Birth: November 19, 1881
Death: November 25, 1973
Location: Lot 30, Section 2, Outside the Old Cemetery
Grand Island (Nebraska) Independent
Tuesday, November 27, 1973
WOOD RIVER–Mrs. Gilmore (Augusta) Wiseman, 92, of Wood River, died Sunday at a Wood River nursing home. Services will be 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Wood River, with the Rev. Don Bennett officiating. Burial will be in the Wood River Cemetery. (Further funeral arrangements omitted here)
Mrs. Wiseman was born Nov. 19, 1881, on a farm southeast of Wood River to John and Emma Hohman Whittler. She was reared and educated in the Wood River community; graduating from high school in 1898. At age 16 she taught school at District 16 near Wood River. She married Gilmore Wiseman Dec. 31, 1901, at Wood River and they farmed southeast of there for several years prior to moving northwest of town. She was the oldest living member of the Wood River Presbyterian Church.
She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. A. V. (Lois) Halstead of Julesburg, Colo.; two sons, Frederic of Shelton, and Marvin of Wood River; 14 grandchildren and 21 great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by three sisters and two brothers.