Mrs. Cushman Is Laid To Rest Here Saturday

Funeral services were Saturday for Mrs. Mary Susanna Cushman, 88, of 230 N. D Street, Fremont. She died Wednesday night at a Fremont Nursing home where she had been since June 25th.

The Rev. G. Van Boening officiated at the service at Redeemer Lutheran West Church. Music for the service was by Mrs. Willis Bopp, soloist. She was accompanied by Mrs. J. B. Schiessler, organist. Pallbearers were Herman Lallman, John Urban, John Shaffer, Irwin Osterloh, Ray Edelmaier and Herbert Meier. Interment was in the Hooper Cemetery, where graveside services were conducted by Friendship Chapter 122, O.E.S. of Hooper. Taking part were Mr. and Mrs. George Boschuldt and Mmes Herman Lallman, Morris Payne, Melvin Ruwe, William Hargens, Clarence R. Otteman and Willis Reed.

Mary Hecker was born April 28, 1872 at Fontanelle, and moved to Hooper with her parents, William and Elisa Hecker, when she was two years old. She was educated in the Hooper School system and worked in the Post Office as her father's assistant from 1889 to 1893.

On September 16, 1896 she was married to Charles C. Cushman at Hooper and with their family of three children lived here until 1930 when they moved to Omaha. In 1943 they moved to Fremont where they had lived since. A member of the Redeemer Lutheran Church and a past matron of the eastern Star at Hooper, Mrs. Cushman was also a member of the Gavel Club, and Daughters of Union Veterans in Fremont. She was the first Worthy Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star at Hooper. She was made a Life Member of the Missionary Society, now the United Lutheran Church Women.

Surviving is a daughter, Mrs. Louis (Bernice) Bayer of Millbae, California and a son, Wilbur Carl; four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband on July 2, 1956, and a son, Charles Chelsea Jr. on June 24, 1960.

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

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