WROTE BY BENJAMIN NUSSBAUM IN 1973

REVISED BY DERRICK K. BABBS IN 2002

THE FOLLOWING ARE LISTED IN THE APPROXIMATE ORDER IN WHICH THEY SERVED

LOUIS KOEHL, SR.

LOUIS KOEHL, SR., FOR MANY YEARS A RESIDENT OF THIS COMMUNITY, PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME 208 W. WALNUT STREET, ON TUESDAY AFTERNOON AT TWO O’CLOCK, AT THE AGE OF 78 YEARS AND 11 DAYS. HIS ILLNESS DATES BACK SEVERAL YEARS.

LOUIS KOEHL WAS BORN IN LATHRINGEN, FRANCE, MARCH 10, 1855, A SON OF HENRY AND CHARLOTTE KOEHL. HE RECEIVED HIS EDUCATION IN THE SCHOOLS OF HIS NATIVE TOWN, COMING TO AMERICA IN 1876, WHEN HE WAS 21 YEARS OLD. FOR MANY YEARS HE LIVED SOUTHEAST OF FAIRBURY, BUT RETIRED FROM THE FARM IN 1917, AND MOVED TO THIS CITY, WHERE HE HAD SINCE RESIDED.

HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MISS ELIZABETH FEHR, AND SURVIVING FROM THIS UNION IS ONE DAUGHTER, MRS. CARL SCHAUBLE, OF SAUNEMIN. FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF MRS. KOEHL, HE WAS IN 1891 UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MISS MARY WAIBEL, WHO PASSED AWAY APRIL 19, 1929. THREE CHILDREN SURVIVE FROM THIS LATTER UNION AND ARE AS FOLLOWS: MRS. LOUISE ZIMMERMAN AND PAUL KOEHL, OF STRAWN, AND LOUIS KOEHL, OF FAIRBURY. THERE ALSO SURVIVES ONE BROTHER, HENRY, OF FARMINGDALE, LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK.

DURING HIS MANY YEARS RESIDENCE HERE MR. KOEHL, THROUGH HIS HONESTY AND INTEGRITY, GAINED AND HELD THE ESTEEM OF ALL WHO KNEW HIM. HIS CHILDREN WILL REMEMBER HIM AS A KIND AND GENTLE FATHER.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD YESTERDAY AFTERNOON FROM THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, WITH INTERMENT IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

ALBERT STEFFEN

ALBERT STEFFEN, OF CROPSEY, PASSED AWAY LAST FRIDAY EVENING (MARCH 26, 1948) AT 10:35 O'CLOCK AT THE FAIRBURY HOSPITAL, AT THE AGE OF 84 YEARS, FIVE MONTHS AND 22 DAYS. MR. STEFFEN HAD BEEN IN FAILING HEALTH THE PAST TWO YEARS.

HE WAS BORN OCTOBER 4, 1863, AT CONGERVILLE, THE SON OF ULRICH AND ANNA WENGER STEFFEN. AT THE AGE OF FOUR HE MOVED WITH THE FAMILY TO THE CROPSEY VICINITY, WHERE HE HAD SINCE RESIDED.

ON FEBRUARY 28, 1886, HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MISS ELIZABETH HARI. TO THIS UNION FOUR CHILDREN WERE BORN: MRS. ROSE IFFT, OF FAIRBURY; MRS. IDA BAHLER, CROPSEY; AND MRS. EMMA BAHLER, OF REMINGTON, IND. A SON ELMER, PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH IN 1919. MRS. STEFFEN PASSED AWAY ON JANUARY 22, 1912.

ON FEBRUARY 10, 1915, MR. STEFFEN WAS MARRIED TO LIZZIE BROQUARD, WHO SURVIVES TOGETHER WITH THE THREE DAUGHTERS, SIXTEEN GRANDCHILDREN AND FOUR GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD MONDAY MORNING AT 10:30 O'CLOCK AT THE SOUTH APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OF WHICH HE WAS A MEMBER, AND INTERMENT WAS IN THE CHURCH CEMETERY. THE REV. DAVID MANGOLD OFFICIATED.

THE PALLBEARERS WERE GRANDSONS, MARVIN AND RALPH BAHLER, RAYMOND, ELMER AND HARVEY IFFT AND ELMER BAHLER.

THE SERVICES WERE LARGELY ATTENDED. THOSE ATTENDING FROM A DISTANCE WERE FROM REMINGTON AND FRANCESVILLE, IND., MANSFLEID, OHIO, WICHITA, KAN., PEORIA, ROANOKE, MORTON, PRINCEVILLE, GOODFIELD, GRIDLEY, CISSNA PARK, ELGIN AND CHICAGO.

J. A. ZIMMERMAN SERVICES YESTERDAY

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR JOHN A. ZIMMERMAN, WHO PASSED AWAY AT THE FAIRBURY HOSPITAL SUNDAY MORNING AT 9:20 O’CLOCK, WERE HELD YESTERDAY MORNING AT 9:30 FROM THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH. INTERMENT WAS IN THE SOUTH APOSTOLIC CEMETERY. GRANDSONS OF THE DECEASED WERE PALLBEARERS.

MR. ZIMMERMAN, WHO HAD BEEN IN FAILING HEALTH FOR SOME TIME, WAS AGED 90 YEARS, TEN MONTHS AND 20 DAYS.

JOHN A. ZIMMERMAN WAS A SON OF JOHN AND SARA CAPP ZIMMERMAN, AND WAS AT METAMORA, ON DECEMBER 23, 1858. ON FEBRUARY 1, 1885, AT EUREKA, HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MISS SARAH HARTMAN.

MR. AND MRS. ZIMMERMAN LOCATED ON A FARM SOUTHEAST OF FAIRBURY, WHERE THEY LIVED UNTIL ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO, WHEN THEY MOVED INTO THIS CITY, RESIDING AT 304 SOUTH FIFTH STREET.

SURVIVING ARE FOUR SONS, JOSEPH, OF FAIRBURY; JOHN, OF FORREST; SAM, OF STRAWN; AND MIKE, OF FT. WAYNE, IND.; FIVE DAUGHTERS, MRS. KATIE ZEHR, MRS. MARTHA KOEHL, MISS LAURA AND MISS LILLIAN, ALL OF FAIRBURY; MRS. SARAH KOEHL, FORREST; 43 GRANDCHILDREN AND 30 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, FAIRBURY.

WM. WAGLER RITES SUNDAY IN FAIRBURY

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD SUNDAY MARCH 13, 1963, IN FAIRBURY FROM COOK FUNERAL HOME AT 12:30 AND THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH AT 1 P. M. FOR WILLIAM WAGLER, 88, OF LOMBARD, WHO DIED AT 4:50 A. M. THURSDAY AT BAKER NURSING HOME IN PEORIA. HE WAS A FORMER FAIRBURY RESIDENT.

THE REV. AL FISHER, OF CHICAGO AND REV. J. J. BROQUARD, OF FAIRBURY WERE IN CHARGE OF THE SERVICES AND BURIAL WAS IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

WAGLER WAS BORN SEPT. 28, 1874, IN PULASKI, IOWA, A SON OF CHRISTIAN AND MATTIE SLAGEL WAGLER. HE MARRIED EMMA FARNEY JAN. 10, 1900, AT FAIRBURY. HE FARMED NEAR FAIRBURY FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS.

SURVIVING ARE SEVEN DAUGHTER, MRS. ANNETTA HENRY, FLORIDA; MRS. CLARA SIMMONS, CHAMPAIGN; MRS. DOROTHY LEHMAN, KENTLAND, IND.; MRS. EMILY BERGHAMMER, LOMBARD; MRS. MILDRED GRIEDEK, MORTON; MRS. JEAN SIGNORELLA, LONG ISLAND, N. Y.; FIVE SONS, AL WAGLER, REUBEN WAGLER, MORTON; CHRISTIAN WAGLER, LOMBARD; 45 GRANDCHILDREN, 35 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.

HIS WIFE AND A SON PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.

BEARERS WERE GENE LEHAMAN, DAN WAGLER, BILL BERGHAMMER, JERRY GRIEDEK, STEVE GRIEDEK, AND JIM ANDERSON, GRANDSONS.

BEN LEMAN, PROMINENT FORREST MAN, DIES

BEN LEMAN, OF FORREST, WHO FOR MANY YEARS RESIDED SOUTH OF THAT VILLAGE, PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME IN FORREST, WEDNESDAY MORNING AT 3:30 O’CLOCK. MR. LEMAN, WHO HAD BEEN ILL FOR THE PAST FEW WEEKS WAS AGED 70 YEARS, TEN MONTHS AND 17 DAYS.

MR. LEMAN WAS A SON OF JOSEPH AND KATHRYN (SMITH) LEMAN AND WAS BORN AT METAMORA, JANUARY 21, 1878. HE RESIDED IN THAT VICINITY DURING HIS YOUNGER LIFE AND THERE ON JANUARY 8, 1901, HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO CAROLINE ANLIKER. THEY MADE THEIR HOME AT METAMORA FOR THREE YEARS AND THEN MOVED TO A FARM SOUTH OF FORREST, WHERE THEY LIVED UNTIL OCTOBER 13, 1948, WHEN THEY MOVED INTO THEIR NEW HOME IN FORREST.

SURVIVING ARE THE WIFE AND THE FOLLOWING NINE CHILDREN: HARVEY AND MRS. KATHRYN SCHNEIDER, BOTH OF STRAWN; ELI AND CHRIS, BOTH OF FAIRBURY; MRS. LAURA KACHELMUSS, ELGIN; AND SIDNEY, RICHARD AND MISS BENA LEMAN, ALL OF FORREST. ALSO SURVIVING ARE 18 GRANDCHILDREN AND THE FOLLOWING BROTHERS AND SISTERS: WILL, OF BREMEN, IND.; HENRY AND MRS. KATIE RELSY, BOTH OF FRANCESVILLE, IND.; DAVE, GOODFIELD, JOSEPH, ROANOKE, ALF, OF METAMORA, AND JOHN AND MISS PERCIDA AND MISS ELIZA LEMAN, ALL OF EUREKA. TWO SONS, SILAS AND ERNEST, ONE DAUGHTER, LEONA, TWO BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTER PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.

FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD FROM THE SOUTH APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF WHICH HE WAS A MEMBER, TOMORROW MORNING AT 10:30 O’CLOCK. INTERMENT WILL BE IN THE CHURCH CEMETERY.

SAMUEL T. STEFFEN, 79, DIES AUGUST 31 AT FAIRBURY HOSPITAL

SAMUEL T. STEFFEN, 79, OF FAIRBURY A RETIRED FARMER, DIED AT 4:07 A. M. AUGUST 31, 1983 AT FAIRBURY HOSPITAL.

HIS FUNERAL WAS FRIDAY AT FAIRBURY APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN. BURIAL WAS IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

DUFFY-PILS MEMORIAL HOME HANDLED THE ARRANGEMENTS.

PALLBEARERS WERE WAYNE, EMANUEL AND ALBERT STEFFEN, LLOYD BACHTOLD, WARREN ZEHR AND JOHN TRAUB.

MR. STEFFEN WAS BORN AUG. 30, 1904, AT CROPSEY, A SON OF ANDREW AND LOUISE WAIBEL STEFFEN. HE MARRIED ANNA M. ZEHR FEB. 21, 1932, AT FAIRBURY. SHE SURVIVES.

ALSO SURVIVING ARE TWO SONS, RICHARD S., FORREST AND EARL E., FAIRBURY; A DAUGHTER, LOUISE FURRER, FAIRBURY; TWO BROTHERS, ALPHA L. AND EZRA W., BOTH OF FAIRBURY; THREE SISTERS, LENA STEFFEN AND LYDIA BACHTOLD, BOTH OF FAIRBURY, AND LOUISE SABO, MANFIELD, OHIO; SEVEN GRANDCHILDREN; AND TWO GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY THREE BROTHERS, A SISTER AND A SON.

MR. STEFFEN WAS A MEMBER OF THE FAIRBURY APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

BEN STEFFEN

BEN C. STEFFEN, 87, A LIFETIME RESIDENT OF THE FAIRBURY-CROPSEY AREA, DIED AT 11:40 A. M. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14 1993, AT PEORIA APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN HOME, WHERE HE HAD BEEN A RESIDENT SINCE JANUARY 1992.

HIS FUNERAL WAS AT 10 A. M. TODAY, WEDNESDAY AT THE FAIRBURY APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH. CHURCH MINISTERS OFFICIATED.

BURIAL WAS IN SOUTH APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CEMETERY, RURAL FAIRBURY.

PALLBEARERS WERE WALT STEFFEN, BENJI STEFFEN, MICHAEL STEFFEN, LEE STEFFEN, CLEVE KLOPFENSTEIN AND AARON KLOPFENSTEIN.

VISITATION WAS TUESDAY AT DUFFY-PILS MEMORIAL HOME, FAIRBURY, AND WEDNESDAY AT THE CHURCH.

MR. STEFFEN WAS BORN MARCH 19, 1906, IN CROPSEY, A SON OF CONRAD AND CATHERINE HARI STEFFEN. HE MARRIED NINA BAHLER MAY 30, 1937, IN REMINGTON, IND. SHE SURVIVES.

OTHER SURVIVORS INCLUDE A SON, WALT, CROPSEY; A DAUGHTER, KATHLEEN KLOPFENSTEIN, PEORIA; A SISTER, KATHRYN STEFFEN, PEORIA; ONE GRANDDAUGHTER, AND FIVE GRANDSONS.

A BROTHER AND THREE SISTERS PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.

MR. STEFFEN WAS A LIFETIME FARMER IN THE CROPSEY AREA, RETIRING IN 1972. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, FAIRBURY.

LOUIS KOEHL DIES AT 74

THE FUNERAL FOR LOUIS KOEHL, 74, OF FAIRBURY WAS HELD AT 10 A. M. TUESDAY, FEB. 18, 1969, IN THE FORREST APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH. BURIAL WAS IN THE SOUTH CHURCH CEMETERY.

MR. KOEHL DIED AT 11 P. M. SATURDAY IN FAIRBURY HOSPITAL, WHERE HE HAD BEEN A PATIENT FOR TWO WEEKS. HIS BODY WAS TAKEN TO THE COOK FUNERAL HOME.

HE WAS BORN NEAR STRAWN JULY 9, 1894, A SON OF LOUIS AND MARY WAIBEL KOEHL. HE MARRIED SARAH ZIMMERMAN NOVEMBER 28, 1917, IN PONTIAC. THEY LIVED ON A FARM NEAR FORREST UNTIL 1954, WHEN THEY MOVED TO FAIRBURY.

SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS WIFE; THREE SONS, DEAN, LOUISVILLE, KY.; RALPH, FORREST; AND CLYDE, FAIRBURY; SIX DAUGHTERS, MRS. DOROTHY RIEGER AND MRS. CAROL STEIDINGER, BOTH OF FORREST; MRS. ETHEL MEISS, GRIDLEY; MRS. VIRGINIA HUETTE AND MRS. HAZEL HUETTE, BOTH OF FAIRBURY; MRS. BETTY KLOPFENSTEIN, NORMAL; 26 GRANDCHILDREN; A BROTHER, PAUL, FORREST, AND A SISTER, MRS. LOUISE ZIMMERMAN, FORREST.

A SON AND A SISTER PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.

MR. KOEHL WAS A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

RAYMOND WENGER, 64, FAIRBURY-FORREST AREA FARMER, DIES SEPT. 13

RAYMOND WENGER, 64, OF RURAL FAIRBURY DIED AT 6:43 A. M. SEPT. 13, 1983 AT FAIRBURY HOSPITAL WHERE HE HAD BEEN A PATIENT A WEEK.

HIS FUNERAL WILL BE AT 10 A. M. TODAY, THURSDAY, AT FORREST APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH. BURIAL WILL BE IN SOUTH APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CEMETERY. CULKIN FUNERAL HOME IN FORREST IS HANDLING THE ARRANGEMENTS. PALLBEARERS WILL BE MARVIN AND SAM WENGER, SAM AND MARVIN BACHTOLD, LARRY FISCHER AND BILL WAIBEL.

HE WAS BORN APRIL 24, 1919, AT FAIRBURY, A SON OF EDWARD AND ANNA PETER WENGER. HE MARRIED MIRIAM RAMSEYER MARCH 25, 1951, AT FORREST. SHE DIED JULY 9, 1980.

SURVIVING ARE THREE DAUGHTERS, ANNE WENGER, FAIRBURY; MATTIE L. WENGER, NORMAL; AND DOROTHY VIRKLER, ROCKVILLE, CONN.; A BROTHER, CLARENCE, EUREKA; FOUR SISTERS, ALDINE WACKERLE AND LAURA WENGER, BOTH OF FORREST; WILMA FISCHER, ROANOKE AND EDNA WIEGAND, SAUNEMIN; AND FOUR GRANDCHILDREN.

A BROTHER PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.

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

HE FARMER IN THE FAIRBURY-FORREST AREA.

SONG LEADERS ARE CHOSEN BECAUSE OF THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF MUSIC AND SINGING APTITUDE - USUALLY AN INBORN TALENT. THE FOLLOWING BRETHREN OF THE CHURCH HAVE, THROUGH THE YEARS, CONTRIBUTED THEIR EFFORTS TO A MORE MEANINGFUL AND BEAUTIFUL WORSHIP SERVICE:

OLD RESIDENT DIES

FREDERICK METZ, ONE OF THE OLDEST RESIDENTS OF PLEASANT RIDGE TOWNSHIP, PASSED AWAY AT THE HOME OF HIS SON, FRED METZ, JR., TUESDAY EVENING, AFTER AN ILLNESS OF ABOUT A WEEK. LAGRIPPE AND PNEUMONIA, WERE THE CAUSE OF HIS DEATH. HIS AGE AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH WAS 89 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AND 7 DAYS.

FREDERICK METZ WAS BORN IN BADEN, GERMANY, AUG. 15, 1820. HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE IN THAT CITY TO MISS BARBARA SOMMERS IN 1845, AND IN 1852 THEY CAME TO AMERICA TOGETHER, GOING FIRST TO ST. LOUIS. THEY RESIDED IN THAT CITY TWO YEARS AND THEN MOVED TO MORTON, TAZEWELL COUNTY, WHERE THEY LIVED UNTIL 1868, WHEN THEY CAME TO LIVINGSTON COUNTY AND LOCATED ON A FARM IN PLEASANT RIDGE TOWNSHIP, WHERE THE DECEASED RESIDED ALMOST CONTINUOUSLY SINCE THAT TIME. HIS WIFE PASSED AWAY IN 1903.

ELEVEN CHILDREN WERE BORN TO THEM, NINE OF WHOM ARE LIVING, FRED AND JOHN, OF PLEASANT RIDGE, MRS. MARY ZOBRIST, OF WOODFORD COUNTY, LOUISE WIERMILLER, SAMUEL AND LOUIS, OF PLEASANT RIDGE, MAGDALENA HECKER, OF EUREKA, WILL AND AMOS, OF PLEASANT RIDGE. THE TWO CHILDREN DECEASED, BARBARA AND JACOB. SURVIVING HIM ARE ALSO 92 GRANDCHILDREN AND 74 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.

MR. METZ WAS ONE OF THE BEST OF CITIZENS, RESPECTED AND ESTEEMED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM. ALTHOUGH IN ADVANCED YEARS HE RETAINED ALL HIS FACULTIES TO THE LAST AND HE ALWAYS HAD A CHEERFUL SMILE AND PLEASANT WORD FOR EVERYBODY. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH AND HIS LIFE WAS THAT OF A TRUE CHRISTIAN. HE HAD A WIDE CIRCLE OF ACQUAINTANCES AND HIS DEATH WILL BE SINCERELY MOURNED BY ALL. THE BEREAVED CHILDREN AND RELATIVES HAVE THE SYMPATHY OF THE PEOPLE OF THIS LOCALITY.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH IN THIS CITY THIS FRIDAY AFTERNOON.

S. P. YODER

SAMUEL P. YODER, FOR MANY YEARS A RESIDENT OF THIS COMMUNITY, PASSED AWAY WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, AT HIS HOME ON NORTH SEVENTH STREET, AFTER A LINGERING ILLNESS.

HE WAS BORN IN TAZEWELL COUNTY, NOVEMBER 3, 1859, AND WAS MARRIED ON SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 1883, TO MISS MARY NAFZINGER AT MORTON. AFTER RE SIDING NEAR MORTON FOR SEVERAL YEARS THEY MOVED TO A FARM NEAR WING, WHERE THEY MADE THEIR HOME FOR 25 YEARS, AND IN THE WINTER OF 1916 MOVED TO THEIR HOME ON NORTH SEVENTH STREET, WHERE THEY HAVE SINCE RESIDED.

HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN: KATIE AND LIZZIE, AT HOME; JOHN J., OF STREATOR; WILLIAM H., OF FAIRBURY; DAN E., OF FORREST; EDWARD D., OF ROMEO, MICH.; AND CHRIS L., OF PARK FALLS, WIS. TWO CHILDREN DIED IN INFANCY. HE IS ALSO SURVIVED BY THREE SISTERS, MRS. LILLIAN FORTNA AND MRS. ANNA HUETTE, OF FAIRBURY, AND MRS. FANNY HUETTER, OF MORTON; ALSO TWO BROTHERS, WILLIAM, OF FRUITLAND, IOWA, AND EDWARD, OF MORTON.

THE FUNERAL WILL BE HELD THIS AFTERNOON AT 2 O’CLOCK FROM THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF WHICH HE WAS A MEMBER. INTERMENT AT GRACELAND.

NO OBITUARY / PAPER MISSING

NO OBITUARY

PETER BACH, FORREST, DIES SUDDENLY

PETER BACH, A WELL KNOWN RESIDENT OF FORREST, PASSED AWAY THERE LAST SATURDAY MORNING SHORTLY AFTER 11 O’CLOCK. MR. BACH HAD FOR MANY YEARS RESIDED NORTH OF FORREST, MOVING TO THAT VILLAGE A FEW WEEKS AGO. LAST SATURDAY MORNING HE WAS TO HAVE MET A PARTY AT THE BACH LUMBER OFFICE IN FORREST. WHEN HE DID NOT PUT IN AN APPEARANCE A TELEPHONE CALL WAS MADE TO HIS HOME. WHEN MRS. BACH WENT TO LOOK FOR HIM HE WAS FOUND AT THE GRADE DOOR LANDING HAVING EVIDENTLY PASSED AWAY WITH A HEART ATTACK. HE WAS AGED 72 YEARS, FOUR MONTHS AND 24 DAYS.

MR. BACH WAS A WELL KNOWN MINISTER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

MR. BACH WAS BORN IN ALSACE LORRAINE, DECEMBER 10, 1873. WHEN SEVEN YEARS OF AGE HE CAME WITH OTHER MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY TO AMERICA, LANDING AT NEW YORK, DECEMBER 6, 1880. THEY LOCATED AT WISNER, NEB., WHERE THEY RESIDED UNTIL 1892, WHEN THE FAMILY MOVED TO THIS VICINITY. SINCE 1896 MR. BACH HAD RESIDED ON THE HOME PLACE NEAR FORREST, UNTIL HE MOVED INTO FORREST IN MARCH.

ON APRIL 20, 1902, AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN THIS CITY, HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MISS LENA SCHARLACH, AND THEY TOOK UP THEIR HOME ON A FARM NORTHEAST OF THIS CITY.

SHE SURVIVES, TOGETHER WITH THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN: GEORGE, EDWARD BACH, MRS. WILLIAM HONEGGER, MRS. PAUL SCHROF, ALL OF FORREST; MRS. JOHN JOOS, OF PRINCEVILLE; MRS. DAN SCHLATTER, OF CHATSWORTH; CARL BACH, PHOENIX, ARIZ., AND REUBEN BACH, OF FAIRBURY. SURVIVING ALSO ARE TWO BROTHERS, J. N. BACH, OF FAIRBURY, AND EMIL BACH, OF NORFOLK, NEB., AND FOURTEEN GRANDCHILDREN.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE NORTH APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH ON TUESDAY MORNING AT 10:30 O’CLOCK AND INTERMENT WAS IN THE CHURCH CEMETERY. THE SERVICES WERE LARGELY ATTENDED. HE HAD BEEN THE PRESIDING MINISTER OF THAT CHURCH FOR MANY YEARS.

AMONG THE RELATIVES ATTENDING THE SERVICES FROM A DISTANCE WERE MR. AND MRS. EMIL BACH, OF NORFOLK, NEB., AND CHRIS SCHARLACH AND DAUGHTER, GENEVA, OF ALGONA, IOWA.

SERVICES TODAY FOR IRA NUSSBAUM

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR IRA NUSSBAUM, 69, WILL BE HELD AT 1 P. M. TODAY AT THE COOK FUNERAL HOME AND AT 1:30 P. M. AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH. BURIAL WILL BE IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

MR. NUSSBAUM DIED AT 5:15 P. M. TUESDAY AT FAIRBURY HOSPITAL FOLLOWING AN ILLNESS OF SEVERAL YEARS. HE HAD BEEN HOSPITALIZED FOUR WEEKS.

HE WAS BORN APRIL 25, 1888, AT PLEASANT RIDGE TOWNSHIP, A SON OF JACOB AND MARY HARTMAN NUSSBAUM. HE ATTENDED RURAL SCHOOLS AND MARRIED LEONA ABERSOLL AT WOLCOTT, IND., FEB. 5, 1920. THEY CAME TO FAIRBURY FROM A FARM IN LIVINGSTON COUNTY IN 1949.

SURVIVING ARE HIS WIFE; FOUR DAUGHTERS, LEONA, JANICE AND CAROL, AT HOME; MRS. DORIS HUBER, FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA.; FIVE SONS WAYNE, AT HOME; ALDEN, DEAN AND BYRON, FAIRBURY; WILLIS, FORREST; TWO SISTERS, MISS MARY AND MRS. NORA RIEGER, FORREST; ONE BROTHER, SILAS, OF FORREST; 15 GRANDCHILDREN. A BROTHER AND A SON PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.

HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH AND WAS A VETERAN OD WORLD WAR I.

HOLD RITES AT FORREST FOR SILAS S. NUSSBAUM, 84

SILAS S. NUSSBAUM, 84, DIED AT 1:40 P. M. MONDAY, MAY 27, 1974, AT HELEN LEWIS SMITH PAVILION AT FAIRBURY. HE HAD BEEN A RESIDENT THREE YEARS. HE HAD RESIDED AT FAIRVIEW HAVEN FOR SIX YEARS PRIOR TO GOING TO HELEN LEWIS SMITH PAVILION.

HIS FUNERAL WAS HELD AT 10 A. M. WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, FORREST, WITH BURIAL IN NORTH APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CEMETERY.

HE WAS TAKEN TO THE CHURCH AT 9 A. M. WEDNESDAY.

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

HE WAS BORN OCT. 2, 1889, IN PLEASANT RIDGE TOWNSHIP, A SON OF JACOB AND MARY HARTMAN NUSSBAUM. HE NEVER MARRIED.

HIS ONLY SURVIVORS ARE 20 NIECES AND NEPHEWS.

TWO BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.

HE WAS A FARMER HIS ENTIRE LIFE AND A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

HENRY MAURER, 88, RETIRED CO-OWNER OF ELECTRIC FIRM, DIES

HENRY MAURER, 88, OF FAIRBURY RETIRED CO-OWNER OF MAURER-ROTH ELECTRIC CO., DIED AT 5:45 A. M. SEPT. 20, 1983 AT HIS RESIDENCE.

HIS FUNERAL WILL BE AT 10 A. M. TODAY, THURSDAY, AT FAIRBURY APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH. BURIAL WILL BE IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

DUFFY-PILS MEMORIAL HOME, FAIRBURY, HANDLED ARRANGEMENTS.

PALLBEARERS WERE ROYAND MARVIN MAURER, GREGG BAUER, LYLE HUETTE, DON STEIDINGER AND DEAN MOSER.

MR. MAURER WAS BORN SEPT. 12, 1895, IN RURAL FAIRBURY, A SON OF JOHN AND MARIA HAAS MAURER. HE MARRIED FANNIE YODER MOSER FEB. 24, 1921, AT PONTIAC. SHE SURVIVES.

ALSO SURVIVING ARE A SON, ERVIN, PHOENIX, ARIZ.; THREE DAUGHTERS, LORENE ROTH, SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ.; EILEEN BAUER, CISSNA PARK; AND MARY BETH MAURER, FAIRBURY; 12 GRANDCHILDREN AND 10 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

A DAUGHTER, THREE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.

MR. MAURER WAS CO-OWNER OF THE ELECTRIC FIRM UNTIL HIS RETIREMENT IN 1964. HE HAD LIVED IN FAIRBURY SINCE 1934 AND WAS A MEMBER OF THE FAIRBURY APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

ERNEST GERBER 1897 - 1979

HOLD SUNDAY RITES FOR ERNEST GERBER, 81

ERNEST GERBER, 81, OF 708 E. OAK ST. DIED AT 1:35 P.M. THURSDAY, JULY 26, AT FAIRVIEW HAVEN NURSING HOME, WHERE HE HAD BEEN A RESIDENT SIX WEEKS.

HIS FUNERAL WAS AT 1:30 P.M. SUNDAY AT ROCKVILLE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, ROCKVILLE, CONN., WITH CHURCH MINISTERS OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN ELLINGTON CENTER CEMETERY, ELLINGTON, CONN.

VISITATION WAS FRIDAY AY DUFFY-PILS MEMORIAL HOME.

HE WAS BORN AUG. 5 1897, IN SWITZERLAND, A SON OF CHRISTIAN AND ROSETTA KUPFERSCHMID GERBER. HE MARRIED MATHILDA WANNER OCT. 12 1919, AT CROPSEY. SHE DIED JAN. 11 1970. HE MARRIED KATHRYN KAISNER JUNE 20, 1973, AT FAIRBURY. SHE SURVIVES.

ALSO SURVIVING ARE FOUR SONS, EMMANUEL, MELVIN AND EVERETT, ALL OF ROCKVILLE, CONN., AND EARL, FORREST; THREE DAUGHTERS, MARGARET FEHR AND BETTY BAUMAN, BOTH OF PHOENIX, ARIZ. AND ROSETTA STOLLER, FORREST; ONE BROTHER, WALTER, ROCKVILLE, CONN.; FIVE SISTERS, BERTHA LANZ, ROSE SCHNEIDER, EMILY SCHNEIDER, PAULINE GERBER AND LYDIA LANZ, ALL OF ROCKVILLE, CONN.; 28 GRANDCHILDREN; AND 21 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

TWO SONS, ONE DAUGHTER, ONE BROTHER, ONE SISTER AND ONE GRANDCHILD PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.

HE WAS A MEMBER OF FAIRBURY APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OF WHICH HE WAS A RETIRED MINISTER. HE WAS A MACHINIST FOR U. S. ENVELOPE CO. RETIRING IN 1963. HE MOVED TO FAIRBURY AREA IN 1970.

E. H. STOLLER, CHATSWORTH, DIES AT 84

EDWARD H. STOLLER, 84, RETIRED FARMER AND OIL DISTRIBUTOR, DIED AT HIS HOME HERE AT 5:30 P. M. SATURDAY. HE HAD BEEN ILL SEVERAL MONTHS.

HIS FUNERAL WILL BE AT 10 A. M. TUESDAY IN THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, FORREST. BURIAL WILL BE IN NORTH APOSTOLIC CHURCH CEMETERY, FORREST.

FRIENDS MAY CALL FROM 2 TO 5 AND 7 TO 9 P. M. TODAY AT THE CULKIN MEMORIAL HOME, CHATSWORTH, AND AT THE CHURCH AN HOUR BEFORE THE SERVICE.

HE WAS BORN FEB. 25, 1890, AT CISSNA PARK, A SON OF SAM AND SOPHIA RAUCHE STOLLER. HE MARRIED OLLIE MARTIN FEB. 14, 1912, IN EUREKA. SHE DIED JAN. 14, 1971.

SURVIVING ARE A SON, CURTIS, CHATSWORTH; A DAUGHTER, MRS. MILDRED TRAUB, FORREST; A SISTER, MRS. EMMA STOLLER, WOODBURN, IND., AND ONE GRANDCHILD.

TWO BROTHERS PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.

MR. STOLLER WORKED FOR PRODUCERS SEED CO., PIPER CITY, AND LIVINGSTON GRAIN CO., CHATSWORTH, BEFORE RETIRING IN 1967.

HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH AT FORREST.

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