CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF MATILDA MENG

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THE CEDAR COUNTY NEWS -  11-24-1927

Hold Funeral for Mrs. Andrew Meng

St. Helena Woman passed away at her home Last Friday

Funeral services were held for Mrs. Matilda Meng last Sunday afternoon 
at the home and at the hall in St. Helena. Interment was in the St. 
Helena Cemetery. Rev E.L. Bentson, pastor of the Lutheran Church of 
Wynot, was in charge of the services. 

Mrs. Meng had been in ill health for several months, suffering from 
bronchial trouble. She passed away at her home in St. Helena at two 
o’clock, November 14, 1927. She was 76 years old.

Mrs. Meng was born in Schleswig-Holstein, July 7th, 1849, in the same 
village and was confirmed in the same church as were Mr. and Mrs. 
Laurence Lawritzen of Hartington.  She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Tillah Nagaard. In 1881 she was united in marriage to Andrew Meng and 
a few months later they came to America and settled in Cedar county near 
St. Helena. Her husband died in May of 1924.

The surviving children are  Mrs. J.C. Johnson, Sioux Falls, SD, Mrs. 
Norman Laraway, Eagan, SD., Peter Meng, Reliance, SD., and Max, Henry 
and Mrs. George Schmidt of St. Helena. A son, Rasmus, died in 1920.