CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF LOUISE NISSEN

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WYNOT TRIBUNE DEC. 13, 1951
MRS. LOUISE NISSEN RITES HELD SATURDAY AT VERMILLION
 
Wynot - Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at the Episcopal
Church in Vermillion for Mrs. Louise Nissen, 89, who died at the 
Vermillion hospital Wednesday, Dec. 5, after several weeks illness. 
The pastor of the church officiated and the pallbearers were friends 
from Vermillion.  The body was brought to Wynot where graveside rites 
were held and burial was in the family lot in the Wynot Cemetery.
 
Louise Clara Strenzke was born September 28, 1862, at Prairie du Chien,
Wis., the daughter of August Strenzke and Theresa Riiff Strenzke, early 
settlers who came to the St. James community with their family in 1876.  
As a young girl she learned the millinery business in Yankton while 
making her home with Captain Lyons and family and later went with them 
to St. Paul, Minn., where she continued in the business.
 
September 3, 1889 she was married to George C. Nissen at Omaha where 
they made their home for four years.  In 1893 Mrs. Nissen bought the 
millinery business of Mrs. Marvin at Vermillion and with her sister, 
Mrs. Albertine Strenzke, built up a millinery business, known 
throughout the northwest as one of the most up-to-date stores in the 
state.  She retired from active business in 1921. 
 
She is survived by one son, Dr. Harry Archibald Nissen, of Boston, Mass., 
and two sisters, Emma Strenzke and Mrs. Edith Klopping of Wynot, Mrs. 
D.B. Gurney and son Charles Gurney, of Yankton, Miss Mamie Schloop and 
niece of Sioux City, IA., Mr. and Mrs. Sam Horner of Vermillion, Mrs. 
Henry Jurgens and Alva Uhing. Also at the service at the cemetery were 
Mr. and Mrs. Otto Riibe and Will Michels and sister, Miss Mabel Michels, 
of Hartington and Mr. and Mrs. Pete Anderson of Yankton.