"...I think I should ... tell you something about myself. I left Woodbine, Iowa, about 1912, lived in Minnesota and Oregon, and came to Canada in 1922. I married here and have made my home here since then. We have one child a son, George Wilbur Selleck, Jr. He and his wife have two boys, Lee Selleck, Jr. and Scott Selleck. The two grandchildren are our hopes for the survival of our branch of the Selleck family. I wheat farmed in the province of Saskatchewan for 27 years. My beloved wife, Beatrice, was a teacher for 39 years. Our son was raised on the farm and has done pretty well for a "sod-buster." He lives in St. Louis, Mo., works for Monsanto Chemical Co., and is regional manager of all the southern states, including Kansas. He was director of development and sales of chemicals in Europe for five years, making his home in Brussels, Belgium. Beatrice and I will celebrate our golden wedding anniversary in 1972, so we are no longer "spring chickens. ..." (Extracted from a letter written to Dora (Selleck) Vernon by Lee Wilbur Selleck, Merrit, British Columbia, Canada, May 17, 1971.)
Grandson Lee G. Selleck in a paper for a university project at the University of Dallas in 1974, wrote that Lee and Beatrice celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1972, and a year later his own parents George Wilbur and Verla Selleck celebrated their 25th. George Wilbur who was called 'Bill' was born in 1924 and was an only child in Spalding, Saskatchewan. Bill worked on the farm with his father for many years, went to high school seven miles from the farm and was entirely taught by his mother through the tenth grade.
When Bill was 18, he left the farm and joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1942. He was sent to England where he was a radio operator and gunner in a Halifax bomber performing those duties during regular missions over the continent. After the war, he went back to the farm for a year and then decided to go to the University of Saskatchewan. In 1948 while at the University, he married Verla Griffith who was a home economics major. After receiving his masters degree in botony at the University of Saskatchewan, he went to the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Bill then returned to the University of Saskatchewan and became a professor until he took a job with the Monsanto Company in 1960. Monsanto transferred the family that now included two sons to Brussels, Belguim, where Bill became head of sales and development in Europe. In 1968 he was transferred back to St. Louis and in November of 1973 transferred to Ithaca, New York.
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| Lee Wilbur Selleck | Beatrice Lunsford Selleck |
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| Lee and Beatrice Selleck with son George Wilbur 'Bill' Selleck, Jr. | |
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