James W. “Jim” Shaw, 72, Route 2, Minot, and a lifetime Minot area resident, died Friday at his home. His funeral will be Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. at First Presbyterian Church, with burial in Rosehill Memorial Park, both Minot.
He was born Nov. 6, 1912 in Minot, a son of Walter and Louise Shaw. He was reared in Minot and graduated from Tri State College in Angola, Ind., with a degree in electrical engineering. He also graduated from Park’s Air College Flying School. He left the Minot area during World War II to work in the Bremerton, Wash., shipyards.
Following the death of his father in 1947, he returned to the Minot area to manage the family’s real estate and property holdings, which included the farm and ranch southwest of Minot where he resided. That same year he constructed two runways and two hangars at the ranch and called it “Flying S Ranch".
Mr. Shaw, one of Minot’s early pilots, was a president of the North Dakota Flying Farmers and Ranchers Association and was a member of the International Flying Farmers Association, the Experimental Aircraft Association and Ox's Aviation Pioneers. He took his first solo flight at age 15.
He married Hattie Phillips Sept. 19, 1973, in Las Vegas, Nev.
Active in the Masonic Lodge, he was a member of Star in the West Blue Lodge No. 33, the Minot Consistory of the Scottish Rite Bodies, Alpha Council No. 2 Cryptic Masons, Royal Arch Masons, Cryptic Rite Masons of Western Canada and of the Invisible Lodge Knights of the Temple. He also was a member of Kem Temple of the Shrine at Grand Forks, Venus Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star, the Turtle Mountain Shrine Club and Minot Motor Patrol.
He was a charter member of the Minot Exchange Club, a life member of both the Minot Gun Club and Elks Lodge. He was a member of the Eagles Aerie, the Society of American Magicians, the Javona Magicians Club, an active amateur radio operator, and a member of the Souris Valley Bowmen, the Minot Rifle and Pistol Club and the Good Samaritan Club.
Survivors: wife; sons, Donald A. and Philip Craig, both Minot; daughters, Mrs. Merlyn (Betty Lou) McDonald, Parker, Colo., Mrs. J.W. (Jacqueline) Beery, Couer d’ Alene, Idaho, Mrs. J.D. (Virginia) Moffatt, Lafayette, Colo.; stepdaughters, Mrs. Al (Debra) Boechler, Surrey, Mrs. Robert (Wanda) Weldon, Aberdeen, Md.; 14 grandchildren; one great-grandchild.
Visitation will be until 8:30 tonight and from 9:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at Thomas Funeral Home, Minot.
Memorials are preferred to the Shrine Crippled Children’s Hospital, Twin Cities Unit.
From the scrapbook of Lillian Lundgren Zeltinger who passed away in 1997.
He was born Nov. 6, 1912 in Minot, a son of Walter and Louise Shaw. He was reared in Minot and graduated from Tri State College in Angola, Ind., with a degree in electrical engineering. He also graduated from Park’s Air College Flying School. He left the Minot area during World War II to work in the Bremerton, Wash., shipyards.
Following the death of his father in 1947, he returned to the Minot area to manage the family’s real estate and property holdings, which included the farm and ranch southwest of Minot where he resided. That same year he constructed two runways and two hangars at the ranch and called it “Flying S Ranch".
Mr. Shaw, one of Minot’s early pilots, was a president of the North Dakota Flying Farmers and Ranchers Association and was a member of the International Flying Farmers Association, the Experimental Aircraft Association and Ox's Aviation Pioneers. He took his first solo flight at age 15.
He married Hattie Phillips Sept. 19, 1973, in Las Vegas, Nev.
Active in the Masonic Lodge, he was a member of Star in the West Blue Lodge No. 33, the Minot Consistory of the Scottish Rite Bodies, Alpha Council No. 2 Cryptic Masons, Royal Arch Masons, Cryptic Rite Masons of Western Canada and of the Invisible Lodge Knights of the Temple. He also was a member of Kem Temple of the Shrine at Grand Forks, Venus Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star, the Turtle Mountain Shrine Club and Minot Motor Patrol.
He was a charter member of the Minot Exchange Club, a life member of both the Minot Gun Club and Elks Lodge. He was a member of the Eagles Aerie, the Society of American Magicians, the Javona Magicians Club, an active amateur radio operator, and a member of the Souris Valley Bowmen, the Minot Rifle and Pistol Club and the Good Samaritan Club.
Survivors: wife; sons, Donald A. and Philip Craig, both Minot; daughters, Mrs. Merlyn (Betty Lou) McDonald, Parker, Colo., Mrs. J.W. (Jacqueline) Beery, Couer d’ Alene, Idaho, Mrs. J.D. (Virginia) Moffatt, Lafayette, Colo.; stepdaughters, Mrs. Al (Debra) Boechler, Surrey, Mrs. Robert (Wanda) Weldon, Aberdeen, Md.; 14 grandchildren; one great-grandchild.
Visitation will be until 8:30 tonight and from 9:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at Thomas Funeral Home, Minot.
Memorials are preferred to the Shrine Crippled Children’s Hospital, Twin Cities Unit.
From the scrapbook of Lillian Lundgren Zeltinger who passed away in 1997.
James W. “Jim” Shaw, 72, Route 2, Minot, and a lifetime Minot area resident, died Friday at his home. His funeral will be Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. at First Presbyterian Church, with burial in Rosehill Memorial Park, both Minot.
He was born Nov. 6, 1912 in Minot, a son of Walter and Louise Shaw. He was reared in Minot and graduated from Tri State College in Angola, Ind., with a degree in electrical engineering. He also graduated from Park’s Air College Flying School. He left the Minot area during World War II to work in the Bremerton, Wash., shipyards.
Following the death of his father in 1947, he returned to the Minot area to manage the family’s real estate and property holdings, which included the farm and ranch southwest of Minot where he resided. That same year he constructed two runways and two hangars at the ranch and called it “Flying S Ranch".
Mr. Shaw, one of Minot’s early pilots, was a president of the North Dakota Flying Farmers and Ranchers Association and was a member of the International Flying Farmers Association, the Experimental Aircraft Association and Ox's Aviation Pioneers. He took his first solo flight at age 15.
He married Hattie Phillips Sept. 19, 1973, in Las Vegas, Nev.
Active in the Masonic Lodge, he was a member of Star in the West Blue Lodge No. 33, the Minot Consistory of the Scottish Rite Bodies, Alpha Council No. 2 Cryptic Masons, Royal Arch Masons, Cryptic Rite Masons of Western Canada and of the Invisible Lodge Knights of the Temple. He also was a member of Kem Temple of the Shrine at Grand Forks, Venus Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star, the Turtle Mountain Shrine Club and Minot Motor Patrol.
He was a charter member of the Minot Exchange Club, a life member of both the Minot Gun Club and Elks Lodge. He was a member of the Eagles Aerie, the Society of American Magicians, the Javona Magicians Club, an active amateur radio operator, and a member of the Souris Valley Bowmen, the Minot Rifle and Pistol Club and the Good Samaritan Club.
Survivors: wife; sons, Donald A. and Philip Craig, both Minot; daughters, Mrs. Merlyn (Betty Lou) McDonald, Parker, Colo., Mrs. J.W. (Jacqueline) Beery, Couer d’ Alene, Idaho, Mrs. J.D. (Virginia) Moffatt, Lafayette, Colo.; stepdaughters, Mrs. Al (Debra) Boechler, Surrey, Mrs. Robert (Wanda) Weldon, Aberdeen, Md.; 14 grandchildren; one great-grandchild.
Visitation will be until 8:30 tonight and from 9:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at Thomas Funeral Home, Minot.
Memorials are preferred to the Shrine Crippled Children’s Hospital, Twin Cities Unit.
From the scrapbook of Lillian Lundgren Zeltinger who passed away in 1997.
He was born Nov. 6, 1912 in Minot, a son of Walter and Louise Shaw. He was reared in Minot and graduated from Tri State College in Angola, Ind., with a degree in electrical engineering. He also graduated from Park’s Air College Flying School. He left the Minot area during World War II to work in the Bremerton, Wash., shipyards.
Following the death of his father in 1947, he returned to the Minot area to manage the family’s real estate and property holdings, which included the farm and ranch southwest of Minot where he resided. That same year he constructed two runways and two hangars at the ranch and called it “Flying S Ranch".
Mr. Shaw, one of Minot’s early pilots, was a president of the North Dakota Flying Farmers and Ranchers Association and was a member of the International Flying Farmers Association, the Experimental Aircraft Association and Ox's Aviation Pioneers. He took his first solo flight at age 15.
He married Hattie Phillips Sept. 19, 1973, in Las Vegas, Nev.
Active in the Masonic Lodge, he was a member of Star in the West Blue Lodge No. 33, the Minot Consistory of the Scottish Rite Bodies, Alpha Council No. 2 Cryptic Masons, Royal Arch Masons, Cryptic Rite Masons of Western Canada and of the Invisible Lodge Knights of the Temple. He also was a member of Kem Temple of the Shrine at Grand Forks, Venus Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star, the Turtle Mountain Shrine Club and Minot Motor Patrol.
He was a charter member of the Minot Exchange Club, a life member of both the Minot Gun Club and Elks Lodge. He was a member of the Eagles Aerie, the Society of American Magicians, the Javona Magicians Club, an active amateur radio operator, and a member of the Souris Valley Bowmen, the Minot Rifle and Pistol Club and the Good Samaritan Club.
Survivors: wife; sons, Donald A. and Philip Craig, both Minot; daughters, Mrs. Merlyn (Betty Lou) McDonald, Parker, Colo., Mrs. J.W. (Jacqueline) Beery, Couer d’ Alene, Idaho, Mrs. J.D. (Virginia) Moffatt, Lafayette, Colo.; stepdaughters, Mrs. Al (Debra) Boechler, Surrey, Mrs. Robert (Wanda) Weldon, Aberdeen, Md.; 14 grandchildren; one great-grandchild.
Visitation will be until 8:30 tonight and from 9:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at Thomas Funeral Home, Minot.
Memorials are preferred to the Shrine Crippled Children’s Hospital, Twin Cities Unit.
From the scrapbook of Lillian Lundgren Zeltinger who passed away in 1997.
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