WETZEL DEMOCRAT, NEW MARTINSVILLE, WEST VIRGINIA
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1956

OBITUARY FOR CONRAD K. LANAM

Conrad K. Lanam,  well known civic leader of the community died on Friday, February 
17, at 7:15 p.m. at the Wetzel County Hospital following a two week illness.  Mr. Lanam 
was born September 11, 1881 at Lowell, Ohio, the son of Rouse and Martha Flanagan 
Lanam.
	He is survived by his wife, Ivy Brown Lanam, two sons, Joe B. and Thomas of 
East Liverpool, Ohio and two daughters, Mrs. Nellie Fear, of East Liverpool, Ohio and 
Mrs. Dolly Brooks of Detroit, Michigan: a nephew, Charles Block, city, and a sister, Mrs. 
Corine Leidicker, of Cleveland, Ohio.
	Mr. Lanam was a member of the Board of the Wetzel County Hospital, the 
founder of Lanam Foundry Co. and a member the Board of Directors of the Doolin 
Federal Savings and Loan Association.  He served several terms as Mayor of Brooklyn 
prior to its annexation to the Town of New Martinsville. He was a member of the First 
Baptist Church, Wetzel Lodge No. 39 A.F. & A. M. , Palm Rebekah Lodge No. 157, 
Magnolia Chapter No. 42, I.O.O.F. and was Past Grand Patriarch of the Grand 
Encampment of West Virginia.
	Funeral services were held on Monday, Feb. 20th, at 2:00 p.m. in the chapel of the 
Iams Funeral Home, Rev. Warren B. Moyer of the First Baptist Church officiated and 
interment was made in the Greenlawn Memorial Park.  Serving as pallbearers, James 
Lawrence, Harley F Richmond, Edward W. Schupbabch, Daniel Witschey, Fred O. 
Fitzsimmons and Jesse Rothlisberger.
	Grand Encampment officers conducting graveside rites were Grand Patriarch 
M.W. Oates of Keyser and Grand Treasurer C. W. Fiedler of Weirton.