Elwood L.H. Harms
1913-2001
KIMBALL - Elwood L.H. Harms, 87, Kimball, died Saturday, March 31, at the Kimball County Hospital. Cremation has taken place. 
Memorial services will be at 1 p.m., Wednesday, April 4, at the First English Lutheran Church, with Pastor Dwayne Hunzeker officiating. 
Burial of the cremains will follow the service in Potter Cemetery in Potter. Memorial gifts may be made to the First English Lutheran Church in Kimball or to a charity of the donor's choice. 
Cantrell Funeral Home of Kimball is in charge of arrangements.
He was born on October 30, 1913 in Dodge County, Neb. to Arthur T. and Freda (Wiekhorst) Harms. He came to Cheyenne County with his parents in 1928. 
He graduated from Potter High School. Elwood married Wilma Schreinert on June 2, 1935 in Dalton. They had been married for over 65 years. 
The couple had lived in Dix and Burns before coming to Kimball in 1966. Elwood was a section foreman for the Union Pacific Railroad for 40 years. He retired in 1974.
He was a member of the First English Lutheran Church of Kimball. He was a member of the Maintenance Union of Railroad Workers. He had served on the Dix School Board 
and had been on the Town Council at Burns, Wyo.

He is survived by his wife Wilma, Kimball, one son, Elwood J. (Junior) Harms, Potter; two sisters, Marjorie Curtis, Salem, Or., and Betty Bennett, Auburn, Wash.; 
4 grandchildren, Candice Dudney, Lori Maas, Randy Harms, all of Potter, and Ronald Harms, Ft. Collins, Colo.; 10 great-grandchildren and 1 great great-grandchild.
He was preceded in death by his parents and one sister Harriet Sanders.