Mrs. Harold Elvers Died Tuesday at Blair Hospital

Mrs. Harold (Lorraine) Elvers, 56 year old Blair woman, died Tuesday night at Memorial Community Hospital in Blair where she had been confined for a number of weeks.

Funeral arrangements were being made as The Enterprise went to press Wednesday. A complete obituary will appear in Monday’s Pilot-Tribune.

#2 Printed in the Monday, March 10, 1975 Pilot-Tribune , Blair, Nebraska

Funeral Services For Lorraine Elvers, March 7th

Funeral services were held Friday, March 7th, for Mrs. Harold (Lorraine) Elvers who died March 4 at the Blair Hospital. Mrs. Elvers had been in poor health for a number of months.

The deceased was born at Dannebrog, Nebraska, April 7, 1918. She was 56 years of age at her death. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lauritsen of Dannebrog.

The Elvers lived west of Blair in the former Cuming City School District and were engaged in farming.

Mrs. Elvers is survived by her husband, Harold E. and by two sons and two daughters. The children are Jarold L. Elvers, of Honolulu, Hawaii, and Charles H. Elvers of Bellevue, Washington. The daughters are Janis L. Davis, of Blair and Mrs. Roger (Saralee) L. Ryan, of Elkhorn, Nebraska. There are four grandchildren.

Two brothers and a sister live at Dannebrog. The brothers are Gilbert and Carl Lauritsen. The sister is Mr. Dorothy Jess.

Funeral services were held Friday at the Congregational Church in Blair. The Rev. John Fritzmeier conducted the service and burial was made in the Blair Cemetery under the direction of the Campbell Mortuary.

Pallbearers were Wayne Arlan, Kenneth and Lyle Lauritsen, John and Paul Elvers, Leroy Stuehn and Alan Jess.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of Washington County Genealogical Association; newspaper clippings on file at the Public Library, Blair, Nebraska ~~~