Historic Farnam

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Sunday June 15, 2025

In Memoriam

Died	Name	Cemetery

5/30	Jeffrey Paul Crisman	Farnam, NE

Born this day in history:

1862 Katie (O'Connell) Woodgate
1890 Edward Rieker
1901 Viola (White) Kotschwar
1908 Albert A. Soller
1915 Alvin M. Bringelson

’34
1947 Sandra L. (Parkhurst) Franzen

Died this day in history:

1921 Simon L. Starkey

1928 George Lord
1936 Norman H. McDonald

1940 Virginia Holdeman

1945 Louise M. (Gewecke) Teel

1956 Ruth (Bronson) Thrasher

1961 Owen T. Thompson

1970 Clarence J. Devine

1996 Otto H. Knoedler
1999 Eva (Frazell) Reynolds

2000 Jean Ainlay (Parker) Davlin

’33
2001 Lavern Jack Griffis

2006 Esther (Hicks) (Boyd) Whitacre

’24
2012 Delma (Walker) Foote

2023 Margaret (Peckham) Lind

News from this week in Farnam history:

6/15
  – Farnam Adds Another Sport (1923)
  – Serve at N. P. Canteen (1944)
6/16
  – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938)
6/17
  – Closing Out Buggies (1905)
  – Gives Birth to Triplets (1920)
  – Grasshopper Poisoning Day (1937)
  – Vote to Continue Ingham High (1937)
6/18
  – HERE'S THE PROGRAM (1914)
  – My Boyhood Days (1904)
  – Narrowly Escaped Drowning (1914)
6/20
  – Registration Day (1918)
  – Young Men Called To The Colors (1918)

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