CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF WILLIE BENNETT PUNTNEY

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Willie Puntney  Dies in Auto
Heart Attack Fatal to Well Known Farmer
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	Willie Bennett Puntney, well known Cedar county farmer, died of 
a heart attack while driving his car on a country road 4 miles south and 
3 1/2 miles west of Hartington about 6 o'clock Saturday evening.  He was 
found dead in his car which plunged off the road into a ditch.
	Funeral services for Mr. Puntney, 75, were held Wednedsay afternoon 
from the Congregational church here, with Rev. H. Niederwimmer of Coleridge 
officating.  Burial was in the Hartington cemetery.  Pallbearers were John 
Bruns, Art Bottolfson, Fred Meyer, Edward Morten, Earl Anderson and Peter 
Smith.
	Mr. Puntney is survived by seven sons, Edward and William of Laurel, 
Ralph of Randolph, Floyd of Belden, and Robert, Wendell and Raymond of 
Hartington; three daughters, Miss Viola Puntey of John Day, Ore., Mrs. 
Lucille Heitman of Belden, and Mrs. Helen Vock of Coleridge; three sisters,
Mrs. Hattie Johnson of Farmville, Va., Mrs. Nellie Riibe of Hartington, and 
Mrs. Pearl Lanphear of Sioux City.
	The son of George and Mary Puntney, Willie was born February 17, 
1878 at Marshalltown, Ia.  He came to Nebraska as a youth and lived in 
the Waucapona community for two years.  He later moved to East Bow where he 
lived for 43 years.
	Mr. Puntney and Miss Julia Madeline Wohlman were married in Hartington 
April 10, 1907.  Mrs. Puntney died August 21, 1948.  Mr. Puntney was a member 
of the Hartington I.O.O.F. lodge and the Congregational church.
	Relatives and friends from a distance who attended the funeral were:
	Mr. and Mrs. Minor Riibe and Evelyn Manly of South Sioux City; George 
Hawkins, John I. Gamet, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lanphear, Lloyd Lanphear, Mrs. Will 
Riibe and Mr. and Mrs. Elroy Carlson and Bruce of Sioux City; Ray Eveleth and 
Don Hight of Murdo, S.D., Cobern Eveleth and Mrs. Laura Wildburger of Sturgis, 
S.D., Mrs. Hattie Johnson of Farmville, Va, and Miss Viola Puntey of John Day, 
Ore.

December 1950 Cedar County News