CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF MARY MCFADDEN HIRSCHMAN
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Laurel Woman Taken by Death
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	LAUREL - Funeral services were held at St. Mary's Catholic 
church here Tuesday morning for Mrs. Earl Hirschman, 47, who died 
in a sioux City hospital July 4 a few hours after she was stricken 
with a cerebral hemorrhage.
	Rev. Patrick Carroll officiated at the requiem mass, and 
burial was in St. Michael's cemetery at Hartington under the 
direction of Wintz Mortuary.  Pallbearers were B.L. Friess, A.B. 
Chederquist, Jack Paulson, Isodore Sudbeck, Allan Hirschman and 
Tony  Neuhalfen.
	Mrs. Hirschman is survived by her husband; two daughters, 
Mrs. Eugene Lessman of St. Johns, Newfoundland, and Mrs. Marvin 
Schaer of Laurel; three sons, Claire and James of Laurel, and 
Robert in the army at Ft. Sill, Okla., her stepfather and mother, 
Mr. and Mrs. E.C. Hoeffer of Jackson, Minn., two sisters, Mrs. C.W. 
Coonrod of Jackson, Minn., and Mrs. Ray Williamson of Bancroft, Ia.
	The daughter of John and Ellen McFadden, Mary G. McFadden 
was born at Coleridge October 26, 1905.  She was married in Coleridge 
January 19, 1926 to Earl Hirschman.  They lived in the East Bow 
community for a number of years and then moved to a farm northeast 
of Laurel.
	Mrs. Hirschman was a graduate of Holy Trinity high school 
in Hartington.  She was a member of St. Mary's Altar Society and 
sang in the church choir.

JULY 1953  CEDAR COUNTY NEWS