Loren L. Shelley was born in Gratiot County, Mich., April 20, 1877. When he was four years of age his mother died, and the family moved to Cedar Lake.
Returning to his boyhood home, at the age of twenty-two he was married to Lettie Tryon. To this union four children were born, two of whom are living. The last fourteen years of his life were spent at Cedar Lake. He leaves a wife and two children, Elmer L. and Harry B., one brother in Honolulu, with other relatives and a host of friends. About two years ago he accepted the third angel’s message and joined the Seventh-day Adventist church, of which he remained a faithful member. He died with a bright hope of the resurrection, May 28, 1917. Words of comfort were spoken by the pastor of the Congregational church at
Edmore, Mich.
R. U. Garrett
Lake Union Herald
01 Aug 1917