Obituary: Laura Van Housen dies after long illness at 67
Laura Marie Pauline Van Housen died Wednesday morning June 16 after a lengthy illness at age 67. She was born May 21 1898 near Hampton, Hamilton County. Survived by brother Richard Fenster of Aurora and many descendants. She and Arthur Van Housen raised a family in Hampton Arborville Polk and Colorado before becoming a cafe owner in Central City. She was a charter member of Trinity Lutheran Church Polk. Also notes the birth of Larry Trent Larson at Osceola weighing 8 pounds 9 ounces.
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Laura Marie Pauline van Housen
Hampton
Hamilton County
Jacob Fenster
Alvina Kohtz Fenster
Richard Fenster
Aurora
Laura
Zion Lutheran Church
Arthur van Housen
Laura Fenster
Edna Crow
Polk
Osceola
Lloyd
Faye
William Filter
Central City
Rolland
Scottsbluff
van Housens
Arborville
Colorado
Arthur
van Housen
Wyoming
California
Trinity Lutheran Church of
Auxiliary Lutheran Church
Hospital News Dismissed List of Patients and Patrons
A compiled roster lists numerous patients and patrons from towns including Osceola Stromsburg Shelby York Benedict Silver Creek Gresham Benedict Waco and Polk. The notice reads like a hospital and progress ad roster without further context or outcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herman Bahm
Shelby
Wilbert LeSner Jr
Osceola
Freda Schnasse
Rosetta Knerr
York
Dale Houston
Adolph Kresha
Ray Hunsaker
Stromsburg
Wallace Sherwood
Elsie Myers
Marvin Branting
Burdette Williams
Bernard Wagner
Larry Larson
Chris Gaedeke
Robert Hiemer
Edward Ostberg
Murry Ostberg
Phyllis Ostberg
Donnette Ostberg
Patricia Ostberg
David Stromberg
Polk
Ed Rosenberry
John Korus
Silver Creek
W. L. Doremus
Benedict Harold Jarmin
Greg Gutz
Virgil Bugbee
Myron Barker
Alex Adelson
George Richert
Gresham
Donette Gabriel
Karen Hankel
Clarence G. Carlson
Ewald Pliefke
Mabel Widga
John Simonsen
W. D. Rystrom
Duane Leu
Ray Conrad
Mary Cerny
Mary Fiala
Sally McGimpsey
Hubert Augustine
John Monson
Edson Bowers
Ernest Hirschfeld
Benedict
Donald Ostberg
Willard Hollister
Arthur Donelson
Rolland Stromberg
Thomas Heine
Waco
Old Government Corral in Qackha and Civil War era
The article recalls the first corral established in 1858 at Twenty-Sixth and Cuming Streets used to pen horses and mules for General Albert Sidney Johnston’s army during the Mormon War. A second corral at Ninth and Capitol Avenue served the army through the Civil War outbreaks before postwar changes.
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Old Government Corral
Qackha
Twenty-Sixth
Cuming Streets
Albert Sidney Johnston
Ninth and
Capitol Avenue
Union Pacific Railroad
Ens
Thirteenth
Webster Streets
Union Pacific
William ‘Tecumseh Sherman
Corral
Nebraska
Army
Church notices and local updates across Arborville Polk
Local church schedules list services Sunday school and meetings for Congregational Immanuel Lutheran Evangelical Free First Baptist Swede Plain Polk Methodist Trinity Lutheran Calvary Evangelical Lutheran and Swede Home. Community notes report Miss Nebraska contestant Leslie Johnson fourth runner up and weddings and visits in Polk area with regional travel details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie Johnson
Stromsburg
York
Earl Johnsons
Swede Plain
Polk
Calvary Evangelical Lutheran Church OF
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L. van Housen
Annie Jeffrey Hospital
Larson
Larry Trent
Hospital News
Io RA
Church News
Congregational Church
Lindley
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Joseph S. Hu
Evangelical Free Church
William Pinkernell
Kenneth Martin
Nebraska Christian High School
First Baptist Church
Gene E. Wood
Civilian Conservation Corps District
South Dakota
C.C.C
Seventh Corps
Trinity Lutheran Church
B. A. Barnell
Church Council
BOOTH
Nation
Clarks
Omaha
Lincoln
Grand Island
Polk County Treasurer’s Office
Satin
Satintone
AIX Loos
Polk Lumber
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