Sheridan Arlo Graham - 1914-1996

GRAHAM, LEAS, GOLDSWORTHY, TRAVIS, MCSHANE, HENDRICKSON, BOOTH, BOHLAN, ROLLING

Posted By: Connie Ellis (email)
Date: 6/15/2011 at 13:44:25

SOURCE: Postville, Iowa POSTVILLE HERALD, mARCH 13, 1996
Contributor: Connie Ellis (Dunn Family Researcher)

Sheridan Arlo Graham, son of Herbert A. and Martha Jane (Leas) Graham, was born October 22, 1914 in Allamakee County, Iowa. Arlo died Saturday, March 3, 1996 at the Prairie Health Care Center, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. Funeral services were held Thursday, March 7, 1996 at Schultz Funeral Home, Monona, Iowa. Rev. Eugene Kramer officiated. Pallbearers were his grandchildren, Tracy McShane, Tina Hendrickson, Tabetha Graham, Jason Graham, Marcia Booth, and Phillip Travis. Schultz Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements. Burial was in the Monona City Cemetery.

Arlo received his education at Canton, Minnesota. He was united in marriage to Charlotte Goldsworthy on August 3, 1940 at West Union, Iowa. Arlo retired in 1979 after working 40 years in construction work for H. Leslie Leas in Monona and Kuhlman Construction in Colesburg, Iowa. He was a retired Monona fireman serving ten years. Arlo loved to play cards and fish.

He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife, Charlotte who died August 25, 1995; and a brother, Cyril "Sid" Graham.

Survivors include one daughter and her husband, Martha Ann (Dave) Travis of Shellsburg, Iowa, 1 son, Eugene A. Graham of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; 6 grandchildren: Tracy McShane, Tina Hendrickson, Tabetha Graham, Jason Graham, Marcia Booth, and Phillip Travis; 3 great-grandchildren, Bret and Cassidy McShane and Cage Bohland; 1 sister, Luella Rolling of Marble, Minnesota.