Historic Farnam

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Friday October 20, 2017

In Memoriam

Died	Name	Cemetery

10/13	Waunetta V. (Donner) Crisman	Farnam, NE
9/23	Janet Eileen (Knapp) (Groves) Linville
8/31	Eddie D. Darnall	Farnam, NE
8/28	Raymond Klein	Farnam, NE

Born this day in history:

1854 John W. Gerlits

1858 Lillian Northey

1863 Hettie "Hattie" (Heater) (Bailey) Osborn
1893 Howard Nickerson
1944 Raymond Houser
1957 Kenneth Eugene Ellis

’75

Died this day in history:

1917 Hester M. (Guinn) Ealy
1932 Leila J. (Nickerson) Ommert
1933 James I. Austin

1936 James Nelson Mercer
1994 Anna M. (Fickenscher) Whitney
1995 Richard Edwin Reeves

’29
2001 Ellis L. Widick

’31

News from this month in Farnam history:
	10/10/1885 – Keystone Items - 10 October 1885 10/19/1950 – Fall From Tractor Fatal

Recently posted obituaries, news articles and photos

10/19/2017
  – Crisman, Waunetta V. (Donner) (1923-2017)
  – Darnall, Eddie D. (1966-2017)
  – Linville, Janet Eileen (Knapp)(Groves) (1942-2017)

Miscellaneous additions:
History Book - The Farnam Centennial history book (1982) has been scanned and published to this site. HTML versions of each section are also being prepared and added as time allows. [updated 3/16/2017]

On the History Book page you will also find an Index of names in the print edition and an Index of names of Farnam High School graduates.

Homestead events on this day in history

Application filed:

1884 William F. Alspaw

1884 Albert D. Boas

1884 Thankful Jane (Deming) McNett

1884 Henry Aug Schmelzel

1884 James R. Shaw