CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF VIOLA REID ==================================================================== NEGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the NEGenWeb Archives by Carol Tramp Permission granted by: Rob Dump, Editor, Cedar County News ====================================================================== WYNOT TRIBUNE AUGUST 1, 1957 FUNERAL SERVICES HELD SATURDAY FOR MRS. VIOLA REID Wynot - Funeral services were held at the Methodist church Saturday morning for Mrs. Viola Reid, 87, who died July 24, at a nursing home in Coleridge where she had been a patient a few months. She had been ill about six months. William Arms, pastor of the Congregational church at Hartington officiated at the service. Pallbearers were Edward Jones, Lloyd Jones, Will Schaller, Arthur Driver, Ray Nielsen, and O.C. Decker. Burial was in the Wynot Cemetery. Mrs. Reid was born February 4, 1870 at Jefferson, SD the daughter of John and Phoebe McCabes Smith. She was married in 1894 to Charles Reid who died in Mexico. She had lived in Omaha and Sioux city before coming to Cedar county in 1901. For the past 50 years she had made her home with her brother the late Merritt Smith and her sister Miss Addie Smith of Wynot. Surviving are one brother, Merton Smith of Morris, MN., and one sister, Miss Addie Smith. Among those attending the funeral from a distance were Mr. and Mrs. Merton Smith of Morris, Mn., Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Smith of Donnelly, Mn., Mr. and Mrs. Louis Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Chamberlain of Yankton, and Mr.and Mrs. Louis Jorgensen of Vermillion.