Woman Falls Dead in Park

Mrs. Claus Schmidt Died Suddenly At Fort Calhoun Yesterday

Mrs. Claus Schmidt, about 70, whose husband is seriously ill following a stroke suffered last week-end, dropped dead at 4 p.m. yesterday while walking through the Fort Calhoun baseball park with a friend Mrs. Art Jipp.

Mrs. Schmidt was walking to the post office to mail a letter to her sons at Tekamah, asking them to come to Fort Calhoun to do some of the planting for them due to the father's illness.

Death was ascribed to a heart attack. The body was taken to the Sievers Funeral Home, and services had not been arranged at noon today.

The Fort Calhoun woman is survived by her husband; four sons, Chris, William and Allan, all of Tekamah, and Fred of California; one daughter, Mrs. Kate Saltzmann of Tekamah; two half-brothers, W. H. "Bill" Miller of Blair and Bert Miller of California; and a half-sister, Mrs. Edward E. Smith of Colorado. She was a sister-in-law of E. W. Schmidt, Mrs. J. L. Pounds and Mrs. E. C. Lippincott, all of Blair.

#2 Schmidt Services Held Here Sunday

Funeral services for Mrs. Claus Schmidt, 66, of Fort Calhoun, an account of whose death was published in last week's Pilot-Tribune, were held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at First Baptist church in Blair. The Rev. T. A. Lindenmeyer, pastor of the Church of Christ, officiated, and interment followed in Blair cemetery.

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

Contributor: Julian C (50313349)

Buried: 4/18/1942 ~ Age: 66

KNOWN CHILDREN:

Jesse, b. ca. 1893, Nebraska
x Christopher / Chris, b. ca. 1894, Nebraska
x Katy / Katie, b. ca., 1897, Nebraska
x William / Willie, b. ca. 1899, Nebraska
x Allen, b. c. 1902, Nebraska
x Fred, b. ca. 1904, Nebraska

PARENTS (Mary J Thornton's first marriage; Lucy's father)

Parent's marriage: 5/21/1875 BOWLER, GILES THORNTON, MARY JANE 3 56 (Washington County)

I believe that Lucy's father is Giles James Bowler, 127383847, 1844-1928. The 1900 census indicates that Lucy's father was b in Canada, which matches the birth location of this Giles, with mother b in New York. Ironically, the Giles mentioned appears to have remarried to another Mary Jane by 1880.

Note that the 1900 census also indicates that Lucy was then the mother of 4 children with all four still living at that time.