Obituary - Oscar Alvin Shellum

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Funeral services for Oscar A. SHELLUM. 58, of rural Williston, who died Feb. 9 at the Veterans hospital at Minot, will be held at 2 P.M. Friday from the St. Olaf Lutheran church at Grenora. Burial will be in Grenora cemetery. The Rev. Wallace A. Hunstad will officiate.

The deceased was born Feb. 18, 1895 at Minneapolis, Minn.. He was married Oct. 7, 1927 at Plentywood, Mont., to Helma Johnson, who survives.

When he was one year old, he came with his parents to Pipestone, S. D., and in 1903 the family moved to North Dakota where his parents homesteaded three miles north of Grenora in Divide county. He received his early education at the Isaacson school, and grew to manhood in that area.

He farmed at Grenora and vicinity until the fall of 1946 when he moved to Williston. He Had resided in this vicinity since. He attended the Lutheran church.

He served in World War I in the army from July 1918 to Feb. 1919.

In addition to the window, survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Louis Haugsdal (Doris) rural Williston, and Eileen and Dorothy, at home; three sons, Floyd, Reuben and Clarence, at home; six grandchildren; two brothers, Edwin and Oatis Shellum of Grenora; and four sisters, Mrs. Olvier Christianson (Ida) of Grenora, Mrs. Emil Bast (Nina) of Parkers Prairie, Minn., Mrs. Earl Broughton (Olga) of Great Falls, and Mrs. Christ Hammer (Annie) of Fairview.


Military rites at the funeral will be in charge of the Alvin T. Larson Post No. 116, American Legion. Funeral arrangements were by the Sletten-Erdahl funeral home.