CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - JOHANNA SOOST

====================================================================



NEGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing

         free information on the Internet, data may be used by

         non-commercial entities, as long as this message

         remains on all copied material. These electronic

         pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit

         or for presentation by other persons or organizations.



         Persons or organizations desiring to use this material

         for purposes other than stated above must obtain the

         written consent of the file contributor.



         This file was contributed for use in the NEGenWeb

         Archives by Theresa Korth.  theresayk@yahoo.com
	 

         Permission granted by Theresa Korth.

	 Published in: The Magnet Cemetery Directory, T. Korth

         

======================================================================

JOHANNA SOOST

Death in a rather sudden manner closed the life chapter of Mrs. (Grandma) 
Johanna Soost. Mrs. Soost who lived alone in her little home in the north 
part of town, was found unconscious in her garden about 4:30 Sunday afternoon 
by her son Henry of Randolph, who drove up to pay his mother a visit. He 
looked for his mother about the house and failing to see her stepped into 
the yard where he found her lying in the garden, where she had loved to 
work among the flowers and vegetables. He carried her into the house and 
called a doctor and other members of the family, but before the doctor 
arrived she had passed to the great beyond. Grandmother Soost, passed her 
80th birthday in early spring. With the exception of a serious attack of 
illness shortly before her 80th birthday from which she had recovered, being 
able to walk to town to do her shopping and attend to her household duties she 
has enjoyed the best of health being a very rigged woman for her age. She 
wished to live alone occupying herself in caring for her chickens and tending 
her flowers.

Mrs. Soost was born in Holstein, Germany, March 21, 1846 and came to America 
45 years ago. She was 80 years, 2 months and 16 days of age and had lived in 
Magnet nearly 21 years.

Funeral services were held on Thursday afternoon.

A son Fred of Los Angeles is on his way to attend his mother’s funeral. Another 
son Wm. Soost lives in Norfolk.