BORN JANUARY 2, 1815, CANTON, BERN, SWITZERLAND.

PARENTS: JOHANNES AND BARBARA (GERBER) AESCHLEMAN.

MARRIED MARIA SCHUPBACH, 1839, CANTON, BERN, SWITZERLAND.

CHILDREN: PETER, CHRISTIAN, MARIA, JOHN, SIMON, PHILLIP, MATTHIS, LISETEN, JOSEPH & JOEL.

DIED DECEMBER 12, 1882, BURIED SABETHA, KANSAS.

HENRY ALTORFER DIES AT ROANOKE HOME

HENRY ALTORFER, 81, DIED AT HIS HOME IN ROANOKE SATURDAY AFTERNOON. HE HAD BEEN IN FALLING HEALTH FOR THE PAST SIX MONTHS AND SUFFERED A A STROKE OF APOPLEXY ON MONDAY.

HE WAS BORN IN ZURICK, SWITZERLAND, SEPT. 11, 1859, AND IMMIGRATED TO THE UNITED STATES AT THE AGE OF 14. HE WAS MARRIED TO CYNTHIA WEYENETH AT ROANOKE IN 1882. SHE DIED IN 1909. MR. ALTORFER WAS ENGAGED IN THE HARDWARE AND MERCHANDISE BUSINESS IN ROANOKE MOST OF HIS LIFE AND WITH HIS SONS PATENTED THE PRESENT ABC POWER WASHING MACHINES MANUFACTURED IN EAST PEORIA.

SURVIVING ARE THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN: ALPHEUS W., HENRY W., MRS. S. D. GETZ, OF PEORIA, MRS. J. A. GETZ AND MRS. B. E. GETZ, OF MORTON AND MRS. JOE ZIMMERMAN, OF CARLOCK; 22 GRANDCHILDREN AND TWO GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD TUESDAY MORNING AT 9:30 FROM THE HOME IN ROANOKE AND 10 O’CLOCK AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH WITH BURIAL IN THE CHURCH CEMETERY.

KARL BAER DIES; PASTOR CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH 37 YEARS

REV. KARL BAER, RESIDENT OF THE VILLAGE FOR THE PAST FIVE, SERIOUSLY ILL FOR THE PAST FIVE MONTHS, DIED AT 12:30 O’CLOCK MONDAY MORNING AT HIS HOME IN THE WEST PART OF TOWN. HE HAD BEEN BEDFAST AND IN A MOST SERIOUS CONDITION FOR SOME TIME.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AT THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH, OF WHICH THE DECEASED WAS A PASTOR FOR 37 YEARS, WITH REV. SCHAFFER, FAIRBURY, PREACHING THE SERMON. INTERMENT WAS IN THE CHURCH CEMETERY SOUTH OF TOWN. GUS SEIDEL WAS THE UNDERTAKER. PALLBEARERS INCLUDED: EMIL EDELMAN, CARL STEINER, SR., WM. STEINER, LOU NEUKOMM, ALBERT KELLERHALS, AND SAM RUDIN.

THE OF RUDOLPH AND CAROLINE FRYE BAER, KARL BAER WAS BORN JANUARY 31, 1881 IN THE BADEN, GERMANY LOCALITY. AT AGE 25, IN 1906, HE CAME TO THE UNITED STATES, LIVING FIRST IN THE ROANOKE, ILL. LOCALITY.

HE WAS MARRIED JUNE 21, 1908 TO SARAH FEHR IN EUREKA. THEIR HOME WAS IN THAT LOCALITY UNTIL 1912 WHEN THEY MOVED TO FARM NEAR REMINGTON, IND. WHICH WAS THEIR RESIDENCE UNTIL 1942 WHEN THEY MOVED TO THE HOME THEY PURCHASED IN THE WEST PART OF TOWN.

HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE; FIVE DAUGHTERS; RUTH, AT HOME; MRS. CAROLINE SIEGLE, OF HERE; MRS. AMELIA ENGELHARDT, OF BREMEN, IND., MRS. BERNICE RUDIN, OF MUNDELEIN, ILL., MRS. HELEN PEIRELS, OF ARLINGTON HEIGHT, ILL.; AND FOUR SONS; RAYMOND AND RUDOLPH, OF REMINGTON, IND., OSCAR, OF MONTICELLO, IND., AND CARL A., OF HERE, THERE ARE NINE GRANDCHILDREN.

EUGENE BERTSCHI

THE FUNERAL OF EUGENE BERTSCHI, 71, OF ROANOKE AND ZAPATA, TEXAS, WAS AT 10:30 A. M. TUESDAY AT ROANOKE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

CHURCH MINISTERS OFFICIATED. BURIAL WAS IN THE CHURCH CEMETERY.

VISITATION WAS FROM 1 TO 4 P. M. AND 6 TO 9 P. M. MONDAY AT REMMERT FUNERAL HOME, ROANOKE, AND FOR ONE HOUR BEFORE THE SERVICE AT THE CHURCH.

MR. BERTSCHI DIED AT 8:45 P. M. FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1990, AT SOUTHWEST TEXAS METHODIST HOSPITAL, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.

HE WAS BORN APRIL 12, 1918, IN ROANOKE, A SON OF RUDOLPH AND MARY ANN MARTIN BERTSCHI. HE MARRIED DOROTHY A. BERTSCH ON JUNE 4, 1944, IN TREMONT. SHE SURVIVES.

ALSO SURVIVING ARE THREE SONS, ROBERT E., MORTON; RICHARD A., EUREKA; AND ROGER D., ROANOKE; TWO DAUGHTERS, JUDITH R. SNYDER, ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, AND JOAN L., BURTON, ROANOKE; ONE BROTHER, RUDOLPH W. BERTSCHI, TUCSON, ARIZ.; AND 13 GRANDCHILDREN.

HE WAS PRECEDE IN DEATH BY ONE DAUGHTER.

UPON GRADUATION FROM HIGH SCHOOL, MR. BERTSCHI STARTED WORKING FOR CATERPILLAR TRACTOR CO. IN 1936. IN 1946 HE FORMED AND OPERATED THE ILLINOIS BUILDERS CO. IN ROANOKE.

IN 1948 HE FORMED AND OPERATED THE ROANOKE CONCRETE CO. HE ALSO SERVED AS VICE PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER OF ULRICH MANUFACTURING CO. BEFORE RETURNING TO CATERPILLAR, WHERE HE SERVED AS MANAGER OF TRAINING SERVICES UNTIL HIS RETIREMENT IN 1984.

HE WAS A FOUR-YEAR GRADUATE OF THE CATERPILLAR TRAINING PROGRAM. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF MANUFACTURING ENGINEERS AND ROANOKE BUSINESS MEN’S ASSOCIATION.

HE A MEMBER OF THE ROANOKE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, WHERE HE SERVED AS SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER AND LATER AS MINISTER FROM 1957 TO THE PRESENT TIME. FROM 1966 TO 1977 HE SERVED AS ELDER OF THE CHURCH.

BORN MARCH 6, 1883, TRUB, CANTON BERN, SWITZERLAND.

PARENTS CASPER AND ELIZABETH (SCHOENTHAL) BLUNIER.

FIRST MARRIAGE ANNA RIGGENBACH, 1855, MONROE COUNTY, OHIO.

CHILDREN: MARY, PETER, CASPER, ANNA, MAGDALENA, ELIZABETH.

SECOND MARRIAGE ANNA JORDI 1867, ILLINOIS.

SALOME, ELIZABETH, SARAH, DENA, WILLIAM.

DIED FEBRUARY 19, 1905, BURIED ROANOKE CHURCH CEMETERY.

JOHN CLAUDIN

PASSED FROM THIS LIFE TUESDAY MORNING

TUESDAY MORNING AT 11 O’CLOCK AT THE HOME OF HIS DAUGHTER, MRS. FRED HUETTE, OCCURRED THE DEATH OF JOHN CLAUDIN AT THE AGE OF 87 YEARS. HE SUFFERED A PARALYTIC STROKE JULY 19 FROM WHICH HE NEVER RECOVERED. HE HAD BEEN IN PERFECT HEALTH PRIOR TO THE STROKE.

HE WAS BORN AT RICHLEAU, LE CHATEAU, LORRIANE, FRANCE. HE CAME TO AMERICA IN 1846, SETTLING AT PEORIA WHEN IT WAS ONLY A SMALL VILLAGE. HE WAS MARRIED TO MARIE SUNDAY JULY 15, 1854, WHO PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH JANUARY 17, 1900. HE OPENED A GENERAL STORE IN MORTON IN 1896 WHICH HE CONDUCTED FOR SEVERAL YEARS. AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE HE MADE HIS HOME WITH HIS DAUGHTER , MRS. FRED HUETTE.

HE LEAVES MOURN HIS LOSS TWO DAUGHTERS; MRS. FRED HUETTE, OF MORTON AND MRS. HERMAN ENGLE, OF MILFORD, NEBR., TWO SONS, HENRY L. AND SILAS CLAUDIN, OF PEORIA. THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH; MRS. HENRY HUETTE, MRS. LEAH GARBER, MRS. SARAH GARBER, JOSHUA CLAUDIN AND MARIE LOUISE, WHO DIED IN INFANCY. HE IS ALSO SURVIVED BY 18 GRANDCHILDREN AND 7 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH AND EVERY SUNDAY DESPITE THE WEATHER WAS IN CHURCH. HE OFTEN WALKED TO CHURCH WHICH WA ABOUT FIVE MILES, PREFERRING WALKING TO RIDING TO TOWN. HE ALSO HELPED AROUND THE FARM AND NEVER THOUGHT HE WAS TOO OLD TO WORK. WHEN OPERATING THE STORE HE WAS HONEST IN ALL HIS DEALINGS AND WAS POSSESSED OF A PLEASING PERSONALITY WHICH WON FOR HIM A LARGE NUMBER OF FRIENDS. AFTER HE WAS TAKEN SICK HE WANTED TO DIE BECAUSE HE KNEW HE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO BE ACTIVE AS HE HAD BEEN, THUS HIS FATHER CALLED HIM TO HIS FINAL HOME WHERE HE SHALL REALIZE THE FULFILLMENT OF GOD’S PROMISE OF WHICH HE WAS A FIRM BELIEVER.

THE FUNERAL WAS HELD TODAY, THURSDAY AT THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH AND BURIAL WAS AT THE CEMETERY SOUTH OF TOWN.

ROANOKE

THE FUNERAL SERVICES AND INTERMENT OF CONRAD FEHR WERE HELD AT THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH IN THIS TOWNSHIP MONDAY AFTERNOON.

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THE DEATH OF CONRAD FEHR, A WELL-KNOWN RETIRED FARMER OF THIS CITY, OCCURRED ON THE 4TH INST. AFTER AN ILLNESS OF SEVERAL WEEKS. HE WAS 74 YEARS OF AGE AND SINCE COMING TO AMERICA HE HAD ACCUMULATED CONSIDERABLE PROPERTY. HE RESIDED ON HIS FARM, TWO MILES EAST OF HERE, WHEN HE PURCHASED PROPERTY AND MOVED TO EUREKA. HE LEAVES A WIDOW AND FOUR SONS: JULIUS AND THEOPOLUS, WHO RESIDE NEAR EUREKA, AND CONRAD AND JACOB, WHO LIVE NEAR FAIRBURY. THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH.

CARL HAECKER’S DEATH

PROMINENT CITIZEN AND BUSINESS MAN EXPIRED SUNDAY NIGHT

SUDDEN DEATH FROM HEART TROUBLE - HE HAD BEEN FEELING WELL UNTIL SHORTLY BEFORE HIS DEATH - VERY LARGE FUNERAL YESTERDAY.

CARL HAECKER, ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN BUSINESS MEN OF THIS CITY, AND A MAN OF WIDE ACQUAINTANCE THRU-OUT CENTRAL ILLINOIS, DIED SUDDENLY AT HIS HOME IN THIS CITY SUNDAY NIGHT AT 8:45 O’CLOCK, OF HEART TROUBLE. HIS SUDDEN DEATH AND UNEXPECTED TAKING OFF WAS A SHOCK TO THE COMMUNITY AND HIS LEGIONS OF FRIENDS BOWED IN SADNESS TO A UNIVERSAL INEVITABILITY. SUCH A SUDDEN DEATH OF SUCH A WELL KNOWN MAN AS CARL HAECKER IMPRESSED AT ONCE ON AN EXTENDED CIRCLE THE FACT THAT THERE IS NO ESCAPE OR EVASION OF DEATH AND BROUGHT A STRAIN OF SOBER REFLECTION TO MANY MINDS. THE VIOLENCE OF THE SHOCK, HOWEVER, WAS AT THE HOME OF THE DECEASED, WHERE A WIFE AND NINE CHILDREN WERE SUDDENLY BEREFT OF HUSBAND AND FATHER.

DURING THE DAY MR. HAECKER HAD FOLLOWED HIS USUAL CUSTOMS. HE HAD ATTENDED CHURCH AND WAS IN EXCELLENT SPIRITS. HE HAD SUPPER WITH HIS FAMILY, AS USUAL. AFTER SUPPER HE REMARKED THAT HIS NEURALGIA PAINS WERE COMING BACK AND LATER AS HE GREW WORSE A DOCTOR WAS SENT FOR. HE WAS SEIZED BY NAUSEA AND WENT OUT TO THE BATH ROOM, ACCOMPANIED BY MRS. HAECKER AND STOPPED SUDDENLY, THREW UP HIS HANDS AN SAID. "I AM GOING TO DIE," AND SANK DOWN ON THE FLOOR AND IN A SECOND HIS SPIRIT HAD LEFT THIS MATERIAL EMBODIMENT TO MINGLE WITH THE HOSTS OF HEAVEN. COMPARATIVELY FEW KNEW OF HIS DEATH UNTIL THE NEXT MORNING. MR. HAECKER HAD NOT BEEN REAL WELL SINCE HE MET WITH A RUNAWAY ACCIDENT EIGHT YEARS AGO. SINCE THAT TIME HE HAD COMPLAINED OF HIS HEART, ALTHOUGH HE HAD LATELY BEEN BETTER THAN FOR SOME TIME. LAST FALL HE HAD A SERIOUS ATTACK OF NEURALGIA, BUT HE SEEMED TO HAVE RECOVERED ENTIRELY FROM THAT.

HIS LIFE BEEN THAT OF AN ACTIVE BUSINESS MAN. HE WAS BORN IN WURTENBERG, GERMANY, JANUARY 16, 1856, AND IN 1874, WHEN EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE, HE CAME TO THIS COUNTRY AND SETTLED IN MORTON. TWO SISTERS CAME LATER. HE ENGAGED AT ONCE IN THE DRY GOODS BUSINESS AT MORTON AND REMAINED THERE ELEVEN YEARS, BEING MARRIED ON JANUARY 4, 1881, TO LENA METZ. FROM MORTON HE MOVED TO CLAYTONVILLE, IROQUOIS COUNTY, AND CONTINUED TO THE DRY GOODS BUSINESS. TWO YEARS LATER, JANUARY 1, 1887, HE CAME TO EUREKA, WHERE HE RESIDED UNTIL THE TIME OF HIS DEATH. HE ENGAGED FIRST IN THE IMPLEMENT BUSINESS HERE, BUYING OUT HARBER BROTHERS, AND HE BECAME ASSOCIATED WITH HENRY SCHUMACHER IN THIS BUSINESS, WHICH CONTINUED UNDER THEIR MANAGEMENT FOR MANY YEARS. AFTER THEY SOLD OUT HE BECAME ASSISTANT CASHIER IN THE STATE BANK. LATER HE BOUGHT OUT THE BOOT AND SHOE BUSINESS OF HENRY FISHER AND DISPOSING OF THIS ENGAGED IN THE GROCERY BUSINESS WHERE KLAUS’S SHOE STORE IS NOW LOCATED. EIGHT YEARS AGO HE PURCHASED THE HARDWARE AND IMPLEMENT BUILDING AT THE LOCATION WHERE HE FIRST BEGAN BUSINESS IN EUREKA AND CONTINUED THIS WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF HIS SONS UNTIL THE TIME OF HIS DEATH. HE HAD BEEN IN BUSINESS HERE FOR TWENTY-SIX YEARS AND HAD BEEN THOROUGHLY IDENTIFIED WITH THE BUSINESS INTERESTS OF THE CITY, AND LEAVES A PLEASANT BUSINESS RECOLLECTION WITH ALL HIS ASSOCIATES. HE LEFT A GOOD IMPRESSION WITH ALL WHO MET HIM. HE WAS A MOST APPROACHABLE AND AGREEABLE GENTLEMAN.

HE LEAVES BESIDES A WIDOW, THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN: GEORGE, MNNIE, EDWARD, IDA, CARL, BENJAMIN, ALFRED, MARGARET, ESTHER. HE ALSO LEAVES TWO SISTERS, MRS. WILLIAM DREXLER, OF MORTON, AND MRS. J. J. FRANK, OF PEORIA. HIS PARENTS DIED BEFORE HE CAME TO THIS COUNTRY.

THE FUNERAL WAS HELD FROM THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, NORTH OF THIS CITY YESTERDAY MORNING AT ELEVEN O’CLOCK. THE FUNERAL PROCESSION LEFT EUREKA AT TEN O’CLOCK AND OVER TOO VEHICLES FOLLOWED THE HEARSE. TWO CARLOADS OF PEOPLE FROM MORTON AND OTHER POINTS WEST WENT UP ON THE SANTA FE ROAD AND WERE LET OFF NEAR THE CHURCH AND LARGE NUMBERS CAME FROM OTHER DIRECTIONS BY VEHICLE TO THE CHURCH. IT WAS ONE OF THE LARGEST FUNERALS EVER HELD IN THIS SECTION. TUESDAY THE BUSINESS MEN OF THE CITY AND OTHER FRIENDS AND ASSOCIATES OF THE DECEASED TO THE NUMBER OF ABOUT ONE HUNDRED WENT TO THE RESIDENCE IN A BODY TO PAY THEIR RESPECTS TO THE MEMORY OF THE DECEASED. THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A MORE REPRESENTATIVE GATHERING OF OUR BUSINESS MEN TO PAY SUCH A VISIT IN THE HISTORY OF THE CITY. AMONG THE BEAUTIFUL FLORAL TOKENS AT THE HOUSE AT THE TIME OF THE FUNERAL WAS A PIECE FROM THE BUSINESS MEN, A BROKEN COLUMN. THERE WERE OTHER BEAUTIFUL PIECES FROM FRIENDS OUTSIDE OF THE CITY AS WELL AS THOSE IN THIS VICINITY. MR. HAECKER WAS A MINISTER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH AND THOUGHOUT HIS LIFE HAD BEEN GENEROUS AND HELPFUL IN ALL HIS ENDEAVORS OF LIFE. HE WILL BE GREATLY MISSED NOT ONLY IN EUREKA BUT BY A LARGE CIRCLE OUTSIDE OF THIS CITY.

JACOB HANGARTNER

JACOB HANGARTNER DIED AT HIS HOME IN GOODFIELD THURSDAY, JULY 29, OF A HEART ATTACK.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT 1 P. M. SUNDAY AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH AT GOODFIELD. BURIAL WAS IN ROANOKE.

HE WAS BORN IN WEINSELZEN, SWITZERLAND ON APRIL 26, 1873. HE CAME TO AMERICA WHEN A YOUNG MAN AND HAS LIVED IN GOODFIELD FOR ABOUT 15 YEARS.

HIS FIRST WIFE PASSED AWAY FOUR YEARS AGO. ON MAY 11, 1943, HE MARRIED ANNA BAUDER, OF PITTSBURGH, PA.

HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS FOSTER DAUGHTER, MRS. HARI, OF GOODFIELD, AND TWO SISTERS, MRS. ALENA BOOSTER, OF UNION CITY, N. J., AND MRS. ELIZA GHUS, OF FAIRBURY.

MICHAEL HARTTER PASSED ON FEB. 18

LONG TIME RESIDENT OF EUREKA AND WOODFORD COUNTY. FUNERAL AND BURIAL YESTERDAY AT THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH.

MICHAEL HARTTER, SR., A LONG TIME RESIDENT AND HONORED CITIZEN OF EUREKA, PASSED AWAY ABOUT 3:00 P. M. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18, AT HIS HOME ON WEST SECOND STREET, FOLLOWING AN ILLNESS OF MONTHS DURATION.

MICHAEL HARTTER WAS BORN IN ALSACE-LORAINE, GERMANY, JUNE 30, 1848, AND LIVED IN THAT COUNTRY UNTIL HE AND HIS WIFE MIGRATED TO AMERICA IN 1875 AND LOCATED AT MORTON, TAZEWELL COUNTY. ABOUT FORTY YEARS AGO THEY MOVED TO THIS COMMUNITY WHERE THEY CONTINUED FARMING UNTIL TWENTY YEARS AGO WHEN THEY RETIRED TO THIS CITY. ON NOVEMBER 11, 1918, MRS. HARTTER PASSED AWAY. SINCE THAT TIME HE AND HIS DAUGHTER MARY HAVE MADE THEIR HOME TOGETHER, AND SHE HAS BEEN HIS CONSTANT COMPANION THROUGH HIS LONG ILLNESS. SINCE YOUNG MANHOOD MR. HARTTER HAS BEEN A FAITHFUL MEMBER OF THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH. DURING THE LAST FEW MONTHS HIS GREAT REGRET HAS BEEN THAT HE HAS BEEN UNABLE TO BE IN HIS PLACE IN THE CHURCH LIFE.

MR. AND MRS. HARTTER WERE THE PARENTS OF SEVEN CHILDREN. TWO OF THESE, MRS. LIZZIE WALTERS AND KATIE HARTTER, PRECEDED THEIR FATHER IN DEATH. SURVIVING ARE FOUR SONS AND ONE DAUGHTER: DANIEL, MICHAEL, SAMUEL, MARY AND FRED, ALL LIVING IN THIS COMMUNITY. TWO BROTHERS, JOHN HARTTER, LIVING IN KANSAS, AND GEORGE HARTTER, LIVING IN INDIANA, AND ONE SISTER, MRS. MAGGIE YANTES, OF MORTON, ALSO SURVIVE HIM. THERE ARE 35 GRANDCHILDREN AND NINE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.

SHORT FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD FROM THE HOME AT 12:00 O’CLOCK WEDNESDAY AND AT 1:00 O’CLOCK AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH NORTHEAST OF THIS CITY, WITH BURIAL IN THE CHURCH CEMETERY.

BORN SEPTEMBER 10, 1829, HOLLSTEIN, BADEN, GERMANY.

MARRIED MONIKA SUTTERLIN.

DIED MARCH 23, 1880, BURIED ROANOKE CHURCH CEMETERY.

BORN AUGUST 2, 1895.

PARENTS JOSEPH AND MARIA (BELSLEY) HODEL.

MARRIED KATIE MARTIN, 1918, ROANOKE.

DIED SEPTEMBER 29, 1972, BURIED ROANOKE CHURCH CEMETERY.

W. LEROY HUBER

W. LEROY HUBER, 83, 505 VALLEY COURT., EUREKA, DIED AT 11:25 P. M. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 2, 2002, AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN HOME, EUREKA.

HIS FUNERAL WAS AT 10 A. M. SATURDAY AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, EUREKA, WITH MINISTERS OF THE CHURCH OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CEMETERY, ROANOKE.

VISITATION WAS FROM 1 TO 4 P. M. AND 6 TO 9 P. M. AT RUESTMAN-HARRIS FUNERAL HOME, EL PASO, AND FROM 9 TO 9:45 SATURDAY AT THE CHURCH.

HE WAS BORN DEC. 26, 1918, AT FAIRBURY, THE SON OF WILLIAM AND CARRIE SUTTER HUBER. HE MARRIED MILDRED STREITMATTER ON DEC. 8, 1946, AT PRINCEVILLE. SHE DIED APRIL 19, 1966. HE THEN MARRIED CLARA RASSI STOLLER ON NOV. 13, 1968, AT PRINCEVILLE. SHE SURVIVES.

OTHER SURVIVORS INCLUDE FIVE DAUGHTERS, ILA BRADLE, SECOR; GLORIA WALDER, CONGERVILLE; TWYLLA STREITMATTER, BRIMFIELD; JANE EHNLE EDELSTEIN; AND CAROL BRAKEN, LIBERAL, MO.; AND FIVE SONS, GARY HUBER, EUREKA; STEVE STOLLER, NORTH JUDSON, IND.; STANLEY STOLLER AND JIM STOLLER, BOTH OF EUREKA; AND BOB STOLLER, LIBERAL, MO.; THREE SISTERS, WILMA HUBER AND PAULINE ROCKE, BOTH OF EUREKA; AND EMMA LOU STEFFEN, HUDSON; AND TWO BROTHERS, ROBERT HUBER, PLANTATION, FLA.; AND RUEBEN HUBER, FAIRBURY.

ALSO SURVIVING ARE 54 GRANDCHILDREN AND 24 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

MR. HUBER WAS A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, EUREKA, WHERE HE SERVED AS A MINISTER AND ELDER FOR 30 YEARS. HE SERVED IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY DURING WWII.

BORN 1803, STROSBURG, FRANCE.

MARRIED JACOBENA GEHRIG.

DIED AUGUST 14, 1887.

SERVICES TUESDAY FOR DAVID MANGOLD

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR THE REV. DAVID MANGOLD, MINISTER OF THE ROANOKE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH WAS AT 9:30 A. M. TUESDAY AT THE VINCENT MEMORIAL HOME, ROANOKE, AND AT 10:30 AT THE EUREKA APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

OFFICIATING WAS THE REV. JOHN BAHLER, OF ROCKVILLE, CONN. BURIAL WAS IN THE ROANOKE CHURCH CEMETERY.

MR. MANGOLD DIED FRIDAY AT A FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA., HOSPITAL, WHERE HE HAD BEEN A PATIENT ONLY A FEW HOURS.

HE HAD BEEN A MINISTER OF THE ROANOKE CHURCH SINCE 1928.

HE WAS BORN APRIL 27, 1892, IN ROANOKE TOWNSHIP, A SON OF MICHAEL AND LYDIA HARTMAN MANGOLD. HE MARRIED ANN MARTIN JAN. 14, 1917, AT ROANOKE.

SURVIVORS ARE HIS WIFE: TWO SONS, MELVIN, OF ROANOKE AND CHARLES, OF EUREKA; TWO DAUGHTERS, MRS. RUTH SCHERER, OF ROANOKE AND MRS. ESTHER SAUDER, OF EUREKA; A BROTHER, JOHN, OF ROANOKE; AND 13 GRANDCHILDREN,

TWO BROTHERS PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.

FRIENDS MOURN DEATH OF REV. M. MANGOLD

REV. MICHEAL MANGOLD, PASTOR OF THE ROANOKE TOWNSHIP CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH FOR ALMOST A HALF CENTURY, PASSED AWAY AT THE FAMILY HOME AT ROANOKE ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON ABOUT 5 O'CLOCK. THE END CAME AFTER AN ILLNESS OF ONLY FOUR DAYS, THE ATTENDING PHYSICIAN STATING THAT HIS AILMENT WAS DOUBLE PNEUMONIA.

REV. MANGOLD ATTENDED THE MRS. MINGER FUNERAL, BUT DID NOT OFFICIATE, SAYING THAT HE FELT SOME CHILLED. THE FOLLOWING DAY HE TOOK TO HIS BED AND NEVER AROSE. HE HAD RECENTLY MADE SEVERAL EXTENDED TRIPS ON BUSINESS, GOING TO FRANCESVILLE, IND., AND TO QUINCY. IT IS BELIEVED THAT HE BECAME EXPOSED TO THE ELEMENTS WHICH DEVELOPED THE DISEASE.

IN THE PASSING OF REV. MANGOLD ROANOKE LOSES A CITIZEN OF HIGH ESTEEM, THE CHURCH AND ITS CONGREGATION ITS LEADER, THE COMMUNITY A PERSONAL FRIEND AND BENEFACTOR AND THE CHURCH BOARD OF OFFICIALS A COUNSELOR AND A MAN OF BROAD INTELLIGENCE. HIS PLACE IN LIFE IS HARD TO SUPPLY.

REV. MANGOLD WAS THE SON OF MR. AND MRS. (MAGDALINE BLANC) GEORGE MICHAEL MANGOLD, AND WAS BORN IN ALSACE LORAINE, FRANCE, APRIL 6, 1859. HE EMIGRATED TO THE UNITED STATES AT THE AGE OF 19 YEARS, IN 1878, AND LOCATED AT GRIDLEY, ILL. HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE IN 1883 TO MISS LYDIA HARTMAN, WHO SURVIVES WITH THREE SONS, EZRA, JOHN AND DAVID. JOSEPH, THE ELDEST SON, DIED JUST TWO YEARS AGO. MR. MANGOLD'S LAST SURVIVING BROTHER DIED ABOUT A YEAR AGO. TWO SISTERS SURVIVE, MRS. MARY YERGLER OF CISSNA PARK AND KATHERINE GRAMM OF GRIDLEY.

THE FUNERAL WAS HELD FROM THE FAMILY HOME ON WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 23, AT

9 A.M., AND FROM THE CHURCH AT 10 A.M. BURIAL AT THE CHURCH CEMETERY. OWING TO REV. MANGOLD'S PROMINENCE IN THE CHURCH THE ATTENDANCE WAS PROBABLY ONE OF THE LARGEST IN THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH, COMING FROM ALL POINTS OF THE COMPASS.

BORN AUGUST 29, 1829, HONDINGEN, BADEN, GERMANY.

MARRIED KATHARINE LANDERT.

CHILDREN: ELIZABETH, KATHERINA, JOHN, EMIL, BERTHA, ADOLPH, OLIVIA, PRISCILLA, ANNA.

DIED MAY 14, 1884, BURIED ROANOKE CHURCH CEMETERY.

JOE ROCKE KILLED IN ACCIDENT

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR JOSEPH W. "JOE" ROCKE, 64, OF 304 S. HILLDALE, EUREKA, WILL BE HELD AT 10 A. M. FRIDAY AT THE OTTO-ARGO FUNERAL HOME AND AT 10:30 A. M. AT THE EUREKA APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OF WHICH HE WAS A MINISTER. BURIAL WILL BE IN THE ROANOKE APOSTOLIC CEMETERY.

MR. ROCKE WAS FATALLY INJURED ABOUT NOON TUESDAY WHEN HE WAS CRUSHED BETWEEN A TRUCK BODY AND THE DOORWAY OF A BARN AT HIS FARM LOCATED THREE MILES NORTH AND ONE MILE EAST OF EUREKA.

MRS. CHARLES KUPFRESCHMID, WHO LIVED IN THE HOUSE ON THE ROCKE FARM, DISCOVERED THE ACCIDENT, ACCORDING TO HOWARD WHITTINGTON, DEPUTY SHERIFF. THERE WERE NO WITNESS.

MR. ROCKE’S SON, ELDON, A NEOGHBOR, WALTER ZOOK, AND WAYNE KUPFERSCHMIDT, WERE THE FIRST TO ARRIVE ON THE SCENE, THEY HAD TO MOVE THE TRUCK BACK WARDS IN ORDER TO FREE THE BODY.

IT IS BELIEVED THE TRAGEDY OCCURRED WHILE HE WAS USING THE TRUCK TO PULL A STALLED TRACTOR. WHITTINGTON SAID THE FOLLOWING EVENTS WERE THEORIZED:

MR. ROCKE SET THE TRUCK GEARS INTO DOUBLE LOW SO THAT THE TRUCK WOULD MOVE FORWARD WHILE HE SAT ON THE TRACTOR. WHEN HE SAW THAT THE TRUCK WAS GETTING TOO CLOSE TO THE BARN HE JUMPED OFF THE TRACTOR, RAN TO THE TRUCK AND WHILE ATTEMPTING TO CLIMB INTO THE CAB TO PUT ON THE BRAKES SLIPPED OFF THE RUNNING BOARD. THE LEFT FRONT CORNER OF THE TRUCK BED CAUGHT HIM IN THE BACK AND PINNED HIM TO THE DOORWAY, CRUSHING HIM.

TIME OF THE ACCIDENT WAS SET AT ABOUT NOON BECAUSE MR. ROCKE’S LUNCH WAS STILL IN HIS CAR.

A CORONER’S JURY WAS IMPANELED TUESDAY NIGHT FOR AN INQUEST TO BE HELD AT A LATER DATE BY DR. C. E. CRYER, COUNTY CORONER.

MR. ROCKE WAS BORN MARCH 29, 1898, AT EUREKA, A SON OF JESS AND LUCY STOLLER ROCKE AND WAS MARRIED TO NETTIE SCHROCK JAN. 1, 1922, AT CONGERVILLE.

SURVIVING ARE HIS WIFE, THREE SONS, NORMAN, RICHARD AND ELDON, ALL OF EUREKA; TWO DAUGHTERS MRS. LOREN SCHLIPF, EL PASO; MRS. KENNETH HUETTE, OF MORTON; FIVE BROTHERS, JOHN, CARLOCK; RAY, VIRGIL, HARRY, EUREKA; ORVAL, DELAVAN; ONE FOSTER BROTHER, OTTIE, OAKVILLE, IOWA; TWO SISTERS, MRS. LAURA GETZ, MISS ALVINE ROCKE, EUREKA; TWO FOSTER SISTERS, MISS ALMA AND MISS VIOLA ROCKE, PEORIA; 16 GRANDCHILDREN.

ROANOKE

WILLIAM F. SCHAFER, AGE 70, PASSED AWAY AT 11:15 P. M. FRIDAY, AT THE ST. FRANCIS HOSPITAL IN PEORIA WHERE HE HAS BEEN A PATIENT A MONTH. CAUSE OF DEATH WAS HEART COMPLICATIONS. MR. SCHAFER WAS BORN JULY 24, 1871, IN WURTEMBURG, GERMANY, AND CAME TO THIS COUNTRY IN THE YEAR 1887. ON JANUARY 27, 1895, HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO LENA SCHLUPP, WHO SURVIVES WITH TWO SONS, JACOB AND WILLIAM, OF ROANOKE, AND SIX DAUGHTERS, LYDIA, CAROLINE, MINNIE, FREDA AND MARIE, AT HOME, AND MRS. CHRIS FRANK, SPRINGFIELD. ONE BROTHER, FRED SCHAFER, OF PEORIA, AND ONE SISTER, MRS. JOHN BINKELE, OF PEORIA, AND SIX GRANDCHILDREN ALSO SURVIVE. MR. SCHAFER HAS BEEN LIVING IN ROANOKE FOR THE PAST 48 YEARS, OF WHICH 34 YEARS WERE SPENT IN THE SHOE STORE AND REPAIR BUSINESS. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH AND HAS BEEN MINISTER OF THE CHURCH FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS. FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD SUNDAY AFTERNOON, NOV. 2, AT 12:30 AT THE HOME AND 1:30 AT THE CHURCH WITH BURIAL IN THE CHURCH CEMETERY.

J. W. SCHMIDT

EUREKA’S OLDEST CITIZEN, J. W. SCHMIDT, 95 YEARS OLD, DIED AT HIS HOME ON SOUTH MAIN STREET EARLY SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 7, FOLLOWING A HEART ATTACK. HE HAD BEEN IN THE BEST OF HEALTH FOR ONE OF HIS AGE AND WORKED IN HIS GARDEN THE PREVIOUS FRIDAY.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT 9 A. M. TUESDAY FROM THE HOME AND AT 10 O’CLOCK AT THE ROANOKE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH. BURIAL WAS IN THE CHURCH CEMETERY WITH PRIVATE SERVICES.

MR. SCHMIDT WAS BORN JUNE 5, 1844, IN HESSEN-DARMSTADT, GERMANY. HE CAME TO AMERICA IN SEPTEMBER, 1867. HE WAS MARRIED TO MISS VERNA MEYER IN PEORIA ON JANUARY 14, 1875. SHE DIED IN 1917.

SURVIVING ARE ONE SON, I. L. SCHMIDT OF FAIRBURY; TWO DAUGHTERS, MRS. JOHN BITTNER OF PEORIA, AND MISS PERSIDA SCHMIDT, WHO HAS LIVED AT HOME WITH HER AGED FATHER. THERE ARE TWENTY GRANDCHILDREN AND TWENTY-EIGHT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.

MR. SCHMIDT RECEIVED HIS EDUCATION IN GERMANY. SINCE HE WAS 23 YEARS OLD HE HAD SERVED IN THE MINISTRY OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCHES OF THIS COMMUNITY AND NEIGHBORING COMMUNITIES. FOR THE LAST NINE YEARS HE HAS SERVED AS ELDER OF HIS CHURCH. HE CAME TO THIS CITY FROM PEORIA MORE THAN FIFTY YEARS AGO AND FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS CONDUCTED A CLOTHING STORE HERE.

SAMUEL SCHUMACHER

SAMUEL SCHUMACHER, ONE OF EUREKA’S HIGHLY RESPECTED CITIZENS, AND A RESIDENT OF THE COMMUNITY FOR THREE-QUARTERS OF A CENTURY, PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME ON SECOND STREET SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 8. HE HAD BEEN IN HIS USUAL HEALTH UNTIL THURSDAY, WHEN HE WAS FOUND ON THE WALK AT HIS HOME IN A SEMI-CONSCIOUS CONDITION, APPARENTLY HAVING SUFFERED A STROKE. HE WAS 83 YEARS OLD.

HE WAS BORN AT SANDIS, OHIO, JULY 22, 1859, THE SON OF HENRY AND ANNA BLUNIER SCHUMACHER. THE FAMILY CAME TO EUREKA IN 1865. ON NOVEMBER 18, 1882, HE MARRIED MISS BENA LEMAN OF THIS CITY. FOR MANY YEARS HE FARMED NORTH OF THE CITY. TWELVE CHILDREN WERE BORN TO THIS MARRIAGE, TWO OF WHOM PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH, HIS WIFE DIED IN APRIL, 1916.

ON FEBRUARY 17, 1918, MR. SCHUMACHER MARRIED ELIZABETH ANLIKER, OF FAIRBURY, WHO SURVIVES HIM. THE TEN SURVIVING CHILDREN ARE: MRS. SIGMUND SORG, OF GOSHEN, INDIANA; MRS. JOHN MANGOLD, OF ROANOKE; JOHN SCHUMACHER, OF METAMORA; MISS EMMA SCHUMACHER, OF PEORIA; B. H., J. B. AND WALTER SCHUMACHER, OF THIS CITY; ELIAS, OF BREMEN, INDIANA; VERNON, OF MORTON; MRS. JOHN BITTNER, EUREKA. OTHER SURVIVORS ARE ONE BROTHER, PETER, OF EUREKA, AND ONE SISTER, MRS. ANNA WETZLER, OF PEORIA. TWO BROTHERS, HENRY AND ISAAC, PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH. THERE ARE THIRTY GRANDCHILDREN AND EIGHT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.

SINCE EARLY IN LIFE MR. SCHUMACHER HAS BEEN AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH AND IN 1903 WAS ORDAINED MINISTER AND HAS SERVED HIS CHURCH SINCE THAT TIME.

MR. SCHUMACHER SPENT MOST OF HIS LIFE ON HIS FARM NORTH OF THE CITY, BUT MOVED TO EUREKA IN 1927.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD TUESDAY AT 9:30 A. M. AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH. REV. ERNEST GRAFF, OF OHIO, AND REV. HEUNI, OF BREMEN, INDIANA, HAD CHARGE OF THE SERVICES. THE SIX SONS SERVED AS CASKETBEARERS. BURIAL WAS IN THE CHURCH CEMETERY.

FRIENDS AND RELATIVES FROM MANY SECTIONS OF THE COUNTRY ATTENDED THE SERVICES.

BORN JUNE 2, 1819, LIPPERDWIL, CANTON, THURGAU, SWITZERLAND.

PARENTS BENEDICT AND MARIA (BAUMBERGER) WEYENETH.

MARRIED ELIZABETH BLUNIER, 1850, SWITZERLAND.

CHILDREN: LOIS, LYDIA, ALPHAI, SINTICHE, PRISCILLA, EVODIA, EUNICE, ADOLPH.

DIED DECEMBER 11, 1887, BURIED ROANOKE CHURCH CEMETERY

JOSEPH ZIMMERMAN DIED THURSDAY

REV. JOSEPH C. ZIMMERMAN SR., 86, DIED THURSDAY AT THE ROANOKE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN HOME.

HE WAS BORN SEPT. 15, 1892, AT CARLOCK, A SON OF JOHN AND CATHERINE SCHROCK ZIMMERMAN. HE MARRIED ANNA ALTORFER FEB. 11, 1917 AT ROANOKE. SHE DIED JUNE 11, 1978.

SURVIVING ARE TWO SONS, JOSEPH JR., MORTON, AND RICHARD, ROANOKE; TWO DAUGHTERS, LOIS GETZ, MORTON, KATHRYN KING, EUREKA; A SISTER, IDA ROCKE, EUREKA; 17 GRANDCHILDREN, AND 19 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.

THREE BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.

REV, ZIMMERMAN WAS A MEMBER OF THE ROANOKE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, WHERE HE SERVED AS MINISTER 31 YEARS, RETIRING IN 1972. HE ALSO SERVED AS MINISTER OF THE CONGERVILLE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH AT THE DELLS TWO YEARS BEFORE MOVING TO ROANOKE.

HE LIVED AT CARLOCK UNTIL 1941, WHEN HE MOVED TO ROANOKE AND WAS PLANT SUPERINTENDED OF ROANOKE BRANCH OF ABC WASHING MACHINE CO.

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