Delta County CO Archives Obituaries.....Shults, Roy October 14, 1964
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Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
Shults, Roy
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel Wednesday October 14, 1964 pg. 3
Delta Sales Yard Owner, Roy R. Shults, Died at 68.
	A prominent figure among Western Slope cattleman, Roy Rudolph Shults, 
died at noon Tuesday in Veterans Hospital.  He had been ill seven months.  
	Shults had owned and operated the Delta Sales Yard for 21 years and 
run a resort ranch on the San Miguel River for several.  In addition, he was 
an auctioneer and real estate dealer.
	For two years, Mr. Shults had lived in Montrose.  As a resident of the 
Western Slope since 1905, he had lived in several towns.   He came to Grand 
Junction as a small boy.  Five years later he moved to Collbran where he 
remained for 11 years, graduating from high school there.  He lived at Delta 
from 121 until 1950, then at Norwood until 1962.
	Always active in community affairs, he was served as a member of 
Delta’s Town Council four years.  He was active in the Elks Lodge and was a 
past exalted ruler of the Delta lodge; he had several offices in the Lions 
Club including district governor; he was past district commander, and a past 
national deputy commander of the Veterans Foreign Wars; and was a member of 
the American Legion, World War I Veterans, and the Methodist Church at 
Montrose.  
	Mr. Shults was born at Salem, Mo. June 26, 1896.  He married Gladys M. 
Haynes at Aztec, N. M., Nov. 10, 1946.
	He served in France as a sergeant with the field during World War I.
	He is survived by his wife; his mother, Mrs. Delta Shults Reed of 
Brinkley, Ark.; a son, Roy C. of Grand Junction; a stepson William E. Haynes 
of Montrose; two brothers, Harold of Grand Junction and Howard of Denver; and 
two grandchildren.
	Funeral services will be held at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in the First 
Methodist Church at Delta with the Rev. J. Hubert Wubben officiating.  
Graveside rites will be conducted in Delta Cemetery by the VFW Post.  The 
Roberts Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
	The family suggests memorial contributions to the Cancer fund.



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