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Maxine McBride Dies Suddenly-Blair Girl, 19, Dies in Omaha Hospital After a Brief Illness

Ill less than a week, Miss Maxine McBride died Monday morning at Lutheran Hospital in Omaha. Her sudden death came as a shock to her family and friends. She had become ill last Tuesday night, and was removed to the hospital Sunday after spending her 19th birthday Friday confined to her bed.

Daughter of the late Charles McBride and Mrs. Hazel McBride, Maxine was born in Blair July, 25, 1922, and had spent her entire life here.

She graduated from Blair high school with the class of 1939 and last year attended the University of Omaha. This year she had been employed at Robinson’s café.

Surviving are her mother, Mrs. Hazel McBride; two brothers, Frederick and Charles McBride, both at home; and three sisters, Beverly McBride, in Alabama, Mrs. Kathleen Sellers of Blair and Pauline McBride at home.

Maxine’s cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Petersen of San Diego, California, arrived here early this week and were present at the funeral services.

Funeral services in charge of the Campbell Mortuary, were held at 4 p.m. yesterday at the Congregational Church, the Rev. R. W. Hastings officiating. Burial in Blair Cemetery was delayed until today, pending the arrival of Beverly McBride from Alabama. She arrived by airplane last evening.

#2-31 July, 1941 - The Enterprise - Maxine McBride

POPULAR BLAIR GIRL DIED IN OMAHA MON.

Rites Held Wednesday For Maxine McBride Nineteen

Maxine McBride, daughter of Mrs. Charles McBride, died suddenly Monday morning in the Lutheran Hospital in Omaha.

Maxine was born in Blair July 25, 1922, and was graduated from the Blair High School in the class of 1939. She also took one year at the Omaha University. She had for some time been employed at the Robinson Cafe and was a general favorite.

Besides the mother, she leaves an older sister, Mrs. Claude Sellers of Blair, and two younger sisters, Pauline and Beverley, and two younger brothers, Frederick and Charles.

Funeral services were held Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. from the Congregational church with Rev. R. W. Hastings officiating, and interment was made in the Blair cemetery.

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

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