Shade, Julius A. 1867-1949

SHADE, GUTH

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Date: 3/9/2012 at 20:12:52

LeMars Globe-Post
May 5, 1949

JULIUS A SHADE FUNERAL TODAY
Was A Former Livestock Raiser In Kingsley Territory

Funeral services for Julius A. Shade, 81, filling station operator and former livestock raiser and former elevator operator of Kingsley, who died Tuesday at a Sioux City hospital after a seven-week sickness, were at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Congregational Church at Kingsley. Rev. Paul Jackson officiated. Burial was in the Kingsley Cemetery under the direction of the Dickison Funeral Home.

Mr. Shade was born July 23, 1867, at Toronto, Ia. At the age of 14, he moved with his parents to Ida Grove, Ia. He married Caroline Guth at Lowden, Ia., after which they moved to Kingsley. He was associated for nine years with Edmonds, Shade & Co. in a grain elevator. In 1900 he bought a farm a mile north of Kingsley, where he raised purebred Hereford cattle and Duroc Jersey hogs. His livestock sales attracted buyers from all parts of the United States.

Mrs. Shade died in 1925 after which he moved to Kingsley. He entered the oil business and at the time of his death was operator of a filing station. Since 1914, his eyesight had been impaired by injuries suffered in an automobile accident.

Survivors are two sons, George of Mitchell, S.D., and Julius, Jr. of Omaha; two daughters, Mrs. C. C. Cook, of Sergeant Bluff and Mrs. Robert Ruble, of Juliet, Ill.; a sister, Mrs. Maude Beaver of Long Beach, Calif.; two brothers, George of Oscar, Minn., and Ira of Oklahoma City, Okla.; 12 grandchildren and five great grandchildren.