Obituary Record

Ruth Hazel Bracken
Died on 4/27/1945
Buried in Blair Cemetery

#1 published in The Enterprise, 5/3/1945

RUTH H. BRACKEN, TEACHER, DIES

Miss Ruth Hazel Bracken, Saunders School teacher and one of three sisters teaching in the Omaha Public Schools, died Friday, April 27th, at her home, 4913 Chicago Street. She had been ill since January 3rd.

Miss Bracken had been at Saunders School 28 years, and before that had taught at Missouri Valley, Iowa. A native of this city, she studied at Wayne State Normal College and was graduated from the University of Omaha.

Survivors are sisters, Miss Ora, teacher at Comenius School; Miss Helen, who teaches at South High School; Miss Clara, Mrs. W.J. Clark, all of Omaha; Mrs. Mabel Sylvis of this city; and brothers, Charles of Norfolk, Nebraska; Thomas, Emerson, Nebraska; and Stanley, South Orange, New Jersey.

Services were held on Tuesday at 4 P.M. at the Burket Chapel in Omaha; burial in the Blair cemetery.

#2 Printed in the May 3, 1945 Pilot-Tribune

OMAHAN IS BURIED IN BLAIR TUESDAY

Following 4 o’clock rites at the Burket Chapel in Omaha, Miss Ruth Hazel Bracken was buried in Blair cemetery. The Omaha woman, a sister of Mrs. Mabel Sylvis of Blair, and at one time a resident of this community, died on Friday.

Survivors include four sisters: Mrs. Sylvis of Blair, Mrs. W.J. Clark, Misses Clara Helen and Ora Bracken of Omaha; and three brothers, Charles of Norfolk, Thomas of Emerson, and Stanley of South Orange, New Jersey.

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

FindaGrave # 113534160

Printed in the Washington County Enterprise on 5/3/1945


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