Blanche Wilson

Funeral Services were held 2:00 P.M., Monday, October 31, 1983 at Higby Mortuary. Interment was held in the Aurora Cemetery.

OBITUARY: Blanche B. Wilson

Blanche B. Wilson, the daughter of Christian and Jennie Bendstrup Wilson, was born at Marquette, Nebraska, on December 13, 1895. Her death followed several years of failing health on October 28, 1983 at Aurora, having attained the age of 87 years, 10 months and 15 days.

She spent her childhood in the Marquette vicinity and attended the public schools there and later the Aurora High School, where she graduated with the class of 1914.

She received her teachers certificate after attended Kearney State College, Wesleyan University in Lincoln and the University of California at Berkley.

Her 46 years of teaching began at Marquette, where she taught for 3 years and then taught in Aurora for 3 years. She then taught in Stromsburg and Ogallala, Nebraska. She taught for 18 years in Alliance, where she was principal of the Central School there and was principal and teacher of Mathematics. She later helped to organize their first junior high school, where she served as principal and taught mathematics for 15 years, resigning in 1938 to enter the business world for one year. She decided to re-enter her chosen profession and taught at Ogallala for 2 years and then returned to Aurora, where she taught Mathematics in the junior high school for 19 years, retiring in 1961.

She was thoroughly dedicated to her school work and gave so unselfishly of her time and energy to help her pupils get ahead and making her school a success.

When retiring from the Alliance Schools the Board of Education wrote that “her work was always performed in a cheerful, efficient manner, with careful consideration of the boys and girls entrusted to her care.” Even in her retirement years, nothing pleased her more that to hear of the progress and success of her former pupils.

Blanche Wilson was baptized in St. John’s Lutheran Church at Kronborg and as an adult, adhered to the Methodist Faith.

At the time of her death, she was a member of the Nebraska Retired Teachers Association, local, state and national. She was a 65 year member of the Order of the Eastern Star Aurora Chapter No. 93 and the Aurora Alumni Association. During her active years, she had been a member of the Business and Professional Woman’s Club, Flora Belle Garden Club, had also been camp councilor of youth camps at Columbus and Seward. She completed and received her certificates from American Red Cross Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick and instructed local classes.

After the death of her mother, she made a home for her father in Aurora until his death.

In recent years during her failing health, she was always happy to have family and friends in her home.

Beside her parents, she was also preceded in death by two brothers, John and Alvin Wilson, and one nephew and one niece.

Those who remain to cherish her memory are her sister, Mrs. Esther Freeman of Aurora; a sister-in-law, Mrs. Pearl Wilson of Aurora; a nephew and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Wilson of Jackson, Michigan, a niece and her husband, Kathleen and Tim Nelson of Marshall, Missouri and other relatives and many close friends.