Obituary Record

Maude (Monroe) Eliassen
Died on 6/11/1926
Buried in Blair Cemetery

Mrs. George Eliassen died last Friday afternoon at 4:15 from a cancer of the stomach. She had been sick for about three months, but was in bed only a week before the end came. She had lost so much blood from a hemorrhage that a blood transfusion was resorted to the evening before she died, her son Charles furnishing the precious fluid. She rallied perceptably but another hemorrhage left her in a collapsed condition from which she was too weak to rally.

The funeral service was held at the Christian Church at 10 o'clock Monday morning, Rev. W. H. Underwood officiating in the absence of Rev. L. H. Camp from the city.

Maude was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis M. Monroe, born in this county May 1st, 1881. She was married to George Eliassen June 10th, 1899, by Rev. E. M. Fletcher, now residing at the Crowell Home, in the house where the family now lives. George's mother lived there at the time. Nine children were born to them, eight of whom are now living, George 20, of Council Bluffs, Ia., Charles 15, Frances 9, James 7, Etta, Mrs. Wm. Reese 23, Dorothy 13, Mathilda 11, Bessie 4. There are three grandchildren, daughters of Mrs. Reese, Marie, Marion and Margaret. She is survived by three brothers, Ralph Monroe, of Wessington Springs, S.D., James Monroe, of Wakefield, and Robert of Omaha, and three sisters, Hattie Rupp, of Omaha, Malinda Bloom, of Oxford, Nebr., Rose Compton, of Oganogan, Wash.

She was a member of the Christian Church at Wakefield, Nebr. The bereaved family have the sincere sympathy of their many friends.

~There is an additional obituary on file at the Blair Public Library published on June 16, 1926. It does not have any additional information. Obituaries courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file at the Blair Public Library.

Printed in the Blair Pilot on 6/16/1926


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