This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZW.2ADI/2094.1 Message Board Post: Obituary from the Modesto Bee, February 16, 1954 ARTY CHURCH SCHELL OAKDALE - Final rites for Arty Church Schell, 79 year old native of Knights Ferry, will be conducted at 2 PM tomorrow at Pascoe-Botto Mortuary here. The Rev. Thomas Carter of the Knights Ferry Methodist Church will officiate. Interment will be in Oakdale Citizens Cemetery. Schell died Sunday morning of a self inflicted gunshot wound. He was a retired sheep rancher. He and his wife had been married 29 years. Surviving are his widow, Fern; a daughter, Charlotte Schell of San Francisco; two brothers, C. E. Schell of Oakdale and A. E. Schell of Modesto and three sisters, Mrs. Pearl Schonhoff, mrs. Lucille Tulloch and Mrs. Violet Boone, all of Oakdale. Transcribed by Judy Ewbank