Bisdorf, Fannie

BISDORF

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 10/10/2007 at 15:01:01

Jackson Sentinel
January 13, 1956

MRS. J. BISDORF RITES ARE HELD AT BELLEVUE
By Mrs. Sara Harstick

Bellevue, Jan. 12 – Services were held Thursday afternoon at the Kempter-Gallagher funeral home for Mrs. J. C. Bisdorf, who passed away Saturday at the home of her son Richard at San Jose, Calif. She was 81 years of age. Burial was made in the Presbyterian cemetery. Fannie Nicholson was born in Bellevue Jan. 15, 1874, the daughter of John P. and Martha Davis Nicholson and grew up in Bellevue and was a graduate of the public school.

On Oct. 31, 1901 she became the bride of J. C. Bisdorf, the ceremony taking place in Chicago and for a time the home was established on a Dakota homestead. On returning to Bellevue a home was made on the Bisdorf farm south of town, where Mr. Bisdorf died about five years ago. Since his death she has made her home with her sons in California. She is survived by three sons. Allan of San Francisco, Richard of San Jose, and Donald of Oakland, Calif.; one grandchild and one great grandchild; one brother, Harry L. Nicholson of Bellevue. Besides her parents and husband she was preceded in death by one brother and one sister.