Jennie Seger Bauman-Obituary

From: The Atkinson Graphic Feb 17,1939
DEATH TAKES PIONEER RESIDENT OF ATKINSON
Mrs John Bauman Expires After Long Illness; Funeral Rites Held at St Joseph

Death removed another pioneer from this community Tuesday when Mrs John Bauman passed away at 1:55 that morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs C E Brewer in Atkinson. Mrs Bauman was 74 years of age, and came to Nebraska with her parents in 1879, having lived in Atkinson most of the time since. She was the wife of the late John Bauman, for 25 years an Atkinson merchant.

Funeral services were held Thursday morning at St Joseph’s Catholic Church, the Rev John Pieper, officiating at a requiem high mass. The body was laid to rest in St Joseph’s Cemetery, the pallbearers being her nephews, Leo, Joe, Gerald and John Seger, and Charles and Howard Bauman. The date of the funeral was on the 54th anniversary of her marriage.

Mrs Bauman became ill two weeks before Christmas while she was visiting her daughter in California. Her condition was not considered serious until the latter part of January, when she was taken to the hospital in Los Angeles and the diagnosis of physicians revealed the critical nature of her illness.

She prepared to return home at once, and arrived here February 1, accompanied by her daughters, Mrs Louise Reynolds of Los Angeles and Mrs Charlotte Roche of Salt Lake City. She was met in Omaha by her son, Henry, with whom she spent a day. Mrs Bauman had the pleasure, before passing away of seeing all of her children, some of whom she had not seen for a number of years.

OBITUARY
Jennie Seger was born in Chicago, Ill in 1865, and died at Atkinson, Nebraska, February 14,1939 at the age of 74 years.

She came to Nebraska with her parents in 1879 and was united in marriage to John Bauman at Atkinson on February 16,1885. For a few years they made their home on a farm near here, but in the blizzard of January 12,1888, they lost all of their livestock, so they quit the farm and that spring moved to Omaha where they stayed for 15 years.

In 1903 they came back to Atkinson and Mr Bauman established a general merchandise business which he continued until a short time before his death on March 16,1932.
For four and a half years after the death of her husband, Mrs Bauman lived here with her daughter, Mrs C E Brewer, and family. In the fall of 1936 she went to California to visit her daughters, Mrs Marie Holtzfaster, Mrs Louise Reynolds and Miss Barbara Bauman, and made her home with them until two weeks previous to her death.

She is survived by six daughters and four sons. Mrs Jennie Callen and Mrs Margaret Brewer, both of Atkinson; Miss Barbara Bauman, Mrs Louise Reynolds, and Mrs Marie Holtzfaster, all of Los Angeles, California; Mrs Charlotte Roche of Salt Lake City, Utah; Jack Bauman of Borger, Tex; Charles of Douglas, Wyoming; Henry of Omaha; and Harold of Marion, Indiana. She is also survived by ten grandchildren and three brothers, ND Seger and Paul Seger of Atkinson and Max Seger of Stuart. A daughter, Josephine, and a son, Edward, died in infancy.