THE SUTTER FAMILY

JACOB SUTTER

JACOB SUTTER, FAIRBURY’S OLDEST RESIDENT, PASSED AWAY MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, AT

7 O’CLOCK P. M. AT THE HOME OF HIS DAUGHTER, MRS. RUDOLPH VON BERGEN, 511 SOUTH FOURTH STREET, HAVING REACHED THE ADVANCED AGED OF 95 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AND 24 DAYS, HIS DEATH BEING DUE TO THE INFIRMITIES OF AGE, HIS CONDITION HAVING BECOME SERIOUS ABOUT THREE WEEKS AGO.

MR. SUTTER WAS BORN AT BUCHEBURG, GERMANY, MARCH 7, 1839. WHEN 18 YEARS OF AGE HE LEFT HIS NATIVE LAND, COMING TO THE UNITED STATES AND LOCATING FIRST IN ROCHESTER, NEW YORK. SOME TIME LATER HE CAME TO ILLINOIS AND ENGAGED IN FARMING IN TAZEWELL COUNTY, MOVING LATER TO A FARM NEAR CROPSEY, AND FINALLY TO FAIRBURY.

ON NOVEMBER 29, 1867, AT PEORIA, MR. SUTTER WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MISS KATRINA KIRCHNER, WHO PASSED AWAY MARCH 11, 1926. HE RETIRED FROM FARMING IN 1904, AND SINCE THAT TIME HAS RESIDED IN THIS CITY.

SURVIVING HE LEAVES THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN: MRS. JOSEPH WENGER, HENRY, WILL, JOHN, EDWARD, MRS. WILLIAM HUBER, OF FAIRBURY; BENJAMIN, OF FORREST; MRS. WALTER ZIEGENHORN, OF MUSCATINE, IA.; MRS. JACOB WASNER AND ALBERT SUTTER, OF REMINGTON, IND.; AND MRS. ISAAC STOLLER, OF EL PASO. LOUIS PASSED AWAY FEBRUARY 26, 1933. MR. SUTTER IS ALSO SURVIVED BY 57 GRANDCHILDREN AND 39 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AT 1 O’CLOCK AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN THIS CITY, THE REV. PETER BACH CONDUCTING THE ENGLISH SERVICE, AND THE REV. HENRY SOBA, OF MANSFIELD, THE GERMAN. INTERMENT WAS IN GRACELAND CEMETERY. THE PALLBEARERS WERE HIS SIX SON, HENRY, WILL, JOHN, EDWARD, BEN AND ALBERT.

THE FOLLOWING RELATIVES AND FRIENDS WERE HERE TO ATTEND THE FUNERAL: THE MISSES CATHERINE AND RUTH WASNER, VERN STOLLER, WILMA HUBER AND MRS. JOHN WAIBEL, OF PEORIA; JOHN SAUDER AND FAMILY, OF TREMONT; MR. AND MRS. SILAS HODEL, MR. AND MRS. FRANK MARTIN, OF ROANOKE; HENRY HOFFMAN AND SONS AND JOHN HUETTE, OF MORTON; ANDREW NUSSBAUM, ROBERT BAHLER, GUS KNOCHEL, JACOB WASNER AND WIFE AND ALBERT SUTTER AND FAMILY, OF REMINGTON, IND.; ISAAC STOLLER AND FAMILY, OF EL PASO; MRS. WALTER ZIEGENHORN AND SON ORVILLE, MRS. G. A. KRANZ, OF MUSCATINE, IOWA.

MRS. JACOB SUTTER

MRS. JACOB SUTTER PASSED AWAY AT HER HOME, 500 S. WEBSTER STREET, YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, AGED 78 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AND 20 DAYS.

KATHERINE KIRCHER WAS BORN AUGUST 22, 1847, IN BONFIELD, GERMANY. SHE WAS EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD WHEN SHE CAME TO THE UNITED STATES AND SETTLED IN TAZEWELL COUNTY, FIFTY-EIGHT YEARS AGO SHE WAS MARRIED TO JACOB SUTTER AND A FEW YEARS LATER THEY CAME TO FAIRBURY, MAKING THEIR HOME ON A FARM UNTIL 1904, WHEN THEY MOVED TO FAIRBURY.

TO THIS UNION FOURTEEN CHILDREN WERE BORN, ONE DYING IN INFANCY. SHE IS SURVIVED BY THE AGED HUSBAND AND THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN: MRS. JOSEPH WENGER, OF FORREST; HENRY, WILLIAM, JOHN, EDWARD, MRS. RUDOLPH VON BERGEN, BEN AND MRS. WILL HUBER, ALL OF FAIRBURY; MRS. ALBERT ZIEGENHORN AND LOUIS SUTTER, OF MUSCATINE, IA.; MRS. JACOB WASNER AND ALBERT, OF REMINGTON, IND.; MRS. ISAAC STOLLER, OF EUREKA; FIFTY-FIVE GRANDCHILDREN AND NINE GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

MRS. SUTTER WAS A WOMAN WHO WAS LOVED BY HER FAMILY, HER FRIENDS AND HER NEIGHBORS. OF PLEASANT DISPOSITION, SHE MADE FRIENDS OF THOSE AROUND HER. HER LIFE WAS A USEFUL ONE. SHE WAS ALWAYS READY TO DO A KINDNESS FOR THOSE AROUND HER AND SHE WILL BE GREATLY MISSED AND DEEPLY MOURNED BY ALL WHO KNEW HER.

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

JACOB SUTTER 1839 - 1934

(WIFE) KATHERINE (KIRCHNER) SUTTER 1847 - 1926

(DAUGHTER) ELIZA (SUTTER) WENGER 1868 - 1954

(SON) HENRY SUTTER 1870 - 1968

(SON) WILLIAM SUTTER 1871 - 1956

(SON) JOHN SUTTER 1873 - 1974

(SON) EDWARD SUTTER 1875 - 1965

(DAUGHTER) EMMA (SUTTER) KILGUS / VON BERGEN 1876 - 1968

(SON) JOSEPH SUTTER 1877

(SON) BENJAMIN SUTTER 1878 - 1957

(DAUGHTER) LEAH (SUTTER) ZIEGENHORN / CAUDILL 1882 - 1971

(DAUGHTER) LOUISE (SUTTER) WASNER 1883 - 1957

(DAUGHTER) BERTHA SUTTER 1884

(DAUGHTER) CARRIE (SUTTER) HUBER 1885 - 1979

(DAUGHTER) MARIE (SUTTER) STOLLER 1886 - 1976

(SON) ALBERT SUTTER 1888 - 1965

(SON) LOUIS SUTTER 1889 - 1933

1. ELIZA (SUTTER) WENGER 1868 - 1954

SERVICES FOR MRS. WENGER HELD MON.

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. ELISA WENGER WERE HELD MONDAY AFTERNOON AT 1:30 O’CLOCK FROM THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH AND INTERMENT WAS IN GRACELAND CEMETERY. MRS. WENGER, WHO HAD BEEN ILL OVER AN EXTENDED PERIOD, PASSED AWAY AT HER HOME HERE SATURDAY MORNING AT 11 O’CLOCK AT THE AGE OF 85 YEARS, SEVEN MONTHS AND SIX DAYS.

ELIZABETH SUTTER, DAUGHTER OF JACOB AND KATHERINE (KIRCHNER) SUTTER, WAS BORN IN TAZEWELL COUNTY, DECEMBER 25, 1868. HER MARRIAGE TO JOSEPH WENGER TOOK PLACE AT PONTIAC OCTOBER 3, 1888. THEY FARMED FOR MANY YEARS IN THIS VICINITY AND MOVED TO FAIRBURY IN 1931. MR. WENGER PASSED AWAY HERE MAY 11, 1948. ALSO PRECEDING HER IN DEATH WERE THREE DAUGHTERS AND A SON.

SURVIVING ARE: FIVE SONS, JOHN, OF CHATSWORTH; LOUIS, FORREST; RAYMOND AND ELMER, FAIRBURY, AND HARRY, OF DECATUR; A DAUGHTER, MRS. ELSIE WAIBEL, OF FORREST; SIX BROTHERS, HENRY, WILL, JOHN, ED AND BEN SUTTER, FAIRBURY, AND ALBERT, OF REMINGTON, IND.; FIVE SISTERS, MRS. EMMA VONBERGEN AND MRS. CARRIE HUBER, FAIRBURY; MRS. LEA CAUDILL, DAVENPORT, IOWA; MRS. LOUISE WASNER, REMINGTON, IND., AND MRS. MARY STOLLER, EUREKA; 12 GRANDCHILDREN AND SEVEN GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

RELATIVES AND FRIENDS ATTENDING THE SERVICES FROM AWAY CAME FROM DAVENPORT, IOWA; MARYETTE, OHIO; REMINGTON, WOLCOTT, BLUFFTON AND SOUTH BEND, IND.; TREMONT, PONTIAC, MORTON, GRIDLEY, CHATSWORTH, STRAWN, CROPSEY, ROANOKE, EUREKA, WASHINGTON, PAXTON, CHENOA, GRAYMONT.

2. HENRY SUTTER 1870 - 1968

RITES HERE WEDNESDAY FOR HENRY SUTTER, 97

THE FUNERAL FOR HENRY SUTTER, 97, WAS HELD AT 10 A.M. WEDNESDAY AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN FAIRBURY, WITH BURIAL IN GRACELAND.

MR. SUTTER, WHO WAS PROBABLY THIS COMMUNITY’S OLDEST MALE RESIDENT AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH, DIED AT NOON SUNDAY AT FAIRBURY HOSPITAL, WHERE HE HAD BEEN A PATIENT SINCE APRIL 18. HIS BODY WAS TAKEN TO THE COOK FUNERAL HOME.

HE WAS BORN AUGUST 11, 1870, AT TREMONT, A SON OF JACOB AND KATRINA KIRCHNER SUTTER. HE MARRIED SUSAN STREIB FEBRUARY 9, 1895, IN PONTIAC. SHE PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.

SURVIVING ARE THREE DAUGHTERS, MRS. ESTHER HOFMAN, MRS. CLARA BROQUARD AND MISS MINNIE SUTTER, ALL OF FAIRBURY; 13 GRANDCHILDREN; 41 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN; THREE SISTERS, MRS. LEAH CAUDILL, DAVENPORT, IOWA; MRS. CARRIE HUBER AND MRS. MARY STOLLER, BOTH OF EUREKA.

SEVEN BROTHERS, FOUR SISTERS AND A GRANDCHILD PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.

HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

3. WILLIAM SUTTER 1871 - 1956

SERVICES TODAY FOR WILL SUTTER, 84

FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT 2 P. M. THURSDAY AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH FOR WILLIAM P. SUTTER, 84, WHO DIED AT 4 A. M. TUESDAY AT THE FAIRBURY HOSPITAL, WHERE HE HAD BEEN A PATIENT FOR 3 DAYS.

MR. SUTTER HAD BEEN ILL AT HIS HOME AT 312 WEST CHESTNUT STREET FOR SEVERAL MONTHS. SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED AT HIS HOME AT 1:30 P. M. BY THE COOK FUNERAL HOME. BURIAL WILL BE IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

HE WAS BORN DEC. 21, 1871, AT TREMONT, A SON OF JACOB AND CATHERINE KIRCHER SUTTER. THE FAMILY MOVED TO THE FAIRBURY VICINITY WHEN HE WAS 3 YEARS OLD.

HE WAS WED TO BERTHA GAHWILER AT ROCK ISLAND, JULY 5, 1902. THEY FARMED A MILE WEST OF FAIRBURY UNTIL 12 YEARS AGO, WHEN THEY MOVED TO FAIRBURY.

SURVIVING ARE HIS WIFE, 3 DAUGHTERS, MRS. JOE L. ZEHR, MRS. RAY HUDDLESTON, BOTH OF FAIRBURY; MRS. JOHN WAIBEL, PEORIA; 7 GRANDCHILDREN, 5 BROTHERS, HENRY, JOHN, ED, BEN, ALL OF FAIRBURY; AND ALBERT, REMINGTON, IND. FIVE SISTERS ALSO SURVIVE, MRS. EMMA VON BERGEN, MRS. CARRIE HUBER, BOTH OF FAIRBURY; MRS. ISSAC STOLLER, EUREKA; MRS. JESS CAUDILL, DAVENPORT, IOWA; AND MRS. JAKE WASNER, REMINGTON, IND.

PRECEDING HIM IN DEATH WERE A BROTHER, LOUIS, AND A SISTER, MRS. JOE WENGER.

 4. JOHN SUTTER 1873 - 1974

JOHN SUTTER, 90 DIES SUNDAY AT FAIRVIEW HAVEN

JOHN A. SUTTER, 90, DIED AT 6 A. M. SUNDAY, JULY 26, 1964, AT THE FAIRVIEW HAVEN REST HOME IN FAIRBURY. HE HAD BEEN THERE FOR SIX MONTHS.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH AT 1:30 P. M. TUESDAY WITH THE REV. JOSHUA BROQUARD OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS MADE IN THE GRACELAND CEMETERY.

BEARERS WERE HARTZELL KAISNER, BROCK HESSING, BRUCE HESSING, CRAIG SUTTER, GLEN KAISNER AND BOBBY SUTTER.

ARRANGEMENTS WERE MADE BY THE COOK FUNERAL HOME.

HE WAS BORN IN TREMONT ON SEPT. 14, 1873, THE SON OF JACOB AND CATHERINE KIRCHNER SUTTER. HE MARRIED HANNAH STOLLER, FEB. 8, 1899, IN PONTIAC.

SURVIVING ARE TWO SONS, JOHN E. AND EVERETT, BOTH OF FAIRBURY; FOUR DAUGHTERS, MRS. IRS KAISNER, FORREST; MRS. MARTHA KAISNER, FAIRBURY; MRS. HELEN HESSING, OF PEORIA; MRS. LAURA WEISER, DENVER, COLO.; TWO BROTHERS, HENRY AND ED OF FAIRBURY; FOUR SISTERS, MRS. EMMA VONBERGEN, FAIRBURY; MRS. CARRIE HUBER, FAIRBURY; MRS. LEA CAUDILL, DAVENPORT, IOWA; MRS. MARY STOLLER, EUREKA; 20 GRANDCHILDREN AND 24 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS WIFE, ONE DAUGHTER, FIVE BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS.

HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH AND THE FAIRBURY HOSPITAL BOARD. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE BUILDING COMMITTEE WHEN THE PRESENT HOSPITAL WAS BEING BUILT.

5. EDWARD SUTTER 1875 - 1965

EDWARD SUTTER, RETIRED AREA FARMER, DIES

EDWARD SUTTER, 89, DIED AT 7:30 A. M. FRIDAY AT FAIRBURY HOSPITAL. HE HAD BEEN A PATIENT FOR FIVE WEEKS.

FUNERALS SERVICES WERE HELD AT 2:30 P. M. SUNDAY AT THE FIRST METHODIST CHURCH, THE REV. H. R. BRINKMAN OFFICIATED. BURIAL WAS IN THE GRACELAND CEMETERY.

MASONIC SERVICES WERE HELD AT 8:30 SATURDAY AT THE FUNERAL HOME. PALLBEARERS WERE JOHN DREW, DENNIS ROACH, WILLIAM WESSELS, FLOYD BARNES, CHARLES SCHULER AND BEN WOOD.

IN CHARGE OF FLOWERS WERE MRS. DENNIS ROACH, MRS. JOHN DREW, MRS. WILLIAM WESSELS, MRS. FLOYD BARNES AND MRS. CHARLES SCHULER.

HE WAS BORN MAY 9, 1875, NEAR FAIRBURY, A SON OF JACOB AND CATHERINE KIRCHNER SUTTER. HE MARRIED ANNIS PHILLIPS FEB. 25, 1903, AT PONTIAC. SHE DIED IN 1955.

HE IS SURVIVED BY TWO SONS, MAURICE, FAIRBURY, AND FRANCIS, DAYTON, OHIO; A BROTHER, HENRY, FAIRBURY; FOUR SISTERS, MRS. EMMA VONBERGEN AND MRS. CARRIE HUBER, BOTH OF FAIRBURY; MRS. MARY STOLLER, EUREKA; AND MRS. LEAH CALDWELL, MASCATINE, IOWA; FOUR GRANDCHILDREN AND A GREAT-GRANDCHILD.

HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY A SON, FIVE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS.

MR. SUTTER HAD FARMED IN THE FAIRBURY AREA ALL OF HIS LIFE.

HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE FIRST METHODIST CHURCH, THE MASONIC LODGE AND THE BLOOMINGTON CONSISTORY.

6. EMMA (SUTTER) KILGUS / VON BERGEN 1876 - 1968

MRS. VON BERGEN SUCCUMBS AT 91

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. EMMA VON BERGEN, 91, WERE HELD 10 A. M. WEDNESDAY AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, REV. JOSHUA BROQUARD OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

MRS. VON BERGEN DIED AT 4:35 P. M. SUNDAY, MARCH 10, AT FAIRBURY HOSPITAL. COOK FUNERAL HOME WAS IN CHARGE OF ARRANGEMENTS.

MRS. VON BERGEN WAS BORN DEC. 25, 1876, IN FAIRBURY, A DAUGHTER OF JACOB AND KATHERINE KIRCHER SUTTER. SHE WAS MARRIED TO MATTHEW KILGUS FEB. 8, 1899, IN PONTIAC. HE DIED APRIL 1, 1913. SHE THEN MARRIED RUDOLPH VON BERGEN MAY 9, 1920, IN FAIRBURY. HE DIED AUG. 28, 1939.

SURVIVING ARE A DAUGHTER, MRS. ELLA VON BERGEN, PEORIA; FOUR SONS, HERMAN J., ALBERT J. AND IRA L. KILGUS, ALL OF FAIRBURY; AND WILLIAM F. KILGUS, PEKIN, A BROTHER, HENRY SUTTER, FAIRBURY; THREE SISTERS, MRS. LEAH CAUDILL, DAVENPORT, IOWA; MRS. MARIE STOLLER AND MRS. CARRIE HUBER, BOTH OF EUREKA; 10 GRANDCHILDREN; 32 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN; AND TWO GREAT-GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN. TWO DAUGHTERS, SEVEN BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS PRECEDED HER IN DEATH.

SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

PALLBEARERS WERE EVERETT AND MAURICE SUTTER, REUBEN HUBER, ELMER WENGER, LEROY STOLLER AND ANDREW LEHMANN.

7. BENJAMIN SUTTER 1878 - 1957

TO HOLD RITES TODAY BEN SUTTER, 78

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR BEN SUTTER, 78, ARE TODAY (THURSDAY) AT COOK’S FUNERAL HOME, 10 A.M. AND AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH AT 10:30 A.M.; INTERMENT, IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

HE DIED AT 4 P.M. MONDAY JAN. 14, AT THE FAIRBURY HOSPITAL WHERE HE HAD BEEN PATIENT FOR A MONTH.

MRS. SUTTER WAS BORN NOV. 21, 1878, AT FAIRBURY, A SON OF JACOB AND CATHERINE KIRCHNER SUTTER. HE LIVED IN FAIRBURY COMMUNITY ALL OF HIS LIFE, RETIRING FROM FARMING AND MOVING TO TOWN ELEVEN YEARS AGO.

SURVIVING ARE HIS WIFE, TILLIE; A DAUGHTER, MRS. FLORENCE DAMERON, FAIRBURY, FOUR BROTHERS, JOHN, HENRY, EDWARD, FAIRBURY; ALBERT, REMINGTON, IND.; FIVE SISTERS, MRS. EMMA VON BERGEN, MRS. CARRIE HUBER, FAIRBURY; MRS. LEAH CAUDELLE, IOWA; MRS. LOUISE WASHNER, REMINGTON, IND. MRS. MARY STOLLER, EUREKA. ONE DAUGHTER, MRS. EDNA LEHMANN, PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH IN NOV., ‘56. THERE ARE FIVE GRANDCHILDREN AND SIX GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.

PALL BEARERS ARE TED WILLIAMS, LONNIE SCHOVE, FRANCIS WINTERLAND, JESS CARDER, MILO BETZ AND HERBERT HURT.

VIRGINIA WINTERLAND AND MILDRED RUNYON ARE IN CHARGE OF THE FLOWERS.

8. LEAH (SUTTER) ZIEGENHORN / CAUDILL 1882 - 1971

HOLD RITES FOR MRS. CAUDILL, 89, OF DAVENPORT, IA.

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. LEAH SUTTER CAUDILL, 89, DAVENPORT, IOWA, FORMERLY OF FAIRBURY, WERE HELD AT 1 P. M. SATURDAY, SEPT. 18, 1971, AT THE RUNGE MORTUARY, DAVENPORT. BURIAL WAS IN RENOLD’S CEMETERY NEAR NEW BOSTON.

SHE DIED AT DAVENPORT LUTHERAN NURSING HOME SEPTEMBER 16, WHERE SHE HAD RESIDED IN FAILING HEALTH FOR SEVERAL MONTHS.

SHE WAS BORN IN FAIRBURY, A DAUGHTER OF JACOB AND KATHERINE KIRCHNER SUTTER, ON SEPTEMBER 10, 1882. SHE WAS MARRIED TO WALTER ZIEGENHORN JAN. 9, 1902. HE DIED IN 1933. IN 1939 SHE MARRIED JESSE CAUDILL, WHO DIED IN 1966.

SURVIVING ARE TWO SONS, LESTER, JOY, AND ORVILLE, DAVENPORT, IOWA; TWO DAUGHTERS, MRS. LAURA KRANZ, MUSCATINE, IOWA, AND ALBERTA LARSON, DAVENPORT; NINE GRANDCHILDREN, 27 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN, ONE GREAT-GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

A SON, A DAUGHTER, FOUR SISTERS AND EIGHT BROTHERS PRECEDED HER IN DEATH.

9. LOUISE (SUTTER) WASNER 1883 - 1957

SERVICES HELD SUNDAY AT REMINGTON FOR MRS. LOUISE WASNER

LOUISE SUTTER WASNER PASSED AWAY IN REMINGTON, INDIANA, FRIDAY MORNING. FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD SUNDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 22.

SHE WAS BORN NEAR FAIRBURY NOV. 23, 1883 AND MARRIED TO JACOB WASNER IN FAIRBURY IN 1906. THEY MOVED TO REMINGTON IN 1912. HE PASSED AWAY MARCH 28, 1957. SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

SURVIVING ARE TWO SONS ELMER AND ARTHUR, BOTH OF REMINGTON; FOUR DAUGHTERS, MRS. CATHERINE WEIDMAN OF HENRY, MRS. RUTH STRUNK OF MORTON, MRS. ELLA GEIGER OF DEER CREEK, AND MRS. JEANNETTE KNAPP OF CONGERVILLE; 13 GRANDCHILDREN, FOUR BROTHERS, HENRY, JOHN, ED SUTTER ALL OF FAIRBURY AND ALBERT OF REMINGTON. ALSO FOUR SISTERS, MRS. EMMA VON BERGEN AND CARRIE HUBER OF FAIRBURY, MRS. LEAH CAUDILLE OF DAVENPORT, IOWA, AND MRS. MARIE STOLLER OF EUREKA.

THOSE THAT ATTENDED THE SERVICES WERE FROM FAIRBURY, FORREST, STRAWN, CROPSEY, MILFORD, EUREKA, EL PASO, PEORIA, DEER CREEK, HENRY, GRIDLEY, DAVENPORT, AND CISSNA PARK.

 10. CARRIE (SUTTER) HUBER 1885 - 1979

CARRIE HUBER, 94, DIES MONDAY AT EUREKA

CARRIE HUBER, 94, FORMERLY OF FAIRBURY, DIED AT 12:45 P. M. MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1979 AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN HOME, EUREKA, WHERE SHE LIVED SINCE NOVEMBER 1967.

HER FUNERAL WILL BE AT 10 A. M. TODAY THURSDAY AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, FAIRBURY, WITH CHURCH MINISTERS OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

VISITATION WAS FROM 1 TO 5 AND 6 TO 9 P. M. WEDNESDAY AT DUFFY-PILS MEMORIAL HOME, FAIRBURY, AND ONE HOUR BEFORE SERVICES AT THE CHURCH THURSDAY.

SHE WAS BORN JAN. 2, 1885, IN FAIRBURY, A DAUGHTER OF JACOB AND KATHERINE KIRCHNER SUTTER. SHE MARRIED WILLIAM D. HUBER DEC. 6, 1914, IN FAIRBURY. HE DIED JAN. 21, 1931.

SURVIVING ARE FOUR DAUGHTERS, WILMA HUBER, PEORIA; PAULINE ROCKE, EUREKA; LORENE KLOTER, CARLOCK; EMMA LOU STEFFEN, LAKE BLOOMINGTON; THREE SONS, LEROY, EUREKA; REUBEN, FAIRBURY; ROBERT, OF NORMAL; 30 GRANDCHILDREN, AND 18 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY SEVEN BROTHERS, FIVE SISTERS, ONE DAUGHTER, THREE GRANDCHILDREN AND ONE GREAT-GRANDCHILD.

SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE FAIRBURY APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

SHE LIVED ALL HER LIFE IN THE FAIRBURY AREA UNTIL SHE MOVED TO EUREKA.

11. MARIE (SUTTER) STOLLER 1886 - 1976

MARIE STOLLER DIED MONDAY

MRS. MARIE M. STOLLER, 90, FORMERLY OF 309 E. CENTER, DIED AT 12:30 P M. MONDAY IN EUREKA APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN NURSING HOME WHERE SHE RESIDED MORE THAN THREE YEARS.

SHE WAS BORN IN FAIRBURY ON JULY 30, 1886, A DAUGHTER OF JACOB AND KATHERINE KIRCHER SUTTER. SHE MARRIED ISAAC STOLLER AT PONTIAC JAN. 22, 1908. HE DIED FEB. 21, 1976.

SURVIVING ARE TWO SONS, LEROY OF EL PASO AND BENJAMIN OF MORTON; AND TWO DAUGHTERS, MRS. MABEL WITTMER OF EUREKA AND MRS. VERA KIBLER OF PEORIA.

ALSO SURVIVING ARE ONE SISTER, MRS. CARRIE HUBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN NURSING HOME; NINE GRANDCHILDREN; AND EIGHT GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

TWO SONS, SEVEN BROTHERS, FOUR SISTERS, ONE GRANDCHILD AND ONE GREAT-GRANDCHILD PRECEDED HER IN DEATH.

MRS. STOLLER WAS A MEMBER OF EUREKA APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

THE FUNERAL WAS AT THE CHURCH YESTERDAY.

12. ALBERT SUTTER 1888 - 1965

NO OBITUARY

13. LOUIS SUTTER 1889 - 1933

LOUIS SUTTER, WHO WAS BORN ON A FARM NEAR THIS CITY, ON SEPTEMBER 9, 1889, AND WHO RESIDED HERE UNTIL ABOUT FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME IN MUSCATINE, IOWA, SUNDAY AFTERNOON AFTER A SIX-DAY ILLNESS WITH PNEUMONIA. HE WAS 43 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AND 17 DAYS OLD AT THE TIME OF HIS PASSING.

MR. SUTTER WAS A SON AND YOUNGEST CHILD OF JACOB SUTTER, OF THIS CITY, AND HE IS THE FIRST OF A FAMILY OF ELEVEN CHILDREN TO DIE. THIS IS THE THIRD TIME HE HAD BEEN AFFLICTED WITH THE ILLNESS WHICH CAUSED HIS DEATH. HE SUFFERED HIS FIRST ATTACK OF THE DISEASE DURING THE WAR AS HE WAS ABOUT TO SAIL. THE ARMISTICE WAS SIGNED BEFORE HE WAS SUFFICIENTLY RECOVERED TO GO ACROSS.

SHORTLY AFTER THE CLOSE OF THE WAR MR. SUTTER LEFT THIS CITY FOR MUSCATINE, IOWA, TO ENGAGE IN FARMING. IT WAS HERE THAT HE MET AND MARRIED OZETTA REYNOLDS ON JANUARY 28, 1920. TWO SONS, BERNARD AND KEITH, BOTH OF WHOM SURVIVE, WERE BORN TO THEM.

BESIDES HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN MR. SUTTER LEAVES HIS 94-YEAR-OLD FATHER, JACOB SUTTER, AND THE FOLLOWING BROTHERS AND SISTERS TO MOURN HIS PASSING: JOHN, WILL, HENRY, EDWARD AND BEN, OF FAIRBURY, AND ALBERT, OF REMINGTON, INDIANA. MRS. EMMA VONBERGEN, MRS. CARRIE HUBER, MRS. JOSEPH WENGER, OF FAIRBURY; MRS. WALTER ZIEGENHORN, OF MUSCATINE, IOWA; MRS. JACOB WEISNER, OF REMINGTON, AND MRS. ISAAC STOLLER, OF EL PASO.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT MUSCATINE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AT 1:30 O’CLOCK FROM THE LITTLE COUNTRY CHURCH WHICH HE ATTENDED. BURIAL WAS IN THE REYNOLDS FAMILY CEMETERY AT MUSCATINE. ALL OF HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS WITH THE EXCEPTION OF MRS. VONBERGEN, OF THIS CITY, WERE IN ATTENDANCE.

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