CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - BLOOMQUIST Katherine Diederike Popken

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KATHERINE BLOOMQUIST

Katherine Bloomquist 102, Wausa died October 19, 2006 at the Wausa Health 
Care Center.

A family service was held October 23 at the Magnet Christian Church where 
Katherine had been a long time member. Services were held later at the Wausa 
Evangelical Covenant Church with Pastor Lance Shaffer and Robert Moore 
officiating.

Katherine Diederike (Popken) Bloomquist was born January 24, 1904, near Akron, 
Iowa, to Fred and Diederike (Johnson) Popken. She was one of 13 children. 
She attended school only until the fourth grade. As a young girl, she would 
help neighbors and friends with housekeeping and sewing.

In November 1922 she came to Nebraska to live with and help her sister 
Theresa Rohlfs, who lived on a farm between Magnet and McLean. During that 
time, she met Harold Bloomquist. Harold and Katherine traveled by train to 
Sioux City, Iowa and were married January 2, 1924. They had five children. 
For two years, they farmed one mile east and one mile south of Pleasant 
Valley, then they lived north of Wausa for one year. In 1927, they moved to 
a farm one and one half miles south of Magnet and in 1941 moved to the original 
Bloomquist homestead.

Survivors include two sons, Dale and his wife Delores, and Dwight and wife Lois 
all of Wausa; three daughters, Illa McLain, Randolph; Shirley and Dan Dawson , 
Magnet and Connie Wintz Wausa; 23 grandchildren; 67 great grandchildren and 24 
great-great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband Harold and 
two sons-in-law, Bryon Mclain and Harry Wintz.