This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Shmaus Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3BC.2ACE/1987 Message Board Post: Cheney Free Press, Cheney, Washington, April 26, 1940 Death Takes Mike Shmaus FOUR LAKES April 24-Michael E. Shmaus, age 81, died Monday afternoon at Broadacres where he had been for the past week. Funeral services were held Thursday morning at the Catholic church in Cheney, with the Reverad J. M. Leclerc officiating. Burial was in the Marshall Cemetery. Mr. Shmaus came to Four Lakes in 1908, where he operated a store for 12 years. On September 20, 1921, he married Mrs. Susan M. Nix at Yakima and returned to Four Lakes where he has since resided on his farm. For the past 17 months he has been suffering from ill health. Before coming to Four Lakes, Mr. Shmaus lived in the Eastern states, homesteaded at Ione, Washington, and later lived on a wheat ranch in the Palouse country. He was born in Altenmarkt Germany and came to America in July 1883. The deceased was a member of the Cheney Catholic church and the Four Lakes Grange. He is survived by his wife at the home and a nephew, Frank Shmaus of Kaeremeous, B. C. I'm not related to this person.