Mrs. Henry Nickum, 50, died at 3 P. M. Saturday, May 24, 1941, in the University Hospital at Iowa City, where she had gone at intervals during a four-year illness.

Funeral services were held at 9 a.m. Tuesday at the Sacred Heart Church, with the Rev. J.A. Roder officiating at the requiem mass.
Burial was in the parish cemetery and pallbearers were Robert Zerwas, Leroy Zerwas, Edmund McGinn, Larry Polking, Paul Grimm and Arthur Bock.

Mrs. Nickum was born Bertha Margaret Seidl, daughter of Joseph and Margaret (Mussner) Seidl, in Bavaria, Germany, November 11, 1890. She was three years old when the family came to the United States and settled at Guthrie Center, Ia., from which place they moved to Dedham.

On September 24, 1912, she married Henry Nickum at St. Joseph's Church in Dedham. She had lived in Manning for the past twenty-five years.

Surviving with her husband are the following children: Mrs. Howard Dew (Loretta), Manning; Mrs. George Ross (Virginia), Gray; Harold Nickum; Honolulu; Lawrence, of the Great Lakes Naval Training Station; Maxine, Donald, Delores and Coreen at home. She also leaves two grandchildren: Janet and Gayle Dau of Manning; three brothers, Henry, Louis and John Seidl of Dedham, and two sisters, Mrs. Oath Pasley (Marie), Sedalia, Missouri, and Mrs. Margaret Witte, Templeton.

She was preceded in death by her parents, one daughter, Isabelle, and two sisters, Mrs. Frank Wiskus and Mrs. Mike Peters.

Mrs. Nickum belonged to Sacred Heart Church and the Christian Mothers' Sodality of the parish.

In Loving Memory Of MRS. HENRY NICKUM
May 24, 1941
Precious Wife and Mother, she has left us. Yes, forever more. But we hope to meet our loved one, on that bright and happy shore. Lonely the house, and sad the hours since our Dear one has been gone. But Oh! A brighter home than ours in Heaven is now her own.
We have loved her during life. She has joined those she has loved' and waits for those she still loves. Mr. Henry Nickum and Children.
May 21, 1942, Manning Monitor

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February 24, 1938, Manning Monitor