Funeral services for Antonia Oberg, 89, were held Saturday, December 13, 1980 at the Nazarene Church in Farnam with the Rev. Harold Johnson officiating. Burial was in the Farnam Cemetery.

Mrs. Oberg, who had been a resident of the Farnam community for more than 70 years, died December 10 at the North Platte hospital. She was born August 4, 1891 near Fargo, North Dakota to John Alfred and Anna Elizabeth (Nelson) Johnson. Very early in her life her father passed away leaving the mother with three small children. Three years later her Mother also passed away and the children were taken to Nebraska to live with relatives in 1898.

In 1908, the J. P. Blomquist family, where she made her home, moved to a farm north of Farnam, which was her home until her marriage to John E. Oberg on April 7, 1913. John and Antonia moved on a farm south of Farnam and were longtime residents of Frontier county.

Following their conversion in a schoolhouse revival in the fall of 1914, they became members of the newly organized Lone Star Church of the Nazarene and were faithful members until their transfer to Farnam to become charter members of the Farnam Nazarene Church in the summer of 1927.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband John in 1955, brothers Carl E.; and John A. Johnson, and one great-grandson Chad Oberg, step-parents, four step brothers and two step sisters.

Surviving are her five children; Clarence J. and Lawrence E. Oberg of Farnam, Ruby (Mrs. Wayne Ulrich) of Seward, Gladys (Mrs. Harold Sukraw) of Maxwell, and Lois (Mrs. Earl Rice) of Del Rio, Texas, 18 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren, and other relatives and friends.

She was a homemaker and mother that would rate her among the finest. Care of small children seemed to be her specialty. Starting with helping her widowed mother care for two little brothers when she was very young herself and all through her life until she had her own family and later her grandchildren, care of little children to her was a God-given privilege.

For many years she was teacher of the primary children in Sunday School, at the Lone Star Nazarene Church and later at Farnam Nazarene Church.

Her last years were spent living with her children. She was always appreciative of everything done for her.

THE FREE PRESS, Farnam, Nebraska, December 17, 1980, page 3.