Genevieve Traut - October 04, 2013

Genevieve Traut, 97, of Minden, died Friday, Oct., 4, 2013, at St. Luke’s in Kearney where she had lived since March of this year.
Genevieve was born Jan. 11, 1916, in North Platte to Archie Wells and Elsie Holmes Wells.
She was educated mostly in North Platte, Santa Ana, Calif., and Minden. She graduated from Minden High School in 1935.
She married her first husband, Keith Mathiasen, in Santa Barbara, Calif., on Oct. 26, 1936. To this marriage were born three children: Gary in June of 1938 and twins, David and Judy, in June of 1944... just two months after their father had been killed by an explosion at the Naval Ammunition Depot near Hastings on April 6, 1944.
For complete obituary see the Courier