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OBITUARY
Violet J MohrViolet June Seger was born at home, north of Stuart, on June 21,1927, to John Leopold and Eva Alvina Campbell Seger, the 3rd youngest of a family of 11 children. She attended a rural school for her elementary education. Violet started high school at Stuart, later moving to live with her sister and husband Gordon and Alvina Smith and attended school in Couer’d Alene, Idaho. She then joined her sister Lenora in Wahoo for a short time before returning to Stuart Public for graduation in 1945.
On May 1945 Violet was married to Francis Alvin Mohr at the Atkinson Methodist Church. The marriage was performed by Rev W C Birmingham. In this time she taught Sunday school, worked at the hospital in Stuart, and also did various housekeeping and caretaking activities for most of her active life. Her husband Francis died on July 3,1955. Soon after his death, she moved her young family to Alma, Kan to be near her sister, Alvina. Later years saw her living with her children in Topeka, Kan, Fremont and Atkinson, and finally in Stuart where she raised her youngest son, Richard.
On April 13,1997 Violet suffered a massive stroke. After surgery at Kearney she spent the next three years at the Madonna Center in Lincoln. On May 4,2000 she moved to the Atkinson Good Samaritan Center where she departed this life on Friday Oct 28,2005.
Although Violet was a very private person she had a great sense of humanity and compassion for the downtrodden. She had a love of nature and delighted in flowers and gardening, doctoring small injured animals back to health, and caring for young children. She instilled in her children a strong work ethic, intergrity and honesty, despite a life of great adversity and hardship and many health problems.
Violet is survived by four sons, and one dau. Willis and Patty Mohr of Citrus Heights, Cal; Clayton of Rochester, NY; Francie and Roy Hipke of Stuart; Tom of Eugene, Oreg; Richard of Stuart. Three sisters, Alvina Smith of Riverton, Wyo; Lenora and Pat Dobry of Kearney; Shirley and John Peter of Atkinson; three sisters-in-law Nellie Seger of Fairbury,Nebr; Margaret Seger of Phoenix,Ariz; Alice Dunn of Omaha; six grandchildren, Michael Mohr, Brendon and Danielle Mohr, Kevin Mohr, Virginia Gates, Katherine and Jason Byrd, Kimberly and Dustin Lofquist. Four great grandchildren; Alexandria Mohr, Bella Byrd, Mason and Rylan Lofquist. Along with many nieces and nephews and cousins.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Francis; parents, John and Eva Seger, Brothers, Robert, Donald, Louis, and infant LeRoy; sisters, Rose, and infant Betty Lou.
