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Lora A. Gieselmann, 89

Lora A. Gieselmann, 89, of Arlington, died Saturday, Jan. 27, 2001, at Arbor Manor in Fremont.

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 31, at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, north of Arlington. The Rev. Dennis Maaske will officiate. Interment will be at St. Paul’s Cemetery.

Visitation is scheduled for 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Tuesday, Jan. 31, and 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Reckmeyer-Moser Funeral Home in Arlington. Visitation will also be held at the church one hour prior to services.

Lora A. Gieselmann was born Jan. 23, 1912, on a farm north of Arlington to Henry and Martha (Knecht) Hokamp. She grew up in rural Arlington.

On Feb. 18, 1934, she married Walter H. Gieselmann at the St. Paul’s parsonage. The couple lived on a farm nine miles north and two miles east of Arlington, where they farmed. They moved into Arlington in June of 1983. Mrs. Gieselmann had been living at Arbor Manor in Fremont since October 1995.

Mrs. Gieselmann was a member of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, and the Jolly Larks Quilting Circle.

She is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Melvin W. and Lois Gieselmann of Arlington, a daughter, Eileen A. Breithaupt of Blair, two brothers, Albert and Gilbert Hokamp, both of Arlington, two sisters, Meta (Mrs. John) Breithaupt of Fremont and Norma (Mrs. Elmer) Katt of Herman, two sisters-in-law, Esther Hokamp of St. Louis, Mo., and Edna Bartling of Fremont, five grandchildren, and 10 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Walter, a brother, Martin Hokamp, and a sister, Esther Gieselmann.

Memorials are suggested to St. Paul’s Lutheran Church or the Arlington Rescue Squad.

Reckmeyer-Moser Funeral Home in Arlington was in charge of arrangements.

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

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