Lars Johan Skromme (1879-1934)

SKROMME, CHRISTIAN

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 3/10/2020 at 11:06:40

From Nevada Evening Journal December 24, 1934 (page 1)

Lars Skromme, Former Senator, Died Last Night

Prominent Roland Resident Passed Away Following Operation

Special to the Journal.
Roland, Dec. 24 -- Lars J. Skromme, 56, former state senator --- long active in Story County politics and other public affairs, died a the Iowa Lutheran hospital in Des Moines late Sunday.

The former senator, prominent in Roland business circles, had been failing in health for the past several months and had been taken to the hospital a week ago today.

He submitted to a major operation on Friday but his resistance was not sufficient to bear him through and he died Sunday night at 9:00.

Mr. Skromme had served the thirty-first Iowa senatorial district consisting of Story and Boone counties, in the 41st and 42d General assmeblies, having been elected in 1924, five years after his discharge from the U. S. army.

The funeral will be held at Roland on Thursday afternoon. There will be a prayer service at the home at 1:30, followed by the funeral at Salem church at 2:00, with his pastor, Rev. Olaf Holen in charge. Burial will be in the Roland cemetery.

Born in Norway, Europe in 1879, he came with his people to America in 1885. They settled on a farm two miles east of Roland and his home has been in that locality the most of the time since. He received his early education in a one-room country school, later attending the grade and high school at Roland.

Determined in his course to receive an education he studied at Highland Park college, Des Moines; Red Wing Seminary at Red Wing, Minn., and Northwester University at Evanston, Ill. Ordained as a minister he served as a pastor of the Lutheran church at Eagle Grove and Pontiac, Ill.

Immediately following the entry of the United States into the World War he enlisted in a National Guard company being organized at Roland and was later mustered into the federal service. He received an honorable discharge following the signing of the armistice, having obtained the rank of first lieutenant.

Since the war, in addition his political activities he had been engaged in farming, as well as having organized and operated a seed ----e and nursery at Roland and of move recent years operated a hatchery.

Associated with him in his business much of the time was the sister Miss Carrie Skromme, now postmistress at Roland. Besides the sister he leaves his aged parents, Mr. and Mrs. Askel Skromme, brothers, Ole of Roland and Severt of Lee, Illinois, and sister Mrs. J. A. Christian of Roland.