Birth: April 4, 1910
Death: October 14, 1953
Location: Lot 177, Section 6, New Addition
Funeral services were conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. in the Methodist Church in Wood River for Sherman Layher, 43, who died Wednesday, October 14, at the Veterans Hospital in Lincoln where he had been receiving treatment for several weeks. The Rev. Clarence McConkey officiated with the Apfel Funeral Home in charge. Burial was in Wood River Cemetery.
Sherman Leroy Layher, the son of Charles and Grace Layher, was born at St. Paul April 4, 1910 and spent his early life in St. Paul and Wolbach communities.
He entered the army in August 1940 and served in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater during World War II and received his medical discharge as a technical sergeant Nov. 30, 1944.
On January 10, 1949, he and Mrs. Kathryn Becker were united in marriage at Kearney. The past few years they had made their home on a farm near Giltner.
Surviving are his wife; three sons, Dale Layher, Francis and Clifford Becker; his parents, Mrs. and Mrs. Charles Layher; two sisters, Mrs. Isabel Ooley, Wood River and Mrs. Evelyn Anderson, Boise, Idaho; one brother, Bill Layher, Chadron; and a host of other relatives and friends.
He was a kind and loving husband and father and will be greatly missed by all who knew him.
Many from here attended the servcies, which included members of the Ray Mapes American Legion Post who went in a group.
Wolbach Messenger, October 22, 1953, transcribed by Linda Berney