HARRY THIELFOLDT, LEONA THIELFOLDT

Harry Thielfoldt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Thielfoldt, was born on April 4, 1904 at Vacoma, this county, where he was reared and where the greater part of his life was spent. He was educated in the Vacoma district schools.

On February 28, 1933 he was married to Miss Leona Larsen of Blair, and the couple moved to a farm near Winslow where they lived for ten years, and then came to Blair.The past few months they have lived on the old John Newell forty five acre farm west of Blair.

Mr. Thielfoldt’s father died in 1924, and after a number of years the mother moved to Blair where she now resides. The mother, two sisters and three brothers survive him. The sisters are Mrs. Nela Lindberg of Blair and Mrs. Nels Svendgaard of Arlington; the brothers are John, Charles and Eddie.

Mrs. Thielfoldt, formerly Leona Dorothy Larsen, was born in Blair on February 22, 1910, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jens Larsen. She was reared in Blair and graduated from the Blair High School in 1928. since her marriage in 1933 her life was been as one with her husband. She leaves her mother, who is grief-stricken over the tragic death as was related in the last issue of The Enterprise. The couple chose a double suicide pact to end their earthly existence. As yet, no reason for the act has been ascertained.

Double funeral services were held on January 5th at the First Lutheran church with Rev. H. C. Jorgensen officiating, and interment was made in the Orum cemetery.

#2 obituary printed in the Thursday, January 4, 1945 Enterprise, p. 1 Blair, Nebraska

Farm Couple Dies in Suicide Pact Tuesday Night

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Thielfoldt Take Lives By Monoxide Poisoning

MOTHER FINDS BODIES OF COUPLE

Tragedy struck this community early Wednesday when the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Thielfoldt, farmers near Blair, became known. The couple, about 40 years of age, resided on a farm three-quarters mile west of the Gardner School. Death was attributed to monoxide-gas poisoning which they inhaled from the running automobile in their closed garage.

According to Sheriff W.D. McDonald, who was summoned to the scene, the couple had apparently gone to the garage some time late Tuesday evening. They had entered the garage, sealed the crevices around the doors with sacks, and had started the motor of their car. Both had gotten into the car but had left the doors open. Death overtook them quietly and painlessly sometime during the night.

Discovery of the tragedy was made by Mrs. Jens Larsen, mother of Mrs. Thielfoldt, who had been making her home with the couple. Mrs. Larsen immediately called Otto Christensen, a nearby neighbor, who investigated and then called authorities.

Sheriff McDonald reported that no note explaining the incident had been found up to late Wednesday afternoon and that in all probability there would be none. Harry Thielfoldt had been in ailing health for some time and it is thought that this may have been the motive for the incident.

The couple had no children.

Funeral services will be held tomorrow (Friday) afternoon at two o’clock at the First Lutheran Church

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

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