Jay A. Simser (1888-1934)

SIMSER, KEISER

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 3/27/2021 at 17:17:24

From Nevada Evening Journal November 30, 1934 (page 1)

JAY A. SIMSER IS DEAD AT ROLAND

SON OF LONGTIME NEVADA FAMILY WILL BE BURIED MONDAY

Jay A. Simser, 46, died at his home in Roland Wednesday evening at 5:30 after an illness of about two weeks, which had kept him confined to his bed with the flu which later developed into pneumonia and finally ended with septic poisoning which caused his death.

The funeral will be held on Monday afternoon. There will be services at Salem church at 2:00 with Rev. Olaf Holen in charge, following a brief prayer service at the house at 1:30.

The body accompanied by the funeral party, will then be brought to Nevada, where interment will be in the Nevada cemetery under the ritualistic ceremonies of the Masonic lodge, of which the deceased had been a member for many years.

Mr. Simser had been a resident of Roland for 24 years, during which time he had been in charge of the local telephone exchange, until a week before his illness, when he had severed his connection with the company and with his son had engaged in the cafe business.

The only son of Mr. and Mrs. Nick Simser, he was born in Nevada, March 8, 1888. He grew to young manhood in Nevada and after leaving school, engaged in the telephone business and 24 years ago was placed in charge of the Roland exchange of what was then the Story County Mutual Telephone company.

Shortly after locating in Roland he was married to Miss Ora Keiser of Belmond, who had been a teacher in the Roland schools and she, with their one son Aloys, age 19, survives the husband and father. He also leaves his aged parents who are at Whittier, Calif., and the one sister, Miss Irma, a teacher in the schools at Whittier.

He was a young man of very fine character, industrious, energetic and trustworthy and had made a wide circle of friends in the community in which he had spent the latter half of his life in a business that is conducive to close personal contact.

Word from California indicates that owing to the advanced years of the parents, the father, mother and sister will not be here for the funeral.