Bump, Wallace D. 1921-2004

BUMP, ELLEFSON, CRANE

Posted By: Barbara Hug (email)
Date: 3/14/2005 at 08:39:32

Newton Daily News, Monday, November 22, 2004

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Wallace D. Bump, 83, of Scottsdale, Ariz., formerly of Monroe, died Friday, Nov. 19, 2004, at Scottsdale Village Square in Scottsdale.

Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. today at Walters-Coburn Funeral Home in Monroe. A public visitation will precede funeral services from 2 until 3 p.m. Burial will follow at Silent City Cemetery.

Memorials may be given to the Wallace D. Bump Memorial Fund.

Wallace Denton Bump was born Aug. 16, 1921, on a farm near Iowa Falls, the oldest of four children of Leo and Alma Ellefson Bump. He attended three different one-room schools from first grade through the first semester of eighth grade when the family moved to Hubbard. He graduated from Hubbard High School in May 1939 and in 1939-40 attended Ellsworth College in Iowa Falls. During the summer of 1940 after his family moved to Monroe, he enrolled at Central College in Pella.

He graduated from Central College in January 1943 and was commissioned an Ensign, U.S. Naval Reserve upon graduation from the U.S. Naval Midshipman's School at Notre Dame University in September 1943. He was on active duty almost three years. Nearly two years of that time were spent in the South and Western Pacific Ocean areas.

He was married to Mary Crane at her parents' home in Monroe on Sept. 14, 1947.

He attended Drake University in Des Moines and taught one year at Mingo before moving to Phoenix, Ariz., in June 1951. He received a master of arts degree from Arizona State University in 1954. As a librarian he served at Gilbert High School, Phoenix Christian High School, and he retired after 28 years as a librarian at Scottsdale and Arcadia High Schools in the Scottsdale School District.
His church was Grace Community Church of the Valley in Tempe, Ariz.

He is survived by his wife, Mary; son Joel and his wife, Debbie; and two grandchildren; and a sister and brother-in-law, Gwyneth and Rodger Lewis.

He was preceded in death by his parents and brothers Carlton and Jim.