Obituaries - L
Charles Lackman OF 612 SOUTH PRAIRIE STREET
IN JERSEYVILLE DIED AT TWO FORTY-FIVE O'CLOCK WEDNESDAY MORNING,
10 MAR FOLLOWING AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF ILL HEALTH. DESPITE THE
LOSS OF HIS RIGHT ARM IN A FARM ACCIDENT AS A YOUNG MAN, MR.
LACKMAN SINCE MOVING TO JERSEYVILLE A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO WAS
EMPLOYED BY SEVERAL LOCAL FIRMS IN JANITORIAL WORK. THE DECEASED
WAS BORN IN DUBOIS COUNTY, INDIANA, 29 MAR 1881, A SON OF THE
LATE MR. AND MRS. HENRY LACKMAN. HIS AGE AT THE TIME OF DEATH
WAS SEVENTY-TWO YEARS, ELEVEN MONTHS AND ELEVEN DAYS. SURVIVING
THE DECEDENT ARE HIS WIFE, MRS. JENNIE LACKMAN; ONE SON, CHARLES
W. LACKMAN OF JERSEYVILLE; TWO DAUGHTERS, MRS. LENA MOORE OF
HILLVIEW AND MRS. EMMA SUTTLES OF JERSEYVILLE; FOUR
GRANDCHILDREN; ONE BROTHER, JOHN LACKMAN OF GREENFIELD, AND ONE
SISTER, MISS ROSE LACKMAN OF GREENFIELD. FRIENDS MAY CALL AT
JACOBY BROS FUNERAL HOME. FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT
NINE-THIRTY O'CLOCK FRIDAY MORNING, 12 MAR AT ST. FRANCIS XAVIER
CHURCH. REQUIEM MASS WILL BE CELEBRATED BY FATHER JOHN J. CLANCY
AND INTERMENT WILL BE IN OAKWOOD CEMETERY IN GREENFIELD. [Mar
1954]
SERVICES FOR Glenn W. Lahr, 73, A RETIRED
FARMER OF R. 1, JERSEYVILLE WERE CONDUCTED TUES AT THE PIASA
METHODIST CHURCH WITH THE REVS. ROGER CZAIA AND JOHN SEIBERT
OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN OAK GROVE CEMETERY, JERSEYVILLE. HE
DIED AT 8:17 AM 24 FEB AT CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL NORTHEAST, ST.
LOUIS. BORN 22 FEB 1911 IN GREENFIELD, HE WAS THE SON OF THE
LATE JOHN WILLIAM AND MARY DAMM LAHR AND WAS ALSO RETIRED FROM
THE ILLINOIS VALLEY SUPPLY CO. OF KANE. HIS SURVIVORS ARE HIS
WIFE, THE FORMER EDITH PEARCE WHOM HE MARRIED 17 AUG 1938 IN
JERSEY COUNTY; THREE DAUGHTERS, MARY GRAHAM, JERSEYVILLE;
VIRGINIA FULLER, ADA MICH.; MELINDA KRUSE, BUNKER HILL; TWO
SONS, ROBERT OF MEDORA AND PRESTON OF SHIPMAN; SIX
GRANDCHILDREN; SISTER, VELMA WAGGONER OF BRIGHTON; THREE
BROTHERS, LOREN OF SHIPMAN; WINFRED AND KENNETH OF PIASA.
[Democrat News 28 Feb 1984]
Mayme Ethel Landon, 96, DIED AT 7:48 PM
FRIDAY, 4 JUL 1986, FOLLOWING A LENGTHY ILLNESS, AT ELDERCARE OF
ALTON, WHERE SHE HAD BEEN A RESIDENT. BORN IN JERSEY COUNTY, A
DAUGHTER OF THE LATE RICHARD B. AND MARY E. (MURPHY) PRICE, SHE
MARRIED LAWRENCE LANDON ON 12 APR 1903 IN JERSEY COUNTY. HE
PRECEDED HER IN DEATH IN JAN 1969. SURVIVING IS ONE DAUGHTER,
RENA AUSTIN OF ALTON; ONE SON, NORMAN A. LANDON OF GREENFIELD;
12 GRANDCHILDREN; 24 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN; AND 17 GREAT GREAT
GRANDCHILDREN. VISITATION WILL BE FROM 4 TO 9 PM SUNDAY AT
GUBSER FUNERAL HOME, WHERE SERVICES WILL BE AT 2 PM, MONDAY,
WITH THE REV. DAN VITATOE OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE IN
GRIMES-NEELY CEMETERY IN JERSEYVILLE. [05 Jul 1986]
SERVICES FOR Patricia L. Stocks Landon, 37,
OF BETHALTO WILL BE HELD AT 1:30 PM THURS AT JACOBY BROS FUNERAL
HOME WITH THE REV. V. CLAY NOAH OFFICIATING. SHE DIED
UNEXPECTEDLY AT 10:50 PM 3 JUN AT WOOD RIVER TOWNSHIP HOSPITAL
IN WOOD RIVER. SHE WAS BORN 4 OCT 1947 IN CARROLLTON, DAUGHTER
OF ROBERT L. AND RUTH JONES STOCKS OF JERSEYVILLE AND WAS A
MEMBER OF THE CHERRY STREET BAPTIST CHURCH IN ALTON. SHE IS
SURVIVED BY HER PARENTS; AND FOUR DAUGHTERS, KAREN, CORRISA,
MICHELLE AND SHARON, ALL AT HOME. BURIAL WILL BE IN OAK GROVE
CEMETERY.
REQUIEM MASS FOR Otto Leo Langer, 72, OF 500
NORTH STATE STREET, JERSEYVILLE WAS CELEBRATED WEDNESDAY MORNING
AT THE HOLY GHOST CHURCH WITH REV. ROBERT HEINTZ CELEBRANT. HIS
DEATH OCCURRED 19 NOV AT JERSEY COMM. HOSPITAL. INTERMENT WAS IN
ST. FRANCIS CEMETERY. BORN 25 OCT 1900 IN ELDRED, MR. LANGER WAS
THE SON OF AMAND AND MARIE SEIFERT LANGER. A RETIRED FARMER, HE
WAS A MEMBER OF THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS AND ELKS LODGE. HIS
SURVIVORS ARE HIS WIFE, MRS. HELEN FLEMING LANGER; FOUR SISTER,
MRS. MARY CORDES, MRS. EDITH ALBRECHT, MRS. LENA POHLMAN AND
MRS. AGNES BUHNEKEMPER OF CARROLLTON. HIS PARENTS, THREE
BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH. VISITATION
HOURS WERE HELD AT JACOBY FUNERAL HOME WHERE THE ROSARY WAS
RECITED AT 7 PM TUESDAY. [1972]
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR Albert C. Langley, 72
YEAR OLD RESIDENT OF GREENFIELD AND BROTHER OF MRS. JESS HAMBLEN
OF JERSEYVILLE, WERE HELD MONDAY AFTERNOON AT 2 O'CLOCK AT THE
BAPTIST CHURCH IN GREENFIELD. BURIAL WAS IN FERNWOOD CEMETERY,
ROODHOUSE. THE DEATH OF MRS. LANGLEY OCCURRED FRIDAY AT 10:30 PM
IN BOYD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL IN CARROLLTON WHERE HE HAD BEENA A
PATIENT FOR ONE DAY. A SON OF THE LATE MR. AND MRS. NORMAN
LANGLEY, HE WAS BORN AT GLASGOW ON 6 AUG 1894. SURVIVING HIM IN
ADDITION TO......REST OF OBITUARY IS MISSING. [06 Oct 1966]
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR Mrs. Emma Mae Lanham,
85, OF 306 SNEDEKER AVE., JERSEYVILLE WERE CONDUCTED YESTERDAY
AFTERNOON, 29 MAY AT JACOBY FUNERAL HOME WITH THE REV. EVERETT
CHAMBERS OFFICIATING. HER DEATH OCCURRED AT 7:15 PM ON 26 MAY AT
THE MODERN CARE FACILITIES IN JACKSONVILLE. INTERMENT WAS IN OAK
GROVE CEMETERY. SHE WAS BORN 2 MAY 1889 IN ROCKBRIDGE TOWNSHIP
IN GREENE COUNTY, A DAUGHTER OF GEORGE B. AND ADA MATILDA RENO
WHITLOCK. SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER HUSBAND, ROY LANHAM.
HER FIRST HUSBAND, HUGH SMITH, DIED IN 1942. MRS. LANHAM WAS A
MEMBER OF THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF JERSEYVILLE, SENIOR
CITIZENS OF JERSEYVILLE, PANHANDLE HOME BUREAU, WOMEN'S RELIEF
CORPS, REBEKA H LODGE, AND ORDER OF EASTERN STAR NO. 656. SHE IS
SURVIVED BY A STEP DAUGHTER, LOIS LINN OF GREENFIELD; A BROTHER,
DEWEY WHITLOCK OF BUNKER HILL; ONE GRANDCHILD. HER PARENTS,
THREE BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER, PRECEDED HER IN DEATH. VISITATION
WAS HELD AT JACOBY FUNERAL HOME. THE FAMILY DESIGNATED THE HEART
FUND AS A MEMORIAL. [30 May 1974]
Fred Lanham, A RETIRED FARMER OF
JERSEYVILLE, DIED SUDDENLY THURSDAY MORNING, 25 SEP AT SIX
THIRTY FIVE O'CLOCK AT THE HOME OF JOHN PILLE WHERE HE HAD GONE
TO ASSIST WITH SOME CARPENTERY WORK. HE HAD BEEN UNDER THE CARE
OF A PHYSICIAN BUT HIS CONDITION WAS NOT CONSIDERED ALARMING.
MR. LANHAM WAS A SON OF THE LATE JAMES E. AND ANNETTE IRWIN
LANHAM, AND WAS BORN IN GREENE COUNTY 3 MAY 1890. AT THE TIME OF
DEATH HE WAS AGED SIXTY TWO YEARS, FOUR MONTHS AND TWENTY TWO
DAYS. THE DECEASED IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, MRS. JESSIE A.
LANHAM; ONE DAUGHTER, DOROTHY ANN LANHAM OF JERSEYVILLE; ONE
BROTHER, ROY D. LANHAM OF JERSEYVILLE, AND ONE SISTER, MRS.
ALVIN EMBLEY OF JERSEYVILLE. HIS PARENTS AND THREE BROTHERS,
CHRISTY, ELMER AND HARRY, PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH. MR. LANHAM WAS
A MEMBER OF THE KANE METHODIST CHURCH. THE BODY WILL BE AT
JACOBY BROS FUNERAL HOME WHERE FRIENDS MAY CALL AFTER SEVEN
O'CLOCK FRI EVENING. FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT THE
BAPTIST CHURCH SUN, 28 SEP AT TWO O'CLOCK. THE REV. LAVERNE
POOLE WILL OFFICIATE AND INTERMENT WILL BE IN OAK GROVE
CEMETERY. [Sep 1952]
James E. Lanham, SON OF EDWARD AND ELIZABETH
BLAND LANHAM, BORN NEAR KANE, ILL., 20 AUG 1850, DIED; AGE 66
YEARS. HE MARRIED NETTIE E. IRWIN, 24 DEC 1879. SIX CHILDREN
WERE BORN. HIS WIFE DIED 9 SEP 1916. LEAVES: CHRISTY IRWIN,
GUSIE ALICE EMBLEY, ROY DEAN, THOMAS ELMER, FRED EBERT AND JAMES
HARRY; TWO DAUGHTERS-IN LAW, DORA AND MYRTLE AND ONE SON IN LAW,
ALVIN EMBLEY. TWO GRANDCHILDREN; TWO SISTERS: MRS. JOSEPH DEATON
OF WHITE HALL, MRS. GEORGE BANDY OF JERSEYVILLE. ONE BROTHER:
THOMAS LANHAM OF GREENFIELD. MR. LANHAM LIVED IN GREENE COUNTY
UNTIL 1893 WHEN HE MOVED TO JERSEY COUNTY. BELONGED TO M.E.
CHURCH. FUNERAL FROM HOME, REV. B.A. HOAR OF KANE OFFICIATING.
BURIAL IN OAK GROVE CEMETERY AT JERSEYVILLE. [Jerseyville
Republican Jul 1917]
Jessie A. Lanham, 99, OF SLIDELL, LA.,
FORMERLY OF JERSEYVILLE, DIED AT 9:30 AM FRIDAY 12 AUG 1988, AT
NORTH SHORE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER IN SLIDELL. BORN IN GREENE
COUNTY, SHE WAS A DAUGHTER OF THE LATE ALFRED AND ELIZA (ILLGER)
MORGAN. SHE WAS MARRIED TO THE LATE FRED E. LANHAM. SURVIVING
ARE A DAUGHTER, DOROTHY WISEHART OF SLIDELL; AND TWO
GRANDCHILDREN. SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY FOUR SISTERS, TILLIE
BECKNER, AMY MAINS, BETHA MORGAN AND ANNA JENKINS. VISITATION IS
7-9 PM TUES AT JACOBY BROS FUNERAL HOME IN JERSEYVILLE WHERE
SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED AT 2PM WED WITH THE REV. CHUCK
EPPERLY OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE IN OAK GROVE CEMETERY IN
JERSEYVILLE.
THE FUNERAL OF Mrs. Mary E. Lanham, 88, OF
JERSEYVILLE WAS CONDUCTED YESTERDAY MORNING, 8 OCT AT THE JACOBY
FUNERAL HOME WITH THE REV. EVERETT CHAMBERS OFFICIATING. HER
DEATH OCCURRED AT 11 AM ON 5 OCT AT GARNET'S CHATEAU. INTERMENT
WAS IN OAK GROVE CEMETERY. SHE WAS BORN 29 MAY 1887 IN GREENE
COUNTY, A DAUGHTER OF AMOS AND ELLA MILLER. HER HUSBAND, ELMER
LANHAM, DIED IN 1943. SHE IS SURVIVED BY ONE BROTHER, WILLIAM S.
MILLER OF CALIMESA, CALIF.; AND TWO NEPHEWS, AMOS R. MAJOR OF
PADUCAH, KY. AND R. ELLSWORTH MILLER OF FRESNO, CALIF. THE
FAMILY DESIGNATED THE CANCER SOCIETY AS A MEMORIAL. [09 Aug
1975]
SIX GRANDSONS, ORAN, ORVAL AND WAYNE LEGATE, CARL AND EDWIN
PITTENGER AND EUGENE SLATEN, WERE PALLBEARERS AT THE FUNERAL OF
Mrs. Fannie Larbey, WELL KNOWN GRAFTON
RESIDENT, HELD WED. AFTERNOON AT TWO O'CLOCK AT THE GRAFTON
METHODIST CHURCH. REV. ROBERT BROWN OFFICIATED AT THE FINAL
RITES AND INTERMENT WAS IN SCENIC HILL CEMETERY. THE DEATH OF
MRS. LARBEY, WIDOW OF ALBERT J. LARBEY, OCCURRED SUNDAY, 1 APR
AT HER HOME IN GRAFTON. SHE HAD BEEN ILL THE PAST FEW WEEKS.
MRS. LARBEY WAS BORN IN GREENE COUNTY ON 30 NOV 1875 AND HER AGE
AT THE TIME OF DEATH WAS EIGHTY YEARS, FOUR MONTHS AND ONE DAY.
MRS. LARBEY HAD BEEN A RESIDENT OF GRAFTON FOR SEVENTY-THREE
YEARS. SHE WAS A CHARTER MEMBER OF THE ROYAL NEIGHBORS OF
AMERICA IN GRAFTON AND WAS A MEMBER OF THE METHODIST CHURCH FOR
SIXTY-FOUR YEARS. SURVIVING HER ARE THREE DAUGHTERS, MRS. EARL
PITTENGER, MRS. EARL LEGATE AND MRS. EDITH NAIRN OF GRAFTON, TEN
GRANDCHILDREN AND FOUR GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. SHE WAS PRECEDED IN
DEATH BY HER HUSBAND AND ONE DAUGHTER, VIRGINIA. [1955]
Albert Lafe Lawrence, 23 YEAR OLD
JERSEYVILLE MAN, DIED SHORTLY AFTER FIVE O'CLOCK FRIDAY MORNING
OF INJURIES SUSTAINED AN HOUR EARLIER IN A ONE CAR ACCIDENT ON
ROUTE 67 IN NORTH ST. LOUIS COUNTY. HIS DEATH OCCURRED AT ST.
LOUIS COUNTY HOSPITAL IN CLAYTON WHERE HE WAS MOVED AFTER HIS
1967 MG MIDGET VEERED INTO A TRAFFIC SIGNAL AT DUNN ROAD AS HE
WAS ENROUTE HOME FROM HIS WORK AT McDONNELL AIRCRAFT WHERE HE
HAD BEEN EMPLOYED AS A MECHANIC FOR ABOUT FIVE YEARS. ST. LOUIS
COUNTY AUTHORITIES ARE CONTINUING INVESTIGATION INTO THE
ACCIDENT AS THE YOUNG FATHER'S WALLET AND McDONNELL
IDENTIFICATION CARD ARE MISSING. THE JERSEYVILLE MAN HAD
RECEIVED HIS PAYCHECK THAT NIGHT. MR. LAWRENCE WAS BORN IN
JERSEYVILLE ON 1 MAR 1945 AND ATTENDED THE LOCAL SCHOOLS. HE WAS
GRADUATED FROM LOCKPORT HIGH SCHOOL AND ATTENDED JUNIOR COLLEGE
IN JOLIET BEFORE ACCEPTING EMPLOYMENT AT McDONNELL. HIS AGE AT
DEATH WAS 23 YEARS, 6 MONTHS, AND 26 DAYS. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS
WIFE, MRS. SHIRLEY RANKEN LAWRENCE, AND TWO DAUGHTERS, HEATHER,
2 1/2, AND DAPHNE, 2 MONTHS, WHO RESIDE AT THE FAMILY HOME, 514
WEST MULBERRY STREET, THIS CITY; HIS FATHER, ORVILLE LAWRENCE OF
MUSKOGEE, OKLA; HIS MOTHER, MRS. THERESA LINDSTROM OF LOCKPORT;
A BROTHER, RONALD LAWRENCE OF JOLIET; HALF SISTER, MRS. ALBERTA
TUCKER OF KANE; HIS MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER, MRS. ALBERT LANGLEY OF
GREENFIELD; AND HIS STEP FATHER, RUSSELL LINDSTROM OF LOCKPORT.
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MR. LAWRENCE WERE HELD SUNDAY AFTERNOON, 29
SEP, AT 1:30 O'CLOCK AT JACOBY BROS FUNERAL HOME WITH REV.
CARLTON G. CHRISTENSON, PASTOR OF THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF
THIS CITY, AND REV. RICHARD JARVIS OF CANTON, UNCLE OF MRS.
LAWRENCE, OFFICIATING. INTERMENT WAS IN OAK GROVE CEMETERY.
VISITATION HOURS WERE HELD AT THE FUNERAL HOME. [PICTURE OF
DECEASED APPEARS IN OBITUARY] [03 Oct 1968]
Mrs. Alma Emily Lawson OF RTE. 2,
JERSEYVILLE, DIED AT 4:25 PM SUNDAY AT BOYD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL IN
CARROLLTON. SURVIVING ARE SIX SONS, ROBERT W. OF PALMYRA,
CHARLES J. OF ST. ANN, MO., JAMES E. OF JERSEYVILLE, GEORGE L.
OF FORESTVILLE, MO.; HARVEY M. OF GODFREY AND JOHN N. OF
JERSEYVILLE; FIVE DAUGHTERS, MRS. HELEN OGLE OF MAPLEWOOD, MO.,;
MRS. LOIS HENDRICKSON OF WHITE HALL; MRS. ANNA EPPS OF
JERSEYVILLE; MRS. LINDA EDWARDS OF LIBBY, MONT; AND MRS. HAZEL
HUFF OF SHIPMAN; 36 GRANDCHILDREN; 16 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN; TWO
BROTHERS, LEE RILEY OF PEROIA AND MILTON O. RILEY OF ALICEVILLE,
ALA.; AND A SISTER, MRS. ISABELLE RAPER OF JACKSONVILLE. FRIENDS
MAY CALL AFTER 3 PM TUES AT JACOBY BROS FUNERAL HOME IN
JERSEYVILLE, WHERE SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED AT 1:30 PM WED
WITH THE REV. KENNETH WORKMAN OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE IN
FERNWOOD CEMETERY, ROODHOUSE. THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY HAS
BEEN NAMED AS A MEMORIAL. [24 Mar 1975]
A FUNERAL MASS FOR Eva P. Leach, 77, OF 503
W. ARCH, JERSEYVILLE, A RETIRED TEACHER, WILL BE CELEBRATED AT
10 AM TUES AT ST. FRANCIS XAVIER CHURCH WITH FATHER PATRICK
MORROW AND FATHER R.T. SHEA AS CONCELEBRANTS. HER DEATH OCCURRED
AT 1:35 AM 21 FEB AT JERSEY COMM. HOSPITAL AFTER A FEW MONTHS
ILLNESS. SHE WAS BORN IN GREENE COUNTY 10 MAY 1904, A DAUGHTER
OF THE LATE EDWARD AND ANNA VANDERSAND MARTIN. MRS. LEACH WAS AN
ELEMENTARY TEACHER FOR OVER 50 YEARS. SHE TAUGHT FOR 46 YEARS IN
JERSEY, GREENE, AND CASS COUNTIES AND FOR FOUR YEARS AT ST.
JOHN'S CATHOLIC CHURCH IN CARROLLTON. SHE WAS A MEMBER OF ST.
FRANCIS XAVIER CHURCH, THE NATIONAL EDUCATION AND ILLINOIS
EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONS, AND THE JERSEY-GREENE COUNTY RETIRED
TEACHERS ASSOCIATION. SHE IS SURVIVED BY TWO SISTERS, MARY JANE
COPP OF SPRINGFIELD AND ANNA THOMPSON OF HILLSBORO, MO. AND A
NIECE, MARY LONG OF HILLSBORO, MO; FIVE GREAT NEPHEWS AND
NIECES. A FRIEND, FLORENCE SHORTAL, MADE HER HOME WITH MRS.
LEACH FOR 41 YEARS. HER HUSBAND, MELVIN LEACH, WHOM SHE MARRIED
16 FEB 1922 DIED 29 MAY 1960. VISITATION FROM 4 TO 9 PM MONDAY
AT JACOBY FUNERAL HOME WHERE THE ROSARY WILL BE RECITED AT 7 PM.
BURIAL WILL BE IN OAK GROVE CEMETERY. THE ST. FRANCIS XAVIER
CHURCH BUILDING FUND AND THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY HAVE BEEN
NAMED AS MEMORIALS. [23 Feb 1982]
Scesna Leach, 82, DIED AT 2:30 PM SUNDAY 18
MAY 1986 AT GREENWOOD MANOR IN JERSEYVILLE AFTER A LENGTHY
ILLNESS. SHE WAS A SCHOOLTEACHER IN MEDORA AND CARROLLTON, AND
IN JERSEY COUNTY UNIT 100 SCHOOL DISTRICT, WHERE SHE RETIRED
FROM IN 1968. BORN IN MORGANTOWN, KY, SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF
THE LATE DAVIS L. AND NINA H. (THOMAS) HARRELD. HER HUSBAND,
CALVIN WALKER JAMES, DIED IN 1957. THEN, ON 30 AUG 1968 IN
JERSEYVILLE, SHE WAS MARRIED TO GUS R. LEACH, WHO DIED 18 AUG
1982. SURVIVING ARE A STEPSON, CHARLES "CHUCK" LEACH OF MIDLAND,
MICH; AND TWO GRANDCHILDREN. VISITATION WILL BE FROM 9:30 AM WED
UNTIL TIME OF SERVICES AT 11:30 AM AT GUBSER FUNERAL HOME IN
JERSEYVILLE WITH THE REV. SIMON A. SIMON OFFICIATING. BURIAL
WILL BE IN JEFFERSON BARRACKS NATIONAL CEMETERY IN ST. LOUIS.
MEMORIALS MAY BE GIVEN TO ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE RESEARCH.
Phyllis Lenington, 45, DIED UNEXPECTEDLY AT
4:05 AM THURSDAY 25 JUN 1987 AT JERSEY COMM. HOSPITAL IN
JERSEYVILLE. SHE WAS BORN IN CARROLLTON, DAUGHTER OF THE LATE
WILLIAM AND LILIAN (OSBURN) STRINGER. SHE MARRIED LEON LENINGTON
ON 13 JAN 1956 IN JERSEYVILLE. HE SURVIVES, IN ADDITION TO FOUR
SONS, ROBERT LENINGTON OF CARROLLTON, LARRY AND DOUGLAS
LENINGTON, BOTH OF JERSEYVILLE, AND EARL BARNES OF LITCHFIELD;
TWO DAUGHTERS, SHERRIE SCOGGINS OF CARROLLTON AND RITA HOLYFIELD
OF GRAFTON; EIGHT GRANDCHILDREN; TWO SISTERS, DOROTHY GREEN AND
JOYCE BELL, BOTH OF CARROLLTON; AND TWO BROTHERS, GEORGE
STRINGER OF JERSEYVILLE AND ROBERT STRINGER OF CARROLLTON. SHE
WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY A BROTHER, BILLY STRINGER, AND A
SISTER, GERTRUDE ROBINSON. VISITATION WILL BE FROM 4 TO 9 PM
TODAY AT JACOBY BROS FUNERAL HOME IN JERSEYVILLE. JOHN WILSON
WILL CONDUCT SERVICES AT THE FUNERAL HOME AT 2 PM SATURDAY.
BURIAL WILL BE AT OAK GROVE CEMETERY IN JERSEYVILLE.
FUNERAL MASS FOR Mrs. Margaret Cornelia “Maggie”
LeFaivre, 74, OF GRAFTON WAS CELEBRATED MONDAY AT ST.
MICHAEL'S CHURCH, BELTREES, WITH FATHER PATRICK MORROW
CELEBRANT. SHE DIED 20 APR AT CALHOUN COMPREHENSIVE CARE CENTER,
HARDIN. INTERMENT WAS IN SCENIC HILL CEMETERY. SHE WAS BORN 3
AUG 1898 IN GRAFTON THE DAUGHTER OF JOHN AND MARY EMERY
HAMILTON. HER HUSBAND WAS THE LATE EVANS J. LEFAIVRE, SUPERVISOR
IN QUARRY TOWNSHIP FOR MANY YEARS. SHE IS SURVIVED BY TWO
DAUGHTERS, MRS. PHILLIP (ANNA MAE) HOPLEY AND MRS. CONSTANCE
HUGHES OF GRAFTON; AND ONE SON, GEORGE LEFAIVRE OF GREENFIELD;
NINE GRANDCHILDREN; FOUR GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. HER HUSBAND,
PARENTS AND THREE BROTHERS PRECEDED HER IN DEATH. VISITATION WAS
HELD SUNDAY AT JACOBY BROS FUNERAL HOME WHERE THE ROSARY WAS
RECITED AT 4 PM. [26 Apr 1973]
Gilbert “Gib” S. Lewis, 59, OF 8445 E. ANGUS
DRIVE, SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ., FORMERLY OF JERSEYVILLE DIED AT HIS
HOME 23 APRIL AFTER A LENGTHY ILLNESS. LEWIS WAS BORN IN ST.
LOUIS, MO. ON 23 SEP 1923 AND WAS REARED IN JERSEYVILLE. HE WAS
RETIRED FROM THE MILITARY. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS MOTHER, STELLA
WILLIS, JERSEYVILLE, HIS WIFE, CATHERINE ROTH LEWIS, FORMERLY OF
CARROLLTON AND ONE SON, KEVIN, OF SCOTTSDALE. FUNERAL MASS WAS
CELEBRATED AT ST. DANIEL'S CHURCH IN SCOTTSDALE AND BURIAL WAS
AT PARADISE MEMORIAL GARDENS IN SCOTTSDALE. [11 May 1982]
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT 2 PM, 17 AUG AT THE GUBSER
FUNERAL HOME FOR Jacqueline J. Liles, 37, OF
RURAL ROUTE 1, KANE. MISS LILES WAS BORN 7 NOV 1937 IN
JERSEYVILLE, THE DAUGHTER OF ERNEST AND HAZEL WELLER LILES. SHE
DIED AT 4:15 PM, 15 AUG AT BOYD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL IN CARROLLTON
AFTER AN EXTENDED ILLNESS. SHE WAS PREVIOUSLY EMPLOYED AT THE
TWIN CITY GARMENT FACTORY IN WHITE HALL. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HER
PARENTS, TWO BROTHERS, RICHARD L. LILES, JERSEYVILLE AND ROGER
R. LILES, KANE; HER GRANDMOTHER, MRS. CHRIS (CORA) WELLER,
JERSEYVILLE AND NIECES AND NEPHEWS. THE REV. R.E. GEORGE OF THE
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH IN JERSEYVILLE OFFICIATED AT THE FUNERAL
SERVICE AND INTERMENT FOLLOWED AT OAK GROVE CEMETERY. THE FAMILY
DESIGNATED THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY AS A MEMORIAL. [21 Aug
1975]
Salvatrice Marie “Kay” Liles, 59, DIED AT
8:45 AM MONDAY 25 FEB 1991 AT HER RESIDENCE FOLLOWING A LENGTHY
ILLNESS. SHE WAS A MEMBER OF EAGLES AUXILIARY LODGE NO 2747 AND
ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR NO. 656, BOTH OF JERSEYVILLE. BORN IN
NEW YORK CITY, NY, SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF THE LATE PETER AND
DOMENICA (ALAIMO) GUASTELLA. ON 13 FEB 1959 IN CARROLLTON, SHE
MARRIED RICHARD LILES. SURVIVING ARE HER HUSBAND; TWO DAUGHTERS,
CHRIS BAILEY OF KAMPSVILLE AND CAROL SHORT OF KANE; A SON, PETER
LILES OF JOLIET; SIX GRANDCHILDREN; AND A SISTER, ANN HOFMEISTER
OF TOMS RIVER, NJ. PRECEDING HER IN DEATH WERE TWO SISTERS,
CAROLINE GUASTELLA AND CHRIS VITRANO; AND A BROTHER, JAY
GUASTELLA. VISITATION IS FROM 4 TO 9 PM WEDNESDAY AT GUBSER
FUNERAL HOME IN JERSEYVILLE, WITH A ROSARY RECITATION AT 7 PM. A
FUNERAL MASS IS AT 10 AM THURSDAY AT HOLY GHOST CATHOLIC CHURCH
IN JERSEYVILLE WITH THE REV. LLOYD MISHO AS CELEBRANT. BURIAL IS
IN ST. FRANCIS XAVIER CEMETERY AT JERSEYVILLE. MEMORIALS MAY BE
GIVEN TO MASSES OR THE CHURCH, WHERE SHE WAS A MEMBER.
Judith A. (Ebker) Lippmann, 35, DIED AT 1:45
PM SAT, 2 MAY 1992 AT BOYD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL IN CARROLLTON,
FOLLOWING A LENGTHY ILLNESS. SHE WAS AN ACCOUNTANT WITH THE
ILLINOIS STATE LIBRARY IN SPRINGFIELD FOR EIGHT YEARS. BORN IN
JERSEYVILLE ON 7 JUN 1956, SHE WAS A DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM W.
EBKER OF JERSEYVILLE AND GLORIA (WATTS) McSCHOOLER OF
CARROLLTON. IN ADDITION TO HER PARENTS, SURVIVING ARE A SON,
BRENT DOUGLAS LIPPMANN OF JERSEYVILLE; A SISTER, KAREN CHAPLIN
OF JERSEYVILLE; GRANDMOTHER, GLADYS WATTS OF JERSEYVILLE;
STEPFATHER, LESTER McSCHOOLER OF CARROLLTON AND STEPMOTHER,
BEATRICE EBKER OF JERSEYVILLE. VISITATION WILL BE FROM 5 TO 9 PM
TODAY AT GUBSER FUNERAL HOME IN JERSEYVILLE, WHERE SERVICES ARE
AT 1 PM TUESDAY. THE REV. NOEL GEHM WILL OFFICIATE. BURIAL WILL
BE IN OAK GROVE CEMETERY IN JERSEYVILLE. MEMORIALS MAY BE MADE
TO A TRUST FUND FOR BRENT DOUGLAS LIPPMANN.
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR Clarence J. Little, 77,
208 E. PRAIRIE STREET, JERSEYVILLE, WERE HELD AT GUBSER'S
FUNERAL HOME, 30 AUG WITH REV. V. CLAY NOAH JR, OF THE FIRST
BAPTIST CHURCH OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN OAK GROVE CEMETERY.
LITTLE WAS BORN 10 FEB 1906, IN WINCHESTER, THE SON OF A.E. AND
EDNA CHARLTON LITTLE. HE WAS MARRIED ON 26 JUL 1924 IN HAVANA TO
MILDRED MANGOLD. HE WAS A FIELD ENGINEER AT SHELL OIL CO. FOR 26
YEARS, RETIRING IN 1968. HE WAS A LIFETIME MEMBER OF THE EAGLES
LODGE. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, MILDRED, ONE SON, DONALD
LITTLE OF JERSEYVILLE; TWO DAUGHTERS, EILEEN PARSELL OF DOVER,
NH; AND DOLORES MEEK OF CARROLLTON; 13 GRANDCHILDREN; ONE
BROTHER, RUSSELL LITTLE OF SPRINGFIELD. THE FIRST BAPTIST
CHURCH, WHERE HE WAS A MEMBER, HAS BEEN DESIGNATED AS A
MEMORIAL.
Albert A. Loellke, A FARMER LIVING ON ROUTE
4, IN ENGLISH TOWNSHIP, DIED UNEXPECTEDLY WHILE DOING SOME FARM
CHORES AROUND FIVE O'CLOCK SATURDAY EVENING. VISITATION HOURS
WERE HELD AT THE GUBSER FUNERAL HOME AFTER FOUR O'CLOCK MONDAY
AFTERNOON. SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE FUNERAL HOME AT TWO O'CLOCK
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON WITH REV. JACK BROWN OF KANE OFFICIATING.
BURIAL WAS IN OAK GROVE CEMETERY. MR. LOELLKE WAS BORN IN JERSEY
COUNTY 29 DEC 1901, A SON OF THE LATE WILLIAM AND LENA SCHREIBER
LOELLKE. HIS SURVIVORS ARE HIS WIFE, MRS. NAOMI MAE LOELLKE;
THREE DAUGHTERS, MRS. JOSEPH (MARIAN F.) GREENE OF KANE, AND
JANET N. AND PHYLLIS J. WHO RESIDE AT HOME; TWO BROTHERS, FRANK
AND CARL LOELLKE OF JERSEYVILLE; TWO SISTER, MRS. LAWRENCE DAVIS
OF ST. LOUIS AND MRS. NELLIE DICKERSON OF JERSEYVILLE AND FOUR
GRANDCHILDREN. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY A SON, FIVE BROTHERS,
AND THREE SISTERS. MR. LOELLKE WAS A MEMBER OF FOX HUNTERS AND
COON HUNTERS ASSOCIATION. [24 Feb 1972]
A SUMMER OUTING FOR SIX JERSEYVILLE COUPLES WAS BROUGHT TO A
TRAGIC CLOSE FRIDAY MORNING WHEN ONE OF THEIR MEMBERS,
Charles A. Loellke, A YOUNG LOCAL BUSINESSMAN, SUFFERED
A FATAL HEART ATTACK. THOUGH MR. LOELLKE WAS KNOWN TO HAVE A
HEART CONDITION, HE APPEARED IN NORMAL HEALTH ON THURSDAY. HIS
DEATH OCCURRED AT SEVEN O'CLOCK A.M. VISITATION HOURS WERE HELD
SUNDAY AT THE GUBSER FUNERAL HOME IN JERSEYVILLE WHERE THE
ROSARY WAS RECITED AT EIGHT O'CLOCK THAT EVENING. FATHER ROBERT
MORRIS OF CARROLLTON WAS CELEBRANT OF THE REQUIEM MASS WHICH WAS
HELD AT THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY GHOST AT TEN O'CLOCK MONDAY
MORNING. BURIAL WAS IN ST. FRANCIS XAVIER CEMETERY. MR. AND MRS.
LOELLKE AND CHILDREN ACCOMPANIED MR. AND MRS. ROGER MOORE AND
FAMILY, (PICTURE OF DECEASED APPEARS HERE) MR. AND MRS. RONALD
MEDFORD AND FAMILY, MR. AND MRS. MIKE SMITH, MR. AND MRS.
CLAYTON ISRINGHAUSEN AND FAMILY, AND MR. AND MRS. JAMES WALZ AND
FAMILY TO OSAGE BEACH, CAMDENTON, MISSOURI, THE PREVIOUS SUNDAY
FOR A WEEK'S OUTING. THE GROUP WAS MAKING PLANS TO RETURN TO
THEIR HOMES HERE ON FRIDAY OR SATURDAY. MR. LOELLKE, A SON OF
ALBERT A. AND NAOMI SMITH LOELLKE, WAS BORN IN JERSEY COUNTY 6
OCT 1935. HIS AGE AT THE TIME OF DEATH WAS THIRTY-FIVE YEARS,
TEN MONTHS, AND SEVEN DAYS. HE WAS EDUCATED IN THE LOCAL SCHOOL
SYSTEM AND FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS HAD BEEN ENGAGED IN THE
MONUMENT BUSINESS. MR. LOELLKE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, MRS.
THERESA M. LOELLKE; THREE CHILDREN, MARY THERESA, 12, CHARLES
MICHAEL, 10 AND CYNTHIA ANN, 6; HIS PARENTS; AND THREE SISTERS,
MRS. JOE (MARIAN F.) GREENE OF KANE AND JANET AND PHYLLIS
LOELLKE OF JERSEYVILLE. NEWS ITEM, UNKNOWN NEWSPAPER, 6 AUG
1959: "CHARLES LOELLKE WITH LOCAL FIRM": HAROLD W. ANDES, AGENCY
MANAGER FOR THE COUNTRY COMPANIES OF ILLINOIS, ANNOUNCED THE
APPOINTMENT OF CHARLES A. LOELLKE AS SPECIAL AGENT. (PICTURE OF
CHAS. LOELLKE APPEARS HERE IN ARTICLE) LOELLKE WILL BE SERVING
THE FARM BUREAU MEMBERS IN MISSISSIPPI, OTTER CREEK, ELSAH,
QUARRY, AND ROSEDALE TOWNSHIPS ON THEIR INSURANCE NEEDS. LOELLKE
IS A SON OF MR. AND MRS. ALBERT LOELLKE AND WAS BORN AND REARED
ON A FARM NORTHWEST OF JERSEYVILLE. DURING THE PAST YEAR HE HAS
BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH SESSEL'S IN DECATUR. HE AND HIS WIFE, THE
FORMER MISS THERESA ROTH OF THIS CITY, WILL MAKE THEIR HOME AT
418 SOUTH PEARL STREET, JERSEYVILLE. [19 Aug 1971]
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Logan,
91, OF 104 HAZEL STREET, JERSEYVILLE WILL BE HELD THIS
AFTERNOON, 27 DEC AT 1:00 AT JACOBY BROS FUNERAL HOME WITH REV.
LEONARD TODD OFFICIATING. INTERMENT WILL BE IN DAYTON CEMETERY.
HER DEATH OCCURRED AT 5:25 AM ON 24 DEC AT GREENWOOD MANOR
NURSING HOME. SHE WAS BORN 5 NOV 1882 IN GREENE COUNTY, A
DAUGHTER OF JOSEPH AND SUSAN WINTERS BOWERS. MRS. LOGAN WAS THE
OLDEST MEMBER OF THE ROYAL NEIGHBORS OF AMERICA AND VFW
AUXILIARY. HER HUSBAND WAS THE LATE WELEY LOGAN. SHE IS SURVIVED
BY THREE SONS, ROY BOWERS OF FIELDON, OTIS BOWERS OF CARROLLTON
AND RUSSELL F. BOWERS OF MEDORA; TWO DAUGHTERS, MRS SUSIE CRONE
AND MRS. JAMES (MARY) BRENN OF JERSEYVILLE; TWO STEPDAUGHTERS,
MRS. HARVEY BRIDGEWATER AND MRS. ALFRED MEYERS OF HARTFORD; ONE
BROTHER, ARNOLD BOWERS OF CARROLLTON; AND A SISTER, CECILE
JOHNESSE, OF ALTON; 8 GRANDCHILDREN; 12 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN; 3
GREAT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. ONE SON PRECEDED HER IN DEATH.
VISITATION WAS HELD AT JACOBY FUNERAL HOME. [27 Dec 1973]
PRIVATE SERVICES WERE HELD THURS AFTERNOON AT GUBSER FUNERAL
HOME FOR Anderson Jones Long, Sr., 77, WHO DIED
AT 4:55 AM 14 JUN AT STARK SHELTER CARE WHERE HE HAD RESIDED FOR
SIX YEARS. HE WAS BORN 30 JAN 1905 IN CARROLLTON, SON OF THE
LATE FREEMAN LONG AND MORA SULLIVAN LONG BALLARD. HE RETIRED
FROM THE FORMER INTERNATIONAL SHOE FACTORY. HIS SURVIVORS ARE
HIS FORMER WIFE, CHRISTINA LYLES WOOLSEY; THREE SONS, ANDERSON
JONES LONG, JR., MORRIS LONG AND FLOYD LONG OF JERSEYVILLE; STEP
SON MYLAS WOOLSEY; THREE GRANDCHILDREN AND THREE GREAT
GRANDCHILDREN. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY ONE BROTHER AND A
SISTER. REV. R.E. GEORGE OFFICIATED AND BURIAL WAS IN
GRIMES-NEELY CEMETERY WEST OF JERSEYVILLE. [21 Jun 1983]
THE FUNERAL OF Berniece A. Long, 72, WAS
HELD WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AT AIRSMAN-HIRES FUNERAL HOME IN
CARROLLTON WITH THE REV. TERRY TURNER OFFICIATING. SHE DIED AT
5:20 PM ON 13 NOV AT GREENWOOD MANOR NURSING HOME IN
JERSEYVILLE. SHE WAS BORN IN GREENE COUNTY, DAUGHTER OF THE LATE
CLEM AND IDA SCOGGINS TALLEY. SHE MARRIED FRED LONG IN 1931; HE
DIED IN 1978. SHE IS SURVIVED BY FIVE DAUGHTERS, DOROTHY WALKER
OF ROCKBRIDGE, IDA BRIDGEWATER OF CARROLLTON, PAULA WIENEKE OF
GOLDEN EAGLE, BONNIE KLUNK OF ALTON AND PHYLLIS TUEY OF
METROPOLIS; A SON, FRED JR. OF EAST ALTON; 11 GRANDCHILDREN AND
SEVEN GREAT GRANDCHILDREN; AND TWO BROTHERS, VIRGIL TALLEY OF
CARROLLTON AND DONALD TALLEY OF GLENDORA, CALIF. BURIAL WAS IN
CARROLLTON CITY CEMETERY. THE CARROLLTON ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH
OF WHICH SHE WAS A MEMBER, OR THE DEACONESS HOSPITAL
HEMODIALYSIS INDIGENT FUND WERE NAMED AS MEMORIALS. [06 Dec
1983]
Mrs. Blanche L. Long, 39 DIED AT HER HOME IN
JERSEYVILLE MONDAY EVENING AT 7 O'CLOCK FOLLOWING AN ILLNESS OF
LONG DURATION. FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT THE HOME
THURSDAY MORNING AT 9:30 O'CLOCK. ELDER T.J. ROADY WILL
OFFICIATE AND INTERMENT WILL BE MADE IN THE PROVIDENCE CEMETERY
IN GREENE COUNTY. THE DECEDENT WAS A DAUGHTER OF JOHN AND KATE
SPENCER RUTHERFORD. SURVIVING MRS. LONG ARE HER HUSBAND, ISRAEL
B. LONG, OF JERSEYVILLE; FOUR SONS, ORVILLE, HOWARD, BURNS AND
ROY EDWARDS, ALL OF CARROLLTON; TWO DAUGHTERS, VIOLA EDWARDS OF
CHICAGO AND VESTA KELLY OF CHICAGO; HER FATHER, JOHN RUTHERFORD
OF JERSEYVILLE; ONE HALF SISTER, MRS. MAUDE ROSS OF FIELDON.
[Dec 1933]
Elsie L. Long, 84, DIED AT 3:35 PM THURSDAY
27 NOV 1986 AT ROBINGS MANOR IN BRIGHTON. SHE WAS BORN IN
MACOUPIN COUNTY, DAUGHTER OF THE LATE ISAAC D. AND MAUDE
(EDWARDS) MABERRY. SHE WAS MARRIED TO ED OLSTON, WHO PRECEDED
HER IN DEATH, AND THEN AVERY LONG, WHO ALSO PRECEDED HER IN
DEATH. SURVIVING ARE FIVE DAUGHTERS; OPAL MELDI OF WILSONVILLE,
MAE FARMER AND MARJORIE SCOTT, BOTH OF WOOD RIVER, CLARA SMITH
OF SPRING VALLEY AND NADINE RHODES OF GODFREY; A SON, LONNIE
LONG OF GREENFIELD; 12 GRANDCHILDREN; EIGHT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN;
A SISTER, BEAULAH PEACOCK OF FLORIDA; AND THREE BROTHERS, HARVEY
MABERRY OF CARLINVILLE, JESSIE MABERRY OF HETTICK AND HENRY
MABERRY OF CHAMPAIGN. VISITATION WILL BEGIN AT 4 PM SAT AT
SHIELDS MEMORIAL HOME IN GREENFIELD. SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED
AT 2 PM SUNDAY AT BETHLEHEM TABERNACLE IN GREENFIELD WITH REV.
LOYD YOUNKIN OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE AT OAK WOOD CEMETERY IN
GREENFIELD. THE CHURCH HAS BEEN DESIGNATED FOR MEMORIALS. [26
Nov 1986]
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR Mrs. Elsie Lenora Long,
81, OF 112 SNEDEKER AVE., JERSEYVILLE, WERE HELD MONDAY
AFTERNOON, 18 NOV AT JACOBY FUNERAL HOME WITH THE REV. DORCIE
HILL OFFICIATING. SHE DIED AT 9:30 PM ON 15 NOV AT GARNET'S
CHATEAU NURSING HOME. INTERMENT WAS IN OAK GROVE CEMETERY. SHE
WAS BORN 25 DEC 1892 IN GREENE COUNTY, A DAUGHTER OF PHILLIP L.
AND CLARA FREEMAN PLATO. MRS. LONG WAS A MEMBER OF THE ROYAL
NEIGHBORS LODGE AND SENIOR CITIZENS, JERSEYVILLE. SHE WAS AN
EMPLOYEE OF THE FORMER INTERNATIONAL SHOE CO., JERSEYVILLE
BRANCH. HER SURVIVORS ARE HER HUSBAND, CLYDE OF JERSEYVILLE; A
DAUGHTER, MRS. LAWRENCE (MYRTLE) CROTCHETT OF KANE; THREE
GRANDCHILDREN; THREE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN; A BROTHER, HOWARD
PLATO, JERSEYVILLE. HER PARENTS AND A SISTER PRECEDED HER IN
DEATH. THE FAMILY DESIGNATED THE HEALING WATERS TEMPLE BUILDING
FUND AS A MEMORIAL. [21 Nov 1974]
FORMER JERSEYVILLE RESIDENT Carl Edmond Looper,
59, DIED AT 11:30 PM SUNDAY IN FULTON, MO. WHERE HE WAS
RESIDING. HE WAS A NATIVE OF CARROLLTON, SON OF THE LATE JESSE
AND VELMA LOOPER. SURVIVING ARE A DAUGHTER, BONNIE KELTNER OF
MODESTO; TWO GRANDDAUGHTERS; A SISTER, IRMA SWARINGTON OF WHITE
HALL; AND A BROTHER, ELMER OF JERSEYVILLE. VISITATION WILL BE
FROM 6 TO 9 PM WED AT BAUE FUNERAL HOME IN ST. CHARLES, MO.,
WHERE FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED AT 10 AM THURSDAY.
BURIAL WILL BE IN JEFFERSON BARRACKS NATIONAL CEMETERY IN ST.
LOUIS. [24 Jan 1984]
SERVICES FOR Harold J. Looper, 63, FORMERLY
OF WOOD RIVER, WERE CONDUCTED AT AIRSMAN-HIRES FUNERAL HOME IN
CARROLLTON WITH BURIAL IN THE CARROLLTON CITY CEMETERY. HE DIED
AT 6 AM, 12 MAR AT REISCH MEMORIAL NURSING HOME IN CARROLLTON.
BORN IN GREENE COUNTY, HE WAS A SON OF THE LATE JESSE AND VELMA
SCOTT LOOPER. THE WORLD WAR II NAVY VETERAN WAS A PIPEFITTER
WITH ALTON LOCAL 553 FOR 25 YEARS, RETIRING IN 1971. HIS
SURVIVORS ARE HIS WIFE, THE FORMER CHAROLOTTE ROBINSON WHOM HE
MARRIED 18 MAY 1941 IN ST. CHARLES, CO.; A DAUGHTER, KATHALEEN
ROWE OF MEADOWBROOK; THREE GRANDCHILDREN; A SISTER, ERMA JEAN
SWARRINGTON OF JERSEYVILLE AND TWO BROTHERS, ELMER OF
JERSEYVILLE AND CAROL OF ST. CHARLES, MO. THE JERSEYVILLE
MASONIC LODGE 394 CONDUCTED RITES AND THE PLUMBERS AND
PIPEFITTERS LOCAL 553 ASSEMBLED AT THE FUNERAL HOME SUNDAY
EVENING. MEMORIALS MAY BE MADE TO THE CEMETERY FUND. [1983]
Fred W. Lorton, 80, OF CARROLLTON, DIED AT
11:50 AM WED 23 APRIL AT JERSEY COMM. HOSPITAL IN JERSEYVILLE.
HE WAS BORN IN JERSEY COUNTY AND WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS
PARENTS, BENJAMIN AND MAUDE (VARBLE) LORTON, AND HIS STEP
MOTHER, BESSIE (SCOGGINS) LORTON. HE HAD RETIRED FROM FARMING
AND MARRIED THE FORMER EDNA BRANDT ON 23 JAN 1928 IN
EDWARDSVILLE. SURVIVING ARE HIS WIFE; ONE DAUGHTER, MABEL DRIVER
OF CARROLLTON; TWO GRANDCHILDREN; FIVE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN;
THREE BROTHERS, GEORGE LORTON, SR. OF JERSEYVILLE, FLOYD LORTON
OF ALTON AND RALPH LORTON OF QUINCY; AND TWO SISTERS, GRACE
CURTRIGHT AND ADA BUSCH, BOTH OF ELDRED. VISITATION WAS AT
AIRMANS HIRES FUNERAL HOME IN CARROLLTON, WHERE SERVICES WERE
CONDUCTED WITH REV. MANERD ADEN OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN MT.
GILEAD CEMETERY, SOUTHWEST OF CARROLLTON. [May 1986]
FINAL RITES FOR Mrs. Ethel Alma Loy, 81, OF
1002 WALNUT, JERSEYVILLE WERE HELD TUESDAY AFTERNOON, 21 JAN AT
JACOBY FUNERAL HOME WITH THE REV. EARL CLAGG OFFICIATING.
INTERMENT WAS IN OAK GROVE CEMETERY. HER DEATH OCCURRED ON 18
JAN AT ALTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. BORN IN GREENE COUNTY ON 28 FEB
1893, SHE WAS A DAUGHTER OF LEONARD AND FLORA MAINS BRIDGES. HER
HUSBAND WAS THE LATE WILLIAM OLIVER LOY. MRS. LOY WAS A MEMBER
OF THE BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH AND WORLD WAR I AUXILIARY. SHE IS
SURVIVED BY ONE SON, OLIVER LOY, JR. OF MEDORA AND FOUR
DAUGHTERS, MRS. LULA BROOKS OF JERSEYVILLE; MRS. HAZEL YOUNG OF
KANE, MRS. FLORA WELLHAUSEN OF CARROLLTON AND MRS. THEO KOEHNE
OF ROCKBRIDGE; 16 GRANDCHILDREN; 13 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN; AND A
BROTHER, HARLEY BRIDGES OF PHOENIX, ARIZ. HER PARENTS, TWO
HUSBANDS, TWO SON, TWO DAUGHTERS, THREE BROTHERS AND FOUR
SISTERS PRECEDED HER IN DEATH. THE FAMILY DESIGNATED THE CANCER
FUND AND THE BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH AS MEMORIALS. [23 Jan 195]
Mrs. Iva Jane Platto Loy, WHOSE HOME WAS AT
716 EAST CARPENTER, THIS CITY, DIED UNEXPECTEDLY TUESDAY
MORNING, 13 JUN AT 5 O'CLOCK AT THE HOME OF HER DAUGHTER, MRS.
FRANK MILLER IN ELKHART, INDIANA. MRS. MILLER HAD COME TO
JERSEYVILLE TO ACCOMPANY HER MOTHER TO INDIANA ON SUNDAY. MRS.
LOY HAD BEEN IN FAILING HEALTH BUT HER DEATH CAME AS A SURPRISE
TO RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. VISITATION HOURS ARE BEING HELD AT
JACOBY BROS FUNERAL HOME WHERE FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD
THIS (THURSDAY) AFTERNOON AT 2 O'CLOCK WITH REV. CORCIA HILL
OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE IN OAK GROVE CEMETERY. MRS. LOY WAS
A DAUGHTER OF THE LATE PHILLIP AND CLARA FREEMAN PLATTO AND WAS
BORN IN GREENE COUNTY ON 21 OCT 1898. HER AGE AT DEATH WAS 68
YEARS, 7 MONTHS AND 22 DAYS. SURVIVING MRS. LOY ARE FIVE
DAUGHTERS, MRS. JOHN CUNNINGHAM OF GRAFTON, MRS. EVERETT JONES
OF MEDORA, MRS. DON ZIMMERMAN OF DES PLAINS, MRS. FRANK MILLER
OF ELKHART, INDIANA AND MRS. DONALD BRADFISCH OF WOOD RIVER; ONE
BROTHER, HOWARD PLATTO, AND ONE SISTER, MRS. CLYDE LONG OF
JERSEYVILLE. SHE ALSO LEAVES TEN GRANDCHILDREN AND THREE GREAT
GRANDCHILDREN. [15 Jun 1967]
SERVICES FOR Louis P. Loy, 83, OF DOW WILL
BE CONDUCTED AT 1:30 PM ON 23 NOV FROM JACOBY BROS FUNERAL HOME
WITH THE REV. GIL COULTAS OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE IN THE OAK
GROVE CEMETERY. HIS DEATH OCCURRED AT 12:10 AM ON 20 NOV AT
GREENWOOD MANOR. A RETIRED FARMER, HE WAS BORN 17 FEB 1893 IN
JERSEYVILLE, A SON OF WILLIAM AND ANNIE LOY. HIS WIFE WAS THE
LATE LUCY GRANER. HIS SURVIVORS ARE FOUR DAUGHTERS, MRS. NORMAN
(GERTRUDE) PARNELL OF CALIFORNIA, MRS. RICHARD (MARY) PRICE OF
DOW, MRS. DON (ALICE) GHRIST OF PITTSFIELD AND MRS. MILTON
(DOROTHY) SCHMIDT, GILLESPIE; TWO SONS, WOODROW LOY OF
JERSEYVILLE AND HARRY LOY OF SHIPMAN; 13 GRANDCHILDREN; FIVE
GREAT GRANDCHILDREN; TWO BROTHERS, FRANK OF JERSEYVILLE AND
GEORGE OF GREENFIELD AND TWO SISTERS, MRS. NELLIE FRANK AND MRS.
ROLLIE (ZADA) FELDJES OF JERSEYVILLE. FRIENDS MAY CALL AT JACOBY
FUNERAL HOME AFTER 4 PM MONDAY. [22 Nov 1976]
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR Mrs. Susan Elizabeth Loy,
57, OF GREENFIELD, WERE HELD TUESDAY AFTERNOON AT THE WARNER
FUNERAL HOME IN MEDORA. REV. WILBUR MOUSER, PASTOR OF THE
GREENFIELD PENTECOSTAL CHURCH, OFFICIATED AND BURIAL WAS IN
PROVIDENCE CEMETERY. THE DEATH OF MRS. LOY OCCURRED SATURDAY
AFTERNOON AT 1:30 O'CLOCK AT BOYD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL IN
CARROLLTON. SHE WAS BORN 14 MAR 1914 IN JERSEY COUNTY. FOLLOWING
HER MARRIAGE IN 1930 TO THEODORE (TONY) LOY, SHE SPENT MOST OF
HER LIFE IN THE GREENFIELD-ROCKBRIDGE AREA. SURVIVING HER IN
ADDITION TO HER HUSBAND ARE A [remainder unavailable] [10 Jun
1971]
FINAL SERVICES FOR William Oliver Loy,
85, OF 1002 WALNUT STREET, JERSEYVILLE WILL BE HELD TOMORROW
(FRIDAY) AFTERNOON AT 2:00 O'CLOCK AT THE BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH
WITH REV. EARL CLAGG OFFICIATING. HE DIED TUESDAY EVENING, 12
JUN AT JERSEY COMM. HOSPITAL. INTERMENT WILL BE IN OAK GROVE
CEMETERY. FRIENDS MAY CALL AT JACOBY FUNERAL HOME AFTER 4:00
O'CLOCK THURSDAY. Melvin "Jay" Loy, 74, DIED AT 6:29 AM MONDAY,
21 JAN 1991 AT BOYD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, CARROLLTON. LOY RETIRED
AS A MACHINE OPERATOR FROM OLIN CORP. OF EAST ALTON. HE WAS BORN
IN JERSEY COUNTY, SON OF THE LATE JOHN J. AND EMMA A. (FRANKS)
LOY. HE AND THE FORMER GERALDINE TUCKER WERE MARRIED IN 1937.
SHE DIED IN MARCH 1983. ON 14 SEP 1983, HE MARRIED THE FORMER
DOROTHY HUFF IN BRIGHTON, AND SHE SURVIVES. ALSO SURVIVING ARE A
DAUGHTER, MELVA IRENE GUNNING OF MEDORA; TWO SONS; ROY "BILL"
AND JAMES LOY, BOTH OF GREENFIELD; THREE STEP DAUGHTERS, DOROTHY
TOCHRAN OF HAGAMAN, FLORENCE RICHEY OF PLAINVIEW AND MARY JONES
OF MEDORA; A STEPSON, ORVILLE CAMERON OF ATLANTA, GA.; 27
GRANDCHILDREN; 33 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN; TWO SISTERS, PASCHIA HUFF
OF GRAFTON AND FAY SHORT OF ALTON; AND THREE BROTHERS, THERON
"CAP" AND NELSON LOY, BOTH OF GREENFIELD, AND JOHN LOY OF ALTON.
PRECEDING HIM IN DEATH WERE TWO BROTHERS, ALFRED AND HOMER LOY;
AND A SISTER, VIOLA LOY. VISITATION IS FROM 5 TO 8 PM TODAY AT
TARGHETTA FUNERAL HOME IN MEDORA, WITH SERVICES AT 10:30 AM
WEDNESDAY. THE REV. ROBERT BUTT WILL OFFICIATE. BURIAL IS IN
OAKWOOD CEMETERY AT GREENFIELD. MEMORIALS MAY BE GIVEN TO THE
MEDORA UNIT OF THE AREA AMBULANCE SERVICE.
FINAL SERVICES FOR William Oliver Loy, 85,
OF 1002 WALNUT STREET, JERSEYVILLE WILL BE HELD TOMORROW
(FRIDAY) AFTERNOON AT 2:00 O'CLOCK AT THE BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH
WITH REV. EARL CLAGG OFFICIATING. HE DIED TUESDAY EVENING, 12
JUN AT JERSEY COMM. HOSPITAL. INTERMENT WILL BE IN OAK GROVE
CEMETERY. FRIENDS MAY CALL AT JACOBY FUNERAL HOME AFTER 4:00
O'CLOCK THURSDAY. WORTHEY POST AMERICAN LEGION WILL CONDUCT
SERVICES. A WORLD WAR I VETERAN AND RETIRED FARMER, HE WAS BORN
24 JUL 1887 IN JERSEY COUNTY, A SON OF WILLIAM AND ANNIE
PORTWOOD LOY. HIS SURVIVORS ARE HIS WIFE, MRS. ETHEL BRIDGES
LOY; THREE DAUGHTERS, MRS. LEANCLE (HAZEL) YOUNG OF KANE, MRS.
R.C. (FLORA) WELLHAUSEN OF CARROLLTON AND MRS. JOSEPH (THEO)
KOEHNE OF ROCKBRIDGE; ONE STEP-DAUGHTER, MRS. RALPH (LULA)
BROOKS OF JERSEYVILLE; A SON, OLIVER LOY, JR. OF ROUTE 1,
MEDORA; 16 GRANDCHILDREN; 10 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN; TWO SISTER,
MRS. NELLIE FRANK AND MRS. ROLLIE (ZADA) FELDJES OF JERSEYVILLE;
AND FOUR BROTHERS, FRANK LOY OF JERSEYVILLE, LOUIS LOY OF
PLAINVIEW, TONY LOY OF ALTON AND GEORGE LOY OF MEDORA. HIS
PARENTS AND ONE DAUGHTER PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH. [14 Jun 1973]
SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT 1:30 TOMORROW AFTERNOON, 21 NOV AT
THE JACOBY FUNERAL HOME FOR Mrs. Elizabeth Lucille
Lurton, 69, OF R.R. 1, DOW. GILBERT IVES WILL BE THE
READER. INTERMENT WILL BE IN THE NEWBERN CEMETERY. SHE DIED AT
12:10 PM ON 18 NOV AT THE JERSEY COMM. HOSPITAL. SHE WAS BORN 6
AUG 1906 IN DOW, A DAUGHTER OF HOMER L. AND LULA CHAPPEE McDOW.
MRS. LURTON WAS A MEMBER OF THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST
SCIENTIST, ELSAH, AND THE GRAFTON EASTERN STAR CHAPTER. HER
SURVIVORS ARE HER HUSBAND, WILLIAM P. OF DOW; FATHER, HOMER
McDOW; SONS, H. WILLIAM LURTON OF LONG LAKE, MINN., DONALD H.
LURTON, MEMPHIS, TENN. CLAYTON E. OF DOW AND ROBERT OF
CARROLLTON; DAUGHTERS, MRS. ALLEN (JANE) DUNN OF HOLLISTER,
CALIF., MRS. CHARLES (ALICE) DODSON OF GODFREY, MRS. RICHARD
(MARY) BRAINERD OF DOW; 15 GRANDCHILDREN; AND A SISTER, MRS.
RUSSELL (MARY FRANCES) WHYTE OF GODFREY. [20 Nov 1975]
UNCLE Jacob Lurton, A PIONEER OF JERSEY
COUNTY, DIED AT HIS HOME NEAR THIS PLACE MONDAY NIGHT, 5 OCT
1896, 91 YEARS OLD. THE FUNERAL WAS AT CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH WITH REV. R.D. MILLER OF PETERSBURG OFFICIATING. LURTON
WAS BORN NEAR LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY ON 16 SEP 1805. THE FOLLOWING
IS A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE WRITTEN IN 1885. HE HAS WITNESSED THE
DEVELOPMENT OF THIS COUNTY AND HAS HAD NO SMALL SHARE IN ITS
TRANSFORMATION FROM A SCENE OF NATURAL WILDNESS TO ITS PRESENT
CONDITION. HE WAS FOR 8 YEARS A JUDGE OF THE COURT AND FOR 12
YEARS A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE IN MISSISSIPPI TOWNSHIP, AND WAS
THE FIRST POSTMASTER IS THIS TOWNSHIP FOR 14 YEARS. HE WAS A
CAPTAIN OF MILITIA AT THE TIME OF THE BLACK HAWK WAR, THE PLACE
OF RENDEZVOUS BEING CARROLLTON. HE WAS HELD AS A RESERVE FOR 35
DAYS WHEN THE ADJUTANT GENERAL CALLED ON THEM AND TOLD THEM TO
DISBAND, AND TO BE READY AT MOMENT'S WARNING WITH 5 DAYS
PROVISIONS FOR SELF AND HORSE. HE WENT HOME AND HAS NEVER BEEN
CALLED UPON, AND HAS NEVER BEEN DISCHARGED NOR RECEIVED ANY
COMPENSATION. HIS SWORD AND OUTFIT COST $25 AND THE SWORD IS IN
GOOD PRESERVATION TO THIS DAY, AND IS IN THE POSSESSION OF HIS
SON, N.M. LURTON. HE STILL HAS HIS COMMISSION, AND FOR MANY
YEARS WAS KNOWN AS CAPTAIN LURTON. HE WAS A MAN OF INTEGRITY AND
ABILITY. HIS ADVISE WAS SOUGHT ON ALL MATTERS. AT EVERY MARRIAGE
HE OFFICIATED, AND BY HIM WERE TIED THE NUPTIAL KNOTS UNITING
THE HEARTS AND DESTINIES OF MANY A HAPPY COUPLE. FOR ALL THESE
AND KINDRED SERVICES HE NEVER MADE A CHARGE, AND AFTER SO MANY
YEARS, THERE BEING NO ABSOLUTE NECESSITY LONGER, HE RESIGNED ALL
OFFICES AND ANNOUNCED HIS INTENTION, HAVING DONE HIS PART, OF
REMAINING OUT OF OFFICE AND NOT WITHSTANDING THE WISHES OF THE
PEOPLE HE HAS SINCE STEADILY PURSUED THAT PURPOSE. HE MARRIED ON
20 MAR 1829 MARGARET McDOW, A DAUGHTER OF JOHN AND MARGARET
GILHAM McDOW. EIGHT CHILDREN WERE BORN: N.M. BORN 9 JAN 1830;
JOHN C., BORN 6 APR 1831; JULIA A, BORN 17 NOV 1832; MARY J.,
BORN 20 FEB 1834 AND DIED 27 FEB 1876; SARAH M., BORN 4 MAR
1836; JACOB P., BORN 17 JUL 1838 AND DIED 8 NOV 1868; ELIZABETH
O., BORN 28 NOV 1842; OLIVIA BORN 6 JAN 1850. JACOB P., A
LIEUTENANT IN COMPANY H, 97TH ILL, DIED OF A DISEASE GOTTEN IN
THE ARMY. MR. LURTON IS A REMARKABLE MAN. HE HAS NEVER PLAYED A
GAME OF CARDS OR DANCED OR TAKEN A DRINK, SUED A MAN, NEVER BEEN
SUED, NEVER GOT HIGHER THAN A GILL OF BUTTERMILK. RELATED ITEM:
REPUBLICAN EXAMINER, JERSEYVILLE, ILL., 1 APR 1881: JACOB LURTON
OF LURTON'S MOUND, IS ONE AMONG THE OLDEST SETTLERS IN JERSEY
COUNTY. MR. LURTON IS ONE OF THE OLD KENTUCKY PIONEER STOCK. THE
SAME SPIRIT THAT ANIMATED DANIEL BOONE BURNED IN HIS BOSOM, AND
WHEN HE SETTLED AT THE MOUND, WITHIN THREE MILES OF THE
MISSISSIPPI RIVER, HE NEVER DREAMED THAT A RAILROAD WOULD BE
PROJECTED THROUGH HIS HOMESTEAD. MR. LURTON HAS PASSED HIS THREE
SCORE YEARS AND IS A CHARTER MEMBER OF OLD MORNING SUN LODGE,
JERSEYVILLE, AND FULL MOON LODGE, GRAFTON, A.F. & A.M. HIS
SURVIVING CHILDREN ARE ALL WELL SETTLED NEAR HIM, AND THE OLD
GENTLEMAN, IN HIS DECLINING YEARS, HAS HAD ERECTED A FAMILY
MONUMENT OF AMERICAN MARBLE, 16 1/2 FEET IN HEIGHT, AT A COST OF
$1,000, BEARING THE NAME OF LURTON; ALSO THE INSCRIPTION, MARY
J. LURTON, WIFE OF MARTIN V. HAMILTON, BORN 26 FEB, 1834; DIED
27 FEB 1876 [Jerseyville Republican 15 Oct 1896]
SERVICES FOR William P. Lurton, 95, OF DOW
WILL BE CONDUCTED AT 3 PM TUESDAY AT JACOBY BROS FUNERAL HOME BY
GILBERT IVES, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE READER. BURIAL WILL BE IN THE
NEWBERN CEMETERY. HE DIED AT 11:40 PM 22 SEP AT GARNET'S CHATEAU
NURSING HOME. HE WAS BORN 11 JUL 1884 AT DOW, A SON OF THE LATE
HENRY C. AND CARRIE COPE LURTON AND WAS A RETIRED CARPENTER FROM
PRINCIPIA COLLEGE, ELSAH. HIS WIFE, THE FORMER ELIZABETH McDOW
WHOM HE MARRIED IN APRIL OF 1929, DIED 18 NOV 1975. HE IS
SURVIVED BY FOUR SONS, BILL LURTON OF LONG LAKE, MINN. DON OF
MEMPHIS, TENN., CALYTON OF ALTON, AND BOB OF CARROLLTON; THREE
DAUGHTERS, JANE DUNN OF HOLLISTER, CALIF., ALICE DODSON OF
GODFREY AND MARY BRAINERD OF DOW; 15 GRANDCHILDREN. HIS PARENTS,
WIFE, ONE BROTHER AND TWO SISTERS PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH. THE
CHARITY OF YOUR CHOICE HAS BEEN SUGGESTED AS A MEMORIAL.
VISITATION FROM 4 TO 9 PM, MONDAY AT JACOBY FUNERAL HOME. [24
Sep 1979]
Fountain H. Lyle, 83, OF GILLESPIE, DIED AT
SIX PM THURSDAY 3 APRIL AT ST. FRANCIS HOSPITAL IN LITCHFIELD
WHERE HE HAD BEEN A PATIENT FOR TWO WEEKS. MR. LYLE HAD BEEN A
RAILROAD WORKER OF THIRTY-TWO YEARS BEFORE HIS RETIREMENT IN
1934. HE HAD RESIDED IN THE SHIPMAN VICINITY UNTIL MOVING TO
GILLESPIE ABOUT TWO AND ONE HALF YEARS AGO. THE DECEDENT WAS A
SON OF THE LATE THOMAS AND AGNES CAIRNS LYLE AND WAS BORN IN
JERSEY COUNTY. HE WAS MARRIED TO ALICE HARRIS ON 19 NOV 1913.
SURVIVING THE AGED MAN IN ADDITION TO HIS WIFE ARE TWO SONS,
WILLIAM, AT HOME, ANN LEROY OF FIDELITY; THREE DAUGHTERS, MRS.
ALBERTA VESSEL AND MRS. AGNES FLACKUS, BOTH OF HARFORD, AND MRS.
MILDRED THAXTON OF GREENFIELD; SEVEN GRANDCHILDREN, AND A
BROTHER, ALEX LYLE, OF PIASA. FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD SUNDAY
AFTERNOON, 6 APRIL AT TWO THIRTY O'CLOCK AT THE MT. ZION BAPTIST
CHURCH WITH REV. W.G. WODICKER OFFICIATING. INTERMENT WAS IN
SHIPMAN CEMETERY. [10 Apr 1952]
THE FUNERAL OF Walter Marion Lynn, 75, WHO
DIED AT 7:15 PM 13 APRIL AT HIS RESIDENCE IN JERSEYVILLE, WAS
CONDUCTED WEDNESDAY MORNING AT THE FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH
BY THE REV. WAYNE PENDLETON. HE WAS BORN 8 DEC 1909 IN GREENE
COUNTY, SON OF THE LATE WALTER S. AND OLLIE THOMAS LYNN AND WAS
A TRUCK DRIVER AND MEMBER OF TEAMSTERS LOCAL NO 525. HE MARRIED
ALMA MYERS IN JAN 1935; SHE DIED 21 OCT 1955. HE MARRIED
FLORENCE E. WALKER ON 2 MAY 1958 IN JERSEYVILLE. HE WAS A MEMBER
OF THE ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH. HIS SURVIVORS ARE HIS WIFE; A
SON, LUTHER LYNN OF APPLE VALLEY, CALIF.; DAUGHTERS, JUANITA
FERJO OF LOS ANGELES, CALIF. AND BETTY FERGUSON OF DELHI; SIX
GRANDCHILDREN AND FOUR GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. HIS PARENTS, FOUR
BROTHERS AND A SISTER PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH. BURIAL WAS AT
VALHALLA MEMORIAL PARK IN GODFREY. THE ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH
BUILDING FUND HAS BEEN NAMED AS A MEMORIAL. JACOBY FUNERAL HOME
ARRANGEMENTS. [Apr 1985]
Mrs. Fannie Lynn, WIDOW OF THE LATE REV.
SAMUEL LYNN FOR MANY YEARS PASTOR OF THE 2ND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
PRIOR TO 1874, AND SISTER OF THE LATE REV. SAMUEL WILSON D.D.,
OF LOUISVILLE, KY, ONE OF THE ABLEST DIVINES OF THAT
DENOMINATION, DIED AT HER HOME IN THIS CITY SATURDAY, AT 10 PM
IN HER 86TH YEAR. THE DECEASED WAS THE MOTHER OF WILLIAM AND
MISS AMANDA LYNN OF THIS CITY AND AUNT OF HON. CHAS. LYNN, OF
CARROLLTON. THE EXEMPLARY CHRISTIAN LIFE AND CHARACTER OF THE
DECEASED ENDEARS HER MEMORY TO THE HEARTS OF A LARGE CIRCLE OF
FRIENDS AND RELATIVES. THE FUNERAL TOOK PLACE AT THE LATE
RESIDENCE TUESDAY AFTERNOON AT 2:30 O'CLOCK; REV. IRA C. TYSON
OFFICIATING, AND INTERMENT IN OAK GROVE CEMETERY. [1895]
THE FUNERAL OF James M. Lyons, OVERSEAS
HERO, WHOSE BODY ARRIVED IN WHITE HALL, SATURDAY, WAS HELD
SUNDAY AFTERNOON FROM ALL SAINTS' CATHOLIC CHURCH IN WHITE HALL
AT 2:30 O'CLOCK. THE REV. FATHER J.J. CLANCY OF JERSEYVILLE
OFFICIATED, AND THE SERVICES WERE UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE
WHITE HALL POST OF THE AMERICAN LEGION. OF LYONS, THE STATE
REGISTER OF AUGUST 6TH SAYS: LYONS' DEATH WAS THE FIRST AMONG
GREENE COUNTY VETERANS OF THE WORLD WAR. HE WAS A VOLUNTEER
SOLDIER ENLISTING 27 MAY 1917 AT COLUMBUS, OHIO, AND WAS
IMMEDIATELY PLACED IN TRAINING AT FORT BLISS, TEXAS, UNTIL
AUGUST, WHEN HE WENT TO FRANCE WITH SUPPLY COMPANY, FIFTH FIELD
ARTILLERY, AS A PRIVATE OF THE FIRST CLASS, AFTERWARDS BEING
MADE A WAGONER. ON HIS SECOND TIME UP TO THE FRONT HE RECEIVED
WOUNDS THAT WERE FATAL, HIS DEATH OCCURRING 9 MAR 1918. THE
ACTION IN WHICH HE RECEIVED HIS FATAL WOUNDS OCCURRED IN TOUL
SECTOR, FRANCE, NEAR ANSAUVILLE. THE DECEASED WAS JUST NEARING
HIS 31ST BIRTHDAY WHEN HIS DEATH OCCURRED, AS HIS ANNIVERSARY
WOULD HAVE COME FOUR DAYS LATER. HE WAS BORN AT WHITE HALL, 13
MAR 1886, SON OF MICHAEL AND MARY LYONS. COINCIDENT WITH THE
DEATH OF THIS SOLDIER, THE FATHER PASSED AWAY ON 9 MARCH ONE
YEAR LATER, AND JUST A WEEK FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF THE FATHER,
THE MOTHER GAVE UP HER EARTHLY CARES, 18 MARCH 1919. THE LYONS
FAMILY IS ONE OF THE BELOVED FAMILIES OR THE COMMUNITY. THE HOME
ON EAST BRIDGEPORT IS MAINTAINED BY THE THREE SURVIVING SONS,
WILLIAM, HARRY AND CHARLES, WHERE THE LATCHSTRING ALWAYS HANGS
OUT TO THE PASSER. THAT JAMES LYONS WAS A BRAVE SOLDIER IS
EVIDENCED BY NUMEROUS PAPERS THAT ADORN THE WALLS IN FRAMES IN
THE LYONS HOME. ONE IS SIGNED BY WOODROW WILSON, ONE BY RAYMOND
POINCAIRE, ANOTHER BY JOHN J. PERSHING, AND LETTERS AND OTHER
FORMS OF COMMUNICATIONS FROM IMMEDIATE ASSOCIATES AS TO THE
SOLDIERLY QUALITIES OF THE DEPARTED ARE JUST AS CONSOLING AND AS
HIGHLY PRIZED IN THE HOME AS ARE THE DOCUMENTS BEARING THE
SIGNATURES OF SOME OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST MEN. THE TESTIMONY ON
BEHALF OF THE COMMUNITY WILL BE MANIFESTED BY THE ATTENDANCE AT
THE FUNERAL, WHICH WILL BRING OUT PRACTICALLY THE ENTIRE
COMMUNITY." MISSES MARGARET DEBAUN, MAMIE DOLAN AND MINNIE
MURPHY OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER'S CHOIR, SANG AT THE FUNERAL.
[1918]
