CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF JULIA WOHLMAN PUNTNEY

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Puntney Rites Here Tuesday
Mrs. W.B. Puntney, Sr., Died Saturday
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	Funeral services were held here Tuesday afternoon for Mrs. W.B. 
Puntney, sr., who died suddenly at the farm home at East Bow Saturday 
evening.  Mrs. Puntney, a lifetime resident of Cedar county, passed away 
at 7 o'clock while eating her evening dinner.  Death was due to a heart 
ailment which she had suffered the past two years.  At the time of her 
death she was 60 years, five months and 19 days of age.
	Rev. H.L. Niederwimmer, pastor of the Emanuel Lutheran church at 
Coleridge, conducted the service.  Prayer was held at the home at 1:30 
o'clock and final rites were held at 2:30 o'clock at the First Congregational 
church.  Two numbers, "In the Sweet Bye and Bye" and "Nearer My God to Thee" 
were sung by Miss Laurine Harris with Buford Jones serving as accompanist.  
Interment was made in the Hartington city cemetery under the direction of the 
Jones Funeral Home.  Pallbearers were Roman Dreesen, Henry Mitties, John Bruns, 
Earl Anderson, Allan Hirschman and Kenneth Bottolfson, neighbors of the deceased.
	Julia Madeline Wohlman, daughter of the late Anton and Mary Wiggins 
Wohlman, was born March 2, 1888, at East Bow.  She was married to W.B. Puntney at 
Hartington on April 10, 1907.  Mr. and Mrs. Puntney lived on a farm at Waucapona 
during the first three years of their married life and then moved to a farm at 
East Bow where they have since resided.  The deceased was a member of the First 
Congregational church and the American Legion Auxiliary in Hartington.
	Mrs. Puntney is survived by her husband; seven sons, Edward A., William H., 
Robert C., Floyd P., Wendell C. and Raymond R., all of the Hartington community, 
and Ralph G. of Belden; three daughters, Miss Viola M. Puntney of Denver, Colo., 
Mrs. Arnold Heitman (Lucille M.) of Belden and Mrs. Clarence Vock, (Helen I.) of 
Coleridge; 13 grandchildren; three brothers, Joseph L., Stephen A., and Henry E. 
Wohlman, all of Hartington; five sisters, Mrs. Walter Dresden and Mrs. W.J. Willcox 
of Hartington, Mrs. Lulu Lill and Mrs. Stena Hirschman of St. Louis, Mo., and Mrs. 
George Kemp of British Columbia, Can., and many other relatives.  She was preceded 
in death by her parents and one sister.
	Out of town relatives attending the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Ray G. Eveleth 
of Murdo, S.D., Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hight, White River, S.D.; Mr. and Mrs. Henry 
Ellermeier, Mrs. George Classen and Mr. and Mrs. Bruno B. Boettcher, Spencer; Mr. 
and Mrs. Harry Lanphear and son, Wynot; Mr. and Mrs. George Zink and Mrs. Adolph 
Broderson and daugther, Norma Jean, of Randolph, Mr. and Mrs. Merlyn Sorrensen and 
daughter, JoLynn, of Sioux City and Mrs. Lulu Lill of St. Louis, Mo.


AUGUST 1948  CEDAR COUNTY NEWS