JACOB RIEGER SR. ???? - ????

(WIFE) BARBARA (HEINSMAN) RIEGER ???? - ????

(SON) JOHN RIEGER 1851 - 1936

(SON) ANDREW RIEGER 1859 - 1938

(SON) JACOB RIEGER 1861 - 1936

(SON) GEORGE RIEGER ???? - ????

(DAUGHTER) DORA (RIEGER) BLASER ???? - ????

JOHN RIEGER

JOHN RIEGER WAS BORN AT SCHILDACH, GERMANY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1851, AND PASSED AWAY DECEMBER 11, 1936, AT THE HOME OF HIS DAUGHTER, MRS. DAN ROTH, WITH WHOM HE MADE HIS HOME THE LAST EIGHT MONTHS.

HE WAS THE OLDEST SON OF JACOB AND BARBARA HEINSMAN RIEGER. HE SPENT HIS BOYHOOD DAYS IN GERMANY, COMING TO AMERICA IN THE YEAR 1874, AT THE AGE OF 23 YEARS, LANDING AT MORTON, WHERE HE RESIDED A FEW YEARS.

IN JANUARY, 1884, IN FAIRBURY, HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO BARBARA STAIGER, THEY MAKING THEIR HOME SIX MILES SOUTHEAST OF FAIRBURY UNTIL NOVEMBER, 1902, WHEN THEY RETIRED FROM FARMING AND MOVED TO HIS LATE RESIDENCE AT 510 EAST ELM STREET, WHERE HE RESIDED UNTIL APRIL 13, 1936, WHEN ILL HEALTH OVERTOOK HIM AND HE MOVED TO THE HOME OF HIS DAUGHTER TO BE BETTER CARED FRO. HE WAS BEDFAST FOR THE LAST SIX MONTHS.

MR. RIEGER LEAVES TO MOURN HIS LOSS HIS AGED WIFE, AND DAUGHTER, CARRIE ROTH AND HUSBAND AND SEVEN GRANDCHILDREN, ELMER, EARL, LESTER, LEONA, ELDON, BARARA AND MARVIN ROTH; ALSO TWO BROTHERS SURVIVE, ANDREW RIEGER, OF MORTON, AND GEORGE RIEGER, OF BURLINGTON, OKLA. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY A BROTHER AND SISTER, JACOB RIEGER AND MRS. DORA BLASER, OF PINE BLUFF, ARK.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD SUNDAY AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH AT ONE O’CLOCK, BEING CONDUCTED BY REV. PETER BACH IN ENGLISH AND REV. FR. SCHMIDT, OF EUREKA, IN GERMAN.

PALLBEARERS WERE HIS NEPHEWS, ANDREW , FRED EMANUEL AND EDWARD RIEGER, CLARENCE STREITMATTER AND THEODORE HEINSMAN, OF PEORIA.

RELATIVES FROM A DISTANCE ATTENDED THE FUNERAL.

MRS. JOHN RIEGER

BARBARA STAIGER RIEGER WAS BORN IN ST. GEORGAN, GERMANY, DECEMBER 24 TH 1848, AND PASSED AWAY AT THE HOME OF HER DAUGHTER, MRS. DANIEL ROTH, WITH WHOM SHE MADE HER HOME THE LAST NINE MONTHS, BEING AT THE TIME OF HER DEATH 88 YEARS AND 18 DAYS OF AGE.

SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF MATTHEW AND SALOME BUESSINGER STAIGER. SHE SPENT HER GIRLHOOD DAYS IN GERMANY, COMING TO AMERICA IN NOVEMBER, 1872, AT THE AGE OF 24 YEARS, LANDING AT FAIRBURY.

IN JANUARY, 1884, IN FAIRBURY, SHE WAS UNTIED IN MARRIAGE TO JOHN RIEGER, THEY MAKING THEIR HOME SIX MILES SOUTHEAST OF FAIRBURY UNTIL NOVEMBER, 1902, WHEN THEY RETIRED FROM FARMING AND MOVED TO THEIR LATE RESIDENCE AT 510 EAST ELM STREET, WHERE THEY RESIDED UNTIL APRIL 13, 1936, AT WHICH TIME SHE MOVED TO THE HOME OF THEIR DAUGHTER TO BE BETTER CARED FOR, HER ILLNESS LASTING ONLY SIX DAYS OF PNEUMONIA.

HER HUSBAND, JOHN RIEGER, PRECEDED HER IN DEATH JUST ONE MONTH, HE PASSING AWAY DECEMBER 11, 1936. SHE LEAVES TO MORN HER LOSS ONE DAUGHTER , MRS. CARRIE ROTH AND HUSBAND AND SEVEN GRANDCHILDREN, ELMER, EARL, LESTER, LEONA, ELDON, BARBARA AND MARVIN ROTH, AND ONE SISTER, MRS. ANNA HITZ, OF LACROSSE, IND. SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY SEVERAL SISTERS. MRS. SALOME OBERGFEL, ANNA MARIE STAIGER AND MRS. KATHERINE FEHR, ALL OF FAIRBURY, AND MRS. MARTIN WEBER, OF SWITZERLAND.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD YESTERDAY AT 1:30 O’CLOCK P. M. AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

JOHN RIEGER 1851 - 1936

(WIFE) BARBARA (STAIGER) RIEGER 1848 - 1937

(DAUGHTER) CARRIE (RIEGER) ROTH 1897 -1993

CARRIE R. ROTH, 96, OF FAIRVIEW HAVEN, FAIRBURY, FORMERLY OF FORREST, DIED AT 3:55 A. M. MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1993, AT THE NURSING HOME.

HER FUNERAL WAS AT 11 A. M. WEDNESDAY AT FORREST APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, FORREST. CHURCH MINISTERS OFFICIATED.

BURIAL WAS IN GRACELAND CEMETERY, FAIRBURY.

VISITATION WAS TUESDAY AT CULKIN-DIGGLE FUNERAL HOME, FORREST, AND WEDNESDAY AT THE CHURCH.

MRS. ROTH WAS BORN MAY 28, 1897, IN CHICAGO, A DAUGHTER OF JOHN AND BARBARA STIEGER RIEGER. SHE MARRIED DANIEL J. ROTH MAY 31, 1917, IN PONTIAC. HE DIED FEB. 23, 1966.

SURVIVORS INCLUDE SIX SONS, ELMER ROTH, HOT SPRINGS VILLAGE, ARK.; EARL ROTH, SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ.; LESTER AND LEONARD ROTH, BOTH OF FORREST; ELDON ROTH, MOUNT PLEASANT, IOWA; AND MARVIN ROTH, LASALLE; TWO DAUGHTERS, LEONA LEMAN AND BARBARA KILGUS, BOTH OF FORREST; 30 GRANDCHILDREN; 58 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN; SEVEN STEP GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN; THREE GREAT-GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN; AND FOUR STEP GREAT-GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

ONE SON, ONE DAUGHTER AND ONE GRANDDAUGHTER PRECEDED HER IN DEATH.

MRS. ROTH, A HOMEMAKER, WAS EDUCATED IN FAIRBURY SCHOOLS. SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE FORREST APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH AND HAD BEEN A MEMBER OF APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCHES FOR MORE THAN 70 YEARS.

ANDREW RIEGER FOUND DEAD IN NORTON GARAGE

ANDREW RIEGER, AGED 79, E RETIRED CARPENTER OF MORTON, AND FATHER OF MRS. GEORGE ARMBRUSTER, OF THIS CITY, WAS FOUND DEAD IN THE GARAGE AT THE REAR OF HIS HOME WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON ABOUT TWO O’CLOCK. IT IS THOUGHT THAT DEATH RESULTED FROM A HEART ATTACK. THE INQUEST WAS TO HAVE BEEN HELD YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.

MR. RIEGER WAS BORN IN GERMANY JANUARY 27, 1859. HE MARRIED MISS MARY SCHMIBAALL. SHE DIED IN 1930. SURVIVING ARE TEN CHILDREN: MRS. LYDIA GRIMM, PEORIA; MRS. EMMA BERKLEY, GILBEY, N. D.; MRS. MARY ARMBRUSTER, CHEROKAA, OKLA.; MRS. ANNA ARMBRUSTER, FAIRBURY; MRS. IDA HEINTZMAN, PEORIA; WILLIAM, ST. AUGUSTINE; SAMUEL, KIOWA, IA.; HENRY, WASHBURN; ANDY AND EDWARD, MORTON. THERE IS A BROTHER, GEORGE, OF BURLINGTON, OKLA. THERE ARE THIRTY-FOUR GRANDCHILDREN AND FOUR GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

JACOB RIEGER

JACOB RIEGER, A WELL KNOWN RESIDENT OF THIS CITY, PASSED AWAY AT THE FAIRBURY HOSPITAL LAST EVENING AT 6:30 O’CLOCK FOLLOWING AN OPERATION LAST SATURDAY. HE WAS AGED 73 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AND 15 DAYS.

JACOB, SON OF JACOB AND BARBARA HEINSMAN RIEGER, WAS BORN AT SCHWARTZWALD, GERMANY, JULY 6, 1862. WHEN 18 YEARS OF AGE HE CAME TO AMERICA, AND IN AUGUST, 1883, WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO CHRISTINA STREITMATTER, WHO PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH SEPTEMBER 5, 1929.

SURVIVING HIM ARE SEVEN CHILDREN - FRED AND MRS. SARAH STREITMATTER, OF FORREST; MRS. LEAH KOEHL, OF FAIRBURY; MISS ROSIE RIEGER, ANDREW AND EMANUEL, OF STRAWN; MISS SALOME, AT HOME. ALSO THREE BROTHERS - JOHN, OF FAIRBURY; GEORGE, OF BURLINGTON, OKLA., AND ANDREW, MORTON.

THE RIEGER FAMILY LIVED AT PRINCEVILLE UNTIL 1900, WHEN THEY MOVED TO A FARM NEAR STRAWN, WHERE THEY RESIDED UNTIL 1914, WHEN THEY MOVED TO FAIRBURY.

FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD FROM THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT ONE O’CLOCK. BURIAL WILL BE IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

MRS. JACOB RIEGER

MRS. JACOB RIEGER PASSED AWAY SUDDENLY AT HER HOME IN THIS CITY YESTERDAY AFTERNOON ABOUT 3 O’CLOCK OF ACUTE INDIGESTION. SHE WAS TAKEN ILL SUDDENLY AND PASSED AWAY ABOUT 20 MINUTES LATER. SHE WAS AGED 64 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AND 21 DAYS.

CHRISTINA STREITMATTER, DAUGHTER OF MR. AND MRS. JACOB STREITMATTER, WAS BORN NEAR PRINCEVILLE, OCTOBER 14TH, 1864. SHE GREW TO YOUNG WOMANHOOD THERE AND ON AUGUST 22, 1883, WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO JACOB RIEGER, WHO WITH THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN SURVIVES: FRED AND ANDREW, OF FORREST; ROSIE, OF FAIRBURY; MRS. JOHN KOEHL, OF CISSNA PARK; EMANUEL RIEGER, OF STRAWN; MRS. SARAH STREITMATTER, OF PRINCEVILLE, AND SALOME, AT HOME. THE FOLLOWING BROTHERS AND SISTERS ALSO SURVIVE: JACOB, ANDREW, PETER, LEONARD, FRED AND RUDOLPH STREITMATTER, AND MRS. GOTTLIEB HERMAN, OF PRINCEVILLE; MRS. GEORGE RIEGER AND MRS. CARL HECKEL, OF BURLINGTON, OKLA.

MR. AND MRS. RIEGER MOVED TO A FARM NEAR STRAWN ABOUT 30 YEARS AGO, AND 15 YEARS AGO MOVED TO THIS CITY, WHERE THEY HAD SINCE RESIDED.

MRS. RIEGER WAS A KIND AND LOVING WIFE AND MOTHER, WHOSE LIFE WAS DEVOTED TO THOSE NEAR AND DEAR TO HER. SHE WAS A GOOD NEIGHBOR AND HER SUDDEN PASSING WAS A SHOCK TO HER MANY FRIENDS AS WELL AS TO THE IMMEDIATE FAMILY.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD SUNDAY AFTERNOON FROM THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH. INTERMENT WILL BE IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

JACOB RIEGER JR. 1861 - 1936

(WIFE) CHRISTENA (STREITMATTER) RIEGER 1864 - 1929

(SON) FRED RIEGER 1884 - 1974

(DAUGHTER) ROSE (RIEGER) STEFFEN 1886 - 1969

(DAUGHTER) LEAH (RIEGER) KOEHL 1888 - 1970

(SON) ANDREW RIEGER 1890 - 1951

(SON) EMANUEL RIEGER 1892 - 1988

(DAUGHTER) SALOME (RIEGER) ZIMMERMAN 1907 - 1986

(DAUGHTER) SARAH (RIEGER) STREITMATTER ???? - ????

FORMER FORREST MAYOR, FRED RIEGER SR., DIES

FRED RIEGER SR., 89, FORMER MAYOR OF FORREST, DIED SATURDAY, FEB. 9, AT 11 A. M., AT THE HELEN LEWIS SMITH PAVILION, FAIRBURY, WHERE HE HAD BEEN A RESIDENT FOR SOME TIME.

HE WAS A RETIRED FARMER AND A FORMER MAYOR OF FORREST; A MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF HONEGGERS’ & CO., INC.; PRESIDENT OF FORREST FIRST STATE BANK, A TOWNSHIP ASSESSOR, SCHOOL BOARD DIRECTOR AND MEMBER OF THE FARM BUREAU.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD MONDAY, FEB. 11, AT 10 A. M., FROM THE FORREST APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH WITH MINISTERS OF THE CHURCH OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN THE NORTH APOSTOLIC CEMETERY.

CULKIN FUNERAL HOME WAS IN CHARGE OF ARRANGEMENTS.

HE WAS BORN AT PRINCEVILLE, AUG. 22, 1884, A SON OF JACOB AND CHRISTINA STREITMATTER RIEGER. HE MARRIED SALOME SOHN DEC. 25, 1906, AT FAIRBURY. SHE DIED AUG. 13, 1920. HE MARRIED ELENORE ANNA NUSSBAUM JAN. 4, 1922. SHE DIED NOV. 5, 1967.

HE IS SURVIVED BY FIVE SONS, PHILLIP, HERMAN, MARION, FRED JR. AND DONALD, ALL OF FORREST; FOUR DAUGHTERS, MRS. CLARA HONEGGER, FAIRBURY; MRS. ALDINE NUSSBAUM, PONTIAC; MRS. LEAH HONEGGER AND MISS ELDA MAE RIEGER, FORREST; TWO SISTERS, MRS. SARAH STREITMATTER, PRINCEVILLE AND MRS. SALOME ZIMMERMAN, FAIBURY AND ONE BROTHER, EMMAUEL RIEGER, FORREST. ALSO 28 GRANDCHILDREN AND 35 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY ONE BROTHER AND TWO SISTERS.

HE ATTENDED THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

PALLBEARERS WERE HIS GRANDSONS, ROGER HONEGGER, KEITH RIEGER, LYLE HONEGGER, STEVE RIEGER, JAMES RIEGER, ERIC RIEGER AND DUANE NUSSBAUM.

MRS. FRED RIEGER

MRS. RIEGER DIED AT HER HOME SOUTHEAST OF FAIRBURY LAST FRIDAY NIGHT FOLLOWING A BRIEF ILLNESS, DEATH BEING DUE TO A BLOOD CLOT. SHE HAD BEEN IN HER USUAL HEALTH UNTIL JUST TWO WEEKS BEFORE HER DEATH, WHEN SHE FELL WHILE ABOUT HER WORK AND BECAME UNCONSCIOUS FOR A SHORT TIME. SHE APPARENTLY RECOVERED FROM THE ATTACK AND ON DAY OF HER DEATH HAD DONE THE USUAL HOUSEWORK AND HAD PREPARED THE EVENING MEAL WHEN SHE COMPLAINED OF A TERRIBLE PAIN IN HER HEAD. SHE SOON LOST CONSCIOUSNESS AND DIED THAT EVENING.

SALOME SOHN WAS BORN IN WOODFORD COUNTY, MARCH 16, 1885. WHEN SHE WAS FOUR YEARS OLD SHE CAME WITH HER PARENTS, MR. AND MRS. PHILLIP SOHN, SR., TO LIVE ON A FARM SOUTH OF FORREST. SHE WAS MARRIED TO FRED RIEGER DECEMBER 25, 1906, AND WENT TO HOUSEKEEPING AT REMINGTON, IND. FOUR YEARS LATER THEY REMOVED TO THE FARM WHERE THEY HAVE SINCE RESIDED.

SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, FIVE CHILDREN, CLARA, PHILLIP, LEAH, HERMAN AND ALDINE, HER MOTHER, FIVE SISTERS AND THREE BROTHERS AS FOLLOWS: MATTILDA, ELIZA, MARTHA, LYDIA, PRISCILLA, PHILLIP, BENJAMIN AND JEPTHA.

SERVICES WERE HELD FROM THE SOUTH CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH, SUNDAY, AND WERE LARGELY ATTENDED BY FRIENDS AND RELATIVES, MANY BEING PRESENT FROM PRINCEVILLE, PEORIA, ROANOKE, MORTON, GRIDLEY, CISSNA PARK AND REMINGTON AND WOLCOTT, IND.

FORREST RITES FOR MOTHER OF FAIRBURIANS

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. ELNORE A. RIEGER, 81, WERE HELD TUESDAY, NOV. 7, 1967 AT

1 P. M. AT THE FORREST APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH. MRS. RIEGER DIED SUNDAY AT THE FAIRBURY HOSPITAL WHERE SHE WAS A PATIENT SIX MONTHS.

THE CULKIN FUNERAL HOME WAS IN CHARGE OF ARRANGEMENTS WHERE VISITATION WAS HELD FROM 2 P. M. MONDAY UNTIL SHE WAS TAKEN TO THE CHURCH AT NOON TUESDAY. BURIAL WAS IN NORTH APOSTOLIC CEMETERY.

SHE WAS BORN MAY 24, 1886, IN PLEASANT RIDGE TOWNSHIP, A DAUGHTER OF JACOB AND MARY HARTMAN NUSSBAUM. SHE WAS MARRIED TO FRED RIEGER JAN. 4, 1922, IN PEORIA.

SURVIVING ARE HER HUSBAND; FIVE SONS, MARION, FRED JR., DONALD, PHILLIP AND HERMAN, ALL OF FORREST; FOUR DAUGHTERS MISS ELDA MAE, MRS. LEAH HONEGGER AND MRS. ALDINE NUSSBAUM, ALL OF FORREST; AND MRS. CLARA HONEGGER, STRAWN; A BROTHER, SILAS NUSSBAUM, AND A SISTER, MISS MARY NUSSBAUM, BOTH OF FAIRBURY; 27 GRANDCHILDREN AND 23 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY A SISTER AND TWO BROTHERS.

FUNERAL TO BE FRIDAY FOR MRS. STEFFEN

THE FUNERAL OF MRS. ROSA R. STEFFEN, 83, OF FAIRBURY WILL BE HELD AT 10 O’CLOCK TOMORROW MORNING, FRIDAY, AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, AND BURIAL WILL BE IN THE SOUTH APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CEMETERY.

MRS. STEFFEN DIED AT 11:57 A. M. TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1969, AT THE FAIRBURY HOSPITAL. SHE HAD BEEN IN ILL HEALTH SINCE OCTOBER 1968.

VISITATION IS FROM 3 - 9 P. M. TODAY AT THE COOK FUNERAL HOME.

SHE WAS BORN JUNE 14, 1886, AT PRINCEVILLE, A DAUGHTER OF JACOB AND CHRISTINA STREITMATTER RIEGER. SHE WAS MARRIED TO EDWARD STEFFEN OCTOBER 20, 1940.

SURVIVORS INCLUDE THREE SONS, ELMER, MIAMI, FLA.; RAY, FORREST; HERMAN, MIAMI SPRINGS, FLA.; ONE DAUGHTER, MRS. EDITH ZIMMERMAN, FAIRBURY; TWO BROTHERS, FRED RIEGER AND EMANUEL RIEGER, BOTH OF FORREST; THREE SISTERS, MRS. LEAH KOEHL, MRS. SALOME ZIMMERMAN, BOTH OF FAIRBURY; MRS. SARAH STREITMATTER, PRINCEVILLE; 12 GRANDCHILDREN AND ONE GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HUSBAND, ONE SONS AND ONE BROTHER.

MRS. STEFFEN WAS A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

FORREST RITES TOMORROW FOR MRS. KOEHL

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. LEAH KOEHL, 82, OF FAIRBURY WILL BE HELD TOMORROW MORNING AT 10:30 AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN FORREST. MINISTERS OF THE CHURCH WILL OFFICIATE AND BURIAL WILL BE IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

FRIENDS MAY CALL TODAY FROM 2 TO 5 P. M. AND 7 TO 9 P. M. AT THE STIVER HOME FOR FUNERALS. SHE WILL BE TAKEN TO THE CHURCH ONE HOUR BEFORE SERVICES TOMORROW.

MRS. KOEHL DIED AT 5:30 WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCT. 28, 1970, IN FAIRBURY HOSPITAL, WHERE SHE HAD BEEN A PATIENT FOR 23 DAYS.

SHE WAS BORN JULY 4, 1888, IN PRINCEVILLE, A DAUGHTER OF JACOB AND CHRISTINA STREITMATTER RIEGER. SHE WAS MARRIED TO JOHN KOEHL ON FEBRUARY 14, 1909, AT FAIRBURY. THEY FARMED IN THE CISSNA PARK AND FAIRBURY AREAS UNTIL RETIRING AND MOVING INTO FAIRBURY IN JANUARY 1951.

SURVIVORS INCLUDE HER HUSBAND FIVE SONS, ELMER, TEMPE, ARIZ.; JOHN, PLAINFIELD; DICK, SAM AND DEAN, ALL OF FAIRBURY; FOUR DAUGHTERS, MRS. RUTH VAUGHAN, HUNTINGTON PARK, CALIF.; MRS. LEONA BENTLEY, TEMPE, ARIZ.; MRS. LYDIA EISENMANN AND MRS. ESTHER HODEL, CISSNA PARK; TWO BROTHERS, FRED AND EMMANUAL RIEGER, BOTH OF FORREST, TWO SISTERS, MRS. GEORGE ZIMMERMAN, FAIRBURY, AND MRS. CLARENCE STREITMATTER, PRINCEVILLE; 15 GRANDCHILDREN AND 22 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY ONE BROTHER, ONE SISTER, ONE GRANDCHILD AND ONE GREAT-GRANDCHILD.

SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN FORREST.

FORREST RITES SUNDAY FOR ANDREW REIGER, ROAD COMMISSIONER

ANDREW RIEGER, 60, HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER OF FORREST TOWNSHIP FOR 23 YEARS, DIED AT 1:15 P.M. YESTERDAY AT MERCY HOSPITAL URBANA. HE HAD BEEN A PATIENT THERE SINCE SUNDAY.

THE BODY WAS BROUGHT TO THE J. W. BROWN FUNERAL HOME HERE, AND WAS TO BE RETURNED TO THE RESIDENCE THIS AFTERNOON.

FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT 10 A.M. SUNDAY AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN FORREST. BURIAL WILL BE IN SOUTH SIDE CEMETERY.

MR. REIGER, A RETIRED FARMER, WAS BORN DEC. 15, 1890, AT PRINCEVILLE, A SON OF JACOB AND CHRISTINE RIEGER. HE WAS MARRIED TO MATILDA SOHN JAN. 2, 1913.

HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE; TWO SONS, HARVEY AND RICHARD, BOTH OF FORREST; NINE GRANDCHILDREN; TWO BROTHERS, FRED AND EMANUEL, BOTH OF FORREST; FOUR SISTERS, MRS. ROSE STEFFEN, MRS. LEAH KOEHL AND MISS SALOME RIEGER, ALL OF FAIRBURY, AND MRS. SARAH STREITMATTER, OF PRINCEVILLE.

HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE FORREST APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

HOLD RITES TODAY FOR MRS. RIEGER, 81

MRS. MATILDA RIEGER, 81, FORREST, DIED AT 11:45 A. M. TUESDAY, MAR. 9, 1971, IN FAIRBURY HOSPITAL. SHE HAD BEEN ILL SEVERAL MONTHS.

FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT 10 A. M. THURSDAY, MAR. 11, IN THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH WITH BURIAL IN THE SOUTH APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH CEMETERY. SHE WILL BE TAKEN TO THE CHURCH AT 9 A. M. THURSDAY.

VISITATION WAS HELD FROM 2 - 4 AND 6 - 9 WEDNESDAY, MAR. 10, AT THE CULKIN FUNERAL HOME, FORREST.

SHE WAS BORN NOVEMBER 15, 1889, IN FORREST TOWNSHIP, A DAUGHTER OF PHILIP AND ELISE WEYENETH SOHN. SHE WAS MARRIED TO ANDREW D. RIEGER JAN. 2, 1913, AT PONTIAC. HE DIED MARCH 15, 1951.

SURVIVING ARE TWO SONS, HARVEY AND RICHARD, FORREST, A SISTER, MISS PRISCILLA SOHN, FAIRBURY, TWO BROTHERS, J. U. SOHN AND PHIL SOHN, FORREST, 11 GRANDCHILDREN AND SEVEN GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

THREE BROTHERS FIVE SISTERS AND A GRANDCHILD PRECEDED HER IN DEATH.

SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

EMANUEL RIEGER, FORMER FORREST COMMISSIONER, DIED AT AGE 95

THE FUNERAL OF EMANUEL RIEGER, 95, OF FAIRVIEW HAVEN NURSING HOME, FAIRBURY, AND FORMERLY OF FORREST, WAS AT 10 A. M. MONDAY AT FORREST APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, CHURCH MINISTERS OFFICIATING.

BURIAL WAS IN GRACELAND CEMETERY, FAIRBURY.

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

HE DIED AT 6:05 P. M. FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1988 AT FAIRVIEW HAVEN.

HE WAS BORN DEC. 27, 1892, IN PRINCEVILLE, A SON OF JACOB CHRISTINA STREITMATTER RIEGER. HE MARRIED EMMA AELLIG ON JUNE 5, 1919, IN PONTIAC. SHE DIED SEPT. 18, 1949. HE MARRIED ELEANORA LEHMANN ON JUNE 24, 1951. HIS DIED JULY 13, 1974.

SURVIVING ARE A SON, LEONARD, FORREST; FIVE GRANDCHILDREN; AND 12 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

TWO BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.

MR. RIEGER SERVED AS ROAD COMMISSIONER FOR FORREST TOWNSHIP AND FARMED IN THE FORREST AREA UNTIL 1946. HE WAS A VETERAN OF WORLD WAR I AND A MEMBER OF FORREST APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

SALOME S. ZIMMERMAN, 78, LIFETIME FAIRBURY RESIDENT, DIES

SALOME S. ZIMMERMAN, 78, A LIFETIME RESIDENT OF FAIRBURY WHO LIVED AT FAIRVIEW HAVEN NURSING HOME SINCE APRIL, 1985, DIED AT 7:05 A. M. FEB. 18, 1986.

THE ZIMMERMAN FAMILY HOME WAS AT 310 E. LOCUST, FAIRBURY.

SERVICES WILL BE FRIDAY, FEB. 21 AT 10 A. M. AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF FAIRBURY. MINISTER OF THE CHURCH WILL OFFICIATE.

BURIAL WILL BE IN THE SOUTH APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CEMETERY IN RURAL FAIRBURY.

VISITATION WILL BE TODAY, THURSDAY, AT DUFFY-PILS MEMORIAL HOME, FAIRBURY, FROM

4 - 8 P. M. AND FOR ONE HOUR BEFORE THE SERVICE AT THE CHURCH.

MRS. ZIMMERMAN WAS BORN ON SEPT. 22, 1907 AT STRAWN, A DAUGHTER OF JACOB AND CHRISTINA STREITMATTER RIEGER. SHE MARRIED GEORGE ZIMMERMAN ON AUGUST 10, 1958 AT FAIRBURY. HE SURVIVES.

OTHER SURVIVORS INCLUDE FOUR STEPDAUGHTERS, THELMA SLAGEL, FAIRBURY; ELDORA STEINLE, OTTO, NC; ANNA LOU VAN ANTWERP, FAIRBURY; AND FLORENCE KOCH, TREMONT; AND ONE STEPSON, DONALD ZIMMERMAN, FAIRBURY.

ALSO SURVIVING ARE ONE BROTHER, EMMANUEL RIEGER, OF FAIRBURY, 14 STEP GRANDCHILDREN AND 12 STEP GREATCHILDREN.

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

MRS. ZIMMERMAN WAS A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF FAIRBURY. SHE WAS MANAGER OF WALTON’S MEN’S WEAR FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS.

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