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Grace Dorothy Lantman Backstrom

who passed away
August 1, 1998


Grace Backstrom

Hibbing Daily Tribune
Aug. 5, 1998

Grace Backstrom

HIBBING - Memorial services for Grace Lantman Backstrom, 74, of Pengilly will be 11 a.m. Friday at Our Savior's Lutheran Church. The Rev. Lyle Rossing will officiate. No visitation will be held. Burial will be in Maple Hill Cemetery. Arrangements are by Dougherty Funeral Home.

She died Saturday, Aug 1, 1998, at University Medical Center-Mesabi. She was born July 4, 1924, in Hibbing to Carl and Inga (Larson) Johnson. She was married to Charles Lantman from 1946-1951. After his death, she married Raymond Backstrom in 1953. She was active in Cub Scouts and numerous art fairs and craft shows. She was employed as an operator/cashier for Northwestern Bell, retiring in 1984. She was a member of VFW Auxiliary in Pengilly, Pengilly Booster Club, Telephone Pioneers and Our Savior's Lutheran Church.

She is survived by her husband: three sons, Arthur (Judi) Lantman of Westchester, Ohio, Allan (Chris) Lantman of Sharpsburg, N.C., and Raymond (Mary) Backstrom of Missoula, Mont.; a daughter, Sharon (Jim) Marcinkowski of Oxford, Mich.; a brother, Eugene (Pat) Johnson of Hibbing; two sisters, Mildred (Fred) Schmidtke of Richland Wash., and Darlene (Jack) Fetzik of Hibbing; and 12 grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her first husband; a son, Bruce Backstrom in 1957, and a sister, Beatrice Posten.


War Vet In Losing Fight With Cancer

Hibbing Daily Tribune
Apr. 10, 1951

Editor's note: A fight for life against hopeless odds ended today for a 27-year-old Charles Lantman, lifelong resident who was suffering from an incurable stomach cancer. Only a short time before he'd entered a hospital for the last time, most of the story below had been written.

By Elmer Courteau

Charles Lantman, 27-year-old Hibbing ex-serviceman suffering from an incurable stomach cancer, died this morning. Three weeks ago he'd been sent home from a Minneapolis Veterans' hospital to spend the rest of his short life near his wife and two infant children.

It was a different kind of heroism than he showed while winning five battle stars in Europe during World War II in Europe that Charles Lantman demonstrated during those last three weeks of life.

When he was told by Minneapolis Veterans' hospital physicians that treatments he'd been receiving since December, 1947 were for cancer and his condition was hopeless, Lantman courageously sought to summon the will to command a halt to the merciless encroachment of the disease that finally snuffed out his life today at 4 a.m. while he was in a comma.

Back in the hospital

His efforts were in vain. Two days ago he was taken to Hibbing General hospital. His battle for life against hopeless odds was ending.

Only a few short days before, his four-year-old son Arthur had romped happily about his father's sickbed at home, unaware of the stubborn duel with death in which his father was engaged. Equally unaware, his 5-1/2 month old son, Allan slept peacefully in another room.

While Mrs. Lantman admitted she had borne the secret of her husbands' illness in her heart since that December, 1947 operation, Lantman moved slowly, carefully in his bed to avoid pain while shifting his position when we talked to him last week. His thin arms seemed hardly adequate to the task of plucking the bedcovers back over his wasted body. Morphine dosages every three hours drugged the pain and kept if from becoming unbearable.

"My wife knew I had cancer." he said slowly, "but it hit me slam-bang. And all the time I was trying to work, trying to build for the future."

Praises VA

He closed his eyes for a moment before picking up the conversation again. "All my friends in Hibbing know and have been wonderful. And if it hadn't been for the Veterans' Administration, I don't know what we would have done. It saved us thousands of dollars."

Shrugging off his World War II service that saw him drafted at Hibbing and inducted Aug 14, 1943 at Ft. Snelling, Lantman finally mentioned he was in England, France, Belgium and Czechoslovakia with the 966th Engineer Maintenance unit as a technician, forth grade and was 21 months overseas before being discharged Dec 31, 1945 at Camp McCoy, Wis.

Remembers Paris

The mention of Paris, France perked him up for a moment as he recalled the wild, exciting reception still being given by the French when he entered the city the day after it was liberated by the Allies.

Then, bright-eyed for an instant, he watched his son run in and out of the room. The fat, tiny tike was playing with a set of toy rubber tractor treads that he had perched on his head like a crown.

"Maybe a guy is better off just keeping still about it," Lantman reflected. He closed his eyes again.

And it became quiet in the bedroom of the small home the Lantmans bought just previous to last Christmas before he went to the Minneapolis Veterans' Hospital, Feb 15, for the last time.

Funeral arrangements are pending. Besides the widow, Mrs. Grace Lantman, and his two sons, he is survived by his parents, Mr. & Mrs. Art Lantman, Brown community; four sisters; Mrs. James McDowell, Wilpen; Mrs. Clifford Bjold, Proctor; and Mrs. Tom Bonacci and Anna, Hibbing, and a brother, Florent, Swandale.


Leona C. McDonald


Hibbing - Funeral services for Leona Climentine McDonald, 76, of Hibbing, will be 11 a.m. Monday at Dougherty Funeral Home in Hibbing. The Rev. Peter Muhich will officiate.

Visitation will be for one hour prior to the service Monday at the funeral home. Pallbearers will be her grandchildren, Scott McCutcheon, Susanne Katka, Melissa Cruikshank, James Mason, Jammie Schnieder, Patrick McDonald and Dana McDonald. Internment will be in Maple Hill Cemetery in Hibbing.

She died Thursday, May 13, 1999, at a local nursing home. She was born Jun 28, 1922, in Morton Location near Hibbing, to Arthur and Marie (Heryman) Lantman. She married James "Spike" McDonald in 1941. She was a homemaker, wife and mother.

She is survived by her husband; two sons, Jim (Bonnie) and Jerry, both of Hibbing; three daughters, Pat McCutcheon of Hibbing, Carol McDonald of Brainerd and Betty (Jim) Mason of Danube; three sisters, Ann (William) Lopac of Spirit Lake, Rose Bijold of Proctor and Fran Bonacci of Hibbing; one sister-in-law, Cedelia Lantman of Hibbing; seven grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; a son, John McDonald in 1974; and brothers, Florent and Charlie Lantman.


Pearl W. Bass

The Wilson Daily Times
Saturday, February 27, 1999


May 8, 1908                               Feb 26, 1999
ELM CITY - Pearl Wells Bass, 90, died Friday. The funeral will be conducted by the Rev. Barry Gardner at 4:00 p.m. Sunday at Johnson Funeral Home, Sunset Avenue, Rocky Mount. Burial will follow in Peoples Chapel Cemetery.

She was a member of Emmanuel Free Will Baptist Church, Sharpsburg.

Surviving are a daughter, Jeanette Joyner of Rock Springs, GA.; two sons, Milton Bass of Rocky Mount and Bobbie Bass of Elm City; a sister, Eula W. Adams of Elm City; 12 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.

The Family will receive friends and at the funeral home from 7-8:30 tonight and at other times at 1308 Old Mill Road, Rocky Mount.


Katherine Elizabeth Tant Winstead

Rocky Mount Telegram
Wednesday, April 4, 2007

NASHVILLE - Katherine Elizabeth Tant Winstead, 84, passed away Monday, April 2, 2007, at Nash General Hospital. She was born November 10, 1922 in Wilson County to the late Clinton and Maggie Jackson Tant. Katherine was a member of Emmanuel Free Will Baptist Church. She was a loving mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. Katherine loved flowers, cooking, gardening, crocheting, collecting, and birds. She dearly loved teaching children in Sunday school. She also loved to travel from the mountains to the coast.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Putney Jordan Winstead; two brothers, Walter Tant and Tommy Tant; and one sister, Glenda Carter. She leaves to cherish her memory, one daughter, Jeanne Robertson and husband Jim of Charlotte; two sons, Billy D. Winstead and wife Kaye of Sharpsburg, Michael Putney Winstead and wife Wanda of Greensboro; one brother, L.C. Tant and wife Myrtle of Rocky Mount; eight grandchildren, Susan Hobbs, Sandra Winstead, Tommy and Ken Butts, Jim Robertson, Michelle Rogers, Michael and Jonathan Winstead; and ten great grandchildren.

The family will receive friends at Bowling Funeral Home today from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Thursday in the chapel of Bowling Funeral Home with Rev. Rodney Holloman and Rev. Barry Gardner officiating. Burial will follow at Peoples Chapel Free Will Baptist Church Cemetery in Elm City.

Flowers will be accepted or contributions can be made to Emmanuel Freewill Baptist Church, PO Box 118, Sharpsburg, NC 27878. Arrangements are entrusted to Bowling Funeral Home and Crematory, 661 English Road, Rocky Mount, NC 27804.


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