GEORGE G. WIESE BURIED AT STANTON

Funeral services for George Gustave Wiese, who passed away Saturday afternoon, April 23, at the Blair Convalescent Home were held Tuesday morning at the Fick Funeral Home in Blair with the Rev. Theodore Jensen in charge. Later, at 2:30 in the afternoon, services were held at St. Luke’s church at Stanton. Rev. H. J. Knaub was in charge of the services at Stanton. At Blair music was furnished by Paul Johnson and Mrs. Chelsea Whitford and at the Stanton service it was furnished by Ralph Titus and Mrs. I. Wolverton. Burial service, under the direction of the Fick Funeral Home, was made in the Stanton cemetery.

George Wiese was born October 12, 1888, on a farm near Kennard. He was one of 12 children of the late Theodore and Anna Wiese of Kennard. He was married to Theresa Voss Nov. 21, 1917 at Blair. To this union four children were born. After their marriage they lived near Blair for a year, then moved to a farm near Winside. March 1, 1929, they moved to a farm five miles north of Stanton where they resided until Mr. Wiese was forced to quit farming. They moved to Omaha in 1946. He was stricken with an illness last September while employed at the Florence Home, which forced him into an Omaha hospital. After being able to leave there, he made his home with a daughter, Mrs. Lawrence Schwanke. On March 21, 1949, he became seriously ill and entered the Convalescent home.

Mr. Wiese was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith, and was a member of the First English Lutheran church in Omaha at the time of his death.

One son, Ted, his parents, and two sisters preceded him in death. Survivors are his wife, Theresa, two daughters, Margaret, Mrs. James Trouba, Omaha; and Mildred, Mrs. Lawrence Schwanke; and one son, Arnold of Omaha; five grandchildren, five brothers and four sisters and many other relatives and friends.

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

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