Obituary Record

Mildred A. (Anderson) Lau
Died on 5/14/2006
Buried in Blair Cemetery

#1 Published in Pilot-Tribune, May 16, 2006

MILDRED A. LAU, 96

Mildred A. Lau, 96, of Blair, died Sunday, May 14, 2006, at Good Shepherd Home.

Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 17, at First Christian Church in Blair, with interment in the Blair Cemetery.

Visitation will begin at noon Tuesday, May 16, at Campbell-Aman Funeral Home with the family receiving friends from 7 to 8 p.m.

Mildred A. (Anderson) Lau was born in Washington County to Jens and Jennie (Jacobson) Anderson.

She attended Gardner School in rural Washington County and graduated from Blair High School in 1926. She then attended Dana College for two years.

She lived and worked in Omaha for a number of years at a variety of jobs including International Harvester and the Bee News before marrying Leonard D. Lau in Omaha on April 17, 1942.

In 1956, she returned to Blair where she worked for 17 years at the Washington County Courthouse for Roy I. Andersen and Greg Drew before her retirement in the early 1970s.

Her final two years were spent in the loving care of the staff of Good Shepherd Home.

She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Russell and Laurel Lau of Blair; grandson and wife; granddaughter; and two great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Leonard; three brothers, Ray, Viggo, and Russell Anderson; and two sisters, Olga (Anderson) Frahm and Betty Anderson.

Memorials are suggested to First Christian Church.

#2 From Omaha World-Herald, May 15, 2006

LAU - - Mildred A., age 96, of Blair. Survived by son and daughter-in-law, Russell and Laurel Lau; grandson,, Bradley and wife, Amie Lau, all of Blair; granddaughter, Amy Lau, of Omaha; 2 great-grandchildren, Carter and Dakota, Blair.

SERVICES 10:30 a.m. Wed., First Christian Church, Blair. Burial, Blair Cemetery.

VISITATION will begin 12 p.m. Tues, with family receiving friends from 7 – 8 p.m. Memorials are suggested to First Christian Church.

CAMPBELL-AMAN FUNERAL HOME, Blair, NE

402-426-2191

#3 Funeral Leaflet

In Loving Memory of Mildred A. Lau

Born March 4, 1910 Washington County, Nebraska ~ Entered Into Rest May 14, 2006 Blair, Nebraska

Funeral Service: 10:30 A.M. Wednesday, May 17, 2006 First Christian Church, Blair, Nebraska. Officiating: Pastor Daniel Sauer, Rev. Lynn Parsons. Pianist: Deb Ludwick. Musical Selections: “As The Deer”, “If You Could See Me Now”. Congregational Hymn: “In The Garden”

Casket Bearers: Bill Anderson, Jim Anderson, Ron Beebe, Bob Anderson, Brad Lau, Lloyd Petersen

Final Resting Place: Blair Cemetery, Blair, Nebraska

Arrangements by Campbell-Aman Funeral Home

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

FindaGrave # 116286038

Printed in the Washington County Pilot-Tribune on 5/16/2006


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