1926 - 1979
Sergeant US Army
Serial Number 17116937; Enlisted Truax Field, Madison, Wisconsin, active duty on November 4, 1945; Private First Class, Air Corps, Regular Army
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Ray was inducted into the Army Air Corps and trained in Childress, Texas. In 1945, he enrolled in the Army Air Force training command's basic airplane and
engine mechanics course at Keesler Field, Biloxi, Mississippi. He served in the South Pacific including Guam and Japan. Sergeant Schrum was discharged in 1946.
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Manning Monitor article------ 1944 Pvt. Ray Schrum will be home this weekend from Childress, Texas to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Schrum. Manning Monitor article------ 1945
RAY SCHRUM ENROLLED IN A. A. F. MECHANICS Ray Schrum Ends Duty In Pacific Ray Schrum arrived in Manning Sunday night to be on terminal leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Schrum. Ray has been in service for about 30 months and recently served in Guam and Japan. |
RAY SCHRUM
Funeral services for Ray Schrum were held Thursday, May 24, 1979, 2:00 p.m. at the Ohde Funeral Home in Manning. Officiating was the Rev. Joel Wright of the First Presbyterian Church in Manning. Organist was Bonita Hagedorn.
Interment was in Manning Cemetery with Roland Huebner, Larry Thomssen, Vernie Langheim, Lloyd Pearson, Marvin Linde and Kenny Ewoldt as casketbearers.
The Ohde Funeral Home in Manning was in charge of arrangements.
Ray, son of William C. and Alice Kroeger Schrum, was born January 18, 1926, at Manning. He attended the Manning Schools and graduated from Manning High School. He served in the United States Air Force for several years during World War II. He was united in marriage with Beverly Peters in 1944 and they farmed southwest of Manning. Ray has served as a rural mail carrier out of Botna and Manilla for over twenty years. He was a member of the Golden Leaf Lodge of Manilla and of the Shrine Consistory of Sioux City. He died suddenly at his farm home southwest of Manning on Monday, May 21, 1979 at the age of 53 years, 4 months and 3 days.
He was preceded in death by his mother.
He is survived by his wife, Beverly; by one daughter, Cynthia Wolf of Chicago, Illinois, and by one son, Bob Schrum, a student at Omaha, Nebraska; by his father, W.C. Schrum of Manning; by a brother, Donald of Missouri Valley, and one sister, Mrs. Jean Rathfon of Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania; as well as by many other relatives and friends.