11 May 2014

Obituary Sunday: Mattie May Walker (nee. Needham, 1884-1938)

More of a death announcement really, but this was as much obituary as she got. From the Arnold Sentinel (Arnold, NE) September 29, 1938 --


DEATH OF MRS. KEITH WALKER 
Mrs. Keith Walker of Dix, Nebr., formerly Mattie Needham of Arnold, passed away Tuesday at a hospital in Omaha where she had undergone an operation several weeks ago.  Mrs. Walker is survived by her husband and several children and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Hattie Needham, of Arnold. 
Funeral services and interment are t be at Dix, Friday afternoon, according to word received this morning by local relatives.
Mattie May (Needham) Walker was my grandmother, dying twenty-two years before I was born.

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