Obituary: Mamie SALIN, d. 1 Feb. 1937, Washburn Co., Wisconsin ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, or the legal representative of the contributor, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Nance Sampson 14 February 1999 ==================================================================== SALIN, Mamie Mrs. John Salin, 39, of the town of Bashaw passed away at the Lakeside hospital in Rice Lake on Monday, Feb. 1, (1937) following an illness with influenza. Deceased, nee Mamie Bensch, was born in Olivia, Minn., in June 1897. She grew to young womanhood there and in October 1824 was married to John Salin in Minneapolis, Minn. They lived in that city a year, moving to Amery, Wis., in the fall of 1925, where they lived until the spring of 1930, when they came to Washburn county and located on a farm in the town of Bashaw, which has been the family home since. Mrs. Salin was taken to the hospital on Jan. 13, where everything possible was done to help improve her condition, but to no avail, and death occurring as above stated. Surviving are her husband and one son, Roy, at home. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at three o'clock from the Roberts Mortuary in Spooner, Rev. Penn of the Methodist church officiating, and interment was made in the Spooner cemetery. --Taken from the Washburn County Register, Shell Lake, Washburn Co., WI, 4 February 1937