Judi Lee of Calgery, Alberta, Canada has located a Montana obituary, dated 17 May 1989. It reads as follows:
Red Lodge-Homer V. Sells worked in construction throughout Montana including the Beartooth Highway. he worked as maintenance supervisor for the Army Engineering District out of Omaha for thirty years. He was superintendent of operations and maintenance in St. Paul for the Twin Cities Arsenal, Fifth Army Disaster Force "Snowbound" our of Cheyenne, Wyo. In 1958, he received the Performance Award from the government for the rescue of four civilians when he worked for the Garrison District at Riverdale, North Dakota. He was a member of North Star Lodge #46 AF & AM at Glasgow and the Red Lodge Community Church.
Mr. Sells, age 84, of Red Lodge, died Tuesday, May 9, at the Carbon County Memorial Hospital. He was born in Reading, Kansas, a son of Manning and Nettie Sells, on October 29.1904. He attended school in Reading. On October 4, 1949, he married Viola Ayers in Helena.
Survivors include his wife; three daughters; Barbara Kirk, or Cheyenne, Wyo., Sandra Halley of Muscatine, Iowa, and Sharon Sigurdson of Coleharbor, ND; two brothers; Presten and Bothwell, both of Reading, Kansas; sixteen grandchildren, and numerous great grandchidlren.
Memorial services were held Friday, May 12, at 2 pm at the Dahl Funeral Chapel of Red Lodge. Reverend Susan Watterson officiated. Masonic Rites were conducted by Star in the West Lodge #40 AF & AM. Honorary Casketbearers were James Sells, Thomas, Hogan, Al Jorgensen, Boyce Crone, John Kastelitz, Glenn Hall, and Donald Puckett.
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Does anyone know how this Homer Sells, son of Manning and Nettie Sells of Reading, Kansas might be related to the rest of our clan?
The ONLY Manning Sells I have in our files, was born 12 May 1859 in Bureau Co., Illinois, son of Jacob and Mary Anne Eastlick Sells. This Manning Sells reportedly married a Rosa Gasser, but we have no records as to where he lived, or what family he might have had.
(Manning > Jacob > John > Solomon > Anthony > Hendrick Sellen)
Could this Homer Sells, with brothers named Presten and Bothwell, perhaps be a son or grandson, or nephew of this Manning and Rosa Gasser Sells?
Does anyone have access to the 1910 or 1920 Census or Soundex records for Reading, Kansas?
My Kansas map shows Reading to be in Lyon County, on the border of Osage County, so it is possible that both counties might need to be checked.
Or is that another Manning Sells somewhere on our family tree?
