(Death Certificate Transcription)
San Joaquin County, City Ripon, 3950-71 Filed 1/29/1940
Martin V SEELY, Male, White
Widowed: Wife - Fannie SEELY
Father: Charles R Seely Born: - NY
Mothers: Salina Southern Born - Virginia
DOD: - 26 January 1940
DOB: 27 September 1851, born Olin, Iowa
Age 88 years 3 mos. 29 days
Residence: - Rt 1 Box 346, Ripon
Trade - Farmer Total of years in Occupation - 71
Length in City - 18 years Calif - 83 years
Informant - George SEELY, San Jose, CA
Physicians Certification - Seen from 6/29/1939 to 1/23/1940
Last seen alive -1/23/1940 7:00 AM
Immediate Cause of Death - Hypostatic Pneumonia Jan 20 1940
Arteriosclerosis
Due to Myocardial Failure Jan 1940
Other condition - None 93 is circled
Autopsy – No; Related to Occupation - No
Signature - Gilbert den Dulk, Ripon, CA
Removal - San Jose, CA 1/26/1940
Embalmer - # 2342; John E Dowdle
John E Dowdle Mortuary, San Jose, CA
Note: See Fannie Emma Seely – wife, Charles R. & Salena Seely – parents

(Obituary Transcription)
SEELY - In Manteca, Calif., Friday, January 26, 1940, Mr. Martin Van Buren Seely, beloved husband of the late Mrs. Fanny Seely, loving father of Mr. Earle Raymond Seely of Chicago, Illinois; Mrs. Pearle Seely Biddle of Sonora, California, and of the late Delbert Seely, loving stepfather of Mrs. Fanny Wiswall, Mrs. Phyllis Powell, Mr. Theodore Wright and Mr. Eugene Wright, loving brother of Mrs. Mary B. Stuart, Mrs. Gertrude Hageman, Mrs. Alice Hough, Mrs. Lillie Graves, Mr. George Seely of San Jose, and of the late Mr. Charles Seely.

Friends are invited to attend the funeral services today (Saturday) January 27, 1940, at 10:30 o'clock a.m. from the chapel of John E. Dowdle Mortuary, 1066 South Second street, near Keyes. Interment, Oak Hill Memorial Park.
San Jose Mercury Herald, January 27, 1940, Saturday Morning, page 16