Robert C. Brostrom Died 1947

BROSTROM

Posted By: Connie Swearingen- Volunteer (email)
Date: 10/13/2016 at 13:11:37

Sioux City Journal
10 November 1947

Funeral services for Robert C. Brostrom, 31, who was killed in the crash of a Pan-American plane in the mountains of Alaska October 26, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Nelson-Berger Funeral Home, Rev. Paul Randolph, pastor of Augustana Lutheran church, will officiate. Burial will be in Graceland Park Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Harry Larson, John Frantz, Vincent Stroup, Melvin Anderson, William McDonald and Julius Sandvick.

The body was flown from Ketchikan, Alaska to Seattle, Washington and will arrive in Sioux City by train about 11:25 o’clock tonight.

Survivors include the parents, Mr. and Mrs. A.R. Brostrom, 713 S. Helen Street; three sisters, Mrs. Thelma Eastlund, Mrs. Meryle Motts and Mrs. Frances Marx; a niece and two nephews, all of Sioux City.