CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - CLAUSEN Ralph

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RALPH CLAUSEN

Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon, September 9 at Immanuel 
Lutheran Church at Osmond for Ralph William Clausen. Burial was made in 
the family plot at Magnet.

Mr. Clausen, 48, an Osmond resident since 1958, died about midnight 
Monday at university Hospital in Omaha where he had been a patient off 
and on since April. He had undergone kidney surgery on July 29.

He left the hospital and on August 7 escorted his daughter down the aisle 
for her wedding to Earl Bahr, Osmond.

He lost strength steadily after that and re-entered the hospital August 17th.

Born and raised in the Magnet and Randolph areas, Mr. Clausen was the son 
of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Clausen. He farmed near Magnet until moving to 
Osmond where he was an operator of heavy equipment for Theisen Brothers, Inc.

He married Gladys Hoppe of Wausa January 31, 1943 in Osmond. She survives him.

Other survivors include Terry, recently released from the Army, Mrs. Earl 
Bahr, Tom, Randy, Dan, Pat, Mike, Scot and Cary of Osmond and Sharon of 
Coronado, California; two brothers, Albert of Norfolk and Fred of Corvallis, 
Oregon; three sisters, Mrs. Glen Evans of Hartington, Mrs. George Jarvis and 
Mrs. Ed Lane of California. He was preceded in death by his parents. Mr. 
Clausen was a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church of Osmond.