OBITUARY: Howard Shipman, c1899-c1949, Mitchell Co., Iowa



                           Howard Shipman

Howard Shipman, about 50, died at Dodge Center, Minnesota, Tuesday
after an illness of only a month.  Apparently in good health he was
suddenly stricken.  Doctors first diagnosed his illness as ulcer,
but at the clinic at Rochester, Minnnesota, it was immediately
determined that it was cancer.  Although the new cancer serum was
at once administered, the disease had progressed too far to be of
any benefit.

Mr. Shipman spent the greater part of his life at McIntire and
worked for the Chicago Great Western railroad.  His position at
Dodge Center was maintainer of the signal department.  Until going
there he made his home with his mother, Mrs. Bertha Shipman, who
is in critical condition.  She is being cared for at the I.C.
Wheeler home, north of Riceville.  Her only other child, Mrs.
Frank Kellogg (Ruby), died of the same disease as her brother,
last summer.  Her husband, Frank Kellogg, is at the Wheeler home,
helping care for Mrs. Shipman.

Surviving Howard is his wife, the former Lois Wheeler, whom he
married about seven years ago, and their children, a daughter,
4, and a son, 3.

Funeral service is being held today, Thrusday, at the Mrs. Bertha
Shipman home, at McIntire, at 1:30 pm, and the Baptist church there
at 2 pm.  The Rev. E. Bodenham will conduct the service assisted by
the Rev. Thorlakson, pastor of the church.  Burial will be made in
the Wayne cemetery.



       Copyright 2004, Merri Cross

       NOTE: I am not a relative.
       I found this in a scrapbook.
       The clipping has a date in pen of Feb. 8, 1949 in the margin.