BORN JULY 21, 1914 MANNING, IOWA
DIED JUNE 27, 1984 ST. ANTHONY HOSPITAL, CARROLL, IOWA
AGE 69 YEARS, 11 MONTHS, AND 6 DAYS
SERVICES SUNDAY, JULY 1, 1984, 2:00 PM ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH, MANNING, IOWA
OFFICIATING PASTOR PAUL KRUMM
ORGANIST FERN JENSEN
VOCALISTS ZION LUTHERAN QUARTET
INTERMENT MANNING CITY CEMETERY
CASKETBEARERS: IVAN WURR, VIRGIL REID, WARD JENSEN, MARVIN WIEMANN, LEROY DAMMANN, HERB BRUHN
HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: WILLIAM BRUS, GLENN STEINKE, HARVEY FREESE, LESTER DAMMANN, HAROLD VEHRS
THE FAMILY WISHES TO EXPRESS THEIR GRATITUDE FOR YOUR KINDNESS EVIDENCED IN THOUGHT, WORD, AND DEED, AND INVITES YOU TO JOIN THEM FOR LUNCH AND FELLOWSHIP AT THE CHURCH FOLLOWING THE COMMITTAL SERVICE.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 1, at Zion Lutheran Church in Manning with Pastor Paul Krumm, officiating. Fern Jensen will be organist and the Zion Lutheran quartet will sing. Burial, under the direction of the Ohde Funeral Home of Manning, will be in the Manning Cemetery. Serving as casket-bearers will be Ivan Wurr, Virgil Reid, Ward Jensen, Marvin Wiemann, Leroy Dammann, and Herb Bruhn.
Honorary bearers will be Glenn Steinke, Harvey Freese, Lester Dammann, and Harold Vehrs.
Friends may call after 2 p.m. Saturday at the Ohde Funeral Home in Coon Rapids.
Mr. Schrum is survived by his wife, Dorothy, Manning; four children: Mrs. Roger (Carlene) Stoffers, Fremont, California; Kenneth Schrum and his wife Cyla, Catoosa, Oklahoma; Arlen Schrum and his wife, Jean, Des Moines, and Darlys Bauer, Denison; seven grandchildren: Tracy Stoffers, Todd Schrum, Tawnya Schrum, Thad Schrum, Katie Schrum, Christy Schrum, and Emmalee Bauer; a sister, Mrs. Vern (Helen) Tiefenthaler, Halbur; a brother, Delmas Schrum, Atlantic, and a sister-in-law, Darlene Schrum, Manning.
He was preceded in death by his parents, a son-in-law, Robert Bauer, and a brother, Elroy Schrum.
Mr. Schrum was born July 21, 1914, in Manning, a son of John and Emma (Heesch) Schrum. He attended Manning Schools and on July 12, 1939, was married to Dorothy Martens at Zion Lutheran Church in Manning by Pastor John Ansorge.
He worked with his father on a dairy farm for a time and later he and his wife farmed for 20 years. In 1969, they moved into Manning where he worked for 10 years as a school custodian, retiring in 1980. He was a member of Zion Lutheran Church.