Obituaries - K
Dana J. Kadell, 21, WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT
2:18 PM MONDAY, 20 JUL 1987, AT THE SCENE OF AN AUTOMOBILE
ACCIDENT ON ILLINOIS ROUTE 267, SOUTH OF DELHI. SHE WAS BORN IN
GREENE COUNTY THE DAUGHTER OF ROBERT KADELL AND PEGGY (GIBERSON)
JUNGE, BOTH OF JERSEYVILLE. SHE WAS EMPLOYED AS A CASHIER AT THE
MOTO STATION IN CARROLLTON. IN ADDITION TO HER PARENTS,
SURVIVING ARE A DAUGHTER, ALICIA DAWN KADELL AT HOME; THREE
SISTERS, TERRI MEUTH OF CARROLLTON, AND JAMI KIRCHNER AND GINA
KADELL, BOTH OF JERSEYVILLE; MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS, CARROLL
GIBERSON OF WHITE HALL AND PAULINE GRISWOLD OF ELSAH; AND
MATERNAL GREAT GRANDFATHER, CARL STEINACHER OF CARROLLTON.
VISITATION IS SCHEDULED 4 TO 9 PM WED AT JACOBY BROS FUNERAL
HOME IN JERSEYVILLE. A ROSARY WILL BE RECITED AT 7 PM. A FUNERAL
MASS WILL BE CELEBRATED AT 10 AM THURS AT HOLY GHOST CATHOLIC
CHURCH IN JERSEYVILLE WITH THE REV. WILLIAM HEMBROW AS
CELEBRANT. BURIAL WILL BE AT ST. FRANCIS CEMETERY IN
JERSEYVILLE. MEMORIALS MAY BE GIVEN TO THE ALICIA DAWN KADELL
FUND, IN CARE OF JACOBY BROS FUNERAL HOME.
FINAL RITES WERE HELD SATURDAY MORNING, 6 AUG AT 10:30
O'CLOCK AT JACOBY BROS FUNERAL HOME FOR Robert Kadell,
Jr., INFANT SON OF ROBERT C. AND MYRNA SCOGGINS KADELL OF
JERSEYVILLE. REV. PAUL P. HEINEN, PASTOR OF THE CHURCH OF THE
HOLY GHOST, OFFICIATED AND INTERMENT WAS IN OAK GROVE CEMETERY.
THE BABY DIED FRIDAY, 5 AUG SHORTLY AFTER HIS BIRTH AT BOYD
MEMORIAL HOSPITAL IN CARROLLTON. THE BABY'S FATHER IS IN
MILITARY SERVICE AND IS STATIONED IN GERMANY. [11 Aug 1955]
A GRAVESIDE SERVICE FOR Flossie Kaffer, 92,
WAS CONDUCTED 21 NOV AT THE CARROLLTON CEMETERY BY THE REV.
PETER ELY. SHE DIED AT 12:10 PM 20 NOV AT THE JERSEYVILLE CARE
CENTER WHERE SHE RESIDED. SHE WAS BORN 29 JUN 1891 IN CARROLLTON
TO THE LATE AVERY AND EMILY HUFF DOWDALL AND WAS A TEACHER. HER
HUSBAND WAS THE LATE JOHN KAFFER. SHE IS SURVIVED BY A NEPHEW,
JACK DOWDALL OF POMPANO BEACH, FLA. AND SEVERAL COUSINS. JACOBY
BROS FUNERAL HOME ARRANGEMENTS. [06 Dec 1983]
Mrs. Martin Kaffer DIED 11 JUN OF A HEART
ATTACK AT HER HOME NEAR WOODY. SHE HAD BEEN A SUFFERER OF HEART
TROUBLE FOR SEVERAL YEARS BUT THAT DAY SEEMED BETTER THAN USUAL.
SHE WAS 68 YEARS OF AGE. THE FUNERAL WAS HELD SUNDAY AFTERNOON
AT MEHL FUNERAL HOME, REV. WILLIAM BOSTON CONDUCTING THE
SERVICE. A QUARTET, MRS. HENRY BORLIN, MRS. HARRY CALVIN, THOMAS
AND STEPHEN MARTIN, SANG "THE OLD RUGGED CROSS" AND "O, IT IS
BEAUTIFUL." MRS. THOMAS MARTIN ACCOMPANIED ON THE PIANO. BURIAL
WAS IN THE CARROLLTON CITY CEMETERY. CASKET BEARERS WERE
NEPHEWS, JOHN AND FRANK KAFFER, GILBERT K. AND JULIAN HUTCHENS,
MARTIN AND HARRY BORMAN. FLOWER GIRLS WERE NIECES, MRS. FLORENCE
PRANGER, MRS. WALTER POSTLEWAIT, MRS. LUCIUS WOOD, MRS. GILBERT
HUTCHENS, MRS. JULIAN HUTCHENS AND MRS. MARTIN BORMAN. MAYME
JONES KAFFER WAS A DAUGHTER OF FRANCES M. AND ZERILDA ELLIOT
JONES AND WAS BORN IN LINDER TOWN IN 1874. SHE AND MARTIN KAFFER
WERE MARRIED 9 OCT 1894 AND HE AND ONE DAUGHTER SURVIVE HER. SHE
ALSO LEAVES THREE BROTHERS, JOHN AND ROBERT H. JONES OF
SASKATCHAWAN, CANADA, CLARENCE JONES OF KAMPSVILLE. MRS. KAFFER
BECAME A MEMBER OF THE BRUSH COLLEGE BAPTIST CHURCH EARLY IN
LIFE. SINCE HER MARRIAGE SHE HAD LIVED ON THE FARM NEAR WOODY.
FRIENDS AND RELATIVES FROM A DISTANCE HERE TO ATTEND THE FUNERAL
WERE [remainder unavailable] [1942]
Cletus "Pete" Kallal, 58, DIED AT 12:30 PM
TUES 19 APR 1988, AT ST. JOHN'S HOSPICE IN SPRINGFIELD,
FOLLOWING A LENGTHY ILLNESS. KALLAL WAS A U.S. ARMY VETERAN OF
THE KOREAN CONFLICT, AND WAS A MACHINIST FOR MOBILE CHEMICAL IN
JACKSONVILLE. BORN IN JERSEY COUNTY, HE WAS THE SON OF THE LATE
FRANCES AND ALICE (WOOLSEY) KALLAL. HE MARRIED THE FORMER LOIS
WOOLSEY5 JUN 1955 AND SHE SURVIVES. ALSO SURVIVING ARE SIX
DAUGHTERS, CHERYL DAWSON, CARLA CLARK AND CAROL CLAYBROOK, ALL
OF SPRINGFIELD, CYNTHIA GOODEY OF JACKSONVILLE, CRYSTAL BROCKWAY
OF KANE AND RANDYRAAE KALLAL AT HOME; 15 GRANDCHILDREN; FOUR
SISTERS, MARIE MADSON OF JERSEYVILLE, MARJORIE GEHLHAUSEN OF
CARROLLTON, SHARON COMBS OF BLUFFS AND BARBARA WINTJEN OF KANE;
AND EIGHT BROTHERS, FRANCES KALLAL OF CALIF., JAMES, DAVID,
JERRY AND ED KALLAL, ALL OF JERSEYVILLE, DONNY AND SAM KALLAL,
BOTH OF KANE, AND CHURCH KALLAL OF WOOD RIVER. HE WAS PRECEDED
IN DEATH BY A GRANDDAUGHTER. VISITATION WILL BE 4 PM THURS. AT
AIRSMAN-HIRES FUNERAL HOME IN CARROLLTON. THE REV. WILLIAM
HEMNBROW WILL OFFICIATE. CREMATION WILL FOLLOW WITH BURIAL AT A
LATER DATE. MEMORIALS MAY BE GIVEN TO ST. JOHN'S HOSPICE IN
SPRINGFIELD OR THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY. [20 Apr 1988]
Eugene C. Kallal, 78, DIED AT 7:06 AM SUNDAY
18 OCT 1987 AT SAINT ANTHONY'S HOSPITAL IN ALTON. HE WAS A
FARMER, BORN IN JERSEY COUNTY, SON OF THE LATE FRANK J. AND
JOSEPHINE (TONSOR) KALLAL. ON 9 NOV 1935 HE MARRIED THE FORMER
ANNA HELEN COLLINS IN JERSEYVILLE, AND SHE SURVIVES. ALSO
SURVIVING ARE A DAUGHTER, THERESA TIMPE OF IRVING, ILL; TWO
SONS, ROBERT KALLAL OF BETHALTO AND RONALD KALLAL OF MEDORA;
SEVEN GRANDCHILDREN; THREE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN; A SISTER,
JULIANNA OSTERMAN OF CARROLLTON; AND THREE BROTHERS, VINCENT AND
RICHARD KALLAL, BOTH OF JERSEYVILLE, AND ROBERT KALLAL OF DOW.
HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY SIX BROTHERS, PAUL, THEODORE,
SYLVESTER, VIRGIL, FRANCIS AND ALOYS KALLAL. VISITATION IS
SCHEDULED 5 TO 9 PM TUES AT TARGHETTA FUNERAL HOME IN MEDORA,
WHERE A ROSARY WILL BE RECITED AT 8 PM. A FUNERAL MASS WILL BE
CELEBRATED AT 10 AM WEDNESDAY AT ST. JOHN'S CATHOLIC CHURCH IN
MEDORA WITH THE REV. T.J. DAVENPORT AS CELEBRANT. BURIAL WILL BE
AT ST. FRANCIS CEMETERY IN JERSEYVILLE. MASSES ARE PREFERRED FOR
MEMORIALS.
Mrs. Frank J. Kallal OF 502 NORTH WASHINGTON
ST, JERSEYVILLE, DIED AT ONE FIFTY-FIVE O'CLOCK SUNDAY AFTERNOON
AT THE JERSEY COMM. HOSPITAL WHERE SHE HAD BEEN A PATIENT SINCE
MAY 7. VISITATION HOURS WERE HELD AT JACOBY BROS FUNERAL HOME
WHERE THE ROSARY WAS RECITED AT EIGHT-FIFTEEN O'CLOCK WED
MORNING AT THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY GHOST WITH REV. ROBERT HEINTZ
AS CELEBRANT. BURIAL WAS IN ST. MARY'S CEMETERY, WESTWOODS. MRS.
KALLAL, A DAUGHTER OF THE LATE JOHN AND ELIZABETH ERIK TONSOR,
WAS BORN IN JERSEY COUNTY AND HAD LIVED HERE ALL HER LIFE. AT
DEATH SHE HAD ATTAINED THE AGE OF EIGHTY-SEVEN YEARS, SIX
MONTHS, AND TWO DAYS. HER HUSBAND, TWO SONS, AND THREE DAUGHTERS
PRECEDED HER IN DEATH. SURVIVING MRS. KALLAL ARE EIGHT SONS,
SYLVESTER, VINCENT, THEODORE, AND RICHARD OF JERSEYVILLE, EUGENE
AND PAUL OF MEDORA, VIRGIL OF CARLINVILLE, AND ROBERT OF DOW;
ONE DAUGHTER, MRS. LOUIS (JULIANNA) OSTERMANN OF CARROLLTON; ONE
BROTHER, TONY TONSOR OF JERSEYVILLE; THIRTY NINE GRANDCHILDREN;
SEVENTY-ONE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, AND FOUR GREAT, GREAT,
GRANDCHILDREN. [22 May 1969]
Joseph Kallal DIED AT HIS HOME SEVEN MILES
WEST OF JERSEYVILLE. ST. MARY'S CHURCH AND CEMETERY.
GRANDCHILDREN AS PALLBEARERS--FRANCIS, EUGENE, SYLVESTER,
JOSEPH, AND VICTOR KALLAL, BARTH, FRANCIS AND EDWARD BAUER. HE
WAS 80 YEARS OLD. BORN IN BOHEMIA AND CAME TO U.S. IN 1853 WITH
PARENTS, FRANK AND FRANCIS KAZIMON KALLAL WHO SETTLED IN JERSEY
COUNTY. MARRIED MARY JILEK. ELEVEN CHILDREN, ALL OF WHOM
SURVIVE. CHILDREN ARE: MRS. MARY BAUER, MRS. ANTHONY CABALEK OF
JERSEYVILLE, MRS. JOSEPH HANSON OF CARROLLTON, FRANK J., JOSEPH
V., BENJAMIN J., WILLIAM J., ALL OF JERSEYVILLE; EDWARD,
CHARLES, AND ANTON OF TOFIELD, ALBERTA, CANADA; JOHN S. KALLAL
OF CHESTERFIELD, ILL. TWO SISTERS, MRS. ANNA DUBAN AND MRS. MARY
HORST OF ST. LOUIS; TWO BROTHERS, FRANK V. AND JOHN C. OF
JERSEYVILLE. HIS ESTATE VALUED AT $100,000. UPRIGHT, HONEST,
MANY FRIENDS AND ADMIRERS. HE WAS KNOWN AS JERSEY COUNTY'S
"GRAND OLD MAN." [25 Mar 1926]
SAN DIMAS, CALIFORNIA - FORMER JERSEYVILLE RESIDENT
Joseph Jacob Kallal, 81, DIED SAT 20 JUN 1992 AT
FOOTHILL PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL IN GLENDORA, CALIF. HE WAS BORN
13 APR 1911 IN JERSEY COUNTY, SON OF THE LATE JOSEPH AND THERESA
(KROUPA) KALLAL. ON 30 SEP 1935, HE MARRIED THE FORMER ALBERTA
NEWDIGATE IN BEARDSTOWN. SHE SURVIVES. ALSO SURVIVING ARE A SON,
MICHAEL KALLAL OF LAGUNA NIGUEL, CALIF., FOUR GRANDCHILDREN;
FIVE BROTHERS, VICTOR KALLAL OF GREENVILLE, ALBERT KALLAL OF
CARROLLTON, LEO KALLAL OF UNIVERSITY CITY, MO; DAVID KALLAL OF
DUNKIRK, MD; AND VALENTINE KALLAL OF JERSEYVILLE; AND FOUR
SISTERS, ROSA LEE HAYS AND ANN KALLAL, BOTH OF WALDORF, MD.,
GENEVIEVE ENTWISTLE OF UNIVERSITY CITY AND MARY MAJOR OF
JERSEYVILLE. PRECEDING HIM IN DEATH WERE A GRANDSON; A BROTHER,
LAWRENCE KALLAL; AND A SISTER, AGNES QUEST. A FUNERAL MASS WAS
CELEBRATED 23 JUN AT ST. LOUISE DE MARILLAC CATHOLIC CHURCH IN
COVINA, CALIF. BURIAL WAS IN QUEEN OF HEAVEN CEMETERY IN ROWLAND
HEIGHTS, CALIF. CUSTER-CHRISTIANSEN MORTUARY OF COVINA HANDLED
ARRANGEMENTS.
REQUIEM MASS WAS CELEBRATED AT NINE-THIRTY O'CLOCK MONDAY
MORNING AT ST. FRANCIS XAVIER CHURCH BY FATHER FRANCIS LEE FOR
Joseph V. Kallal, RETIRED FARMER OF JERSEY
COUNTY, WHOSE DEATH OCCURRED AT ONE-FIFTY O'CLOCK THURS MORNING
AT ST. ANTHONY HOSPITAL IN ALTON. BURIAL WAS IN ST. FRANCIS
CEMETERY. VISITATION HOURS WERE HELD AT JACOBY BROS FUNERAL HOME
WHERE THE ROSARY WAS RECITED SUN EVENING. THE FAMILY DESIGNATED
THE BUILDING FUND AT ST. FRANCIS XAVIER CHURCH AS A MEMORIAL FOR
MR. KALLAL. BORN IN JERSEY COUNTY, 9 MAR 1882, A SON OF THE LATE
JOSEPH AND MARY JILEK KALLAL, HE HAD RESIDED HERE DURING HIS
ENTIRE LIFETIME. MR. KALLAL WAS PROMINENT IN FARMING CIRCLES AS
LIVESTOCK BREEDER AND GRAIN FARMER. UPON RETIREMENT A NUMBER OF
YEARS AGO, MR. AND MRS. KALLAL MOVED TO JERSEYVILLE WHERE THE
FAMILY HOME IS AT 607 WEST PINE STREET. MR. KALLAL IS SURVIVED
BY HIS WIFE, MRS. THERESA KROUPA KALLAL; SIX SONS, VICTOR OF
GREENVILLE, JOSEPH OF WEST COVINA, CALIF., LEO OF UNIVERSITY
CITY, MO., DAVID OF WASHINGTON, D.C., AND ALBERT AND VALENTINE
OF JERSEYVILLE; FIVE DAUGHTERS, MRS. AGNES QUEST AND MRS. GENE
ENTWISTLE OF ST. LOUIS, MISS ROSALEE KALLAL OF SAN FRANCISCO,
MISS ANN LOUISE KALLAL, OXNARD HILL, MARYLAND, AND MRS. A.R.
(MARY) MAJOR OF JERSEYVILLE; THREE BROTHERS, TONY AND WILLIAM OF
ALBERTA, CANADA, AND BEN KALLAL OF JERSEYVILLE; ONE SISTER, MRS.
JOSEPHINE HANSON OF CARROLLTON; THIRTY-FIVE GRANDCHILDREN, AND
FIFTEEN GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. ONE SON, STAFF SERGEANT LAWRENCE B.
KALLAL, WAS KILLED IN ACTION, 1 OCT 1943. TWO SISTERS ALSO
PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH. [10 Apr 1969]
Mrs. Mary Josephine Kallal, WIFE OF JOSEPH
KALLAL, SR. DIED AT HOLY GHOST CHURCH WHILE ATTENDING MASS.
DAUGHTER OF JOHN AND ANNIE NEIBAUR JILEK AND BORN AT FLORISSANT,
MO ON 9TH OF APRIL 1854. LEAVES 8 CHILDREN AND HER HUSBAND.
FRANK J., BERNARD J., WILLIAM, JOSEPH V. OF JERSEY COUNTY;
CHARLES AND ANTHONY OF TOFIELD, ALBERTA, CANADA; EDWIN R. OF
EDMUNTON, CANADA, AND MRS. JOSEPHINE HENSON OF CARROLLTON. THREE
SISTERS AND THREE BROTHERS. MRS. JOSEPHINE KAUPEL OF ST. LOUIS,
MRS. WALTER ?OPE OF ALTON, MISS CHRISTINA JILEK, FRANK, EDWARD
AND JOHN JILEK OF JERSEY COUNTY. FUNERAL FROM ST. MARY'S AT
FIELDON. BURIAL IN ST. MARY'S CEMETERY. [Jerseyville Republican
28 Dec 1922]
Ronald E. Kallal, 43, WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 11:25 AM
SUN, 24 FEB 1991 IN JERSEY COUNTY FOLLOWING A FOUR-WHEEL ACCIDENT. HE WAS
ENGAGED IN FARMING. BORN IN CARROLLTON, HE WAS THE SON OF HELEN (COLLINS)
KALLAL OF MEDORA AND THE LATE EUGENE KALLAL. HE MARRIED THE FORMER RITA FITE
ON 22 DEC 1988 IN CARLINVILLE, AND SHE SURVIVES. IN ADDITION TO HIS WIFE AND
MOTHER, SURVIVING ARE TWO DAUGHTERS, JENNIFER KALLAL OF BRIGHTON AND AMANDA
KALLAL OF MEDORA; A SON, CHRISTOPHER KALLAL OF BRIGHTON; THREE STEP
DAUGHTERS, KRIS McMILLIAN AND MARCI WELCH, BOTH OF BUNKER HILL AND JAMIE
POWELL OF EDWARDSVILLE; THREE STEP SONS, SHAWN POWELL OF TAMPA, FLA., CHUCK
POWELL OF BRIGHTON AND COREY POWELL OF MEDORA; THREE GRANDCHILDREN; A
SISTER, THERSA TIMPE OF IRVING; AND A BROTHER, ROBERT KALLAL OF BETHALTO.
VISITATION IS FROM 5 TO 9 PM WED AT TARGHETTA FUNERAL HOME IN MEDORA, WITH A
ROSARY RECITATION AT 8:30 PM. A FUNERAL MASS IS AT 10:30 AM THURS AT ST.
JOHN'S CATHOLIC CHURCH IN MEDORA WITH THE REVS. T.J. DAVENPORT AND JOHN
SHEAHAN AS CONCELEBRANTS. BURIAL WILL BE IN ST. FRANCIS XAVIER CEMETERY IN
JERSEYVILLE. MEMORIALS MAY BE GIVEN TO MASSES OR TO A FUND FOR JENNIFER AND
CHRISTOPHER KALLAL, IN CARE OF THE FUNERAL HOME.
REQUIEM MASS FOR Sylvester Jacob Kallal, 62,
OF JERSEYVILLE WILL BE CELEBRATED TOMORROW MORNING (FRI) AT 9:30
O'CLOCK AT THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY GHOST WITH REV. ROBERT HEINTZ,
CELEBRANT. HIS DEATH OCCURRED TUES EVENING AT JERSEY COMM.
HOSPITAL. HE HAD BEEN IN ILL HEALTH FOR SOME TIME. INTERMENT
WILL BE IN ST. MARY'S CEMETERY. AN EMPLOYEE OF O.A. SMITH
CORPORATION, HE WAS BORN 10 JAN 1908 IN JERSEY COUNTY, A SON OF
THE LATE FRANK J. AND JOSEPHINE TONSOR KALLAL. HIS WIFE IS THE
FORMER JOSEPHINE ABELN KALLAL. IN ADDITION TO HIS WIFE HE IS
SURVIVED BY ONE SON, JACOB (JACK) KALLAL OF JERSEYVILLE; THREE
DAUGHTERS, MRS. EDWARD (ARBEDELLA) WHITEHEAD, MRS. STANFORD
(JAONN) SPRINGMAN, AND MRS. DUANE (NADINE) FINK, ALL OF
JERSEYVILLE; TEN GRANDCHILDREN; ONE SISTER, MRS. LOUIS (JULIA
ANN) OSTERMAN OF CARROLLTON; AND SIX BROTHERS, EUGENE AND PAUL
OF MEDORA, ROBERT OF DOW, VINCENT, RICHARD, AND THEODORE OF
JERSEYVILLE. HIS PARENTS, FOUR BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS PRECEDED
HIM IN DEATH. FRIENDS MAY CALL AT JACOBY FUNERAL HOME AFTER 4 PM
TODAY (THURS). THE ROSARY WILL BE RECITED AT 8:15 THIS EVENING.
[27 Aug 1970]
FUNERAL MASS FOR Theodore Herman Kallal, 56,
OF SUNMER WAS CELEBRATED MONDAY MORNING AT ST. FRANCIS XAVIER
CHURCH WITH REV. R.T. SHEA CELEBRANT. HIS DEATH OCCURRED 3 MAR
IN SUNMER. INTERMENT WAS IN ST. MARY'S CEMETERY. A WORLD WAR II
VETERAN, HE WAS BORN 14 JAN 1916, A SON OF FRANK J. AND
JOSEPHINE TONSOR KALLAL OF JERSEY COUNTY. MR. KALLAL WAS A
CATTLE HERDSMAN. HE IS SURVIVED BY A DAUGHTER, PATRICIA JUNE, OF
CHICAGO; ONE SISTER, MRS. LOUIS OSTERMANN OF CARROLLTON; FIVE
BROTHERS, VINCENT AND RICHARD KALLAL OF JERSEYVILLE; EUGENE
KALLAL AND PAUL KALLAL OF MEDORA AND ROBERT KALLAL OF DOW.
VISITATION HOURS WERE HELD AT JACOBY FUNERAL HOME WHERE THE
[remainder unavailable] [09 Mar 1972]
Fred A. Kanallakan, A FARMER OF ROSEDALE
TOWNSHIP WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD ON ARRIVAL AT THE JERSEY COMM.
HOSPITAL AT 1:10 O'CLOCK WED MORNING WHERE HE WAS MOVED IN THE
JACOBY AMBULANCE. MR. KANALLAKAN HAD BEEN IN ILL HEALTH. THE
BODY IS AT JACOBY BROS FUNERAL HOME WHERE VISITATION HOURS WILL
BE HELD AFTER THREE O'CLOCK THIS (THURS) AFTERNOON. THE ROSARY
WILL BE RECITED THIS EVENING AT 8 O'CLOCK. FUNERAL SERVICES WILL
BE HELD FRI MORNING, 29 OCT AT 9:30 O'CLOCK AT ST. MARY'S
CHURCH, WESTWOODS, WITH REV. PETER KLUMBYS CELEBRANT OF THE
REQUIEM MASS, AND INTERMENT WILL BE IN ST. MARY'S CEMETERY. MR.
KANALLAKAN WAS A SON OF THE LATE FRED AND HANNAH MUNSTERMAN
KANALLAKAN AND WAS BORN IN JERSEY COUNTY ON 2 MAR 1900. HIS AGE
AT THE TIME OF DEATH WAS SIXTY-FIVE YEARS, SEVEN MONTHS, AND
TWENTY-FIVE DAYS. SURVIVORS ARE HIS WIFE, MRS. STELLA KANALLAKAN
OF ROUTE ONE, FIELDON; FOUR SONS, DELBERT OF FIELDON, ELDON OF
JERSEYVILLE, DARREL OF GRAFTON AND ANTHONY JOE OF THE U.S. ARMY
AT FORTHOOD, TEXAS; THREE DAUGHTERS, MRS. CHARLES HELTON OF
ELDRED, MRS. JUNIOR CORY OF FIELDON AND MRS. DALE SNIDER OF
JERSEYVILLE; SEVENTEEN GRANDCHILDREN; ONE BROTHER, CHARLES
KANALLAKAN OF JERSEYVILLE; AND ONE SISTER, MRS. PETER DRAINER OF
FIELDON. HIS PARENTS AND THREE BROTHERS, FRANK, JOHN AND GUSS,
PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH. [28 Oct 1965]
A FUNERAL MASS FOR Stella Kanallakan, 80,
R.3, JERSEYVILLE WAS CELEBRATED FRI MORNING AT THE HOLY GHOST
CHURCH WITH FATHER WILLIAM HEMBROW AS CELEBRANT. BURIAL WAS IN
ST. MARY'S CEMETERY, FIELDON. SHE DIED AT 5:40 P.M. 10 JAN AT
JERSEY COMM. HOSPITAL. SHE WAS BORN 18 MAY 1903 IN FIELDON TO
THE LATE JOHN AND ELIZA HALLER ISRINGHAUSEN AND WAS A MEMBER OF
THE HOLY GHOST CHURCH. SHE IS SURVIVED BY FOUR SONS, DELBERT AND
ELDON OF JERSEYVILLE, DARRELL OF GRAFTON AND ANTHONY OF ELDRED;
TWO DAUGHTERS, NORINE HELTON OF ELDRED AND PAT SNIDER OF
JERSEYVILLE; THREE SISTERS, MATILDA GROPPEL OF JERSEYVILLE,
FREDA MORRIS AND TESS ASHLOCK OF WOOD RIVER; 24 GRANDCHILDREN
AND SEVEN GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. HER HUSBAND, FRED KANALLAKAN,
DIED 27 OCT 1965. SHE WAS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY ONE
DAUGHTER, SEVEN BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. THE ROSARY WAS
RECITED THURS EVENING AT JACOBY BROS FUNERAL HOME. [17 Jan 1984]
William Frederick Kanallakan, FOURTEEN YEAR
OLD SON OF MR. AND MRS. DELBERT KANALLAKAN OF ROUTE ONE,
FIELDON, WAS FATALLY INJURED MONDAY MORNING WHEN A TRACTOR HE
WAS RIDING OVERTURNED AND PINNED HIM BENEATH IT. YOUNG
KANALLAKAN HAD BEEN HELPING PUT UP HAY ON THE FARM OPERATED BY
HIS FATHER AND UNCLE, TONY J. KANALLAKAN. WHILE THE MEN WERE
LOADING THE HAY, THE YOUTH STARTED TO HIS GRANDMOTHER'S HOME TO
GET A JUG OF WATER. THE MEN BECAME ALARMED WHEN THE BOY FAILED
TO RETURN WITH THE WATER AND BEGAN LOOKING FOR HIM. THE
OVERTURNED TRACTOR WITH THE YOUTH PINIONED BY IT WAS FOUND JUST
OUTSIDE THE FIELD AND AROUND A BEND IN THE ROAD. THE TRACTOR WAS
LIFTED FROM HIM AND THE YOUTH WAS RUSHED TO THE JERSEY COMM.
HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD. REQUIEM MASS WAS
CELEBRATED BY MONSIGNOR HENRY J. KNOEDLER OF HARDIN AT ST.
MARY'S CHURCH, WESTWOODS, AT NINE-THIRTY O'CLOCK WED MORNING.
BURIAL WAS IN ST. MARY'S CEMETERY. FRIENDS CALLED AT JACOBY BROS
FUNERAL HOME WHERE THE ROSARY WAS RECITED ON TUES EVENING.
WILLIAM FREDERICK WAS BORN IN CARROLLTON, THE SON OF DELBERT F.
AND GRACE J. BRIGGS KANALLAKAN, AND HIS AGE AT THE TIME OF DEATH
WAS FOURTEEN YEARS, NINE MONTHS, AND SIXTEEN DAYS. SURVIVING HIM
IN ADDITION TO HIS PARENTS ARE THREE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS,
DAVID, TIMMY, JACK, SUSAN, AND JILL, ALL AT HOME; HIS PATERNAL
GRANDMOTHER, MRS. FRED KANALLAKAN OF FIELDON AND HIS MATERNAL
GRANDPARENTS, MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM BRIGGS OF JERSEYVILLE. THE
YOUNG LAD WOULD HAVE BEEN A SOPHOMORE STUDENT THIS FALL AT THE
JERSEY COMM. HIGH SCHOOL WHERE HE WAS ENROLLED IN THE
AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT. HE HAD RECEIVED HIS GREENHAND DEGREE IN
THE FUTURE FARMERS CHAPTER OF AMERICA LAST TERM. [PICTURE OF
DECEDENT APPEARS WITH THIS OBITUARY.] [04 Aug 1966]
Shirley Jean Kane BURNED TO DEATH AT
DECATUR, THURSDAY: SHIRLEY JEAN KANE, AGED 3 1/2 YEARS, DAUGHTER
OF MR. AND MRS. JOHN KANE OF DECATUR, WAS BURNED TO DEATH LAST
THURSDAY WHILE AT PLAY WITH CHILDREN IN THE HOME OF A NEIGHBOR.
THE CHILDREN SAID SHE WAS PLAYING WITH PAPERS AND HELD THEM OVER
A LIGHTED GAS JET, THE FLAMES SPREADING TO HER CLOTHING. BY THE
TIME THE CHILD'S MOTHER COULD REACH HER AND SMOTHER THE FLAMES,
HER ENTIRE BODY WAS BADLY BURNED. THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED ABOUT
TWO IN THE AFTERNOON AND THE CHILD LIVED UNTIL NINE O'CLOCK THAT
NIGHT. FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD IN DECATUR SATURDAY AND
RELATIVES FROM HERE ATTENDING WERE MR. AND MRS. STEVENS, MR. AND
MRS. RUPERT (UNREADABLE), MR. AND MRS. MARK KANE, AND MRS.
FELTER STEVENS, MR. AND MRS. ED STEVENS AND MR. AND MRS. HENRY
L. STEVENS. THE CHILD'S MOTHER WAS FORMERLY MISS ALFREDA STEVENS
OF KANE. GRANDPARENTS ARE MR. AND MRS. J.J. STEVENS OF KANE AND
MRS. NORA KANE OF CARROLLTON. THE CHILD WAS BORN 13 MAY 1935 IN
KANE. [1938]
Mrs. Mary E. Kappler, 65, OF 607 E. ARCH,
WIFE OF REV. LOUIS KAPPLER OF JERSEYVILLE, DIED UNEXPECTEDLY AT
7:13 PM 4 AUG AT JERSEY COMM. HOSPITAL FROM AN APPARENT HEART
ATTACK. SHE WAS BORN 31 MAR 1917 IN HOLLYWOOD, MO; A DAUGHTER OF
THE LATE ROY AND NANNIE LAWSON WHITE. SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER
HUSBAND; TWO SONS, ROBERT OF PINE BLUFF, ARK., AND DAVID KAPPLER
WHO IS SERVING WITH THE U.S. AIR FORCE IN SOUTH KOREA; SEVEN
DAUGHTERS, EDITH LESTER, GRAFTON; ESTER EVANS, VIOLET CLENDENNY
AND RUTH ANN McCLINTOCK OF JERSEYVILLE; PEARL ROSS, CARROLLTON,
DARLENE MILLER, FIELDON, AND CAROLYN PLUMMER, QUINCY; 16
GRANDCHILDREN, TWO GREAT GRANDCHILDREN; HALF BROTHER, GEORGE
WHITE OF JERSEYVILLE. FUNERAL FROM GOSPEL ASSEMBLY CHURCH. REV.
CLYDE SHAW OFFICIATING. BURIAL IN OAK GROVE CEMETERY. [Democrat
News Aug 1982]
KANE - Grace Elizabeth Karr, 77, FORMERLY OF
JERSEY COUNTY, DIED AT 10 PM WED 8 AUG 1990 AT JERSEYVILLE CARE
CENTER. SHE RETIRED IN1974 AS A CRANE OPERATOR FROM LACLEDE
STEEL OF ALTON. BORN IN OTTERVILLE, SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF THE
LATE WILLIAM AND ANNA (GROPPEL) EGELHOFF. ON 7 APR 1939, IN ST.
LOUIS SHE MARRIED HARRY KARR. SURVIVING ARE HER HUSBAND; TWO
DAUGHTERS, GRACE GETTINGS OF JERSEYVILLE AND CAROL SWONGER OF
SHELBINA, MO; THREE GRANDCHILDREN; FIVE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN TWO
BROTHERS, HENRY AND CLARENCE EGELHOFF, BOTH OF JERSEYVILLE; AND
THREE SISTERS, BERTHA WILLMAN OF OTTERVILLE, MATILDA LAWRENCE OF
JERSEYVILLE AND FREDA CRAY OF MARITHON, FLA. PRECEDING HER IN
DEATH WERE A GRANDSON; A SISTER, EDNA SAUERWEIN; AND THREE
BROTHERS, EDWARD, WALTER AND LEO EGELHOFF. VISITATION IS FROM 4
TO 8 PM FRI AT JACOBY-SCHROEDER FUNERAL HOME IN JERSEYVILLE.
GRAVESIDE SERVICES ARE AT 9 AM SAT AT NOBLE CEMETERY IN
OTTERVILLE. THE REV. JEAN ERB WILL OFFICIATE. MEMORIALS MAY BE
GIVEN TO A CHARITY OF ONE'S CHOICE.
SERVICES FOR Carl L. Keehner, 84, OF
JERSEYVILLE WERE HELD AT 2 PM THURS AT THE GUBSER FUNERAL HOME
WITH THE REV. WILLARD FOOTE, INTERIM PASTOR OF THE FIRST BAPTIST
CHURCH, OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN OAK GROVE CEMETERY. HE WAS
FOUND DEAD AT 7 AM 12 DEC AT HIS HOME ON PEARL STREET. KEEHNER
RETIRED 1 NOV 1963 AFTER 18 YEARS SERVICE FOR THE ILLINOIS
DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION, DIVISION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT. PRIOR
TO THAT HE WAS BULK AGENT IN JERSEY COUNTY FOR THE SINCLAIR
REFINING OIL CO. OF CHICAGO FOR 16 YEARS, IN CHARGE OF NINE
COUNTIES. BORN IN GREENE COUNTY, 4 APR 1894, HE WAS A SON OF
GEORGE AND MARGARET BOHRMAN KEEHNER. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE,
THE FORMER MARIE BEACH WHOM HE MARRIED 5 JUL 1922; ONE SON, JIM
D. KEEHNER, A BELLEVILLE ATTORNEY; THREE GRANDDAUGHTERS; AND ONE
SISTER, MRS. EDITH NAIL OF JERSEYVILLE. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH
BY HIS PARENTS, ONE SISTER AND SIX BROTHERS. THE FIRST BAPTIST
CHURCH OF WHICH HE WAS A MEMBER HAS BEEN DESIGNATED AS A
MEMORIAL. [PICTURE OF DECEASED APPEARS WITH OBITUARY.] [14 Dec
1978]
George F. Keehner BORN 26 SEP 1956, 70 YEARS
OLD. ENTIRE LIFE SPENT IN JERSEY AND GREENE COS. ___ MARGARET
ANN BOHRMAN 5 SEP 1878. SHE DIED 5 MONTHS AGO. SEVEN SONS AND
TWO DAUGHTERS: MRS. ANNA BEATY, LOUIS, LAWRENCE, CARL KEEHNER,
MRS. EDITH NAIL OF JERSEY CO.; EDWARD KEEHNER OF PARCO, WYO;
GEORGE, FRANK AND FREDERICK PRECEDED THEIR FATHER IN DEATH.
SEVEN GRANDCHILDREN; THREE BROTHERS; JOHN OF JERSEYVILLE,
GOTTLIEB OF HARDIN, CHARLES OF JACKSONVILLE; ONE SISTER, MRS.
CARRIE PINKERTON OF TEXLINA, TEX. DIED AT HOME OF SON, LOUIS. HE
WAS GOOD FARMER, MAN OF GOOD JUDGMENT, INDUSTRY AND FRUGALITY.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF JERSEYVILLE. [Jersey Republican 02 Dec
1926]
Louis C. Keehner, WELL-KNOWN RETIRED
CARPENTER, DIED SAT EVENING 15 FEB AT EIGHT O'CLOCK AT HIS HOME,
300 HARRISON, JERSEYVILLE. HE HAD BEEN ILL FOR SOME TIME.
FRIENDS CALLED AT THE GUBSER FUNERAL HOME. FINAL RITES WERE HELD
AT THE FUNERAL HOME TUES. AFTERNOON, 18 FEB AT TWO O'CLOCK. REV.
CARL C. MORMAN, PASTOR OF THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, OFFICIATED
AND INTERMENT WAS IN OAK GROVE CEMETERY. THE DECEDENT WAS A SON
OF THE LATE GEORGE F., AND MARGARET BOHRMAN KEEHNER AND WAS BORN
IN GREENE COUNTY ON 18 APR 1881.HIS AGE AT THE TIME OF DEATH WAS
SEVENTY-SIX YEARS, NINE MONTHS AND TWENTY-SEVEN DAYS. MR.
KEEHNER HAD BEEN A RESIDENT OF JERSEYVILLE FOR THIRTY-EIGHT
YEARS. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, MRS. OLLIE NOTT KEEHNER, ONE
SON, PAUL KEEHNER OF PARIS, ILL., TWO BROTHERS, CARL AND
LAWRENCE KEEHNER, AND ONE SISTER, MRS. LEE NAIL, ALL OF
JERSEYVILLE AND ONE GRANDSON. [20 Feb 1958]
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR Lawrence B. Keehner,
RETIRED JERSEY COUNTY FARMER, WERE HELD SAT AFTERNOON AT TWO
O'CLOCK AT THE GUBSER FUNERAL HOME. REV. MODE POWELL, PASTOR OF
THE FIRST METHODIST CHURCH, OFFICIATED AND BURIAL WAS IN OAK
GROVE CEMETERY. VISITATION HOURS WERE AT THE FUNERAL HOME. THE
DEATH OF MR. KEEHNER OCCURRED THURS MORNING, 21 OCT AT 5:05
O'CLOCK AT GARNET'S NURSING HOME WHERE HE HAD BEEN RESIDING A
FEW WEEKS. HE HAD BEEN IN ILL HEALTH FOR EIGHT YEARS. MR.
KEEHNER WAS A SON OF THE LATE GEORGE AND MARGARET BOHRMAN
KEEHNER AND WAS BORN IN GREENE COUNTY ON 23 NOV 1891. HIS AGE AT
THE TIME OF DEATH WAS SEVENTY-THREE YEARS, TEN MONTHS AND
TWENTY-EIGHT DAYS. MR. KEEHNER ENGAGED IN FARMING IN JERSEY
COUNTY ALL OF HIS LIFE UNTIL EIGHT YEARS AGO WHEN HE RETIRED
BECAUSE OF ILL HEALTH AND WITH HIS WIFE MOVED TO JERSEYVILLE TO
RESIDE. SURVIVING HIM ARE HIS WIFE, MRS. RUTH KEEHNER, ONE
DAUGHTER, MRS. RALPH LASHER, ONE BROTHER, CARL KEEHNER, AND ONE
SISTER, MRS. LEE NAIL, ALL OF JERSEYVILLE, AND ONE GRANDSON, DON
LASHER OF CARBONDALE. [28 Oct 1965]
MRS. Margaret Ann Keehner DIED 13 JUN 1926
AT HOME ON WEST SPRUCE ST. 68 YEARS OLD. BORN 17 MAY 1858,
OLDEST DAUGHTER OF RUDOLPH AND SYLVIA BOHRMAN AND LIVED NEARLY
ALL LIFE IN GREENE AND JERSEY CO. MARRIED SEP 1878 TO GEORGE F.
KEEHNER. TWO DAUGHTERS AND SEVEN SONS. THREE SONS PRECEDED HER
IN DEATH. LEAVES HUSBAND, DAUGHTERS, MRS. ANNA BEATY, MRS. EDITH
NAIL; SONS, LOUIS, LAWRENCE AND CARL OF JERSEYVILLE AND EDWARD
OF PARCO, WYO. ONE SISTER, MRS. JAMES MILLER OF LINCOLN, ILL.
FUNERAL FROM BAPTIST CHURCH. BURIAL IN OAK GROVE CEMETERY.
[Jerseyville Republican 11 Jun 1926]
Mrs. George Keehner DIED AT
HOME 13 JUN, 68 YEARS OLD. LEAVES HUSBAND; THREE DAUGHTERS, MRS.
ANNA BEATY, MISS LOUISE KEEHNER, AND MRS. LEE NAIL AND THREE
SONS, CARL, LAWRENCE OF JERSEYVILLE, EDWARD KEEHNER OF ROLLING,
WYO. MRS. JAMES MILLER OF LINCOLN, IL IS A SISTER. SHE WAS BORN
IN GERMANY AND CAME TO ILL. WITH PARENTS WHEN SMALL. FUNERAL
FROM BAPTIST CHURCH. REV. A.B. CARSON. BURIAL IN OAK GROVE.
[Jerseyville Republican 24 Jun 1926]
SERVICES FOR Mrs. Olive Nott Keehner, 96,
WILL BE HELD AT 2 PM 17 JAN AT GUBSER FUNERAL HOME WITH THE REV.
EVERETT CHAMBERS OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE IN OAK GROVE
CEMETERY. HER DEATH OCCURRED AT 2:20 PM ON 14 JAN AT GARNET'S
CHATEAU. SHE WAS BORN 28 JUL 1881 IN KANSAS, A DAUGHTER OF
SAMUEL B. AND IDA DODSON NOTT. HER HUSBAND, LOUIS C. KEEHNER,
DIED 15 FEB 1958. SHE IS SURVIVED BY A SON, PAUL F. KEEHNER SR
OF PARIS, ONE GRANDSON, PAUL F. KEEHNER, JR OF HOMER AND A GREAT
GRANDCHILD. VISITATION WILL BE HELD FROM 4 TO 6 PM AND 7 TO9 PM
MONDAY AT GUBSER'S FUNERAL HOME. [16 Jan 1978]
Charles Thaddeus Keeley, RETIRED TEACHER,
FARMER AND CIVIC LEADER, DIED FRI MORNING, 10 DEC AT 12:40
O'CLOCK. HE HAD BEEN IN FAILING HEALTH FOR SOME TIME. MR. KEELEY
WAS A SON OF THE LATE DANIEL AND ELIZABETH SEAGO KEELEY AND WAS
BORN NEAR ROCKBRIDGE ON 27 SEP 1866. HIS AGE AT THE TIME OF
DEATH WAS EIGHTY-EIGHT YEARS, TWO MONTHS AND THIRTEEN DAYS. HE
WAS GRADUATED FROM THE CARROLLTON HIGH SCHOOL IN 1887 AND FOR
THIRTEEN YEARS WAS ENGAGED IN THE TEACHING PROFESSION IN GREENE
AND JERSEY COUNTIES. HE LIVED ON THE SAME PLACE IN THE BETHANY
VICINITY FOR FIFTY YEARS WHERE HE ENGAGED IN FARMING. HE MOVED A
FEW YEARS AGO WITH HIS DAUGHTER, MRS. WILMA K. BEACH, TO THEIR
HOME ON BARR AVENUE. MR. KEELEY WAS FOR MANY YEARS
SUPERINTENDENT OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL OF THE BETHANY BAPTIST
CHURCH AND WAS ALWAYS ACTIVE IN THE WORK OF THE CHURCH. THE
OCTOGENARIAN WAS A MEMBER OF KING SOLOMON LODGE, A.F. & A.M. OF
KANE FOR MORE THAN FIFTY YEARS AND WAS A PAST WORSHIPFUL MASTER
OF THE LODGE. HE RECEIVED HIS 50 YEAR PIN IN 1950. IN ADDITION
TO HIS DAUGHTER, MRS. BEACH, WITH WHOM HE MADE HIS HOME, THE
AGED MAN IS SURVIVED BY ONE GRANDSON, HAROLD STUART BEACH, OF
CHICAGO, ONE SISTER, MRS. NETTIE CARRICO, AND A HALF BROTHER,
EDWARD MOURNING, BOTH OF ALTON. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS
WIFE, MRS. EDY ELLEN KEELEY. FRIENDS CALLED AT JACOBY BROTHERS'
FUNERAL HOME IN JERSEYVILLE. FINAL RITES WERE HELD SUNDAY
AFTERNOON, 12 DEC AT TWO O'CLOCK AT THE BETHANY BAPTIST CHURCH
OF WHICH HE WAS A MEMBER. REV. FRANK SCHWAB OFFICIATED AT THE
SERVICES AND BURIAL WAS IN LAX CEMETERY. MASONIC RITES WERE
CONDUCTED BY THE MEMBERS OF KING SOLOMON LODGE OF KANE.
PALLBEARERS WERE ALL PAST MASTERS OF THE LODGE. [1954]
FIELDON - Roscoe Junior Keeney, 63, DIED
UNEXPECTEDLY AT 11:38 AM TUES 30 APR 1991 AT JERSEY COMM.
HOSPITAL IN JERSEYVILLE. HE RETIRED IN 1987 AS A CARPENTER FROM
ALTON LOCAL 377, AFTER 32 YEARS OF SERVICE. BORN IN ALTON ON 7
DEC 1927, HE WAS A SON OF THE LATE D. ROSCOE AND GRETCHEN
(BARNETT) KEENEY. HE AND THE FORMER MARIANNE TINSLEY WERE
MARRIED ON 9 DEC 1950 AT DAVENPORT, IOWA. SURVIVING ARE HIS
WIFE; TWO DAUGHTERS, CINDY McKINNEY OF SOUTH ROXANA, AND SHELIA
HERMANDEZ OF COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.; FIVE SONS, BARRY KEENEY OF
ALTON, TWINS BRUCE AND MICHAEL KEENEY, BOTH OF BETHALTO, RUSSELL
KEENEY OF CEDAR RAPID, IOWA, AND CRAIG KEENEY OF FIELDON; NINE
GRANDCHILDREN; THREE SISTERS, LOUISE EHR OF MONROVIA, CALIF.,
ARLENE MOORE OF BETHALTO AND GENON MAYFIELD OF GLENDALE, ARIZ.;
AND A BROTHER, LEROY KEENEY OF BETHALTO. VISITATION IS FROM 4 TO
8 PM THURS AT JACOBY-SCHROEDER FUNERAL HOME IN JERSEYVILLE,
WHERE SERVICES ARE AT 10 AM FRIDAY. BURIAL IS IN WHITE HALL CITY
CEMETERY. MEMORIALS MAY BE GIVEN TO THE AMERICAN HEART
ASSOCIATION.
Mrs. Elizaabeth Keiper OF ELDRED, 88, DIED
MONDAY MORNING IN A JACKSONVILLE HOSPITAL WHERE SHE HAD BEEN A
PATIENT FOR ABOUT A MONTH. SHE HAD BEEN ILL FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
THE FUNERAL WAS HELD WED AFTERNOON AT MEHL FUNERAL HOME. REV.
LEHENBAUER OF LUTHERAN CONGREGATION OFFICIATING. INTERMENT WAS
MADE IN THE MAUSOLEUM IN THE CARROLLTON CEMETERY. MRS. KEIPER
WAS BORN IN GERMANY 22 JAN 1854. AFTER HER MARRIAGE TO JOHN
KEIPER, SHE LIVED ON A FARM IN THE ELDRED VICINITY. FOR A NUMBER
OF YEARS SHE HAD BEEN A RESIDENT OF ELDRED. MR. KEIPER DIED
SIXTEEN YEARS AGO. A NEPHEW, OTTO GOODE OF ELDRED, GREW UP IN
HER HOME. SHE LEAVES ONE SISTER, MRS. CHRISTINA KONZELMAN OF
THIS CITY AND ONE BROTHER, WILLIAM MEEILER OF ALBERTA CANADA.
[1942]
William Kellar WAS BORN 12 OCT 1801 IN ROWAN
COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, MARRIED TO DOROTHY NAIL ON 27 SEP 1824;
MOVED TO ILLINOIS FOLLOWING YEAR AND SETTLED IN GREENE CO. WEST
OF CARROLLTON WHERE HE LIVED TWO YEARS AND MOVED TO HIS PRESENT
HOMESTEAD, WHERE HE HAS EVER SINCE RESIDED UP TO HIS DEATH.
FATHER OF 14 CHILDREN, OF WHOM 7 ARE LIVING, FOUR BOYS AND THREE
GIRLS. THERE HAS BEEN 54 GRANDCHILDREN BORN, THIRTY OF WHOM ARE
NOW LIVING, AND ELEVEN GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. HE MADE A PROFESSION
OF RELIGION AND UNITED WITH THE M.E. CHURCH ABOUT THE YEAR OF
1836. HE WAS A FAITHFUL AND EARNEST CHRISTIAN, A KIND AND
GENEROUS HUSBAND AND FATHER AND IN ALL HIS DEALINGS WITH HIS
FELLOW MAN; WAS ALWAYS KNOWN TO BE AN HONEST, UPRIGHT MAN EVER
READY TO HELP THE NEEDY. HE UPHELD ALL THAT WAS RIGHT AND
CONDEMNED ALL THAT WAS WRONG. ON THE 17TH OF AUG LAST, HIS
DEVOTED WIFE WAS SUDDENLY STRICKEN WITH PARALYSIS AND HAS BEEN
EVER SINCE BEEN A HELPLESS INVALID AND WAS LEFT TO MOURN HIS
DEATH. BURIED FROM THE FAMILY RESIDENCE. REV. DAVIS, OF KANE
OFFICIATING. [Jersey County Democrat 27 May 1886]
JERSEYVILLE - Harry Leroy Kelley, 70, DIED
AT 9:30 AM SUNDAY, 20 JUL 1986, AT SAINT ANTHONY'S HOSPITAL IN
ALTON. THE SON OF THE LATE ZEANEN AND LUVENA (HOLMES) KELLEY, HE
HAD BEEN A MAINTENANCE OPERATOR AT PRINCIPIA COLLEGE IN ELSAH.
HE WAS MARRIED TO THE FORMER HELEN LOUISE ROBINSON AND THEN THE
FORMER MARIE SHAW. BOTH PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH. SURVIVING ARE TWO
SONS, HARRY KELLEY, JR. OF JERSEYVILLE AND TERRY KELLEY OF
ALTON; FOUR DAUGHTERS, HARRIET HOLTZCLAW OF BIXBY, MO., MARY
HUFF OF MEDORA, GERALDINE FARRIS OF OTTERVILLE AND PHYLLIS
ABBOTT OF JERSEYVILLE; 23 GRANDCHILDREN; FIVE GREAT
GRANDCHILDREN; AND THREE SISTERS, RUTH RUEBLING OF WOOD RIVER,
MARGARET KING OF GODFREY AND LUCILLE LYNCH OF VIRIL BEACH, FLA.
VISITATION WILL BE FROM 5 TO 9 PM TUES AT JACOBY BROS FUNERAL
HOME IN JERSEYVILLE, WHERE SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT 2 PM WED
WITH THE REV. RON WOODRUM OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE AT
PROVIDENCE CEMETERY IN CARROLLTON.
SERVICES FOR Marie Clara Kelley, 66, OF 306
E. CARPENTER ST, JERSEYVILLE WILL BE CONDUCTED AT 1:30 PM 3 JAN
AT JACOBY BROS FUNERAL HOME BY THE REV. R.E. GEORGE. BURIAL WILL
BE IN WITT CEMETERY, ROCKBRIDGE. HER DEATH OCCURRED AT 8:30 AM
31 DEC AT JERSEY COMM. HOSPITAL. SHE WAS BORN IN GREENE COUNTY
27 JAN, 1912, A DAUGHTER OF CLYDE LOUIS AND MABEL MORAN CRIST.
SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, HARRY L. KELLEY OF JERSEYVILLE;
A DAUGHTER, LAVONNE GREEN OF CHESTERFIELD; ONE SISTER, BERTHA
NIXON OF CHESTERFIELD AND THREE GRANDCHILDREN. HER PARENTS AND
TWO SONS PRECEDED HER IN DEATH. VISITATION FROM 4 TO 9 PM TUES
AT JACOBY FUNERAL HOME. [02 Jan 1979]
Wilson Eugene Kelley, 42, DIED AT 12:30 AM
ON 25 FEB IN CLOVIS, NM WHERE HE RESIDED. HE WAS BORN 17 JUN
1935 IN GREENE COUNTY, A SON OF RAYMOND EUGENE AND PEARL
MARGARET KELLEY AND WAS A MECHANIC. HE WAS A VETERAN OF THE
KOREAN CONFLICT. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, CAROL KELLEY; TWO
STEP-DAUGHTERS, CYNTHIA MCGOUGH OF CLOVIS, NM, AND CARLA SHAW OF
KANE; TWO SONS, KENNETH E. KELLEY AND KEITH KELLEY AND A
DAUGHTER, KIMBERLY KELLEY, ALL OF CLOVIS, MN; TWO GRANDCHILDREN;
A BROTHER, HAROLD KELLEY OF GILLESPIE; ONE SISTER, MARILYN
PERRINE OF SHIPMAN AND HIS MOTHER, PERAL KELLEY OF CARLINVILLE.
SERVICES WERE HELD AT 1:30 PM THURS AT JACOBY BROS FUNERAL HOME
WITH THE REV. R.E. GEORGE OFFICIATING BURIAL WAS IN OAK GROVE
CEMETERY. SERVICES AT THE GRAVE WERE CONDUCTED BY WORTHEY POST
AMERICAN LEGION AND THE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS. [02 Mar 1978]
DIED AT HIS HOME IN KEMPER, W. H. H. Kemper,
AGE 68 YEARS. BORN IN KENTUCKY AND CAME TO CARROLLTON IN 1844.
IN 1853 HE BOUGHT THE FARM WHERE HE AFTERWARDS LAID OUT THE TOWN
OF KEMPER AND HAS LIVED THERE EVER SINCE. MEMBER OF FIDELITY
LODGE NO 152, A.F. & A.M. FUNERAL BY REV. PHILIPS OF PIASA.
CHILDREN: MRS. W.W. HARMS, MRS. G.B. CARSON, MRS. ORAN PALMER,
H.C. KEMPER, Z.T. KEMPER, MRS J.B. CARTER, MRS. CHAS RUYLE, J.W.
KEMPER, MISS ALLIE KEMPER AND MRS. C.D. DANNEL. [Republican
Examiner 08 Sep 1882]
Mrs. Resetta Kennedy, WIFE OF STROTHER
KENNEDY, DIED AT HER HOME ON EAST SPRUCE STREET IN THIS CITY ON
WED AFTERNOON AT 1:48 O'CLOCK. THE DECEASED WAS AGED 62 YEARS, 1
MONTH AND 8 DAYS. SHE HAD BEEN IN FAILING HEALTH FOR MANY YEARS.
MRS. KENNEDY WAS BORN IN GREENE COUNTY, THE DAUGHTER OF SMITH
AND SARAH JANE KENNEDY. SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, TWO
SONS, CHAS KENNEDY OF THIS CITY AND CECIL KENNEDY OF MILWAUKEE,
WIS., AND ONE DAUGHTER, MRS. MURRIL BUILLINGS OF SALEM, ILL. SHE
ALSO LEAVES ONE GRANDCHILD, MISS VENA KENNEDY OF MEMPHIS, TENN.
FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD SAT AFTERNOON, 12 MAR AT 2:00
O'CLOCK FROM JACOBY BROS FUNERAL CHAPEL, WITH REV. A.B. CARSON
AND REV. W. S. NEELY OF AUBURN, ILL., OFFICIATING. INTERMENT
WILL BE IN OAK GROVE MAUSOLEUM. [Jersey County News 10 Mar 1927]
Eva B. Keown, 83, DIED AT 4:45 PM 10 OCT AT
GARNET'S CHATEAU WHERE SHE HAD RESIDED SINCE MARCH. SHE WAS BORN
IN GREENE COUNTY 13 NOV 1895, A DAUGHTER OF THE LATE MARION AND
ELIZABETH BIRCH KEOWN AND WAS A RETIRED DOMESTIC WORKER. HER
ONLY SURVIVORS ARE NIECES AND NEPHEWS. VISITATION FROM 6 TO 9 PM
FRI AT JACOBY BROS FUNERAL HOME WHERE THE FUNERAL WILL BE
CONDUCTED AT 1:30, 13 OCT BY THE REV. V. CLAY NOAH, JR.
CREMATION WILL FOLLOW THE SERVICES. [11 Oct 1979]
Marion Edward Keown DIED AT HOME OF SON,
THOMAS E. KEOWN NEAR PLAINVIEW ON 4 APR. FUNERAL FROM HOME OF
SON, ALONZO V. KEOWN. ELDER T.J. ROADY. BURIAL IN LAX CEMETERY.
RESIDENT OF BETHANY NEIGHBORHOOD. BORN IN NEW DOUGLAS, MADISON
COUNTY, 4 OCT 1860, SON OF ISOM AND ELIZABETH VOILES KEOWN.
MARRIED ELZINA BURCH, 30 MAR 1885. CHILDREN: ALONZO V. OF
JERSEYVILLE, THOMAS E. OF PLAINVIEW, MAUDE ABBOTT OF KANE, EVA
KEOWN OF DETROIT, MICH. 2 BROTHERS, THOMAS H. AND L.C. KEOWN.
MRS. KEOWN DIED 26 APR 1924. [Jersey County News 12 Apr 1928]
George John Kessler, A RETIRED FARMER LIVING
ON ROUTE THREE, JERSEYVILLE, DIED AT NINE-FIFTY O'CLOCK SAT
MORNING AT THE JERSEY COMM. HOSPITAL WHERE HE HAD BEEN ADMITTED
EARLIER IN THE WEEK FOR TREATMENT. REV. H.O. RENKEN OFFICIATED
AT FUNERAL SERVICES HELD AT TWO O'CLOCK MON AFTERNOON AT JACOBY
BROS FUNERAL HOME. BURIAL WAS IN GRIMES CEMETERY. MR. KESSLER
WAS BORN IN JERSEY COUNTY, 25 SEP 1883, A SON OF THE LATE GEORGE
AND MARGARET HORN KESSLER. HIS SURVIVORS ARE ONE SON, WILLIAM G.
KESSLER OF JERSEYVILLE; ONE GRANDDAUGHTER, MRS. JANET
BRANGENBERG OF KANE; AND TWO GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, DENISE AND
CRAIG BRANGENBERG OF KANE. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE EAGLES AND
ELKS LODGES IN JERSEYVILLE AND THE FIELDON LODGE, A.F. AND A.M.
[06 Apr 1967]
TAPS SOUND FOR Leonard Ketchum: AFTER A YEAR
OF INTENSE SUFFERING FROM ANEMIC POISONING, LEONARD KETCHUM,
VETERAN OF THE CIVIL WAR, DIED AT HOME THREE MILES NORTH OF
MEDORA LAST THURSDAY EVENING. HIS DEATH HAD BEEN EXPECTED
MOMENTARILY TO OCCUR FOR SEVERAL WEEKS, BUT HIS REMARKABLY
STRONG CONSTITUTION SERVED TO STAY THE FINAL SUMMONS. HE PASSED
AWAY PEACEFULLY, MEETING DEATH WITH THE BRAVERY THAT
CHARACTERIZED HIS FOUR LONG YEARS OF ACTION AS A SOLDIER. MORE
THAN FIVE HUNDRED PEOPLE ATTENDED THE FUNERAL SUNDAY MORNING OF
MR. KETCHUM, WHO EIGHT MONTHS BEFORE HIS DEATH PLANNED ALL THE
DETAILS THEREOF. IN ACCORDANCE WITH HIS WISHES, HORACE WARNER OF
CHALLACOMBE, A COMRADE OF THE DECEASED, BORE A LARGE UNITED
STATES FLAG AT THE HEAD OF THE FUNERAL PROCESSION WHICH FORMED
AT THE KETCHUM RESIDENCE ONE MILE EAST OF KEMPER. IMMEDIATELY
AFTER THE HEARSE THE SOLDER'S AGED SADDLE MARE "GUSSIE",
DRIVERLESS WAS LED BY D.B. ELLIOTT. THE HORSE WORE ON ITS BACK
ITS MASTER'S ARMY SADDLE, CARBINE RIFLE, SABER AND SCABBARD,
KNAPSACK AND CANTEEN WHICH MR. KETCHUM HAD USED DURING HIS
SERVICE IN THE CIVIL WAR. FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD IN THE
KEMPER BAPTIST CHURCH AT 11 O'CLOCK. REV. O.W. SHIELDS OF VIRDEN
OFFICIATED, ASSISTED BY REV. HENRY DIXON OF ROCKBRIDGE AND REV.
STEPHEN CATT OF JERSEYVILLE. WILEY JOHNSON SANG A SOLO, A
FAVORITE OF THE DECEASED, WHICH HAD BEEN REQUESTED BY MR.
KETCHUM BEFORE HIS DEATH. THIRTEEN OLD SOLDIERS WERE IN LINE AND
ATTENDED THE SERVICES IN A BODY. THE PALLBEARERS WERE T.B.
RUYLE, AMOS, WILEY AND GEORGE JOHNSON, D.B. ELLIOTT AND CHRIS
CLUSTER. THE BURIAL WAS IN DELAWARE CEMETERY, NORTH OF KEMPER.
(PICTURE OF DECEASED APPEARS IN ARTICLE). HISTORICAL SKETCH:
ANOTHER OLD SOLDIER HAS ANSWERED TO THE LAST ROLL CALL. LEONARD
KETCHUM, SON OF IRA AND PHEBE KETCHUM, WAS BORN 21 APR 1842, AND
DIED AT HIS HOME THREE MILES NORTH OF MEDORA ON THURS, 10 OCT,
AFTER AN ILLNESS OF 12 MONTHS. HE WAS AGED 70 YEARS, 5 MONTHS
AND 19 DAYS. THE END CAME PEACEFULLY AT 8:30 PM WITH HIS
COMPANION AND CHILDREN AT HIS BEDSIDE. ON 14 DEC 1863, HE WAS
MARRIED TO JANE S. HAYWARD WHILE HOME TO VETERANIZE. TO THIS
UNION TEN CHILDREN WERE BORN, THREE SONS AND SEVEN DAUGHTERS,
VIZ: LOUIE E., WHO DIED 29 JUN 1911, LAWRENCE C., EVA J.,
LODUSKY L. WHO DIED IN INFANCY, NELLIE M., ALBERT J., WHO DIED
IN INFANCY, ELIZABETH P., ZELMA A., JANE S. AND LENIE, WHO DIED
IN INFANCY. HE WAS CONVERTED WHILE A SOLDIER AND UNITED WITH THE
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AT KEMPER. HE WAS A VETERAN OF THE CIVIL
WAR, SERVING FROM 1861 TO 1865. HE ENLISTED IN THE 12TH ILL
CAVALRY, CO. F OF VOLUNTEERS, SERVING 4 YEARS,5 MONTHS AND 17
DAYS. IN ALL HIS ARMY SERVICE HE NEVER MISSED A ROLL CALL NOR
WAS IT EVER NECESSARY FOR HIM TO DO A MINUTE'S EXTRA DUTY. MR.
KETCHUM PARTICIPATED IN THE FOLLOWING BATTLES AND SKIRMISHES:
TUNSTALL STATION, VA., 4 MAY 1863; UPPERVILLE, VA., 20 JUN 1863;
GETTSBURG, VA. 1 JUL 1863; SKIRMISHED AT TUNLISTOWN FROM 6 JUL
TO 10, 1863; SKIRMISHED AT CHESTERGAP, VA. 20 JUL 1863; BRANDY
STATION, 1 AUG 1863; CULPEPPER COURT HOUSE, VA., 13 SEP 1863;
WHERE TWO OF HIS COMRADES, POLY AND TOMMY KEMPER, WERE WOUNDED.
THESE ARE ONLY A FEW OF THE ENGAGEMENTS IN WHICH HE TOOK PART.
HE WAS HONORABLY DISCHARGED IN FEB 1866, BEING AT THAT TIME
ORDERLY SARGEANT. HE LEAVES TO MOURN HIS DEATH A WIFE, SIX
CHILDREN, 13 GRANDCHILDREN, 5 BROTHERS, ONE SISTER, ONE HALF
BROTHER, BESIDES MANY OTHER RELATIVES AND A HOST OF FRIENDS.
LEONARD KETCHUM'S WILL: THE WILL OF THE LATE LEONARD KETCHUM WHO
DIED AT HIS HOME NORTH OF MEDORA 10 OCT, HAS BEEN ADMITTED TO
PROBATE IN MACOUPIN COUNTY COURT. THE INSTRUMENT IS DATED 15 APR
1911, AND IS SIGNED BY J.P. ROODHOUSE AND L.O. HAYWARD AS
WITNESSES. MR. KETCHUM DIRECTS FIRST THAT AFTER HIS DEATH ALL
HIS JUST DEBTS AND FUNERAL EXPENSES BE PAID. HE DIRECTS SECONDLY
THAT HIS WIFE, JANE S. KETCHUM, SELL AT PUBLIC SALE ALL HIS
PERSONAL PROPERTY EXCEPTING HOUSEHOLD GOODS. THE PROCEEDS OF THE
SALE AND ALL CASH AND NOTES HE BEQUEATHS TO HER TO HOLD AND TO
KEEP FOREVER AS HER OWN. MRS. KETCHUM IS GIVEN FULL CONTROL OF
ALL OF HIS REAL ESTATE AND ALL THE PROCEEDS THEREOF AS LONG AS
SHE LIVES, UNLESS SHE MARRIES AGAIN, IN WHICH CASE HE DIRECTS
THAT SHE GIVE UP FULL POSSESSION OF SAID REAL ESTATE TO HIS
SONS, L.E. KETCHUM (NOW DECEASED) AND L.C. KETCHUM, WHOM HE
NAMES AS EXECUTORS OF THE WILL. HE GIVES THE SONS AS EXECUTORS
FULL POWER TO SELL ALL OF HIS REAL ESTATE AND HE ALSO DIRECTS
THAT UPON THE REMARRIAGE OR DEATH OF HIS WIFE, JANE S. KETCHUM,
THAT THE SONS SHALL SELL ALL OF THE REAL ESTATE, DIVIDING THE
PROCEEDS THEREOF EQUALLY BETWEEN HIS SONS AND DAUGHTERS,
EXCEPTING ONE-HALF, WHICH HE BEQUEATHS TO HIS WIFE TO HAVE AS
HERS FOREVER. IN CASE OF THE DEATH OF ANY ONE OF HIS SONS OR
DAUGHTERS, BEFORE HAVING RECEIVED THEIR PART OF THE ABOVE,
PROVISION IS MADE THAT THEIR PART BE EQUALLY DIVIDED BETWEEN
THEIR CHILDREN IF THEY HAVE ANY CHILDREN AND IF NO CHILD OR
CHILDREN ARE [remainder unavailable]
Elmer C. Keyes OF JERSEYVILLE DIED FRIDAY
EVENING, 15 FEB AT 11:10 PM AT THE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL IN ALTON
WHERE HE HAD BEEN A PATIENT SINCE 7 FEB WHEN HE SUFFERED A
STROKE WHILE AT HIS WORK AT THE WESTERN CARTRIDGE COMPANY IN
EAST ALTON. MR. KEYES WAS A SON OF THE LATE HENRY J. AND NANCY
M. DAYTON KEYES, AND WAS BORN IN GREENE COUNTY ON 24 FEB 1887.
HIS AGE AT THE TIME OF DEATH WAS SIXTY FOUR YEARS, ELEVEN MONTHS
AND TWENTY-ONE DAYS. HIS ENTIRE LIFETIME WAS SPENT IN GREENE
COUNTY THE PAST THIRTY-FIVE YEARS. THE DECEDENT IS SURVIVED BY
TWO SONS, CLIFFORD AND CLAUDE KEYES OF JERSEYVILLE; ONE
DAUGHTER, MRS ELMER MOTT OF DOW; ONE BROTHER, AL KEYES OF
ROODHOUSE; TWO SISTERS, MISS LENA KEYES OF CARROLLTON AND MRS.
JULIA McDONALD OF KANAKAEE; AND FOUR GRANDCHILDREN. FRIENDS
CALLED AT THE GUBSER FUNERAL HOME. SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE
FUNERAL HOME MONDAY AFTERNOON 18 FEB, AT TWO O'CLOCK, WITH REV.
M. EDWARDS BREED, PASTOR OF THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,
OFFICIATING. INTERMENT WAS IN OAK GROVE CEMETERY. [21 Feb 1952]
Hubert F. Killebrew, 74, OF SMITHTON,
BROTHER OF EDNA GUILANDER OF KANE, DIED AT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL IN
LAS CRUCES, NM. FORMERLY WITH SHELL OIL IN WOOD RIVER. BORN IN
PIKE COUNTY TO JOHN AND JENNIE RICHARDSON KILLEBREW. MARRIED
LEONA NICKELL. LEAVES WIFE, FIVE SONS, 15 GRANDCHILDREN AND
SISTER. FUNERAL AT CATHOLIC CHURCH IN SMITHTON. BURIAL IN CHURCH
CEMETERY. [Democrat News 28 Feb 1984]
DIED AT HOME OF M. J. RICHEY ON 12 AUG, Mrs. Emma
King, WIFE OF W. B. KING. 23 YEARS OLD. FUNERAL HELD
FROM HOME OF MORD J. RICHEY. REV. J.W. BUSH OF KANE. [Jersey
County Democrat 15 Aug 1889]
James Edward King, 94, FORMERLY OF FIDELITY,
DIED AT 8:30 AM 18 JUN AT GARNET'S CHATEAU NURSING HOME IN
JERSEYVILLE. A SELF-EMPLOYED PAINTER, HE WAS BORN IN CARROLLTON,
SON OF THE LATE JAMES AND LEONA (CUMMINGS) KING. HE MARRIED THE
FORMER ALICE VIRGINIA KELLER ON 29 APR 1912, AND SHE PRECEDED
HIM IN DEATH IN 1984. SURVIVING ARE TWO DAUGHTERS, LEONA
MANINORD OF JERSEYVILLE AND BEULAH LIEVERS OF COTTAGE HILLS;
FOUR SONS, CLARENCE ROLLAND KING OF GODFREY, KARL LEE KING OF
BETHALTO, CHARLES KING OF UNION CITY, IND., AND HAROLD KING OF
BRIGHTON; 33 GRANDCHILDREN; 62 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN; AND 12
GREAT-GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. VISITATION WILL BE AT WARNER
TARGHETTA FUNERAL HOME IN MEDORA, WHERE SERVICES WILL BE
CONDUCTED WITH REV. R.E. GEORGE OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN MAPLE
LAWN CEMETERY IN FIDELITY. MEMORIALS MAY BE SENT TO THE CYSTIC
FIBROSIS FOUNDATION OR THE FIDELITY BAPTIST CHURCH, OF WHICH HE
WAS A MEMBER. [June 1984]
Mrs. Lela Ellen King, 207 EAST PEARL STREET,
JERSEYVILLE, DIED AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK THURSDAY MORNING, 25 JAN AT
BARNES HOSPITAL IN ST. LOUIS. THE BODY WAS BROUGHT TO JACOBY
BROS FUNERAL HOME WHERE FRIENDS CALLED AFTER TWO O'CLOCK SAT
AFTERNOON. FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE FUNERAL HOME AT
THREE-THIRTY O'CLOCK SUNDAY, 28 JAN, WITH REV. MODE POWELL, JR.,
PASTOR OF THE FIRST METHODIST CHURCH, OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN
OAK GROVE CEMETERY. MRS. KING WAS BORN IN KANE, 26 JUN 1896, A
DAUGHTER OF THE LATE CHARLES AND MAGGIE HUGHES KING, AND HER AGE
AT THE TIME OF DEATH WAS SIXTY-FIVE YEARS, SIX MONTHS, AND
TWENTY-NINE DAYS. HER SURVIVORS ARE A SISTER, MRS. HELEN
OSTERHOLT, 21 QUEEN DRIVE, ROUTE 2, FLORISSANT, MO AND NIECES
AND NEPHEWS. [Feb 1962]
A FUNERAL MASS WAS CELEBRATED AT ST. JOHN'S CATHOLIC CHURCH
IN CARROLLTON FOR Andrew W. Kirbach, 65, WHO
DIED AT 1:25 P.M. 15 MAY AT ST. JOHN'S HOSPITAL, SPRINGFIELD
FOLLOWING A SHORT ILLNESS. HE WAS BORN IN GREENFIELD, A SON OF
MARY ABLEN KIRBACH OF CARROLLTON AND THE LATE HENRY C. KIRBACH.
HE RETIRED AS A MAIL CARRIER IN 1981. THE WORLD WAR II ARMY
VETERAN MARRIED THE FORMER CECILIA STEINACHER 20 JUN 1945 IN
CARROLLTON. IN ADDITION TO HIS WIFE AND MOTHER HE IS SURVIVED BY
EIGHT DAUGHTERS, SISTER MARY MARLENE, O.P. OF HARDIN, MARGARET
BRANNAN, ELDRED; MARY NIEMEYER, KANE; NANCY ZIPPRICH,
JERSEYVILLE; JUDY KIRBACH, CHATHAM; JOAN PAYNE AND THERESA
ROSENTRETER, BOTH OF CARROLLTON; AND RUTH KIRBACH, AT HOME; TWO
SONS, JAMES OF VIRDEN AND MICHAEL AT HOME. OTHER SURVIVORS ARE
FIVE GRANDCHILDREN; TWO STEP GRANDCHILDREN; A SISTER, MAGDALENE
PENNINGTON OF CARROLLTON; AND THREE BROTHERS, EDMOND OF
JERSEYVILLE, LEONARD OF CARROLLTON AND HENRY OF BLOOMINGTON.
AMERICAN LEGION RITES WERE CONDUCTED AT THE CHURCH CEMETERY. THE
CHURCH AND THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY HAVE BEEN NAMED AS
MEMORIALS.
Clement F. Kirbach, 70, A FARMER OF R.1,
JERSEYVILLE, DIED AT 5:01 PM 20 DEC AT ST. ANTHONY'S HOSPITAL IN
ALTON. HE WAS BORN8 MAY 1913 IN GREENE COUNTY, SON OF THE LATE
MARTIN C. AND ANNA HINRICHS KIRBACH. KIRBACH WAS A MEMBER OF THE
FOURTH DEGREE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS, JERSEYVILLE MOOSE LODGE AND
JERSEY COUNTY FARM BUREAU. HIS SURVIVORS ARE HIS WIFE, THE
FORMER VIRGINIA STANLEY WHOM HE MARRIED ON 23 APR 1953 IN
CARROLLTON; SONS, MARTY OF DOW, AND DAVID OF JERSEYVILLE,
BROTHERS, CLARENCE AND RAYMOND AND SISTERS, LOUISA STEINACHER
AND VIRGINIA ALFELD, ALL OF CARROLLTON. A FUNERAL MASS WAS
CELEBRATED 23 DEC AT HOLY GHOST CATHOLIC CHURCH WITH FATHER
WILLIAM HEMBROW AND THE REV. SIMON A. SIMON OFFICIATING. BURIAL
WAS IN OAK GROVE CEMETERY. THE LEWIS AND CLARK LUNG ASSN. AND
HOLY GHOST SCHOOL HAVE BEEN NAMED AS MEMORIALS.
Mary Anna Kirbach, 95, DIED AT 2 PM MONDAY,
26 AUG 1991, AT NORTH AMERICAN HEALTH CARE CENTER IN WHITE HALL.
SHE WAS A NURSE AIDE FOR 26 YEARS AT BOYD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL IN
CARROLLTON, RETIRING IN 1976. BORN IN JERSEYVILLE ON 26 APR
1896, SHE WAS A DAUGHTER OF THE LATE WILLIAM AND ELIZABETH
(STOFFER) ABELN. ON 16 MAY 1916, IN GREENFIELD, SHE MARRIED
HENRY C. KIRBACH. HE DIED 17 JUL 1956. SURVIVING ARE A DAUGHTER,
MAGDALENE PENNINGTON OF CARROLLTON; THREE SONS, LEONARD KIRBACH
OF CARROLLTON, EDMUND KIRBACH OF GODFREY, AND HENRY LAWRENCE
KIRBACH OF ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.; 20 GRANDCHILDREN; 32
GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN; AND FIVE SISTERS, JOSEPHINE KALLAL, CECELIA
KALLAL AND MARGARET SKINNER, ALL OF JERSEYVILLE, ELIZABETH
WEISHAUPT OF BATCHTOWN AND AGNES KIRBACH OF CARROLLTON.
PRECEDING HER IN DEATH WERE A SON, ANDREW KIRBACH; A GREAT
GRANDSON; A BROTHER, JOHN ABLEN; AND THREE SISTERS, CHRISTIANA
SCHRIBNER, ANNA FELDMAN AND CATHERINE ABELN. VISITATION IS FROM
5 TO 9 PM WED AT AIRSMAN-HIRES FUNERAL HOME IN CARROLLTON, WITH
A ROSARY RECITATION AT 7 PM. A FUNERAL MASS IS AT 10 AM THURSDAY
AT ST. JOHN'S CATHOLIC CHURCH IN CARROLLTON, WITH THE REV.
JOSEPH O'REILLY AS CELEBRANT. BURIAL IS IN THE CHURCH CEMETERY.
MEMORIALS MAY BE GIVEN TO THE CHURCH WHERE SHE WAS A MEMBER.
Matthew M. Kirbach, 56, PASSED AWAY AT HIS
HOME NORTHWEST OF HERE AT 3:30 PM 23 OCT. HE HAD BEEN IN FAILING
HEALTH FOR SOME TIME. HE WAS BORN 24 MAR 1901, THE OLDEST OF
SEVEN CHILDREN OF N.J. AND THE LATE MRS. KIRBACH. HIS ENTIRE
LIFE WAS SPENT IN THIS COMMUNITY. HE ATTENDED ST. JOHN'S SCHOOL
AND WAS MARRIED 2 SEP 1931 TO MISS AGNES ABELN. HE WAS A MEMBER
OF THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS AND THE HOLY NAME SOCIETY AND WAS A
SUBSTITUTE RURAL MAIL CARRIER. SURVIVING BESIDES HIS WIFE ARE
THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN: MRS. JOE STEINACHER, RALPH, KENNETH,
DIANA AND DONALD WHO IS IN THE NAVY AT NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, AND
THREE GRANDCHILDREN. SURVIVING ALSO ARE TWO SISTERS, MRS. ROBERT
KING OF HERE AND MRS. DONALD CONTROY OF ENOLA, PA., AND FOUR
BROTHERS, FRED, JOHN, FRANCIS, AND LAWRENCE, ALL OF HERE. THE
ROSARY WAS RECITED AT 8 PM THURSDAY AND FRIDAY AT THE MEHL
FUNERAL HOME. FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED BY THE RIGHT
REV. MONSIGNOR MICHAEL ENRIGHT AT ST. JOHN'S CHURCH AT 9 AM
SATURDAY, 26 OCT. INTERMENT WILL BE IN ST. JOHN'S CEMETERY.
[1957]
Mrs. Sarah Kirbach OF CARROLLTON, MOTHER OF
THREE JERSEY RESIDENTS, DIED LAST WEEK AT THE HOME OF A
DAUGHTER, MRS. ARLINGTON SHORT IN CARROLLTON. HER DEATH FOLLOWED
AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF ILLNESS. THREE OF THE TEN SONS AND
DAUGHTERS SURVIVING MRS. KIRBACH ARE MRS. C.C. GRIZZLE, MRS.
LESTER MOURNING AND HENRY HYDE OF JERSEYVILLE. THE OTHER
SURVIVING DAUGHTERS AND SONS ARE MRS. SHORT, MRS. BERT BRANNON
AND MRS. CLIFTON PROUGH OF CARROLLTON AND MRS . MARVIN TILLERY
OF WHITE HALL, ALFRED, HAROLD AND FRED HYDE OF CARROLLTON. SHE
ALSO LEAVES TWO BROTHERS, JESSE HARDWICK OF WHITE HALL AND LAFE
HARDWICK OF KANE, TWENTY-NINE GRANDCHILDREN AND TWENTY-SEVEN
GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD SUNDAY, 28 FEB
AT THE MT. GILEAD BAPTIST CHURCH WITH REV. WILLIAM BOSTON
OFFICIATING. INTERMENT WAS IN THE BAPTIST CEMETERY. [Mar 1954]
