CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF HAROLD BESTE

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NOTE:  THIS OBITUARY IS FROM MICROFILM THAT IS VERY DARK AND DIFFICULT
TO READ IN PLACES.  WHERE THE TEXT WAS NOT CLEAR, '____' HAS BEEN
NOTED IN PLACE OF TEXT.





THE CEDAR COUNTY NEWS -  August 13, 1915

DROWNS AT WYNOT

HAROLD BESTE MEETS SAD END

ENTERS WATER WHILE TOO HOT

Body Recoved in An Hour After Accident By Wynot Citizens - Remains 
Shipped to Vermillion

Harold Beste drowned ___day afternoon at about __ o'clock in Main Bow 
creek a mile and a half from Wynot while swimming.  He entered the 
water while hot and took cramps.  He was 19 years old and the youngest 
son of Mr. and Mrs. John Beste of Vermillion, South Dakota.  He had 
been working with his father at his _____ painting in the neighborhood 
of Wynot.

A group of young boys were, with ____ at the site of the accident and 
reported the drowning to citizens of Wynot, who after about an hour's 
search, recovered the body.

The funeral was held from St. Agnes Church in Vermillion at 10 o'clock 
Tuesday, the body having been shipped to that place on Monday.

Harold was born at Creighton, June 19, 18__, and was an ____ young man 
of good habits.

Besides his parents, two brothers, Raymond of Hartington and Arnold of 
Omaha, and one sister, Vera, at home, survive him.  F. Reifert and J.O. 
Beste of this city are uncles of the deceased.