William Pettit Rites Tuesday

Funeral services will be held Tuesday at two o’clock at the Bendorf Funeral Home for William Leo Pettit, 77 years of age, who died Friday at Memorial Community Hospital.

The Rev. Dale Westadt will officiate with interment in Blair Cemetery.

Mr. Pettit has been making his home at the Leptien Rest Home in Blair.

He is survived by two sons; Charles Leo of Blair and Frank Thomas of Omaha; three daughters, Mrs. Frances Irene Watson of Valley Springs, South Dakota, Mrs. Helen M. Boll of Alamio, Calif., and Mrs. Clara Elizabeth Nelson of Omaha; six grandchildren, 27 great-grandchildren, two brothers and two sisters.

Note: Since the actual death date was not given, the news article date was used.

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