One-time Blair Woman Succumbs

Mrs. Erwin E. Caldwell, a former resident of Burt County and one-time Red Cross Nurse of Washington County, died at Bakersfield, California November 30th. She was 74 years old.

Mrs. Caldwell was a former Lucille Booton. She spent most of her life in the Tekamah area and was a World War I nurse who served in France. For a year she was a Washington County Red Cross Nurse.

After her marriage to Mr. Caldwell, the couple lived in Colorado, Arkansas and then California. She is survived by her husband, a daughter, Mrs. Charles Wilson, of Bakersfield, and by one grandson.

A sister Mrs. Mae Johnson resides at Blair and a niece, Mrs. Lester Walker, lives at Fremont. Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Walker are attending the funeral in Bakersfield today.

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

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