Roundup Man Dies Suddenly
Services Announced for F.W. Seeley
Roundup, Dec. 21 – Frank Wilbur Seeley, 59, Roundup area rancher, who had been working several months as watchman at the Johnson coal mine, died of a heart attack, while on his way to work Wednesday afternoon.
Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Roberts chapel at Roundup, with the Rev. Walter L. Spencer of the Congregational church officiating. Burial will be at 1 p.m. Monday in Mountainview cemetery at Billings, with committal services.
Born March 4, 1892, at Pomeroy, Iowa, Mr. Seeley came to Hinsdale iwith his parents in the fall of 1900, when the family homesteaded there. He married Alma Wilson at Glasgow Jan. 1, 1915.
Mr. and Mrs. Seeley ranched about eight miles north of Hinsdale until the spring of 1941, when they moved to a ranch near Musselshell, where they lived until this autum, when they moved to Roundup. He was a member of Musselshell Victory lodge No. 124, A.F. & A.M.
Surviving, in addition to the wife, are two sons, Calvin Seeley of Billings and Frank Seeley, Jr., of Malta; two daughters, Mrs. Victor Forstrom of Roundup and Mrs. Weldon Warren of Cathlamet, Wash.; three brothers, Chester Seeley of Havre, Herbert Seeley of Spokane and Arlie Seeley of Bremerton, Wash.; two sisters, Mrs. Joseph Leahy of Seattle and Mrs. William Schuster of Spokane, and six grandchildren.
Published in the Billings Gazette, Saturday December 22, 1951 page 6
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