CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF JENS P. BRODERSEN

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Funeral Services for Jens Brodersen, 64, Held in Coleridge
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	COLERIDGE - Funeral services for Jens P. Brodersen, 64, were 
held Sunday afternoon at Immanuel Lutheran church here.  Pastor Ludwig 
Scholl officiated.
	Mr. Brodersen, longtime resident of Cedar county, died January 17 
at Methodist hospital in Sioux City.  He had been ill a year and a half.
	Mr. Brodersen is survived by his wife, a son, Oran Brodersen of 
Coleridge, a daughter, Mrs. Dallas (Marilyn) Hansen of Hartington, three 
brothers, Adolph Brodersen of Randolph, and Ernest and Herbert Brodersen 
of Hartington, three sisters, Mrs. Dora Treece of Van Nuys, Calif., Miss 
Hilda Brodersen and Mrs. Edna McClafin both of Coleridge and nine grand-
children.
	He was preceded in death by his parents, a brother and two children 
who died in infancy.
	Jens P. Brodersen was born September 5, 1898, at Wall Lake, Ia., the 
son of Anton and Anna Brodersen.  He came to Cedar county in 1900 with his 
parents.  Mr. Brodersen married Sadie Lentz January 21, 1925, at Hartington.  
They farmed until 1950 when they retired and moved to Coleridge.  Mr. Brodersen 
was a church trustee and a member of the school board and town board.
	Burial was in Lawn Ridge cemetery under the direction of the Smith-
Richendifer Funeral Home.  Pallbearers were Herman Papenhausen, Hans Jorgenson, 
Carl Hansen, Roy Christiansen, Williams Willms and Walter Frerichs.

JANUARY 1963   CEDAR COUNTY NEWS