11 February 1932
Joe Bolln Dies Monday Morning
Merchant in Fort Calhoun Over Twenty-Five Years
Joseph Bolln, Fort Calhoun merchant, passed away at his home Monday morning following a stroke. The deceased was born in Germany in 1871 and when he was about ten years of age he came to Washington County with his parents. He was reared in this county and was married to Louise Guthner of Denver after which the family made their home on a farm southeast of Blair. About twenty-five years age, he moved to Fort Calhoun where he has been engaged in business since that time.
Surviving him are his bereaved wife; seven children, Mrs. John Richter of Arkansas, William of Blair, Mrs. Frank Wolfe and Mrs. Dora Pieper of Calhoun, Carl of Omaha, Mrs. Louis Michels of Florence, and Frank of Los Angeles, California, also his mother, Mrs. Claus Bolln of Blair, a sister, Mrs. Wheatley and four brothers, John, Herman, William and August.
Funeral services are being conducted from the Presbyterian Church in Calhoun t his (Thursday) afternoon at 2:00 o’clock. Burial will be in the Calhoun Cemetery.
~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Library at Blair Nebraska.~~~
11 February 1932
Joe Bolln Dies Monday Morning
Merchant in Fort Calhoun Over Twenty-Five Years
Joseph Bolln, Fort Calhoun merchant, passed away at his home Monday morning following a stroke. The deceased was born in Germany in 1871 and when he was about ten years of age he came to Washington County with his parents. He was reared in this county and was married to Louise Guthner of Denver after which the family made their home on a farm southeast of Blair. About twenty-five years age, he moved to Fort Calhoun where he has been engaged in business since that time.
Surviving him are his bereaved wife; seven children, Mrs. John Richter of Arkansas, William of Blair, Mrs. Frank Wolfe and Mrs. Dora Pieper of Calhoun, Carl of Omaha, Mrs. Louis Michels of Florence, and Frank of Los Angeles, California, also his mother, Mrs. Claus Bolln of Blair, a sister, Mrs. Wheatley and four brothers, John, Herman, William and August.
Funeral services are being conducted from the Presbyterian Church in Calhoun t his (Thursday) afternoon at 2:00 o’clock. Burial will be in the Calhoun Cemetery.
~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Library at Blair Nebraska.~~~
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