Mary Mazour

Mary Erma Mazour, 95, formerly of Wood River, died last Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021, at the Good Samaritan Society in Grand Island at the age of 95.

The funeral Mass was at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Wood River.

Erma Gilsdorf was born in Lawrence, on July 23, 1926, the oldest of six children to George and Helen (Curry) Gilsdorf. In 1946, she married her high school sweetheart, Ervin Mazour, in a joint wedding ceremony with Ervin's sister, Rose, and her husband, Francis Theis. In 1956, she and her husband moved their family to a farm near Wood River in order to avoid the uncertainties of dry la...