MRS. PEARL WILDS DIED WEDNESDAY

Mrs. Pearl Wilds, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Swihart of Kennard, passed away on Wednesday morning, June 6th, at the home of her son, Fred, in Fremont. Funeral services will be held tomorrow, Friday, at two o’clock from the First Christian church in Fremont, and interment will be made in the Kennard cemetery.

Deceased was born in Kennard where she grew to womanhood. She leaves to mourn her death her husband, Elmer Wilds of Fremont; two sons, Fred of Fremont and Bert who is serving with the Merchant Marines overseas; two sisters, Mrs. G. A. Rathmann of Blair and Mrs. Jessie Olson of Los Angeles, California; and three brothers, Charles of Niobrara, Mark of Carroll and Bert of Arlington.

#2 Thursday, June 7, 1945 Pilot-Tribune, p. 1

Countians’ Kin is Dead

MRS. PEARL WILDS, ILL TWO YEARS, DIED WEDNESDAY IN FREMONT.

Ill for two years, Mrs. Pearl Wilds died Wednesday morning in Fremont. Funeral services will be held Friday, at 2 p.m. at the Fremont Christian Church, and burial will be in the Kennard cemetery.

Surviving Mrs. Wilds are two sisters, Mrs. G.A. Rathmann of Blair and Mrs. C.A. Olson of Los Angeles; three brothers, Bert Swihart of Arlington, Mark Swihart of Carroll, Nebraska, and Charles Swihart of Niobrara; and two sons, Fred of Fremont (at whose home she died) and Bert of the Merchant Marines.

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

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