Oscar Dalton Testerman

  Birth Notes:

His World War II draft card has his date of birth as 14 May 1884

  Noted events in his life were:

• Nickname: Dalton.

• Obituary: Daily Plainsman, 4 May 1947, Beadle Co, SD. FORMER FARMER OF WESSINGTON DIES
Wessington, May 4, 1947 -
Dalton Testerman, 64, died in the Union Memorial Hospital in Washington D.C. last Saturday morning after an appendectomy in which gangrene had developed. A second operation was performed but failed to help.

Mr. Testerman dad lived here for many years. He sold his farm equipment and household goods last spring, and he and Mrs. Testerman had gone to Falls Church, Virginia to visit at the home of their daughter, Mrs. Ralph Ferrin* and to visit his old home in Virginia.

Surviving are his widow; daughter, Mrs. Ralph Ferrin, and son Wayne, of California; two grandchildren, one sister and five brothers. Funeral services were held Wednesday in Washington, D.C.

Two of his brothers in this vicinity went to Washington by plane. They are Grover Testerman of St. Lawrence and Freel Testerman of south of Wessington.

[Published in the Daily Plainsman - Huron, SD - Sun May 4, 1947 pg 2 col 5]

• Obituary: The Washington Post, 30 Apr 1947, Washington, D. C. On saturday, April 26, 1947, at Garfield Memorial Hospital, O. Dalton Testerman, beloved husband of Dora Testerman, father of Mrs. Ralph S. Ferren and Wayne Testerman. Services at Chambers Georgetown funeral home, 31st and M sts. nw., on Wednesday, April 30, at 2 p.m. Interment National Memorial Park Cemetery, Falls Church, Va.

[Published in The Washington Post on April 30, 1947]

Oscar married Dora Jane Parks, daughter of Benjamin Franklin Parks and Elizabeth S. E. Laws, on 22 Feb 1911 in Grayson Co., VA.¹ (Dora Jane Parks was born on 6 Jan 1892 in Grayson Co., VA ⁵ and died on 16 Apr 1979 in Fairfax Co., VA ⁶.)