This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BLUM Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zk.2ADI/916 Message Board Post: Velma Blum Blum, 85, Harlan, died Jan. 26, 2003. HARLAN -- Velma J. Blum, 85, Harlan, died Sunday, Jan. 26 at Myrtue Memorial Hospital. Services will be held Tuesday, Jan. 28 at 11 a.m. at St. Michael's Catholic Church with burial in the Harlan Cemetery. A wake service was held Monday, Jan. 27 at 7 p.m. at Pauley Funeral Home, Harlan. Visitation was Monday from 3-9 p.m. at Pauley's. Blum is survived by her husband, Robert J. Blum, of Harlan; son James (Jane) Blum of Spirit Lake; daughter Jane Wagar of Omaha; brothers Walt Koster of Carroll, Kermit Koster of Lake View, Roger (Darlene) Koster of Elkader and Leroy (Jonnell) Koster of Breda; and sisters Ruth (Clete) Heinrich of Marshalltown and Maxine (Marv) Heinrich of Fulda, Minn.; four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. ©The Harlan Tribune 2003