MOTHER OF BLAIR MAN DIED TUESDAY

Mrs. Abel Kruse, 74, of Bennington, mother of Chris Kruse of Blair, died Tuesday at her home after a long illness. Mrs. Kruse was born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, and had been a Bennington resident 19 years.

She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Meta Harder of Kennard; six sons, John, Herman and Henry of Bennington; William, Elkhorn; Emil, Kennard, and Chris of Blair. She has one brother in Germany.

Funeral services are being held this afternoon at St. John Lutheran church at Bennington, with interment in the German cemetery there.

~~~Obituary courtesy of Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file at the Public Libr

ary, Blair, Nebraska ~~~

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