The Rev. George Stoeckinger of Osceola officiated and burial was in Sacred Heart Cemetery. The fatal accident occurred about seven and a half miles south of Grand Island on Highway 281 when, according to investigating authorities, Gilsdorf who was driving alone, lost control of his car and it plunged into the Platte River.
Gilsdorf was telephone company manager at Lawrence for many years until his retirement in 1960. He was a veteran of military service in World War I and a member of the American Legion and Veterans of World War I, a 50 year member of the Catholic Order of Foresters and of Sacred Heart Church.
Survivors are his wife Helen; sons, James of Bellevue and John of Conception, Mo.; daughters, Mrs. Emma Mazour of Wood River, Mrs. Margaret Long of Omaha, Mrs. Dorothy Janda of Swanton and Mrs. Kay Phillips of Santee, Calif., and 19 grandchildren. He leaves also his brothers and sisters, William Gilsdorf of Havensville, Kan., Mrs. Herman Schroer and Mrs. E.J. Barrett of Lawrence, Mrs. Earl Rose of Hastings, Mrs. Al Tarling of Hesperia, Calif., and Mrs. Hattie Theis of Lincoln.
The Nelson Gazette, Thursday, October 8, 1964
The Rev. George Stoeckinger of Osceola officiated and burial was in Sacred Heart Cemetery. The fatal accident occurred about seven and a half miles south of Grand Island on Highway 281 when, according to investigating authorities, Gilsdorf who was driving alone, lost control of his car and it plunged into the Platte River.
Gilsdorf was telephone company manager at Lawrence for many years until his retirement in 1960. He was a veteran of military service in World War I and a member of the American Legion and Veterans of World War I, a 50 year member of the Catholic Order of Foresters and of Sacred Heart Church.
Survivors are his wife Helen; sons, James of Bellevue and John of Conception, Mo.; daughters, Mrs. Emma Mazour of Wood River, Mrs. Margaret Long of Omaha, Mrs. Dorothy Janda of Swanton and Mrs. Kay Phillips of Santee, Calif., and 19 grandchildren. He leaves also his brothers and sisters, William Gilsdorf of Havensville, Kan., Mrs. Herman Schroer and Mrs. E.J. Barrett of Lawrence, Mrs. Earl Rose of Hastings, Mrs. Al Tarling of Hesperia, Calif., and Mrs. Hattie Theis of Lincoln.
The Nelson Gazette, Thursday, October 8, 1964
Family Members
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Mary F. Gilsdorf Pohlmeier
1880–1962
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Elizabeth Gilsdorf Breitfelder
1882–1958
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Joseph Henry Gilsdorf
1884–1962
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Anna M. Gilsdorf Schroer
1886–1972
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William H. Gilsdorf
1888–1969
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Frank J. Gilsdorf
1890–1962
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Elenora Mary Gilsdorf Barrett
1892–1968
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Rose Katherine Gilsdorf Rose
1896–1976
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Hedwig Mary "Hattie" Gilsdorf Theis
1901–1986
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Alphonse Guido Gilsdorf
1903–1964
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