CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - THOENE Mary Lammers
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Cedar County News –  3-17-1931

Mrs. Mary Thoene Is Buried Sunday

Was Resident of Cedar County Since 1861: Dies March 10

            Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Thoene of Bow Valley who 
died at her home Thursday morning of last week of diabetes and 
complications, were held Sunday morning at 10 o’clock in the St. Peters 
and Paul Church at Bow Valley and were conducted by Rev. Father A. 
Birnbach. Pallbearers were four nephews of Mrs. Thoene; Nick Lammers, 
Anthony Lammers, I.F. Lammers, and William Schaefer, and two grandsons, 
Henry Heine and Ludwig Heine. Interment was in the St. Peter and Paul’s 
cemetery.

            Mrs. Thoene was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, October 7, 1853. 
Her parents were Mr. and Mrs. John Lammers. In 1861 she came with her 
parents to Cedar County and in 1880 Mary Lammers and Henry Thoene were 
united in marriage at St. Helena. Immediately following their marriage, 
Mr. and Mrs. Thoene began farming at Bow Valley, the farm where Mrs. 
Thoene was living at the time of her death. Mr. Thoene passed away 
nearly 30 years ago. 

            Surviving Mrs. Thoene are two daughters, Mrs. George Heine 
and Frances of Bow Valley and Frank of Fordyce, four sisters, Mrs. 
Josephine Schaefer, Fordyce, Mrs. P.J. Kaiser, Milwaukee, Wis., Mrs. 
Frank Heine and Mrs. Carl Bruening at St. Helena, and six brothers, 
Henry, Joe, Frank, Ignatz, A.J. and Alphonse Lammers all living in this 
vicinity.

            Mrs. Thoene was one of the real pioneers of Cedar County, 
having accompanied her parents here as a small girl, the trip being made 
overland from Dubuque, Iowa, by ox team, requiring six weeks. Crossing 
the Missouri at Omaha, the party came as far as Fremont but returned to 
Council Bluffs and then traveled to Sioux City where they made the 
Acquaintance of several men from Cedar County their buying supplies. 
The description of Cedar County interested them and they decided to 
locate here. During her entire residence in Bow Valley Mrs. Thoene was 
one of the active and influential members of St. Peter and Paul’s Church.