CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - DODSON William Edward

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WILLIAM E. DODSON

Funeral services were conducted in the Magnet Methodist Church Friday 
afternoon for William E. Dodson of Harvard, Illinois, and former Magnet 
resident. Burial was made in the Magnet Cemetery.

Mr. Dodson died Monday of last week at his home at Harvard, Illinois 
after a lingering illness.

William Edward Dodson was born October 20, 1886 at Union, where he spent 
his early childhood. In 1903, he moved to Magnet with his parents. He 
resided in Spencer two years and in June 1918, entered the service and 
served in France with the medical corps. He worked for a railroad company 
until 1926, and then farmed near Wakefield, later going to Kenosha, Wis. 
On April 21, 1940 he was married to Edna Weierhauser and they remained on 
the farm until 1950 then retired.

His survivors are his wife; Edna, brother, James P. Dodson, Oakland, Calif.; 
four sisters, Mrs. Millie Cunningham Van Nuys, Calif., Mrs. M.R. Martin, 
Lincoln; twin sisters, Mrs. Carl Treskow and Elma Dodson of Chicago; five 
nieces and five nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, brother 
Ross and sister Josephine Marsh.