CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF Mary Riebe

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THE CEDAR COUNTY NEWS -  1-12-1933

Death takes aged citizen of Wynot

Mrs. Mary Riebe, 84, dies at Home Last Wednesday

	Influenza followed by pneumonia resulted in the death Wednesday 
of one of the county’s oldest citizens, Mrs. Mary Riebe, 84 a resident 
of Wynot. Mrs. Riebe had been in failing health all fall and although 
her lungs had cleared up from the siege of pneumonia she was in such 
a weakened state that she could not rally.
	Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon from the Methodist 
Episcopal church with Rev. C.F. Steiner, a former pastor at Wynot, 
officiating. Interment was in the Wynot cemetery beside her husband.
	Mrs. Riebe was born in Germany, October 24, 1848, and came to 
America with her parents at the age of seven years. The family first 
settled in Wisconsin where she grew to womanhood and on November 28th, 
1865, she was married to Charles Riebe.
	She and her husband decided a few years later that they would 
come farther west, and started out on the pioneer journey, arriving in 
Cedar county via covered wagon on Spet. 13,1878. They settled first at 
Bow Valley being among the first to homestead that section.
	The surrounding country at that time was mostly virgin prairie 
with just a settler here and there. Later they sold their farm at Bow 
Valley and moved to Newcastle where they lived for several years and 
where Mr. Riebe died about 32 years ago. 
	Shortly after the town of Wynot was founded Mrs. Riebe moved 
there and built a comfortable home in which she has resided since that 
time, carrying on valiantly despite the death of her husband.
	She is survived by four daughters and one son. Mrs. F.R. 
Beyschau, Hartington, Mrs. Minnie Curry, Tacoma, Wash., Mrs. Minnie 
Curry, Tacoma, Wash., Mrs. Chris Clemensen, Sioux City, Mrs. B.C. 
Brunick, Wynot, and John Riebe, Leeds, IA. All were present with their 
mother except Mrs. Curry who was unable to come. There are also two 
sisters, Mrs. Charles Eckert and Mrs. Charles Munce, both of Sioux 
Falls, SD., in addition to 25 grandchildren, and 18 great grandchildren. 
	Mrs. Riebe had the unusual distinction of being the head of 
five separate four-generation groups. Living with her in her Wynot home, 
was one of the four generation groups; including her daughter, Mrs. B.C. 
Brunick, her granddaughter, Mrs. Joe Redmond, and her great-grandson 
Jockie Redmond. The last two were born in the same home that the group 
is now living. 
	On her 83rd birthday in 1931, Mrs. Riebe was honored at an 
extensive function including a theater party, at which time she heard 
her first talkies. She had long held an enviable position as one of the 
most honored and respected women in Wynot.  Her whole life has been 
devoted to sets of goodness which have endeared her to a wide circle of 
friends.