Louis Jonathon MOURLAM

MOURLAM, KASTLER, SANN, HORN, SETTLES, MOORE, RATCLIFF, THOMPSON, HECK

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 9/14/2008 at 01:14:01

Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, Iowa
ca. December 1989

3 January 1903 --- 19 December 1989

L. J. (Louis) Mourlam, 86, died Tuesday evening, Dec. 19, at the Hamilton County Hospital following a sudden illness. Funeral services will be Friday, Dec. 22 at 10:30 a.m. at Foster Funeral Home with Gerald Caquelin officiating. Burial will be in Graceland Cemetery. Friends may call at Foster Funeral Home after 5 p.m. today (Wednesday, Dec. 20).

Louis Jonathon Mourlam, son of Joseph and Emma Kastler Mourlam, was born Jan. 3, 1903, on a farm east of Woolstock. He attended Waterman School in Wall Lake Township. On Dec. 27, 1927, he married Mary Sann at Webster City. The couple farmed east of Woolstock, He was known for being a Black Poland China hog breeder. The couple retired in 1974 and moved to Webster City.

Survivors include his wife; three sons, Virgil Mourlam of Woolstock, Louis Mourlam, Jr. of Ames and Duane Mourlam of Minneapolis; three daughters, Dorothy (Mrs. Gus) Horn of Des Moines, Darlene Settles of Brandon, Fla., and Donna (Mrs. Ralph) Moore of Blairsburg; 11 grandchildren; and 10 great grandchildren; and three sisters, Nellie Thompson and Hazel Ratcliff, both of Clarion, and Florence (Mrs. Carl) Heck of Dodge Center, Minn. He was preceded in death by his parents, one brother and three sisters.

He belonged to the French Church east of Woolstock and was a longtime member of the Black Poland China Hog Breeders Association.