CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - WILLIAM SOOST

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WILLIAM SOOST

Funeral services were held at the Home for Funerals in Norfolk on Sunday 
for William Soost, 84, of Norfolk, former Magnet resident, who succumbed 
Wednesday August 2 in a Norfolk hospital. He had been hospitalized since 
July 9th, when he suffered a hip fracture.

William Soost was born in Westphalia, Germany August 9, 1866 and when 16 
years of age he came with his parents to Davenport, IA. A few years later 
he was married there to Adella Leuenhagen on December 1, 1888. In 1895 
they moved to a farm two miles northeast of Magnet, where they resided 
until 1902, when they moved to Magnet. Mr. Soost served on the school board 
and on the first town board of Magnet. He was a commissioner of the Cedar 
County for six years, state senator for two years and he had an interest in 
the Magnet State bank before retiring and moving to Norfolk in 1920. Mr. and 
Mrs. Soost  celebrated their sixty-first wedding anniversary last December 1st.

Surviving are his wife; two daughters, Mrs. L.F. Beckenhauer of Norfolk and Mrs. 
Roy Stober of Randolph; three sons Fred of Magnet, Ed of Bloomfield, Henry of 
Washougal, Wash.; brother Henry of Bloomfield; eight grandchildren and two great 
grandchildren.