Samuel Roscoe Graham (1968)

GRAHAM

Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:03:16

The Des Moines Register
Des Moines, Iowa
Sunday, February 4, 1968
Page 16, Column 6

SAMUEL ROSCOE GRAHAM

Services for Samuel Roscoe Graham, 79-year-old former credit manager of the Des Moines Register and Tribune Company, will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Dunn’s Funeral Home on Grand avenue. Burial will be at Masonic Cemetery.

Mr. Graham died Friday of cancer at a Long Beach, Calif., hospital. He moved to California after retiring in 1953, after 30 years with The Register and Tribune.

He was born in Macksburg and spent most of his life in the Des Moines area.

He was a member of the Za-Ga-Zig Shrine, a life member of the Crusade Masonic Lodge at Greenfield, and was a member of the Des Moines Consistory and a 50-year member of the Waveland chapter of the Eastern Star.

Survivors include his wife, Addie, and a brother, Walter of Louisiana.
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The Independent
Long Beach, California
Monday, February 5, 1968
Page 34, Column 2

GRAHAM—Samuel Roscoe, of 251 Belmont, born 79 years ago in Maxberg, Iowa. Died Friday. Survived by wife, Addie R. of Long Beach; brother Walter. Life member of Crusade Lodge AF&AM of Greenfield, Iowa, 50 year member of Order of The Eastern Star in Des Moines, Iowa. Was employed as Credit Manager for the Des Moines Register for 30 years. Service will be held at Des Moines, Iowa. Local arrangements by Mottell’s Mortuary, 3rd and Alamitos.
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The Independent
Long Beach, California
Tuesday, February 6, 1968
Page 26, Column 5

GRAHAM – Samuel Roscoe. Interment at Masonic Cemetery, Des Moines, Iowa, local arrangements by Mottell’s Mortuary, 3rd and Alamitos.

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