Roy Otis Sheets (1940)

LAFEBER, SHEETS, SNYDER

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson
Date: 5/16/2013 at 18:24:31

Newspaper Unknown
January 1940

Sheets Dies; A Rail Clerk

Pallbearers Named For Rites Monday

Roy O. Sheets, 57, of 4225 University ave., chief clerk to the master mechanic for the Rock Island railroad, died at his home Saturday after a heart attack.

He had been employed by the Rock Island 42 years and had lived in Des Moines, the last 10 years. He was a member of the Masons, Woodmen and University Church of Christ.

Surviving are his wife; a son, Fred; two daughters, Mildred of Des Moines and Mrs. William LaFeber, of Clinton, Ia.; a sister, Mrs. Hattie Snyder, of Des Moines; two brothers, Ed and Elmer, both of Des Moines; and one grandchild.

Services will be at the E. Carl White Funeral home at 3:30 p.m. Monday, with the Rev. A. E. Elliott officiating. Burial will be at Masonic cemetery.

Pallbearers will be: E. G. Roberts, Cecil Dorn, T. J. Butler, Les Twitchell, B. H. Smith and R. C. Hyde.

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