M. Louise McBride, 90

Former Washington County resident Louise McBride, 90, of Camp Hill, Penn., died Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2005, at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Sue and Charles Smith, who had been her caregivers for several years.

Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2006, at Moser Memorial Chapel in Fremont. Interment will be at 1:15 p.m. Tuesday, at Killian Hill Cemetery, southwest of Morse Bluff.

Visitation with the family will be from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, prior to services.

Mae Louise Durham was born Sept. 18, 1915, at Lebanon, Ind., to Franklin and Bertha (Melvin) Durham. She attended school at Lebanon and Owosso Bible College in Owosso, Mich.

On Nov. 10, 1940, she married Rev. Harold J. McBride at Owosso. The McBrides served churches in Lexington, Ky., and in Nebraska at Brownville, Stratton, Bladen, Tecumseh, Omaha and Blair. Mrs. McBride assisted her husband’s ministry as pianist, vocalist, playing the accordion, and as a Sunday School teacher. She was a homemaker, but also worked part-time in various capacities, including domestic work and as a nurse’s aide.

They moved to Oakland in 1957, to Herman in 1966, and to Tekamah in 1978. With declining health, Mrs. McBride moved to Camp Hill in 1994, spending most of her remaining years there. She also lived at Birchwood Manor in North Bend for intermittent periods.

She was a member of the Church of the Nazarene in Missouri Valley, Iowa.

She is survived by three daughters and sons-in-law, Sue and Charles Smith of Camp Hill, Lois and Fred Lambley of Morse Bluff, and Fae and James Jones of Albuquerque, N.M.; sons and daughters-in-law, Wes and Suzanne McBride of Exeter, R.I., and Joe and Kathy McBride of Tekamah; 21 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren; a sister, Mary Durham, and a brother, Charles Durham, both of Ds Plaines, Ill.

She was preceded in death by her husband; two brothers, Melvin and Gene Durham; and a grandson, Rocky Smith.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska library.~~~