|
Services for Alfred Howard Rood, 81, of
Parma Route 2, who died yesterday, will be conducted at 2:30
p.m. Thursday at the Parma Peckham-Dakan-Davis Chapel.
The Rev. John Bullock of Nyssa, Ore., will officiate.
Interment will be at Parma.
Mr. Rood
was born March 7, 1883, at Douglas County, Neb., to Mr. and
Mrs. Howard E. Rood. He was reared in Eastern Nebraska
and married Edda Ellen Lowary March 13, 1905, at Lexington,
Neb.
They farmed in Nebraska and Kansas
until 1937, when they moved to Western Oregon. They came
to Parma in 1941, where he has since resided. Mrs. Rood
died April. 23, 1949, at Parma. He ma-ried his present
wife in November, 1959, at Parma.
Surviving are his wife, Lou; three daughters, Mrs., Eva May
Maine, Parma, Mrs. Mary D. Burkham, Denver, Colo., and Mrs.
Dorothy Bones, Silverton, Ore.; two sons, Alvie Clarence,
Gothenburg, Neb., and Howard James, Lenore; a brother, Ervin,
Oregon City, Ore.; 25 grandchildren. grandchildren and 20
great-grandchildren. |
