This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Shrum, Conrad, Barks, Nickel, Moran, Wills Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TMB.2ACI/3405 Message Board Post: The Banner Press, Marble Hill, MO. March 12, 1959 L. B. Shrum, 75, Died Suddenly L. B. Shrum, 75 years old of Marble Hill died unexpectedly at 2:40 p.m. Tuesday at the Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau where he had been a surgical patient for two weeks. His condition was improved and he was to have been dismissed from the hospital Wednesady when he suffered a heart attack and died shortly thereafter. The body is at Young and Sons Funeral Home in Perryville and will remain there until time for service which are tentatively set for 2:00 p.m. Friday at the Crossroads Methodist Church north of Sedgewickville where he had been a member for many years. The pastor, Rev. A. W. Darter, will conduct the rites and burial will be in the church cemetery. Mr. Shrum, a son of the late Frederick and Rachel Moran Shrum, was born September 6, 1880, on the farm in the Crossroads community where he farmed until his retirement in 1951, when he came to Marble Hill. On May 22, 1900, he was married to Mary Catherine Wills, who preceded him in death on August 4, 1956. Three sisters and five brothers also preceded him in death. He is survived by four daughters: Mrs. Herbert Conrad and Mrs. David Barks of near Sedgewickville, Mrs. Loy Conrad of Perryville, and Mrs. Emil Nickel of Chicago; a son, P. L. Shrum of Marble Hill; eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.