This is a Message Board Post. Reply to the message or author by clicking on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#267087) Jack Lihs 1895-1981 <http://iagenweb.org/boards/louisa/obituaries/index.cgi?rev=267087> AUTHOR: Daniel R Davis, DATE: 2/20/2010 at 11:20:16 Surnames: LIHS,SAMUELS,SELLER,MARSHALL,LEASCH,LOWARY,BROWN,TRUSTY Source: Unnamed and undated newspaper clipping with handwritten date of death of 4/18/81. MORNING SUN - Jack Lihs, 85, Cairo, died Saturday at the Burlington Medical Center. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Wapello United Methodist Church. Rev. John Beebout will officiate. Burial is in the Cairo Cemetery. Visitation is 7 to 8:30 this evening at the Pierce Funeral Home, Morning Sun, where a memorial fund has been established. The son of August and Josephine Seekatz Lihs, he was born Sept. 25, 1895, in Bristol, Neb. His marriage to Mary Seller took place Oct. 3, 1923, in Morning Sun. Following their marriage they moved to Cairo where he had been engaged in trucking for 50 years. He was a member of the Wapello United Methodist Church and the Hayes-Scott Post No. 112 American Legion of Morning Sun. Survivors include his wife; three sons, Dean of Belleville, Ill., Donald of Cairo and Jackie of Burlington; five daughters, Mrs. Patricia Samuels and Mrs. Wanda Marshall, both of Wapello, Mrs. Shirley Leasch of Burlington, Mrs. Peggy Lowary of Ames and Mrs. Baja Brown of Durant; 18 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; five brothers, Joy of Klamath Falls, Ore., Edwin of Tyndal, S.D., Earnest of Norfolk, Neb., and Edgar and Herman, both of Wapello; and one sister, Julia Trusty of Portland, Ore.