CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF SOPHIE HAARHUES

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CEDAR COUNTY NEWS FEB. 25, 1943

PIONEER WOMAN IS BURIED HERE TODAY. 

MRS. SOPHIE HAARHUES, 89, HAD LIVED IN COUNTY FOR 48 YEARS

Funeral services were held at Trinity Lutheran Church here this
afternoon (Thursday) for Mrs. Sophia Haarhues, 89 year old Hartington
woman who died of old age complications at Sacred Heart Hospital in
Yankton Tuesday morning. She had been ill a week.

Rev. O.L. Levorson officiated at the services and burial was in the
Hartington cemetery under supervision of Rieferts. Pallbearers were
Albert, Clarence, Charles, McFadden, Henry Petersen, John Petersen,
Peter Jensen and Herman Sievers.

Mrs. Haarhues, a native of Hanover, Germany where she was born July
25, 1854, had been a resident of Cedar county 48 years, coming here
in 1895 with her husband to locate on a farm near Hartington.  She
had lived in Hartington for 23 years.

Following their marriage in Fremont September 15, 1878, Mr. and Mrs.
John Haarhues farmed near West Point before locating here. Mr.
Haarhues died December 21, 1920.

Mrs. Haarhues is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Emma Hoesfer of
Randolph, Mrs. Louise Covert of Dixon, Ill., and Mrs. Anna Rorak of
Des Moines, Ia., and two sons, J.P. Haarhues of Fort Morgan, Colo., 
and Henry of Denver, Colo. She also leaves 25 grandhchildren and 18 
great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Haarhues also raised three children of her daughter, Lean who
died 39 years ago. They are Fred Moeller and Mrs. Ray Jordan and
Mrs. Thomas Petersen of Hartington.

She was a member of the Lutheran Church having been baptized and
confirmed in that faith in Germany.