SHANKLIN, FANNIE—Death came at 6:30 p. m., August 26, 1944 to Mrs. Fannie Shanklin, a pioneer ranch woman residing eleven miles south of Alliance. She died at St. Joseph hospital in Alliance, Neb. She had been in failing health since March 1, 1942, when she was first taken ill of influenza, followed by other complications.
Fannie Walker was born October 31, 1861, in Clifton Settlement near the Lehigh Falls, some twenty miles from Scranton, Pa., where she spent her childhood days. At the age of eleven years she moved with her parents to a farm near Fairmont, Neb. Her young womanhood days were spent in Fillmore, Thayer and Jefferson counties.
September 22, 1884, she and Truman Shanklin were married. They resided on a farm near Geneva, Neb., until March, 1899, when they and their sons, Roy and George answered the call to pioneer life and journeyed westward to Alliance, which at that time was a mere village. The Burlington railroad to Denver had not yet been completed.
They homesteaded in the edge of the sand hills eleven miles south of Alliance and there Mrs. Shanklin continued to make her home. She endured the usual hardships of pioneer life. She taught for eight years in the rural schools of Morrill and Box Butte counties. After her husband passed away she continued to operate the ranch, expanding it from a small sand hill claim into a well-balanced little ranch. Many of the trees planted there over forty years ago still live; silent testimony to the fact that trees can be grown in that area.
Mrs. Shanklin was the sixth child in a family of seven, and the last to pass on. She was a faithful wife, a loving mother and a true friend. A daughter Leila, a son, George, and her husband preceded her in death. She is survived by a son, Roy of Alliance, a daughter, Bernice, who resided at home with her mother and one grandson, Cpl. Paul Shanklin, with the armed forces somewhere in England. A brother-in-law, Will Shanklin, resides in Oklahoma.
Funeral services were held at the Hrubesky funeral home in Geneva at 2:30 p. m. August 29, Rev. E. D. Sell officiated. Interment was in the Geneva by the side of her husband who passed away in 1910.
The Nebraska Signal 1944
Fannie Walker was born October 31, 1861, in Clifton Settlement near the Lehigh Falls, some twenty miles from Scranton, Pa., where she spent her childhood days. At the age of eleven years she moved with her parents to a farm near Fairmont, Neb. Her young womanhood days were spent in Fillmore, Thayer and Jefferson counties.
September 22, 1884, she and Truman Shanklin were married. They resided on a farm near Geneva, Neb., until March, 1899, when they and their sons, Roy and George answered the call to pioneer life and journeyed westward to Alliance, which at that time was a mere village. The Burlington railroad to Denver had not yet been completed.
They homesteaded in the edge of the sand hills eleven miles south of Alliance and there Mrs. Shanklin continued to make her home. She endured the usual hardships of pioneer life. She taught for eight years in the rural schools of Morrill and Box Butte counties. After her husband passed away she continued to operate the ranch, expanding it from a small sand hill claim into a well-balanced little ranch. Many of the trees planted there over forty years ago still live; silent testimony to the fact that trees can be grown in that area.
Mrs. Shanklin was the sixth child in a family of seven, and the last to pass on. She was a faithful wife, a loving mother and a true friend. A daughter Leila, a son, George, and her husband preceded her in death. She is survived by a son, Roy of Alliance, a daughter, Bernice, who resided at home with her mother and one grandson, Cpl. Paul Shanklin, with the armed forces somewhere in England. A brother-in-law, Will Shanklin, resides in Oklahoma.
Funeral services were held at the Hrubesky funeral home in Geneva at 2:30 p. m. August 29, Rev. E. D. Sell officiated. Interment was in the Geneva by the side of her husband who passed away in 1910.
The Nebraska Signal 1944
SHANKLIN, FANNIE—Death came at 6:30 p. m., August 26, 1944 to Mrs. Fannie Shanklin, a pioneer ranch woman residing eleven miles south of Alliance. She died at St. Joseph hospital in Alliance, Neb. She had been in failing health since March 1, 1942, when she was first taken ill of influenza, followed by other complications.
Fannie Walker was born October 31, 1861, in Clifton Settlement near the Lehigh Falls, some twenty miles from Scranton, Pa., where she spent her childhood days. At the age of eleven years she moved with her parents to a farm near Fairmont, Neb. Her young womanhood days were spent in Fillmore, Thayer and Jefferson counties.
September 22, 1884, she and Truman Shanklin were married. They resided on a farm near Geneva, Neb., until March, 1899, when they and their sons, Roy and George answered the call to pioneer life and journeyed westward to Alliance, which at that time was a mere village. The Burlington railroad to Denver had not yet been completed.
They homesteaded in the edge of the sand hills eleven miles south of Alliance and there Mrs. Shanklin continued to make her home. She endured the usual hardships of pioneer life. She taught for eight years in the rural schools of Morrill and Box Butte counties. After her husband passed away she continued to operate the ranch, expanding it from a small sand hill claim into a well-balanced little ranch. Many of the trees planted there over forty years ago still live; silent testimony to the fact that trees can be grown in that area.
Mrs. Shanklin was the sixth child in a family of seven, and the last to pass on. She was a faithful wife, a loving mother and a true friend. A daughter Leila, a son, George, and her husband preceded her in death. She is survived by a son, Roy of Alliance, a daughter, Bernice, who resided at home with her mother and one grandson, Cpl. Paul Shanklin, with the armed forces somewhere in England. A brother-in-law, Will Shanklin, resides in Oklahoma.
Funeral services were held at the Hrubesky funeral home in Geneva at 2:30 p. m. August 29, Rev. E. D. Sell officiated. Interment was in the Geneva by the side of her husband who passed away in 1910.
The Nebraska Signal 1944
Fannie Walker was born October 31, 1861, in Clifton Settlement near the Lehigh Falls, some twenty miles from Scranton, Pa., where she spent her childhood days. At the age of eleven years she moved with her parents to a farm near Fairmont, Neb. Her young womanhood days were spent in Fillmore, Thayer and Jefferson counties.
September 22, 1884, she and Truman Shanklin were married. They resided on a farm near Geneva, Neb., until March, 1899, when they and their sons, Roy and George answered the call to pioneer life and journeyed westward to Alliance, which at that time was a mere village. The Burlington railroad to Denver had not yet been completed.
They homesteaded in the edge of the sand hills eleven miles south of Alliance and there Mrs. Shanklin continued to make her home. She endured the usual hardships of pioneer life. She taught for eight years in the rural schools of Morrill and Box Butte counties. After her husband passed away she continued to operate the ranch, expanding it from a small sand hill claim into a well-balanced little ranch. Many of the trees planted there over forty years ago still live; silent testimony to the fact that trees can be grown in that area.
Mrs. Shanklin was the sixth child in a family of seven, and the last to pass on. She was a faithful wife, a loving mother and a true friend. A daughter Leila, a son, George, and her husband preceded her in death. She is survived by a son, Roy of Alliance, a daughter, Bernice, who resided at home with her mother and one grandson, Cpl. Paul Shanklin, with the armed forces somewhere in England. A brother-in-law, Will Shanklin, resides in Oklahoma.
Funeral services were held at the Hrubesky funeral home in Geneva at 2:30 p. m. August 29, Rev. E. D. Sell officiated. Interment was in the Geneva by the side of her husband who passed away in 1910.
The Nebraska Signal 1944
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