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a i _ _ _ __ : HaFtet,e15.Developeris.iel(Strom Dies *4 •a.rr* Carl A. Strom, 78, long-time, 5 l’ resident of Big Spring and £s „ developer of two residential t. areas here, died at 12:35 a.m. pr Saturday in a local hospital.Services for Mr. Strom are jot' pending at Nalley-PickleJ Se)Funeral Home. 'Mr. Strom came to Big Spring in 1936 from Fairfax, Okla. For approximately the first five years of his residence here, he operated a Frigidaire appliance store before opening a finance company, which he operated for a number of years.11 He was influential in theFrt1JesCoowFllt;Sal1ElanCa2:Cdevelopment of Central Park and Indian Hills Subdivision.Mr. Strom and his wife, Viva, made their home at 501»| Westover.i Bom in Elsmore, Kans., Jan.5, 1894, Mr. Strom later movedto Perry, Okla. with his parents.He married Viva Smith in September, 1921, in KansasCity, Mo. I vAfter World War I, in which ,e(jhe served, Mr. Strom opened |njna shirt factory in Tulsa, and j 5 3later moved to Fairfax wherehe and his family lived for a time before moving to BigSpring.Mr. Strom was a member of First Presbyterian Church, the American Legion and the Suez Shrine Temple locally, and he was a member of the GrayY1VDoHorse Masonic Lodge, Fairfax, Okla., and of the Consistory ofGuthrie, Okla.Survivors include his wife, of the home; one daughter, Mrs. Gloria Ezzell, also of the home; one grandson, H. F. Ezzell III, a student at Texas Christian(da]thrtonoyoififtUniversity; one sister, Mrs. Ida Smith, Wichita, Kans.; andseveral nieces and nephews.(fornornetatReforthe. 1tellt;823
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Big Spring Sunday Herald
Big Spring, Texas, US
Sun, Apr 23, 1972
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