This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Helm, Shelley Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/GW.2ADE/916 Message Board Post: JOHANN PETER LAIKAM June 5, 1914 to May 16, 1990 THE FRESNO BEE 5/19/90 OBITUARY JOHN P.LAIKAM Fowler - Services for John P. Laikam, 75, will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at the Buchheim Family Fowler Chapel. Mr. Laikam died Wednesday. He invented the Laikam French plow. Surviving are his wife, Elsie Schmidt Laikam; two sons, Robert of San Diego and James of Georgia; a daughter, Susan Wesley of Texas; two sisters, Mary Douglas of Redding and Emma Zeleny of Fresno; two brothers, Henry of Sonora and Walter of Fresno; and four grandchildren (Jeanne Laikam, Jeff Laikam, Jason Laikam, Tracie Ramsey). BURIAL: 21 May 1990 Fowler, Fresno Co., CA Fowler District Cemetery. >From Funeral Brochure - Pallbearers: Bill Atkins, Brian Schmidt, Tom Walters, Melvin Laikam, David Laikam, Lance Coker. Officiating: Reverend Mac Shaw, Fowler Presbyterian Church. Organist Martha Dean Moran, Soloist: George Schmidt (brother in law).