PLUM, Lydia 1877-1939

PLUM

Posted By: Tammy (email)
Date: 2/12/2022 at 19:56:01

Funeral Services For Mrs. Lydia Plum Friday

Funeral services for Mrs. Lydia Plum, who died very suddenly from heart failure last Wednesday at the home of her brother-in-law, Jonas Shafstal, in Morrison, were held at the Morrison Presbyterian church last Friday afternoon. Rev. O. R Jones, Methodist pastor from Reinbeck, conducted the services Burial was in the Morrison cemetery.

Mr. Shafstal had been to Marshalltown with friends, returning home at about 2:30 a.m., and was unable to get into the house or to awaken Miss Plum. He got through a basement window and came upstairs and found her dead, sitting up on the bed, half-reclining, with feet on the floor. Her electric light was still burning. She had spent the evening with Mrs. Hartley, who occupies a part of the house, and went to her room at about 9:30.

She had made her home with the Shafstal family 40 years.

Miss Plum was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Plum. She was born in Ogle county, Ill., Nov. 20, 1877. She had made her home with Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Shafstal for many years. When her sister died in December, 1937, she continued on as housekeeper for her brother-in-law.

Surviving are three brothers, Will Plum, New Richland, Wis.; Sam Plum, Portland, Ore., and Jake Plum, Morrison.

--The Grundy Register (Grundy Center, Iowa), 23 March 1939, pg 12