Sophia Josephine Kramer Seger-Obituary

The Atkinson Graphic
26 Aug 1938

MRS N D SEGER OF
ATKINSON IS CALLED
Death Takes Pioneer Resident After Long Illness; Rites Held at St Joseph’s.

Mrs N D Seger, resident of this community for more than half a century and wife of one of Atkinson’s leading businessmen, passed away at her home here shortly after noon Friday, August 19. Mrs. Seger was 62 years of age and had been in declining health for the past ten years.

Funeral services were held Monday morning at St Joseph’s Catholic Church in Atkinson, the Rev John Pieper, conducting the rites. Burial was in St Joseph’s Cemetery. The pallbearers were Frank Kaup of Stuart, Frank Wewel of Newport, John Laible of Atkinson, Henry Krieger of Stuart, George Verzal of Atkinson, and Lawrence O’Malley of Amelia. That Mrs Seger was highly esteemed in the community was indicated by the great number of neighbors and friends who paid their last respects at the funeral rites.

OBITUARY
Josephine Kramer, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Kramer was born in Austria on February 25,1876, and died at her home in Atkinson on Friday, August 19 at the age of 62 years, 5 months and 24 days.

When she was a baby she came to America with her parents, who settled on a homestead seven miles southwest of Atkinson about the year 1882. She grew to womanhood in that community and on Jan 27,1896 she was united in marriage to N D Seger. The ceremony was performed at St Joseph’s Catholic Church in Atkinson by the Rev Father C Britkopf, who was parish priest at that time.

Mr and Mrs Seger set up housekeeping on a farm west of Atkinson where before their marriage Mr Seger had been batching. A year later they moved to the Seger home place seven miles northwest of Atkinson, now the Fritz Vogel farm, where Mr Seger helped his father operate the farm for several years.

In the spring of 1909, Mr Seger and his brother, Paul, purchased from the late J J Stilson a farm implement business and Ford Automobile agency in Atkinson and the firm became known as Seger Bros, and is still one of the town’s leading business firms. Mr and Mrs Seger moved to town that year and this has been their home ever since. In 1915 they moved into the house built by Dr Townsend in the west part of town.

Mrs Seger was a faithful member of her church and an active member of the church societies as long as her health would permit. She was a member of the Christian Mothers Society, the Catholic Ladies Guild, St Joseph’s Helpers, and the Catholic Knights of Stuart. She was of cheerful disposition and had a great many friends in the community.

Her death is mourned by her husband and one son, John, two adopted children, Edward and Anna With, who were raised in the Seger home, attended school here and now live in Chicago; two sisters, Mrs Theo Grof of Atkinson and Sister Mary of York, formerly Anna Kramer; several cousins and other relatives in this vicinity. For the past ten years or so she had been suffering from diabetes and was under the care of Dr Sturdevant.

Among relatives and friends from out of town who were here for the funeral were Mrs Margaret Langmeir {??Langer??} of Ord, Mrs Catherine Bose of Martin, SD, Leo Seger of Broken Bow, Mr and Mrs Algie Irish of Chadron, Mrs Anna Murphy and Mrs Anna Bauman and dau, Mrs Protovinski of O’Neill.