Mishap Victim's Funeral Set Here Accident is Fatal to Lodge Grass Man
The body of Melvin Lorin Almond, 65, who died at a Townsend hospital Sunday following an automobile accident, was brought to the Settergren funeral home tuesday.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. at the Settergren chapel. Burial will be in Mountview cemetery.
Mr. Almond, a Lodge Grass resident, and his son, Arnold V. Almond, who recently returned from overseas duty with the army, were en route to Hamilton Wednesday to visit relatives when their car was struck from behind by another car near Three Forks, it was reported here.
His death was attributed to the fracture of several vertabrae in the neck. The son escaped injury.
Mr. Almond was born Sept. 1, 1880, at Unionville, Iowa. On Jan. 12, 1902, he married Susie Anderson at Miller, S.D., where he farmed and ran a dray line.
They moved to Montana in 1916, homesteading eight miles southwest of Hysham. For several years, before moving to Lodge Grass in 1934, he owned and operated a filling station at Hysham. His last employment was as custodian at the Lodge Grass high school.
Surviving are the widow; four daughters, Mrs. Verlin Johnson, Forsyth; Mrs. O. Berkman, 3111 Montana avenue; Mrs. Harry Swanson, 321 North Twenty-third street; two other sons besides Arnold Almond, Rayburn R. Almond, Shepherd, and Carl Almond, Hysham; three brothers, Bert Almond, Portland, Ore.; Grover Almond and Carl Almond, Miller; a sister, Mrs. John Redelfs, Marysville, Wash., and 12 grandchildren.
Mishap Victim's Funeral Set Here Accident is Fatal to Lodge Grass Man
The body of Melvin Lorin Almond, 65, who died at a Townsend hospital Sunday following an automobile accident, was brought to the Settergren funeral home tuesday.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. at the Settergren chapel. Burial will be in Mountview cemetery.
Mr. Almond, a Lodge Grass resident, and his son, Arnold V. Almond, who recently returned from overseas duty with the army, were en route to Hamilton Wednesday to visit relatives when their car was struck from behind by another car near Three Forks, it was reported here.
His death was attributed to the fracture of several vertabrae in the neck. The son escaped injury.
Mr. Almond was born Sept. 1, 1880, at Unionville, Iowa. On Jan. 12, 1902, he married Susie Anderson at Miller, S.D., where he farmed and ran a dray line.
They moved to Montana in 1916, homesteading eight miles southwest of Hysham. For several years, before moving to Lodge Grass in 1934, he owned and operated a filling station at Hysham. His last employment was as custodian at the Lodge Grass high school.
Surviving are the widow; four daughters, Mrs. Verlin Johnson, Forsyth; Mrs. O. Berkman, 3111 Montana avenue; Mrs. Harry Swanson, 321 North Twenty-third street; two other sons besides Arnold Almond, Rayburn R. Almond, Shepherd, and Carl Almond, Hysham; three brothers, Bert Almond, Portland, Ore.; Grover Almond and Carl Almond, Miller; a sister, Mrs. John Redelfs, Marysville, Wash., and 12 grandchildren.
Family Members
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Mary Katherine Almond Pearson
1878–1977
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Elbert "Bert" Almond
1882–1963
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Essa May Almond Enfield
1883–1936
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Carl Emmerson Almond
1886–1957
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Maud Almond Redelfs
1887–1983
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Grover Cleveland Almond
1890–1968
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Verge Viola Almond Bunda
1892–1991
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Belva M. Almond
1895–1902
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Lloyd Tracy Almond
1896–1976
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Sylvia Ann Almond Everts Dunn
1901–1977
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Ruby Irene Almond Arndt
1901–1957
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Alma Della Almond Slapinski
1905–1995
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Violet Mildred Almond Madsen
1912–1975
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Veda Bell Almond Felbob
1914–2000
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Verna Marie Almond Felbob
1914–1994
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