Sarah Elizabeth (Shalley) Melohn (1890-1973)

SHALLEY, MELOHN, KNUTSON

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:11

From Nevada Evening Journal December 3, 1973 (page 1)

Area deaths

SARAH MELOHN

Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Melohn, 83, died Sunday at the Oak Park Manor Nursing Home where she had been for the past 6 months.

She was born Jun 23, 1890 to George and Sarah Shalley and had been a resident of county for her entire lifetime. She was a member of Memorial Lutheran Church.

Funeral services will be held from the Ryan Funeral Home Tuesday at 2:00 p.m. with Pastor Harry Myklebust officiating. Burial will be in the Nevada Cemetery.

She is survived by two sons, Virgil Melohn of Jackson, Mississippi and George of San Gabriel, California; one daughter, Mrs. Ilo Knutson of Nevada, 10 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild.

She was preceded in death by her parents, three brothers, four sisters and her husband, Charles, who died in 1954.