Rees, Wallace W. 1920-1991

REES, DETLOFF

Posted By: Viv Reeves (email)
Date: 3/21/2005 at 22:06:30

From the LeMars Sentinel, Friday, September 6, 1991, Page 10, Column 5:
Wallace W. Rees

Wallace W. Rees, 71, Rochester, N. Y., a Seney native, died Wednesday (Sept. 4 1919) (error--1991) in Rochester.

Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Mauer-Johnson Funeral Home in LeMars with Rev. Lynn Potter, pastor of the First United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in LeMars Memorial Cemetery.

Friends may call at the Mauer-Johnson Funeral Home after 6 p.m. Friday with the famiy present from 7-8 p.m.

He was born July 21, 1920, at Seney to William and Mathilda Detloff Rees.

He attended school in LeMars and graduated from Westmar College, later becoming president of Monroe College until his illness in 1988.

Survivors are two brothers, Harold Rees of Mountain Lake, Minn. and Melvin Rees of Luverne, Minn; two sisters, Lila Rees of LeMars and Cleone Dunne of Willmar, Minn., and nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother Orville (sic--Orval).