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Mrs. F. Bosold, 89, Is Early's "Senior Citizen"

The Early News, March, 1972

Mrs. Frances [Hoebing] Bosold was 89 years old March 8.

Mrs. Bosold was born near Wall Lake in 1883, the daughter of John and Angela Nieland Hoebing. Her father taught the rural school she attended there. When she was seven years old, the family moved to a farm near Breda where Mrs. Bosold attended grade and high school.

She was married to George Naberhaus in 1902. They purchased the farm from her parents and began to farm there.

Mrs. Bosold had six children, 15 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren. George Naberhaus died in 1919. She married Ed Bosold in 1928, who died in 1957. Mrs. Bosold is an aunt to the children of the late Mr. and Mrs. B.G. Schettler of Breda.

Mrs. Bosold is active and does her own housekeeping and plays cards and has other activities. She has numerous relatives in this vicinity.

"The Nieland Family" compiles by a relative David Nieland of Breda is a complete book of genealogy of that lineage of her family.

Her parents lost four children in a diphtheria epidemic in 1882. Mrs. Bosold is the remaining member of her family of 11 children.

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