Mildred C. Nusbaum, 95, of Seneca, KS, died Thursday, September 28, 2000, at the Country View Estate Care Home in Seneca. She had been a resident there since February of 1996.

She was born May 6, 1905, in Pawnee County, NE, the daughter of Rudolph and Rosine Boehmer Siske. She grew up on the family farm, attended Gravel High, a rural grade school south of Pawnee City, NE, and graduated from the Pawnee City High School in 1923.

On August 25, 1931, she married D.I. “Dutch” Nusbaum at Frieden’s Church north of Bern, KS. He preceded her in death on July 2, 1985. They lived in Bern, and from 1934 through 1950 operated Nusbaum’s Produce. They bought and sold cream, eggs and chickens which were sold mostly to the Falls City Creamery. In 1953 they moved to Prairie Village, KS where Mildred worked at the Belinger Elementary School as the head cook in the lunch program for nine years. She also had worked at a bakery. In 1971 they retired and moved to Seneca.

She was a member of the Bern United Methodist Church in Bern and the Nemaha Valley Community Hospital Guild in Seneca.

She is survived by several nieces and nephews.

Funeral service will be 10 AM Saturday at the United Methodist Church in Bern. She will lie in state at the church for one hour preceding the services. Burial will be in the Bern Cemetery. There will be a visitation from 7 to 8 PM Friday at Lauer Funeral Home in Seneca.

Memorials may be given for the Bern United Methodist Church or the Nemaha Valley Community Hospital.