OBITUARY: Celina A. (Herum, Silverton) Boulting, 1906-2003, Worth Co., Iowa
                
[ Adapted from Northwood Anchor online - posted Dec. 3, 2003 ]


  
                        Celina A. Boulting
                           
Celina A. Boulting, 97, died Thursday, Nov. 27, 2003 at the Lutheran
Retirement Home in Northwood, Iowa.  Funeral services were Monday at
the Bethel United Methodist Church in Manly, Iowa, with Rev. Robert
Cumings officiating. Burial was at the Manly Cemetery.

Celina was born July 26, 1906 in Manly, Iowa, the daughter of Chris and
Louise (Scharef) Herum. She graduated from Manly High School in 1923
and attended Mankato State College. She taught at various country
schools and then moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota where she worked
in the garment industry. She then moved back to the Manly to the
farm where she grew up.

She enjoyed gardening and tending to her flowers as well as raising
livestock on the family farm.

She is survived by her daughter-in-law Shirley Herum of Ankeny, Iowa;
two grandsons Jerry Herum (Celeste Van Syoc), of Des Moines, Iowa, and
Daniel (Wendy) Herum, of Indianola, Iowa, as well as four great-
granddaughters, Jessica, Amanda, Amber, and Crystal.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husbands Lew Silverton and
Gerald Ivan Boulting and her son Chris Herum.
                         

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