CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF MATT DREESEN

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Matt Dreesen Dies at Wayne
Pioneer Was Resident of County 78 Years
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	Matt Dreesen, 80-year old Cedar county pioneer, died in a Wayne 
hospital Sunday noon.  He had been seriously ill since last Octboer 15 
when he suffered a light stroke.
	Funeral services for Mr. Dreesen were held Tuesday morning at St. 
Catherine's Catholic church in East Bow.   Rev. Vaclav Kovar officiated 
at the requiem mass and burial was in St. Michael's cemetery in Hartington 
under the direction of Wintz Mortuary.  Pallbearers, all grandsons, were 
Duane, Darrell, LeRoy, LaVoyne, Edwin and Richard Dreesen.
	Mr. Dreesen is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Anthony Dendinger of 
Laurel; three sons, Frederick of Hartington, Elmo of Laurel, and Otis of 
Coleridge; 20 grandchildren, and 7 great grandchildren.
	A resident of Cedar county nearly 78 years, Mr. Dreesen came here 
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Dreesen, in October 1873, from 
Wisconsin, where he was born March 28, 1870.  The family located in the East 
Bow community where Mr. Dreesen lived most of his life.  He was married 
September 18, 1893, to Miss Maude J. Suing of Hartington at Holy Trinity church.  
Mrs. Dreesen died January 9, 1931.  Mr. Dreesen, the last member of a family of 
eight brothers and sisters, had made his home with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Dreesen 
the past twenty years.
	Relatives and friends from out-of-town who attended the funeral were:  
Mrs. Agnes Kneifl and sons of Newcastle; Mrs. Harold Meyer of Ponca; Mr. and Mrs. 
Edwin Dreesen of Wakonda, S.D.; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Becker and Mr. and Mrs. Henry 
Happe of Yankton; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Harbeck, jr., of Sioux City; Mr. and Mrs. 
Elmer Davis and family of Council Bluffs, Ia.; and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hahn of 
Lindsay.

1950  Cedar County News