FLADNESS, Severin O. 1885-1953

FLADNESS

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 5/19/2010 at 00:54:54

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Fladness Memorial
Rites at Deer Creek
Church Wednesday

CARPENTER, IOWA - Memorial funeral rites for Dr. and Mrs. Severin O. Fladness, formerly of Arlington, Virginia, will be Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Deer Creek Lutheran Church with the Rev. O. A. Langehough, St. Ansgar, officiating. Burial will be in the Deer Creek cemetery.

Dr. Fladness, 68, assistant chief of the agriculture department's bureau of animal industry, died at a Washington, D.C. hospital, May 5, 1953. His wife, Marion died in March of this year, and the bodies were cremated.

Dr. Fladness grew to manhood in the Deer Creek area. He was an authority on animal diseases and began his work with the bureau in 1906, as a lay inspector with the scabies eradication program, and had been assistant chief of the bureau since 1941. He took a leading part in most of the bureau's disease eradication accomplishments, and helped to wipe out cattle tick fever throughout most of th esouth. He had worked in six outbreaks of foot and mouth disease in the country an dplayed an important part in directing the eradication of the disease in Mexico from 1947 to 1952. He laid the groundwork for a livestock sanitary treaty between the U.S. and Mexico which was ratified in 1930. The treaty was to safeguard more effectively the livestock of the two countries. Recently Dr. Fladness had been working in a countrywide campaign to wipe out vescular exanthema in swine.

In 1951 he received the department's distinguished service award.

Survivors include two daughters, a sister and a brother, all from out of the state.

[Waterloo Daily Courier, June 9, 1953, page 21]

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The Deer Creek Cemetery data on IaGenWeb/Mitchell shows Severin and his wife:

FLADNESS, Severin O. 1885 -- 1953

FLADNESS, Marion B. 1899 -- 1953