Sheppard, Benjamin 1888-1965
SHEPPARD, OLSON, BURR, MARFILIUS, MORCH, PHILLIPS
Posted By: Yvonne Ellwood (email)
Date: 12/27/2005 at 08:18:28
BENJAMIN SHEPPARD
MONONA,Ia. - Benjamin Sheppard, 77, of Fargo, N.D. formerly of Clayton County, died Friday at Veterans Memorial Hospital in Fargo.
Friends may call at Schultz Funeral Home in Monona. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Monday at the funeral Home. Burial will be in the Gooding Cemetery in rural Monona. Military services will be held at the graveside.
Surviving are three brothers, Alva, Kalistell, Mt.;Elmer, Keosauqua, Ia.,; and Myron, Fayette, Ia.; and two sisters Mrs. Roy Burr, Ridgeway, Ia.; and Mrs Clara Olson, San Diego, Calif.
A TRIBUTE published in the pages of The Telegraph Harald, Dubuque, Ia Jan 2, 1966
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Added by Mary Durr:
Funeral services for Benjamin Sheppard, 77, of Landon, N. D., were held Monday afternoon, at 1 o'clock Jan. 3, at the Schultz Funeral home in Monona with Rev. Paul V. Clements officiating.
Burial was in the Gooding cemetery in Wagner township in the Sheppard family lot with military graveside service.
He was born a son of William and Ottilda, nee Marfilius, Sheppard, Dec. 8, 1888, in Wagner township. He attended the rural school at Gooding and the Evangelical Sunday school and church there.
After spending his early years in this community as a farm laborer, he answered the call of service in the United States army. Later he became a resident of Landon, N. D., where he worked for many years as a carpenter. After becoming injured while at work, which left him somewhat handicapped during the last several years, he was forced to spend some time in U.S. Veteran homes and finally in the U.S. Veterans hospital at Fargo, N. D., where he died Thursday, Dec. 30, 1965.
Preceding him in death were his parents, two sisters, Mrs. Cora Morch and Hattie, and a brother, Roy.
Survivors are two sisters, Mrs. Clara Olson of San Diego, Calif., and Mrs. Roy Burr of Ridgeway, and three brothers, Alva of Kalispell, Mont., Myron of Fayette, and Elmer of Keosauqua.
Brothers and sisters in attendence at the services were Mr. and Mrs. Roy Burr of Ridgeway, Mr. and Mrs. Myron Scheppard (sic) of Fayette, and Elmer Scheppard (sic) of Keosauqua.
Relatives were also in attendence from Cresco, Clermont, Fayette, Wadena, Cedar Rapids, Luana, Postville, and Monona and its rural area.
Recorded music was played at the services.
Pallbearers were nephews Clifford Olson, John Phillips, Donald and Robert Burr, and a brother, Roy.
Postville, Iowa newspaper of the time clipping, from Dorothy Schave's obituary collection.
Clayton Obituaries maintained by Sharyl Ferrall.
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