Martha and Lewis SOLEM - final arrangements

CALHOUN, SOLEM, SAWTELL, MENKE, HURKETT, HURKET, GRAY, FREDRICKSON, RAMUS, FREDERICKSON

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 6/16/2007 at 11:43:36

"The Fairfield Ledger", Tuesday, June 12, 2007, Page 10

SOLEM, Martha and Lewis -- An interment for Martha CALHOUN SOLEM and Lewis Calvin SOLEM will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, June 18 at the Evergreen Cemetery.

Martha was the daughter of the late John Nobie CALHOUN and Alta SAWTELL CALHOUN and sister of the late Dorothy CALHOUN MENKE. Martha's father, John Nobie CALHOUN, was Clerk of Court for Jefferson County during the 1930s and 1940s and later became the Treasurer of Parsons College.

Lewis Calvin SOLEM was a resident of Northwood, Iowa, and attended Parsons College after WWII.

Lewis (Cal) SOLEM and Martha both met at Parsons College, graduated and were married in Fairfield in 1950. Cal and Martha spent most of their married life living outside Washington, D.C., where Cal was a federal employee.

Both Cal and Martha died in 2005, and their final wish was to be buried at home in Fairfield. Their two children Lewis C. SOLEM, Jr. and Peggy SOLEM HURKETT will be at the interment along with grandson, Evan HURKET; a niece, Jo Ellen FREDRICKSON; a niece, Jann FREDRICKSON RAMUS; and a nephew, Rev. John FREDERICKSON. Rev. John FREDRICKSON will conduct the interment service. A luncheon will follow at the Best Western.

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s) mentioned.