JACOB KORTUM, 88, DIES UNEXPECTEDLY
Jacob Kortum, a resident of Hastings for many years who more recently had spent a greater part of his time in McAllen, Texas, died unexpectedly early Saturday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R.K. Hinrichs on Route One with whom he had been a guest. He was 88 years of age.

Kortum had returned to Hastings only this week for a visit with his friends over the community, planning to go back to Texas later in the summer. He was discharged from a Veterans Administration Hospital in Temple, Texas, late in April, after having been a patient there for a time.

Kortum was born April 1, 1870, on Lepkenhosen Island, Germany. He was a veteran of the Spanish-American War.

Survivors are his sons, Chester of Rawlins, Wyoming, LeRoy of Los Angeles, California, Clifford of Pocatello, Idaho, Max of Grand Island, New York, and Wilson of Oxnard, California; a number of grandchildren and three sisters and a brother, including Mrs. Rosa Dammann of Manning, Iowa, and Peter Kortum of Minneapolis.
Services are set tentatively for Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock in the Butler-Volland Chapel.
Burial will be in Manning, Iowa.

Notes for DAISY MAE NICKUM:
Two Newspaper Clippings about Grandma Kortum:

MRS. KORTUM DIES SUDDENLY IN CITY
Another loved and respected resident and mother in Rawlins was taken early yesterday morning when Mrs. Daisy Mae Kortum, 62, died at Memorial Hospital following a very brief serious illness.

While Mrs. Kortum had been in declining health for some time, it was not unitl approximately two weeks ago that she began ailing rapidly. Her condition suddenly became critical at 2:40 o'clock yesterday morning and she was rushed to Memorial Hospital, her death occurring at 3 a.m.

Mrs. Kortum was born on November 11, 1882 at Manning, IA., and she spent most of her life there. She was married in Manning to J.F. Kortum and the couple resided at various cities in that state. Her frist trip to Rawlins was in 1924 when she came here to visit her cousin, the late Walter Eckman.

In December of the following year she left this city for Rapid City, S.D., and then returned to Rawlins in 1935 to be near her son, Chester Kortum, who is employed as switchman in the local yards of the Union Pacific Railroad. For several years she and her son lived in Green River, Mrs. Kortum joining the Auxilary to the B. of R. T. while in that city.

Two weeks ago when she began ailing rapidly she was moved from her home to that of her son, Chester, at 313 Mahoney Street.

Immediate surviving relatives include four sons, Maxwell A. Kortum of Buffalo, N.Y., who came to Rawlins last Saturday and then left again the forepart of this week for his home and who returned again to this city last night; Chester Kortum of Rawlins; and Le Roy Kortum who is serving as a radio operator with the Merchant Marines and who is now in the South Pacific; and three brothers, Joe Nickum of Denver, Lawrence Nickum and Henry Nickum both of Manning, IA.

The body of Mrs. Kortum is at the McKelvey Funeral Home Pending funeral and burial arrangements.

Accompanying the body were her sons, Clifford, Wilson, Maxwell and Chester. Mrs. Chester Kortum also accompanied her husband to Manning for the burial services.

Graveside services for Daisy Mae (Nickum) Kortum, 62, former resident of Manning, were held here Wednesday morning at the Manning Cemetery. Mrs. Kortum was born in Manning November 11, 1882, and spent most of her life here, living in Wyoming the last six years.

Mrs. Kortum passed away Friday, June 15, in the Memorial hospital at Rawlins, Wyoming, following a brief illness. Funeral services were conducted at Rawlins from the McKelvey Funeral home Monday and the remains were accompanied here by four of her five sons.

Mrs. Kortum is survived by one son, LeRoy, somewhere in the Pacific with the maritime service; Clifford of Pocatello, Idaho, Max of Buffalo, New York, Chester of Rawlins, Wyoming, and Wilson of Los Angeles, California. She also leaves two brothers, Joe Nickum of Denver, Colorado, and Henry and Lawrence of Manning.