CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF ELIZABETH SORENSEN

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CEDAR COUNTY NEWS DEC. 15, 1960

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. S.C. SORENSEN ARE HELD IN WYNOT

Wynot -- Funeral services for Mrs. S.C. (Elizabeth) Sorensen, 87, 
lifelong resident of Cedar County, were held Saturday morning at 
Sacred Heart Catholic Church here. Father Eugene Marwin officiated at 
the requiem high mass.

Mrs. Sorensen died last Thursday morning at Sacred Heart Hospital in
Yankton following a few days illness.

Burial was in the parish cemetery under the direction of the Wintz 
Funeral Home. Pallbearers were six grandsons, George Bolenbaugh, David 
Lammers, Kenneth True, Gene Hancer, Donald Koch, and Anthony McGowen. 
Honorary pallbearers were Mrs. John Hochstein,  Mrs. John Wuebbe, Mrs. 
Ted Rieken, Mrs. Fred Boeckman, Mrs. Ed Backman, and Mrs. Joe Burbach, 
Sr.  Mrs. Sorensen is survived by eight children, Mrs. Alex (Helen) 
Koch, and Mrs. Louis (Ida) Lammers of Hartington, Chris Sorensen and 
Mrs. John (Kathryn) Hendriks of Sioux City; Mrs. Harry (Marie) Gartner 
of Caldwell, Ida., Mrs. Ivan (Minnie) Bolenbaugh of Kansas City, Mo; 
M/Sgt. A.J. Sorensen of Riverside, Cal., and Mrs. H.F. (Clara) True 
of Omaha; 42 grandchildren, 88 great-grandchildren and two great-great-
grandchildren. One sister, Mrs. Tony Schmucker of Nazreth, Tex., also 
survives. Her husband who died in 1954 and one son preceded her in 
death. 

Elizabeth Helen Bruening, daughter of Conrad and Mary Bruening was 
born November 1, 1873 at Constance. She married S.C. Sorensen 
November 8, 1892 at Constance. They were the first couple to be 
married at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Constance. Mr. and Mrs. 
Sorensen moved to Wynot in 1940. Mrs. Sorensen was a member of the 
Christian mothers and Sacred Heart Altar Society.

Attending the funeral from a distance were Mrs. H.J. Sorensen of Iowa 
city, Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Bolenbaugh and family of Kansas City, Mr. and 
Mrs. H.F. True and family of Omaha, Mrs. Harry Gartner of Caldwell, 
Ida., Chris Sorensen, Mrs. George Hossack, and Mrs. John Hendriks of 
Sioux city, and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Koch of Red Bluff, Cal.