1917 - 1916
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Name |
Genevieve Miner [1] |
Death |
27 Apr 1916 |
Fremont, Dodge County, Nebraska [1] |
Birth |
30 Apr 1917 |
Johnson County, Nebraska [1] |
Gender |
Female |
Notes |
- Genevieve N. Dahl, age 98, formerly of North Bend,
passed away late Wednesday,(April 27th) at Pathfinder Place, Fremont.
Genevieve was born April 30, 1917 to Robert and Cecile (Wilson) Miner near Tecumseh, Nebraska. She grew up on the family farm, attended district 19 Spring Creek School and Tecumseh High School.
On October 2, 1937 she was married to Henry Dahl in Bedford, Iowa. They had a son Robert Denis and a daughter Holly Lynn. They lived in Graf area (east of Tecumseh) until the early 1940's when she and her husband went with his parents (Harry and Margaretha Dahl) to Bennington, Nebraska. They assisted his parents in the operation of their locker plant/grocery store. After a few years they went back to the Tecumseh area where they were involved in farming with her parents, and later on their own. Genevieve was known to have hundreds of geese at a time.
They moved to Colorado in 1958. They raised Shetland ponies and had a business of pony rides for children. In 1959, they moved to Fremont, and in 1963 they moved to North Bend where they owned and operated the sale barn until it burned down. Genevieve had worked as an aid and later as a cook at Birchwood Manor. She also worked at the Bowling Alley and was manager of the Nutrition Site for 8 years. She retired in 1988. She and Henry had Dahl's Discount Store for several years in North Bend. They liked going to auctions.
Genevieve was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star Ruth Chapter #119 in North Bend. She had a great love of family, traveling, casino trips, bingo, shopping, cooking, her Christmas Village set (left up all year), ceramics, teddy bears, and root beer candy.
She inherited the "Homestead Acres" in 1992. It is the original Robert Dew homestead. Henry and Genevieve moved to Pathfinder Place in Fremont at the end of 2010. The celebrated their 74th anniversary on Oct. 2, 2011, and Henry passed away 3 weeks later.
She was preceded in death by her husband Henry, parents Robert and Cecile Miner, and infant son Larry, and son-in-law Richard Wennstedt. She is survived by her son Robert Denis (and wife Sharon) Dahl of St. Paul, NE, daughter Holly (and husband Dave) Henrickson of Dodge, NE. Also there are 3 grandchildren, Jill Dahl of Grand Island. Ryan (and wife Brienna) Zakovec and Brent (and wife Brook) Zakovec, all of Morse Bluff, NE, and 5 great grandchildren, Haley, Ashtynn, Dustin, Kinsley, and Grayden. And a brother-in-law Carrol (and wife Dorothy) Dahl of Fresno, CA., and sister-in-law Marjorie Misfeldt of Hays, Kansas, and several nieces and nephews.
Services will be at the Ludvigsen Mortuary Chapel in Fremont on Monday (May 2, 2016) at 2 PM. The committal will follow in Memorial Cemetery. Memorials may be directed to the family for distribution. Visitation will be on Sunday from 2 to 6 PM.
Courtesy of Dennis Belohlavy
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Person ID |
I38254 |
Strong Family Tree |
Last Modified |
19 May 2016 |
Family |
Henry L. Dahl, b. 7 Jan 1915, Scribner, Dodge County, Nebraska d. 23 Oct 2001, Fremont, Dodge County, Nebraska (Age 86 years) |
Marriage |
2 Oct 1937 |
Johnson County, Nebraska [1] |
Children |
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Family ID |
F11701 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
19 May 2016 |
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