Obituary Record

Harry Clark Blaco
Died on 10/20/1943
Buried in Kennard Cemetery

21 Oct., 1943 - The Enterprise

HARRY BLACO IS VICTIM OF PARALYSIS

Businessman And County Commissioner For Sixteen Years.

BORN IN COUNTY 71 YEARS AGO

Harry C. Blaco, of Kennard, died Wednesday of this week following a stroke on Tuesday, October 12. Deceased was a native of the county and was past seventy-one years of age at his death.

He was born on the Richard Blaco farm northwest of Kennard and there he grew to manhood and received his education. After the death of his father, he purchased the home place and by hard work and close application to business, he paid for it. Later he moved to Kennard and went into the implement business which he conducted for a number of years.

When a young man, he was a candidate for county clerk, but was defeated and he remained on the farm with his father. After moving to Kennard, he was elected to the office of county commissioner from his district and all told he served his district in that capacity for sixteen years.

He was married to Miss Merie Jensen on April 26, 1899, but had no children, and he leaves the grief stricken widow and three sisters, Mrs. Nellie Wardell, of Creighton, Nebraska; Mrs. Myrtle Wulf and Mrs. Gertrude ?ale, of Benson, who grieved his passing.

Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at two o'clock at the Methodist Church in Kennard with Rev. A. W. Clark officiating and interment will be made in the Kennard Cemetery.

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

Find a Grave Memorial #26239325 Note: Per Cemetery records: Harry was born 28 Aug 1872 and died 28 Oct 1943; buried in the Kennard Cemetery, Kennard, Washington County, NE, USA; the newspaper date would indicated his death was on 20 Oct 1943

Plot: Blk 1 Lt 38 Sp 5

Printed in the Washington County Enterprise on 10/21/1943


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