JACOB HONNEGER

JACOB HONNEGER, BETTER KNOWN TO MANY OF THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC PEOPLE OF THIS COMMUNITY AS "FATHER" HONNEGER, PASSED AWAY MONDAY EVENING AT HIS HOME NORTH OF FORREST, AT THE AGE OF 88 YEARS. HE HAD FOR MANY YEARS PREACHED AT THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH NORTH OF FORREST.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD YESTERDAY AND WERE LARGELY ATTENDED.

MRS. JACOB HONNEGGER

MRS. JACOB HONNEGGER, SR., PASSED AWAY AT HER HOME NORTH OF FORREST LAST FRIDAY MORNING AFTER AN ILLNESS OF ONE WEEK, AGED 79 YEARS, AND 7 MONTHS.

THE DECEASED WAS ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN RESIDENTS OF THE LOCALITY IN WHICH SHE RESIDED, HAVING LIVED THERE FOR 43 YEARS. SHE WAS A MOST EXCELLENT WOMAN AND MANY FRIENDS MOURN HER DEATH.

MAGDALENA MEYER WAS BORN IN ZURICH, CANTON, SWITZERLAND, AUGUST, 1830. SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO JACOB HONNEGGER IN THAT COUNTRY AND CAME WITH HIM TO AMERICA IN 1867, SETTLING IN PLEASANT RIDGE TOWNSHIP. FIVE CHILDREN, TOGETHER WITH THE BEREAVED HUSBAND, SURVIVE HER. THEY ARE JACOB, OF CISSNA PARK; EDWARD, HERMAN AND JULIUS OF FORREST, AND MRS. RUDOLF LEUTHOLD, OF FORREST. ONE SON, EMIL, DIED ABOUT A YEAR AGO.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH, NORTH OF FORREST MONDAY AFTERNOON, REV. RUDOLF WITZIG OF GRIDLEY OFFICIATING.

A LARGE CONCOURSE OF FRIENDS WERE PRESENT. THE FAMILY HAVE THE SYMPATHY OF ALL.

JACOB HONEGGER 1832 - 1920

(WIFE) MAGDALENE (MEYER) HONEGGER 1830 - 1910

(DAUGHTER) BARBARA (HONEGGER) LEUTHOLD 1857 - 1936

(SON) EDWARD HONEGGER 1861 - 1925

(SON) JACOB HONEGGER, JR. 1864 - 1912

(SON) EMIL HONEGGER 1865 - 1908

(SON) JULIUS HONEGGER 1868 - 1958

(SON) HERMAN HONEGGER 1872 - 1924

MRS. BARBARA LEUTHOLD

MRS. BARBARA HONEGGER LEUTHOLD, FORMER RESIDENT OF THIS COMMUNITY, PASSED AWAY AT THE HOME OF HER DAUGHTER, MRS. JOHN SCHICK, NEAR MORTON, ON SUNDAY, JULY 12, AT 10:40 A.M. SHE HAD BEEN BEDFAST FOR ABOUT A YEAR.

MRS. LEUTHOLD WAS BORN AUGUST 25, 1857, IN SWITZERLAND, DAUGHTER OF JACOB AND MAGDALENA MIERER HONEGGER. SHE WAS MARRIED TO JACOB LEUTHOLD IN 1899. MR. LEUTHOLD DIED IN 1923. SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH. SHE CAME TO AMERICA ABOUT 70 YEARS AGO, AND FOR THE PAST TWO AND A HALF YEARS HAD MADE HER HOME WITH HER DAUGHTER AT MORTON. SURVIVING ARE THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN; MRS. JOHN SCHICK, OF MORTON; MRS. LENA SONDEREGGER, PEORIA; SILAS LEUTHOLD, DUNLAP; A BROTHER, JULIUS HONEGGER, OF FRANCESVILLE, IND.; 15 GRANDCHILDREN AND FOUR GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE SCHICK HOME AT MORTON ON TUESDAY MORNING AT 9 O’CLOCK, AND AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH NORTH OF FORREST AT 1:30 P.M. INTERMENT WAS IN THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CEMETERY.

NO OBITUARY

JACOB HONEGGER WAS BORN JANUARY 26, 1864, IN SWITZERLAND. HE MARRIED CATHERINE REEB IN 1894 AT CISSNA PARK, AND TO THIS UNION WERE BORN 5 CHILDREN. FOUR DIED IN INFANCY AND ONE SON, STANI, WHO WAS BORN IN 1895.

CATHERINE DIED IN 1901 AND THEN JACOB MARRIED ANNA REEB IN 1902 AND TO THIS UNION WERE BORN 7 CHILDREN, TWO THAT DIED IN INFANCY AND WILLIAM DIED AT THE AGE OF 17. THE OTHER CHILDREN BORN TO THEM WERE HULDA, HERMAN, ELIZA, AND ALVIN.

THEY LIVED ON A FARM EAST OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, WERE THEY WERE MEMBERS.

JACOB DIED ON OCTOBER 16, 1912 AND HIS WIFE ANNA, PASSING IN NOVEMBER 18, 1944.

EDWARD HONEGGER

EDWARD HONEGGER, WHO FOR MANY YEARS RESIDED IN THIS VICINITY, DIED AT HIS HOME EIGHT MILES SOUTHEAST OF THIS CITY, SUNDAY MORNING AT 11 O'CLOCK HIS DEATH BEING DUE TO A COMPLICATION OF DISEASES WITH WHICH HE HAD BEEN AFFLICTED FOR SEVERAL MONTHS. HE WAS AGED 63 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AND 25 DAYS.

EDWARD HONEGGER WAS BORN IN SWITZERLAND, DECEMBER 31 1861, AND WHEN FIVE YEARS OF AGE CAME WITH HIS PARENTS TO THIS COUNTRY. HE GREW TO YOUNG MANHOOD IN PLEASANT RIDGE TOWNSHIP, AND ON FEBRUARY 11 1887, WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO BERTHA HAAB, AND THEY IMMEDIATELY WENT TO HOUSEKEEPING SOUTHEAST OF THIS CITY, WHERE THEY HAVE SINCE RESIDED. SURVIVING MR. HONEGGER ARE HIS WIFE AND TWELVE CHILDREN.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD FROM THE SOUTH CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH WEDNESDAY.

MRS. BERTHA HONEGGER DIES IN PEORIA

MRS. BERTHA HAAB HONEGGER PASSED AWAY LAST FRIDAY EVENING AT 7:30 O’CLOCK AT HER HOME AT 208 N. BOURLAND STREET, PEORIA. SHE WAS AGED 80 YEARS AND 8 MONTHS.

BERTHA HAAB WAS BORN AT ZURICH, SWITZERLAND, MARCH 22, 1860, AND AT THE AGE OF EIGHT YEARS CAME TO THIS COUNTRY, THE FAMILY SETTLING IN THIS VICINITY, WHERE SHE GREW TO WOMANHOOD.

ON FEBRUARY 11, 1887, SHE WAS MARRIED TO EDWARD HONEGGER, WHO PRECEDED HER IN DEATH, APRIL 26, 1925. FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS THEIR HOME WAS ON A FARM EIGHT MILES NORTHEAST OF FAIRBURY.

SHE LEAVES TO MOURN HER DEATH 12 CHILDREN - JULIA, ADDIE, ELLA, PERSEDA, NATHALIA, OF PEORIA; MRS. LENA KYBURZ, OF IDAVILLE, IND.; ANNA, KATHRYN, WALTER, PAUL, FRANK, AND SAM, OF FORREST; ONE SISTER, MRS. ALBERT VOGEL, OF CISSNA PARK. TWO SONS AND FIVE BROTHERS PRECEDED HER IN DEATH.

SHORT SERVICES WERE HELD AT HER RESIDENCE AT PEORIA ON SUNDAY. THEN THE REMAINS WERE TOKEN TO HER FORMER HOME SOUTH OF FORREST. SERVICES WERE HELD MONDAY AT THE SOUTH APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH AT TEN O’CLOCK. BURIAL WAS AT THE SOUTH CEMETERY.

EDWARD HONEGGER 1861 - 1925

(WIFE) BERTHA (HAAB) HONEGGER 1860 - 1940

(SON) WALTER HONEGGER 1888 - 1960

(DAUGHTER) LENA (HONEGGER) KYBURZ 1889 - ????

(DAUGHTER) JULIA HONEGGER 1890 - 1979

(DAUGHTER) ANNA HONEGGER 1891 - 1974

(DAUGHTER) ADDIE HONEGGER 1893 - 1983

(SON) ALVIE HONEGGER 1894 - 1918

(DAUGHTER) ELLA HONEGGER 1894 - 1985

(DAUGHTER) PERCEDA HONEGGER 1895 - 1988

(DAUGHTER) KATHRYN HONEGGER 1897 - 1997

(SON) PAUL HONEGGER 1898 - 1989

(DAUGHTER) NATHALIA HONEGGER 1900 - 1992

(SON) FRANK HONEGGER 1901 - 1992

(SON) EDWARD HONEGGER 1903 - 1914

(SON) SAMUEL HONEGGER 1905 - 1991

W. H. HONEGGER OF FORREST DIES AT 72

FORREST, JULY 14 - WALTER H. HONEGGER, 72, DIED TUESDAY, JULY 12 AT 1:10 A.M. AT FAIRBURY HOSPITAL FOLLOWING A LONG ILLNESS. THE BODY WAS TAKEN TO THE CULKIN FUNERAL HOME WHERE VISITATION WILL BEGIN TUESDAY AT 7:00 P.M.

FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE THURSDAY AT 10:00 A.M. AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN FORREST, REV. HENRY KILGUS OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE MADE IN THE NORTH CEMETERY.

HE WAS BORN JANUARY 24, 1888, IN FORREST TOWNSHIP, A SON OF EDWARD AND BERTHA HAAB HONEGGER. HE MARRIED MISS ELIZABETH MOSER JANUARY 1, 1913, AT PEORIA.

HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, SEVEN SONS, PERRY, EDWARD, JESSE, HARLEY, MAX AND GLEN ALL OF FORREST, AND JOHN OF WOLCOTT, INDIANA; SIX DAUGHTERS, MRS. OLEDA MENOLD, MORTON; MRS. VERNA SCHAEFER, HANCOCK, MINNESOTA; MRS. LEONA TANNER, GOODFIELD; MRS. MARGORIE SCHNIEDER, ELLINGTON, CONNECTICUT; MRS. DONNA LEMAN, FAIRBURY; AND MRS. RUTH ROTH, FORREST.

ALSO SURVIVING ARE FORTY-SEVEN GRANDCHILDREN; THREE BROTHERS, SAM, FRANK, AND PAUL ALL OF FORREST; AND EIGHT SISTERS, MISSES JULIA, ADDIE, PERSEDA, PEORIA; MISSES NATHALIA, ANNA, KATHYRN AND ELLA, FORREST; MRS. LENA KYBURZ, WOLCOTT, INDIANA. TWO BROTHERS PROCEEDED HIM IN DEATH.

HE WAS A FARMER ALL HIS LIFE UNTIL RETIRING TO FORREST ELEVEN YEARS AGO. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

JULIA HONEGGER DIES MONDAY MORNING

JULIA M. HONEGGER, 88, OF APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN NURSING HOME, PEORIA, FORMERLY OF FORREST, DIED AT 6:30 A. M. MONDAY JAN. 15, 1979 AT THE NURSING HOME.

HER FUNERAL WAS AT 10 A. M. THURSDAY AT APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, FORREST, WITH MINISTERS OF THE CHURCH OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN NORTH APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CEMETERY.

VISITATION WAS FROM 7 TO 9 P. M. WEDNESDAY AT CULKIN FUNERAL HOME AND ONE HOUR BEFORE THE SERVICES AT THE CHURCH.

SHE WAS BORN MARCH 7, 1890, IN FORREST TOWNSHIP, A DAUGHTER OF EDWARD AND BERTHA HAAB HONEGGER.

SURVIVING ARE FIVE SISTERS, ADDIE AND PERCEDA, BOTH OF FAIRBURY, AND ELLA, KATHRYN AND NATHALIA, ALL OF FORREST; AND THREE BROTHERS, PAUL, FRANK AND SAM, ALL OF FORREST.

TWO BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS PRECEDED HER IN DEATH.

SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

RITES TODAY FOR ANNA L. HONEGGER, 82

MISS ANNA L. HONEGGER, 82, FORREST, DIED AT 2:50 P. M. MONDAY, JAN. 14, 1974, AT FAIRBURY HOSPITAL, WHERE SHE HAD BEEN A PATIENT SIX DAYS.

FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT 10 A. M. TODAY. JANUARY 17, AT THE FORREST APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH. MINISTERS OF THE CHURCH WILL OFFICIATE. INTERMENT WILL BE IN THE NORTH APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CEMETERY. CULKIN FUNERAL HOME IS IN CHARGE OF ARRANGEMENTS.

VISITATION WAS HELD WEDNESDAY FROM 2 TO 5 AND 7 TO 9 P. M. AT THE FUNERAL HOME. ALSO ONE HOUR BEFORE SERVICES AT THE CHURCH.

SHE WAS BORN IN FORREST AUG. 23, 1891, A DAUGHTER OF EDWARD AND BERTHA HAAB HONEGGER. SHE LIVED MOST OF HER LIFE IN RURAL FORREST.

SURVIVING ARE SEVEN SISTERS, MRS. LENA KYBURZ, EAST PEORIA; MISSES JULIE, ADDIE AND PERCEDA HONEGGER, ALL OF PEORIA; MISSES ELLA, NATHALIA AND KATHRYN HONEGGER, ALL OF RURAL FORREST; THREE BROTHERS, PAUL, FRANK AND SAN, ALL OF FORREST.

THREE BROTHERS PRECEDED HER IN DEATH.

SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE FORREST APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH

ADDIE HONEGGER, 90, DIES FRIDAY AT FAIRVIEW HAVEN

ADDIE HONEGGER, 90, FORREST, DIED AT 3 P. M. FRIDAY, SEPT. 23, 1983 AT FAIRVIEW HAVEN COMPLEX, WHERE SHE HAD BEEN A RESIDENT FOR FIVE YEARS. SHE HAD BEEN ILL A MONTH.

HER FUNERAL WAS AT 1 P. M. SUNDAY AT FORREST APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, CHURCH MINISTERS OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN NORTH APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CEMETERY.

SHE WAS BORN JAN. 6, 1893, AY FORREST, A DAUGHTER OF EDWARD AND BERTHA HAAB HONEGGER.

SURVIVING ARE THREE BROTHERS, FRANK, SAM AND PAUL, ALL OF FORREST; AND FOUR SISTERS, PERCEDA HONEGGER, ELLA HONEGGER, KATHRYN HONEGGER AND NATHALIA HONEGGER, ALL OF FAIRBURY.

THREE BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS PRECEDED HER IN DEATH.

MISS HONEGGER LIVED IN PEORIA 50 YEARS, MOVING TO FAIRBURY FIVE YEARS AGO.

ALVIE HONNEGER

ALVIE HONNEGER, SON OF MR. AND MRS. ED HONNEGER, OF SOUTH OF FORREST, DIED MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, AT THE HOSPITAL AT CAMP MILLS, L. I., OF PNEUMONIA, FOLLOWING AN ATTACK OF SPANISH INFLUENZA.

HE ENTERED THE SERVICE JUNE 24, GOING INTO TRAINING AT CAMP WHEELER, WHERE HE WAS ASSIGNED TO CO. E, 124 INFANTRY. ABOUT THREE WEEKS AGO HE WAS TRANSFERRED TO CAMP MILLS.

BESIDES HIS PARENTS HE IS SURVIVED BY FOUR BROTHERS AND EIGHT SISTERS, VIZ HAROLD, FRANK, BEN, JULIA, ANNA, IDA, ELLA, PERCEDA, SADIE, NATHALIA, WALTER AND MRS. LENA KYBURZ.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED FROM THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH SOUTH OF TOWN WEDNESDAY.

ELLA HONEGGER, 91, DIES AT FAIRVIEW HAVEN

ELLA HONEGGER, 91, A RESIDENT OF FAIRVIEW HAVEN NURSING HOME, FAIRBURY, FOR THE PAST FIVE YEARS, AND FORMERLY OF FORREST, DIED AT 12:30 P. M. OCT. 10, 1985 AT THE NURSING HOME.

HER FUNERAL WAS 10 A. M. SATURDAY AT THE FORREST APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, CHURCH MINISTERS OFFICIATED. BURIAL WAS IN NORTH APOSTOLIC CEMETERY, RURAL FORREST.

CULKIN-DIGGLE FUNERAL HOME, FORREST WAS IN CHARGE OF ARRANGEMENTS.

SHE WAS BORN FEB. 24, 1894, AT FORREST, A DAUGHTER OF EDWARD AND BERTHA HAAB HONEGGER.

SURVIVORS INCLUDE THREE BROTHERS, PAUL AND FRANK, BOTH OF FAIRBURY, AN SAM, FORREST; AND THREE SISTERS, NATHALIA HONEGGER, KATHERYN HONEGGER AND PERCEDA HONEGGER, ALL OF FAIRBURY.

SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY THREE BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS.

SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE FORREST APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

SERVICES WEDNESDAY FOR PERCEDA HONEGGER, 92

SERVICES FOR PERCEDA HONEGGER, 92, OF FORREST WILL BE AT 10 A. M. TODAY, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 27, 1988 AT THE FORREST APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, WITH MINISTERS OF THE CHURCH OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE IN NORTH APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CEMETERY.

SHE DIED AT 10:40 P. M. ON SUNDAY, JAN. 24, 1988 AT FAIRVIEW HAVEN NURSING HOME, FAIRBURY, WHERE SHE HAD RESIDED FOR FIVE YEARS.

VISITATION WAS HELD TUESDAY, FROM 6 - 8 P. M. AT CULKIN-DIGGLE FUNERAL HOME, FORREST, AND FOR ONE HOUR PRIOR TO SERVICES AT THE CHURCH ON WEDNESDAY.

MISS HONEGGER WAS BORN JULY 21, 1895 IN FORREST TOWNSHIP, THE DAUGHTER OF EDWARD AND BERTHA HAAB HONEGGER.

SURVIVING ARE TWO SISTERS, NATHALIA HONEGGER AND KATHRYN HONEGGER, BOTH OF FAIRBURY; THREE BROTHERS, PAUL AND FRANK HONEGGER, BOTH OF FAIRBURY, AND SAM HONEGGER, OF FORREST.

SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY THREE BROTHERS AND FIVE SISTERS.

KATHRYN HONEGGER

KATHRYN L. HONEGGER, 99, OF FAIRVIEW HAVEN NURSING HOME, FAIRBURY, DIED AT 1:37 P. M. MONDAY, JAN 13, 1997 AT THE NURSING HOME.

HER FUNERAL WILL BE AT 10 A. M. TODAY AT FORREST APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH WITH MINISTERS OF THE CHURCH OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE IN NORTH APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CEMETERY, RURAL FORREST.

VISITATION WAS FROM 5 TO 8 P. M. TUESDAY AT HAGER MEMORIAL HOME, FORREST, AND AN HOUR BEFORE SERVICES AT THE CHURCH WEDNESDAY.

MISS HONEGGER WAS BORN JAN. 19, 1897, IN RURAL FORREST, THE DAUGHTER OF EDWARD AND BERTHA HAAB HONEGGER.

SHE IS SURVIVED BY SEVERAL NIECES AND NEPHEWS.

FIVE BROTHERS AND SEVEN SISTERS PRECEDED HER IN DEATH.

SHE WAS A HOMEMAKER AND A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, FORREST.

PAUL HONEGGER

PAUL F. HONEGGER, 91, A RESIDENT OF FAIRVIEW HAVEN IN FAIRBURY FOR THE LAST FOUR YEARS AND FORMERLY OF FORREST, DIED SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1989, AT FAIRVIEW HAVEN.

HIS FUNERAL WAS AT 10 A. M. TUESDAY AT THE FORREST APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, CHURCH MINISTERS OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN NORTH APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CEMETERY.

HE WAS BORN MARCH 31, 1898, IN RURAL FORREST, A SON OF EDWARD AND BERTHA HAAB HONEGGER. HE MARRIED MARTHA WAIBEL ON FEB. 11, 1922, IN PONTIAC. SHE DIED OCT. 19, 1986.

SURVIVORS INCLUDE FIVE DAUGHTERS MILDRED ZIMMERMAN, FORREST; EILEEN GETZ, REYNOLDS, IND., EVELYN ZORN, 314 RILEY DRIVE, BLOOMINGTON; AND VIOLA BACHTOLD AND NANCY HONEGGER, BOTH OF FAIRBURY; TWO SONS, WAYNE, FAIRBURY, AND GARY, FORREST; TWO BROTHERS, FRANK, FAIRBURY AND SAMUEL, FORREST; TWO SISTERS, NATHALIA HONEGGER AND KATHRYN HONEGGER, BOTH OF FAIRBURY; 24 GRANDCHILDREN; AND 39 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY THREE BROTHERS, SIX SISTERS AND ONE GREAT-GRANDSON.

HE WAS A MEMBER OF FORREST APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH. HE HAD FARMED IN THE FORREST AREA UNTIL HIS RETIREMENT IN 1958.

NATHALIA HONEGGER

NATHALIA HONEGGER, 92, OF FAIRVIEW HAVEN, FAIRBURY, FORMERLY OF FORREST, DIED AT 3:28 A. M. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1992 IN THE SKILLED CARE UNIT AT FAIRBURY HOSPITAL.

HER FUNERAL WAS AT 1 P. M. FRIDAY AT THE FORREST APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, FORREST. CHURCH MINISTERS OFFICIATED.

BURIAL WAS IN NORTH APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CEMETERY, RURAL FORREST.

VISITATION WAS FRIDAY AT THE CHURCH. CULKIN-DIGGLE FUNERAL HOME, FORREST, HAD CHARGE OF ARRANGEMENTS.

MISS HONEGGER WAS BORN MAY 13, 1900, IN RURAL FORREST, A DAUGHTER OF EDWARD AND BERTHA HAAB HONEGGER.

SURVIVORS INCLUDE ONE SISTER, KATHRYN HONEGGER, FAIRVIEW HAVEN, FAIRBURY.

SIX BROTHERS AND SIX SISTERS PRECEDED HER IN DEATH.

MISS HONEGGER WAS MANAGER OF THE EMPLOYEE COFFEE SHOP OF HONEGGER INC., FORREST, FOR 30 YEARS.

SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE FORREST APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

FRANK E. HONEGGER

FRANK E. HONEGGER, 90, FORMERLY OF FORREST AND FORMER OWNER A FAIRBURY BUSINESS, DIED AT 2:30 A. M. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 2, 1992 AT FAIRVIEW HAVEN NURSING HOME, FAIRBURY.

HIS FUNERAL WAS AT 10 A. M. FRIDAY AT FORREST APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH MINISTERS OFFICIATED.

VISITATION WAS HELD THURSDAY AT CULKIN-DIGGLE FUNERAL HOME, FORREST, AND FOR ONE HOUR BEFORE THE SERVICES AT THE CHURCH FRIDAY.

MR. HONEGGER WAS BORN NOV. 30, 1901, IN FORREST, A SON OF EDWARD AND BERTHA HAAB HONEGGER. HE MARRIED HULDA KILGUS SEPT. 12, 1928, IN FORREST. SHE DIED DEC. 13, 1977.

SURVIVING ARE ONE SON, JAMES, FORREST; TWO DAUGHTERS, VELMA KOEHL AND JOAN GLENDENNING, BOTH OF FORREST; TWO SISTERS, KATHRYN HONEGGER AND NATHALIA HONEGGER, BOTH OF FAIRBURY; FOUR GRANDCHILDREN; AND FIVE GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY FIVE BROTHERS, SIX SISTERS AND ONE GRANDCHILD.

MR. HONEGGER WAS A MEMBER OF FORREST APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

HE WAS CO-OWNER OF HONEGGER CO., INC., AT FAIRBURY AND HONEGGER FARM INC. AT FORREST.

MR. HONEGGER SERVED ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF FAIRVIEW HAVEN NURSING HOME, FAIRBURY, AND APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN HOME FOR THE HANDICAPPED, MORTON.

NO OBITUARY

SAMUEL R. HONEGGER

THE FUNERAL OF SAMUEL R. "SAM" HONEGGER, 86, LIFELONG RESIDENT OF FORREST, FORMER OWNER OF A POULTRY AND FEED BUSINESS IN FORREST AND FAIRBURY, WAS HELD AT

10 A. M. TUESDAY AT FORREST APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

MINISTERS OF THE CHURCH OFFICIATED. BURIAL WAS NORTH APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CEMETERY, RURAL FORREST.

VISITATION WAS HELD FROM 4 TO 8 P. M. MONDAY AT CULKIN-DIGGLE FUNERAL HOME, FORREST, AND ONE HOUR BEFORE THE SERVICES AT THE CHURCH TUESDAY.

PALLBEARERS WERE BRENT HONEGGER, ANDY HONEGGER, ADAM HONEGGER, DOUG HONEGGER, DAN HONEGGER AND RANDY RICH.

MR. HONEGGER DIED AT 4:52 P. M. FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1991, AT FAIRVIEW HAVEN NURSING HOME, FAIRBURY. HE HAD BEEN IN ILL HEALTH THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS.

HE WAS BORN MARCH 9, 1905, IN FORREST, A SON OF EDWARD AND BERTHA HAAB HONEGGER. HE MARRIED LEAH RIEGER FEB. 10, 1932, IN FORREST. SHE SURVIVES.

ALSO SURVIVING ARE FOUR SONS, LYLE, FAIRBURY; JERRY, FORREST; GORDON, MORTON; SAM, ALBUQUERQUE, N. M.; 11 GRANDCHILDREN; FIVE GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN; ONE BROTHER, FRANK, FAIRBURY; AND TWO SISTERS, KATHRYN AND NATHALIA HONEGGER, BOTH OF FAIRBURY.

HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY FOUR BROTHERS AND SIX SISTERS.

MR. HONEGGER WAS CO-FOUNDER OF HONEGGER’S AND CO. AT FAIRBURY AND ALSO OF HONEGGER FARMS INC. IN FORREST. HE SERVED AS CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS UNTIL RETIRING IN 1971.

HE WAS A MEMBER OF FORREST APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

LIFE CRUSHED OUT

EMIL HONEGGER, HI LIVES ON HIS FATHER’S FARM, SOUTH OF WING, MET WITH A SUDDEN AND TERRIBLE DEATH ON MONDAY AFTERNOON. THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED IN A MOST UNEXPECTED MANNER. HE WAS ENGAGED IN HAULING CORN FOR MR. TYLER AND WAS DRIVING ALONG THE MAIN STREET IN WING WHEN THE FRONT WHEELS OF THE WAGON DROPPED DOWN IN A LITTLE DITCH OR WASHED OUT PLACE ACROSS THE ROAD. THE JOLT CAUSED MR. HONEGGER, WHO IS THOUGHT TO HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP, TO FALL OFF AND THE WHEELS OF THE HEAVILY LADEN WAGON PASSED OVER HIS BREAST, INJURING HIM SO THAT HE DIED IN A FEW MINUTES.

CORONER SLYDER HELD AN INQUEST OF ACCIDENTAL DEATH. THE FOLLOWING GENTLEMEN COMPOSED THE JURY: W. W. GRAY, J. H. GIBB, A. E. NICHOLS, ROBERT VOGELSINGER, F. KULMAN, CHAS. C. HOLLOWAY.

EMIL HONEGGER WAS BORN IN RUETI, CANTON ZURICH, IN JUNE, 1865, CAME TO AMERICA WITH HIS PARENTS IN THE SPRING OF 1867. THEY LOCATED IN PLEASANT RIDGE TOWNSHIP, WHERE THEY HAVE RESIDED SINCE. HE WAS MARRIED TO BREZILLA SCHMIDT IN APRIL, 1892. FOUR CHILDREN WERE BORN TO THEM, TWO BOYS AND TWO GIRLS, WHO WITH THE BEREAVED WIDOW SURVIVE HIM. THE FUNERAL WAS HELD FROM THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AT 1:00 O’CLOCK.

FELL TO HIS DEATH

EMIL HONEGGER, A WELL KNOWN FARMER LIVING NEAR WING, MET DEATH MONDAY AFTERNOON WHILE HAULING CORN TO MARKET.

NO ONE, EXCEPT A SMALL CHILD, SAW MR. HONEGGER MEET HIS DEATH BUT THE GENERAL SUPPOSITION IS THAT HE WENT TO SLEEP AND FELL FROM THE WAGON. THE WHEELS OF THE LOADED WAGON PASSED OVER THE UNFORTUNATE MAN, CRUSHING SEVERAL RIBS AND INJURING HIS SPINE, THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED WITHIN THE VILLAGE OF WING AND NOT MORE THAN TEN MINUTES ELAPSED UNTIL ASSISTANCE REACHED MR. HONEGGER BUT HE LIVED BUT A FEW MOMENTS.

CORONER SLYDER WAS NOTIFIED AND HELD AN INQUEST THE SAME EVENING WITH THE FOLLOWING JURY: W. W. GRAY, J. E. GIBB, A. E. NICHOLS, ROBT. VOGELSINGER, F. KUHLMAN AND CHAS. HOLLOWAY. THE VERDICT GAVE HIS DEATH AS ACCIDENTAL.

DECEASED LEAVES A WIFE AND SEVERAL CHILDREN, WAS HIGHLY RESPECTED AND HIS UNTIMELY DEATH IS REGRETTED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM.

MRS. LUDWIG H. METZ

PRISCILLA SCHMIDT, DAUGHTER OF MR. AND MRS. J. W. SCHMIDT, BORN IN PEORIA, JULY 9, 1877, PASSED AWAY AT THE FAIRBURY HOSPITAL AT 11:30 O’CLOCK ON TUESDAY MORNING, HER DEATH BEING DUE TO SHOCK.

IN 1901 SHE WAS MARRIED TO EMIL HONEGGER, WHO WAS KILLED IN AN ACCIDENT EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO. IN OCTOBER, 1915, SHE WAS MARRIED TO LUDWIG H. METZ. THE THIS UNION TWO CHILDREN WERRE BORN, EMANUEL, WHO DIED AT THE AGE OF FIVE, AND CHRISTIAN. SURVIVING HER, BESIDES HER HUSBAND , ARE TWO SONS, EMIL AND WILLIAM HONEGGER; TWO DAUGHTERS, PERSIDA AND LYDIA HONEGGER; HER PARENTS, WHO LIVE AT EUREKA; TWO SISTERS, PERSIDA, AT HOME, MRS.LYDIA BITTNER, EUREKA; ONE BROTHER, EMANUEL SCHMIDT.

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MOTHER AND SON WERE HELD AT THE NORTH CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AND INTERMENT MADE IN THE CEMETERY THERE.

EMIL HONEGGER 1865 - 1908

(WIFE) PRISCILLA (SCHMIDT) HONEGGER / METZ 1877 - 1926

(DAUGHTER) PERSIDA (HONEGGER) METZ 1903 - 1987

(SON) WILLIAM HONEGGER 1904 - 1978

(SON) EMIL HONEGGER ???? - ????

(DAUGHTER) LYDIA (HONEGGER) JONES ???? - ????

PERSIDA V. METZ, 84, DIED APRIL 10

PERIDA V. METZ, 84, DIED AT 1:10 A. M. APRIL 10, 1987 AT FAIRVIEW HAZEN, WHERE SHE HAD RESIDED THE PAST EIGHT YEARS. SHE FORMERLY LIVED IN FORREST.

HER FUNERAL WAS AT 1 P. M. SUNDAY AT THE FORREST APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, CHURCH MINISTERS OFFICIATED. BURIAL WAS IN NORTH APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CEMETERY.

CULKIN-DIGGLE FUNERAL HOME, FORREST WAS IN CHARGE OF ARRANGEMENTS.

SHE WAS BORN FEB. 4, 1903, IN FORREST TOWNSHIP, A DAUGHTER OF EMIL AND PRISCILLA SCHMIDT HONEGGER. SHE MARRIED LUDWIG H. METZ ON SEPT. 6, 1927, IN PONTIAC. HE DIED MARCH 20, 1958.

SURVIVORS INCLUDE FIVE SONS, CHRISTIAN L., STRAWN; BENJAMIN L., FRANCESVILLE, IND.; WILLIAM F., HOUSTON, TEX.; DAVID C., MORTON; AND ARTHUR J., GERVAIS, ORE.; THREE DAUGHTERS, ELIZABETH P. JOHNSON, CLIFTON; ESTHER L. GERBER, FORREST; AND RUTH H. METZ, FORREST; ONE BROTHER, JOHN J. WALTERS, TOLEDO, OHIO; 21 GRANDCHILDREN; AND 29 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY ONE SON, ONE BROTHER AND ONE SISTER.

SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE FORREST APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH. SHE AND HER HUSBAND FARMED IN THE FORREST AREA UNTIL RETIRING IN 1956.

BURY WILLIAM HONEGGER AT FORREST FRIDAY

WILLIAM E. HONEGGER, 73, A LIFELONG RESIDENT AND FARMER IN THE PLEASANT RIDGE TOWNSHIP, DIED AT 10:15 A.M. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1978, AT FAIRBURY HOSPITAL. HE HAD BEEN ADMITTED A FEW HOURS EARLIER.

HIS FUNERAL WAS AT 10 A.M. FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1978 AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, WITH CHURCH MINISTERS OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN NORTH APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CEMETERY.

HE WAS BORN OCT. 26, 1904, AT PLEASANT RIDGE TOWNSHIP, A SON OF EMIL AND PRISCILLA SCHMIDT HONEGGER. HE MARRIED ESTHER BACH, FEB. 18, 1934, AT FORREST. SHE SURVIVES.

ALSO SURVIVING ARE FOUR DAUGHTER, MARY EDINGER, PONTIAC; MARGARET WAIBEL AND JANICE STEFFEN, BOTH OF FORREST, AND ELAINE JORELAND, ARLINGTON, VA.; ROBERT, LAKE ZURICH, AND LLOYD, FORREST; TWO SISTERS, PERSIDA METZ, FORREST, AND LYDIA JONES, DESHLER, OHIO; A BROTHER, JOHN HONEGGER, MISHAWAKA, IND., AND 20 GRANDCHILDREN.

TWO BROTHERS PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.

HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH

JULIUS HONEGGER PASSED AWAY LAST SATURDAY

JULIUS HONEGGER, SON OF JACOB HONEGGER AND MAGDALENE MEYER HONEGGER, WAS BORN NOVEMBER 8, 1868 IN LIVINGSTON COUNTY, ILLINOIS, AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON HIS 90TH BIRTHDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1958 AT MEDARYVILLE, INDIANA.

ON NOVEMBER 7, 1894 HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MARIE ANN BARTH, WHO IMMIGRATED FROM BERN, SWITZERLAND AND PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH SEPTEMBER 21, 1922.

TO THIS UNION WERE BORN THIRTEEN CHILDREN, FOUR OF WHO PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH, NAMELY PERCEDA, AT THE AGE OF SIX MONTHS, MRS. BERTHA ERB, AT THE AGE OF 29, ALVIN, AT THE AGE OF 18, AND HIS TWIN BROTHER, WHO DIED AT BIRTH.

JULIUS MOVED WITH HIS FAMILY FROM FORREST, ILLINOIS, TO FRANCESVILLE, INDIANA, IN 1910, WHERE HE BECAME ENGAGED IN FARMING. HE HAD MADE HIS HOME AT MEDARYVILLE WITH HIS SON-IN-LAW AND DAUGHTER, MR. AND MRS. JOHN GETZ, FOR THE PAST 21 YEARS. HE WAS UNITED WITH THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN 1923.

HE BECAME ILL ON OCTOBER 17, 1958 AND PASSED AWAY THREE WEEKS LATER.

THOSE SURVIVING HIM ARE TWO SONS, ERNEST OF PLYMOUTH, AND HERMAN OF FRANCESVILLE; SEVEN DAUGHTERS, MRS. LEONE FRIDAY OF IDAVILLE, MRS. CLARA SMITH, MRS. ESTER DEVAULT AND MRS. MELVA RUNK OF MONON, MRS. LENA WARD OF FRANCESVILLE, MISS IDA HONEGGER AND MRS. MATILDA GETZ OF MEDARYVILLE; 34 GRANDCHILDREN, AND 29 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

JULIUS HAD 5 BROTHERS AND 3 SISTERS WHO PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10 AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH AT FRANCESVILLE WITH REV. PHILLIP GUTWEIN AND REV. GEORGE YERGLER OF LACROSSE OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN ROSELAND CEMETERY EAST OF FRANCESVILLE.

WE SHALL SLEEP, BUT NOT FOREVER.

THERE WILL BE A GLORIOUS DAWN.

WE SHALL MEET TO PART NO NEVER.

ON THAT RESURRECTION MORN.

HERMAN HONEGGER

HERMAN HONEGGER, RESIDING ON A FARM NORTHEAST OF STRAWN, PASSED AWAY AT ST. JAMES HOSPITAL, PONTIAC, MONDAY AFTERNOON FOLLOWING AN OPERATION WHICH HE UNDERWENT LAST WEEK.

MR. HONEGGER HAD RESIDED IN LIVINGSTON COUNTY ALL HIS LIFE. HE WAS BORN HERE ON AUGUST 8, 1872, AND AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH WAS AGED 51 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AND 25 DAYS.

THE WIDOW, TWO CHILDREN, HAROLD AND ANITA, AND TWO BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER, SURVIVE, NAMELY: EDWARD, OF FORREST; JULIUS, OF FRANCESVILLE, IND., AND MRS. BARBARA LEUTHOLD, OF PEORIA.

MR. HONEGGER’S LOSS WILL NOT ONLY BE FELT IN THE HOME BUT ALSO IN THE COMMUNITY IN WHICH HE HAD RESIDED SO LONG AND WHERE HE HAD THE CONFIDENCE AND ESTEEM OF HIS FELLOW MEN.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE NORTH CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.

MRS. ELIZABETH HONEGGER

MRS. ELIZABETH HONEGGER, WHO RESIDES NEAR STRAWN, PASSED AWAY AT THE FAIRBURY HOSPITAL LAST SATURDAY AT THE AGE OF 55 YEARS.

SHE WAS BORN AT BERNE, SWITZERLAND, IN 1877, AND ON COMING TO THIS COUNTY LOCATED WITH OTHER MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY NEAR FORREST. ON OCTOBER 17, 1896, SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO HERMAN HONEGGER, WHO PASSED AWAY AT THE PONTIAC HOSPITAL MARCH 3, 1924. SURVIVING ARE TWO CHILDREN: HAROLD AND ANITA, BOTH AT HOME. THREE SISTERS AND THREE BROTHERS ALSO SURVIVE: MRS. ELSIE BOLLIER, OF PEORIA; MRS. EMMA GOOSLY, SWITZERLAND; MRS. LOUISE ALEXANDER, OF ST ANNE; ADOLPH AND FRED, OF BATTLE CREEK, MICH., AND ERNEST, OF STRAWN.

FUNERAL SERVICES FRO MRS. HONEGGER WERE HELD AT THE SOUTH APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AND BURIAL OCCURRED IN THE NORTH CEMETERY.

HERMAN HONEGGER 1872 - 1924

(WIFE) ELIZABETH (SHANK) HONEGGER 1877 - 1932

(SON) HAROLD HONEGGER 1907 - 1994

(DAUGHTER) ANITA HONEGGER ???? - ????

HAROLD H. HONEGGER

FUNERAL SERVES FOR HAROLD HERMAN HONEGGER, 87, WERE HELD AT 10:30 A. M. MONDAY AT THE FORREST APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH. HE WAS A RESIDENT OF FAIRVIEW HAVEN, AND FORMERLY OF 207 S. SECOND ST., FAIRBURY AND STRAWN.

CHURCH MINISTERS OFFICIATED. BURIAL WAS IN NORTH APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CEMETERY RURAL FORREST.

VISITATION WAS FROM 2 TO 4 P. M. AND 6 TO 8 P. M. SUNDAY AT CULKIN-DIGGLE FUNERAL HOME, FORREST.

HE DIED AT 5:35 P. M. FRIDAY, DEC. 30, 1994 AT THE NURSING HOME.

MR. HONEGGER WAS BORN AUG. 14, 1907, IN STRAWN, A SON OF HERMAN AND ELIZABETH SHANK HONEGGER. HE MARRIED CLARA RIEGER JAN. 24, 1933, AT FORREST. SHE DIED JULY 31, 1991.

SURVIVORS INCLUDE ONE DAUGHTER, MARILYN LEMAN, NORTH CRAIGVILLE, IN; ONE SON, ROGER, FAIRBURY; NINE GRANDCHILDREN; AND 26 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE FORREST APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH AND A RETIRED POULTRY FARMER.

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