Final Rites Held For Harold Schober

Funeral services were held Dec. 26 at Blake Funeral Chapel, 
Bishop for Harold Glenn Schober, 52, with the Rev. Howard 
Rosine of Bishop Methodist Church officiating.

Interment was in the family plot at Pioneer Cemetery.  
Pallbearers were Lester Parent, Alfred Shelley, Harry 
Martyn, Lewis Knighton, Jack Tatum, and Doug Merrill.

Mr. Schober passed away Dec. 22 at Orland, where he had 
resided in recent years.

He was born in Bishop March 30, 1907 and lived in this area 
most of his life.  He attended Sunland grammar school and 
graduated from Bishop Union High School in 1926.

After attending Davis College and operating a meat market in 
Bishop, he operated Schober’s Mountain Ranch on Bishop Creek.  
He sold the Bishop Creek Ranch in 1944 after returning from 
the Army, and left for Gardnerville, Nev., where he was 
engaged in ranching for some years, later ranching in Orland.

He is survived by his wife, Ruth, who was unable to attend the 
funeral as she was in the Glen Hospital at the time of his 
death; two brothers, John of San Diego and Art of Bishop; 
three sisters, Mrs. Hazel Tatum and Mrs. Mildred Merrill of 
Bishop, and Mrs. Laura Carlyle of South Pasadena; a many 
nieces and nephews.

Mr. and Mrs. Russel Lansford of Alhambra, parents of Ruth 
Schober, left for Orland immediately after the funeral to be 
with their daughter.

The Inyo Register, Bishop, Inyo County, California
Thursday, December 31, 1959 – Page three

Transcribed by Denise S. Flynn