Mrs. J.E. Portwood, 90, died Sunday, July 14, at the Brodstone Memorial Hospital, in Superior. Mrs. Portwood, who was born Alice (Dollie) Orner in Martinsville, Indiana, in 1872, came to Nebraska with her family as a 17-year old girl. She taught in the rural schools in this area, then worked as a clerk in the Wm. A. Voigt general store in Nelson. Here she met Mr. John Edward Portwood to whom she was united in marriage on June 25, 1905. Four children were born to this union.
Mrs. Portwood was for many years active in the Methodist Church, the P.E.O., the Nelson Women's Club and the Library Association.
She was preceded in death by her husband in June of 1960 and her eldest son Donald in 1948.
Surviving are her daughters Gail of Honolulu, Hawaii, and Doris, (Mrs. H.M. Evans), of Washington, D.C., and her son Joseph Laverne of Alboquerque (sic), New Mexico, and two sisters, Lettie Orner of Nelson and Mrs. Ida Whiting of Wood River, Nebr.
Services were held on Wednesday, July 17, at the Nelson Methodist Church with the Rev. I.L. Belden officiating. Burial was in the Nelson Cemetery.
The Nelson Gazette, Thursday, July 18, 1963
Mrs. Portwood was for many years active in the Methodist Church, the P.E.O., the Nelson Women's Club and the Library Association.
She was preceded in death by her husband in June of 1960 and her eldest son Donald in 1948.
Surviving are her daughters Gail of Honolulu, Hawaii, and Doris, (Mrs. H.M. Evans), of Washington, D.C., and her son Joseph Laverne of Alboquerque (sic), New Mexico, and two sisters, Lettie Orner of Nelson and Mrs. Ida Whiting of Wood River, Nebr.
Services were held on Wednesday, July 17, at the Nelson Methodist Church with the Rev. I.L. Belden officiating. Burial was in the Nelson Cemetery.
The Nelson Gazette, Thursday, July 18, 1963
Mrs. J.E. Portwood, 90, died Sunday, July 14, at the Brodstone Memorial Hospital, in Superior. Mrs. Portwood, who was born Alice (Dollie) Orner in Martinsville, Indiana, in 1872, came to Nebraska with her family as a 17-year old girl. She taught in the rural schools in this area, then worked as a clerk in the Wm. A. Voigt general store in Nelson. Here she met Mr. John Edward Portwood to whom she was united in marriage on June 25, 1905. Four children were born to this union.
Mrs. Portwood was for many years active in the Methodist Church, the P.E.O., the Nelson Women's Club and the Library Association.
She was preceded in death by her husband in June of 1960 and her eldest son Donald in 1948.
Surviving are her daughters Gail of Honolulu, Hawaii, and Doris, (Mrs. H.M. Evans), of Washington, D.C., and her son Joseph Laverne of Alboquerque (sic), New Mexico, and two sisters, Lettie Orner of Nelson and Mrs. Ida Whiting of Wood River, Nebr.
Services were held on Wednesday, July 17, at the Nelson Methodist Church with the Rev. I.L. Belden officiating. Burial was in the Nelson Cemetery.
The Nelson Gazette, Thursday, July 18, 1963
Mrs. Portwood was for many years active in the Methodist Church, the P.E.O., the Nelson Women's Club and the Library Association.
She was preceded in death by her husband in June of 1960 and her eldest son Donald in 1948.
Surviving are her daughters Gail of Honolulu, Hawaii, and Doris, (Mrs. H.M. Evans), of Washington, D.C., and her son Joseph Laverne of Alboquerque (sic), New Mexico, and two sisters, Lettie Orner of Nelson and Mrs. Ida Whiting of Wood River, Nebr.
Services were held on Wednesday, July 17, at the Nelson Methodist Church with the Rev. I.L. Belden officiating. Burial was in the Nelson Cemetery.
The Nelson Gazette, Thursday, July 18, 1963
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