband was a long time and interested board member.

But as the years passed by and her loved ones had gone, she grew weary and in time the death angel beckoned her to come to that land of rest which she had earned by her pious and upright life and she answered the call without fear for the future.

Funeral services were held last Saturday at 1:30 p.m. from the home of her son, Leonard, and at 2 p.m. from the St. Paul’s Lutheran church with Rev. Carl Hellman officiating, and under the supervision of The Reckmeyer Funeral Home. Interment was made in the St. Paul Lutheran cemetery.

The pallbearers who carried the body to its final resting place were Edward, Harry, Henry and Ernest Giesselman and Henry and Edward Hilgenkamp.

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

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