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The Pantagraph from Bloomington, Illinois • Page 6

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The Pantagraphi
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Tornado! What It Does In Crushing Course 6 i i i ij, iazn- Saybrook The entire front of the Roy Nucent home Intact in the former school home. The family moved rr czr was taken away by the worm. Some furniture remains to uioson uty aner me iorm Miss Flora Wahon FORREST -PNS- Mia Flora dation. Foundation Is shown Just to the right of the house. Several other buildings were also damaged.

ArrowsmlthThe Walter Sandape- home, southwest of Arrowsmith, was blown about 20 feet off its foun Fire Damages Clinton Home CENTRAL ILLINOIS DEATHS A. Wfttfton, 91. d.H at I a m. undny at a Franrsvillr, Ind nunmz home. Sh had U-in thrre CLINTON F.r ef m- dMerminpd ancin rauvd Ih et- lu yrara.

ot IW funeral UI at 1 erfj IW fuwral UI at AuKurt Jr. and Allen, both 130p V'-'-' S. pulvrda: Calif Itaymnnd. Tupday at the Culkin Fuwra! homr U', John D. Shroyer LINCOLN (PNS John D.

Tr lnnarri Mu hai TurMin Ilnnw ilh th P.rv HamD. P- lurfly. The fire burned lnkle the all SJiroyrr, 71, of East St. Louis. a Mm.

MarR.irrt Ion olfici.ilmK. Bunal ul be in of the houe and 11.000 at aet rormcriy oi wnroin, oiwi hi Turson, wMor Mr. Kormt Ccmrirr' a. m. r.M wiu.s u.

Ma ja pekjn; jq grJln(jctu. a lung llliwsii. Hp underwent brain the dniate to the house and $700 to the clothing and furn-jture in fo upstair bedroom. ViMtdtion iU begin at 7 p. m.

Monday at the fuwral home. She a born Jan. IS. 1870, at He a mirnbor of thf Masonic Forrest, a daughter of Henry and, Emma Francis Wat.son. I be Cbenoa Cemetery.

Horm. in Lst St. LoU1. w.th IN-'" dnvtr unlJ Dcttm" Surviving ii a brother. Thomas riir -WIW-u Ron Muni nl St Jnhn Vvnorl.lul, cemetery.

of Winamac, Ind. A brother pre iral and Reformed Church officiat Andrew Leadingham CIUjOM -(PNS)- Andrew J. Leadingham, 81. a retired Cabery farmer, died at 10 a. m.

Saturday at his home after a brief ill ceded imt in death. She was a member of the Methodist Church. Mrs. Bena Freidinger ing. Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery near Visitation will be after 7 p.

in. Monday at the funeral home. He was born in Lincoln. July 17. Friends may call at the memorial home a her 4 rn.

Tuesday. Mr. Churchill died Saturday morning at Dwijjtit Veterans Hospital. He wan born March 10. 1W.

at Castle Hill. Maine, a son of Na ness. MORTON I PNS) Mrs. Bena 1SKR, a son of Alono D. and Effie Richardson Shroyer.

Surviving are his wifp. Fern Salome Freidinger. 62, of Glen, died at 4 10 p. m. Sunday His funeral will be at 2 p.

m. Tuesday at the Cabery Presbyterian Church, with Dr. F. Mr Master Kerr officiating. Burial will be Theis White Shroyer; two stepsons.

at her home. She had been in fail Robert and Raymond White, East ing health for 2'j years. Her funeral will be at 9 30 a. m. St.

Louis: three brothers. Fred Mount Hope cemetery at La- Shroyer, Aberdeen, S. Edward (bery. Wednesday at the Ludwig Mortu anroyer, cnicaeo: iarry ary and at 10 a. m.

at the Mor than and Lucy Cbrlis Churchill. He mamed Gladis Smith at Woodland, Maine, January. 1921. Surviving are a son, Llewellyn, Rumford, Maine; four brothers, 1 1 Washburn, Maine; Thomas and Harold. Wade, Maine; Kenneth, Idaho; a sister.

Miss Friedith Churchill, Holton, Maine; and four grandchildren. A son, and ao uncle and aunt, with whom he made his home, preceded him in death. He will be taken to the church Shroyer, Lincoln: and a sister, at 11 a. m. Tuesday.

Mrs. Ted Smith, Denver. Colo He was born May 22, 1879. in He was a veteran of World War ton Apostolic Christian Church. Burial will be in the Church cemetery.

Visitation will begin at 1 p. m. Tuesday at the mortuary. She was born May 1, 1898, a Kentucky, a son of Mr. and Mrs I and a charter member and past Peter Leadingham.

He married commander of East St. Louis Post of the American Legion, a member Viola Clark in Kentucky, Aug. 1902. She died in 1951. daughter of Emanuel and Lydia He was a veteran of World War of the 40 and 8 of Clair County: Gothic Masonic lodge and Ana id Shrine of East St.

Louis. Surviving are six sons, Thorn Schlupp Jacob. She was married I and a member of the American Oct. 8. 1922 to Ben Freidinger.

legion and Veterans of Foreign as, Emington; Elijah, Joliet; He was a retired employee of Noah, Cabery; Robert, Bucking tmiviviiig aic ii nuMJeuiu, a wars Swift and Co. ham; James and Walton, Dwight; daughter, Mrs. Ralph Roecker two daughters, Mrs. Almeda No lan, Mrs. Bess Scuteri, Joliet; Kelly Hatmaker GIBSON.

CITY (PNS) Kelly Morton; three sisters, Mrs. Mary Huette, rural Peoria; Mrs. Chris Ackermaji, Mrs. Carrie Jacob, Morton; a brother, E. D.

Jacob, Billie B. Cooley PEKIN (PNS) Billie B. Cooley, 52. of Pekin died at 1:30 a. m.

Sunday at Pekin Public five brothers, Robert and Melvin Portsmouth, Ohio; Walter, Day Hatmaker, 77, died at 11 p. m. ton, Ohio; Richard, Ashland, Saturday at Gibson Community Morton; three grandchildren. Cleveland, Morehead, two Two brothers and four sisters Hospital where he had been a patient for one day. sisters, Mrs.

Polyi Parsons, Mrs preceded her in death. Gibson Gty Motal roof from the storage shed at Stoker Lumber Co. was blown over a two block area. Here it rests against a cannon at site of old library and home of Mrs. Serapta Bane.

Jane Whitt, Portsmouth, 45 Funeral services will be held at She was a member of the Mor grandchildren and 46 great-grand the Lamb Funeral Home at 1:30 Hospital where he had been a patient for 12 days. His funeral will be at 8:30 a. m. Tuesday at Abts Mortuary, and at 9 a. m.

at St. Joseph's Catholic Church. Burial will be in St. Joseph's Cemetery. The Rosary will be recited at ton Apospolic Christian Church.

children. m. Tuesday with the Rev. Wil A daughter preceded him in liam Edwards officiating. Burial Ahlenius, Lucas On Committees Claude Lucas McLEAN Claude Burke Lucas.

death. will be in Gibson City Cemetery. He was born Dec. 13, 1883, in 44, formerly of McLean, died of Van Sellar Mosley Cold Creek. the son of McLean, Ford Start Task Of Post-Tornado Clean-up Two Bloomington savings and a heart attack at 2 a.

m. Satur Joseph and Mary Ann Hatmaker WASHINGTON, ILL. -(PNS)- day at his home Hinsdale. loan executives have been named to committees of the United State Van Sellar Mosley, 86, died at His funeral will be at the Bethel 3:20 a. m.

Sunday at Peoria Metho Lutheran Church at Westmont at Savings and Loan League, trade 8 p. m. Monday at the mortuary. He was born Dec. 28, 1908, in Louisville, son of William and Lucille Cooley.

He married Marjoiie Leary Jan. 2, 1945, in Bloomington. Surviving are his wife, two sons, Robert, Cincinnati, Ohio; Ronald Paul, Pekin; three daughters, Mrs. dist Hospital. He had been a pa 1:30 p.

m. Tuesday. Hatmaker. He married Jennie Jones July 4, 1906, in Clinton, Tenn. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs.

Clara Mae Slayden, Bur-bank, Calif; Mrs. Ann Ryan, Gibson City; and Mrs. Edith Neveau, organization of saving and loan tient there two weeks and ill The Peiffer Funeral Parlor at associations. three years. Hinsdale is in charge.

Edward R. Ahlenius, vice pres law tried to fee the storm in a front of the home littered with car! The debris flattened the tires debris. on the car a short distance from HOI SK FRONT TAKEN the house and one of the children vear Savbrook the entire front He was brought to the Haebeck- He was born at McLean. Aoril ident of Bloomington Federal Rural Areas, Gibson City a iiii er Funeral Home for services at Kankakee; two brothers, Wiley and Samuel, LaFollette, one 1, 1917, a son of Claude and Flor ence Burke Lucas. Savings and Loan Association, was named to the investments and mortgage lending committee.

was cut by glass when the car 0f the Roy Nugent home was blown sister, Mrs. Florence Clark, Flor Surviving, are his wife, the for AQu UD 3 maoe, windows were blown out. ida; five grandchildren and 10 Betty Kinker, Cincinnati, Ohio; Deborah Ann and Rebecca Kay, both of Pekin. He was a member of St. Joseph's Church, the Holy Name Society, Knights of Columbus, the Order away leaving the house looking like the back of a doll house, with mer Marian Wismiller; two sons'.

great-grandchildren. Stanley J. Lucas, executive 2 p. m. Tuesday, with the Rev.

Richard Mader officiating. Burial will be in Glen Dale Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 7 p. m. Monday at the funeral home.

He was born July 2, 1874, in Gary, Dean, two daughters. Kar- His wife, two sons, one daughter, vice president of the First Federal I The homo of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sandage on the Mrs. Gertrude Residents of portions of McLeaniBuiIta farm was blown 20 fept off and Ford County Sunday added foundation damaging the build the furniture neatly in place.

They moved their possessions from the an, Aiay, at home; a sister, Mrs. one brother, and three sisters pre Savings and Loan Association, will Evelyn Memphis. of Alhambra, Powerton Club, Pekin house to another in Gibson City. serve on the management com two brothers, John Herbert. Tioo fclks Lodge, the Pekm and Peoria Edgar County, a son of William up aamage no uw imu hk.

extpnsieIy. wind also damaged Part of the roof was blown away, mittee. Jiuntireas oi mouwnos i uons. the other buijdl. ceded him in death.

He had lived in Tennessee, West Frankfort and, for the last 24 years, in Gibson City. He was a member of the Baptist lings on the trees ripped up and debris scat Sp Clubs and the Industrial Supervisors' Club. City, Ohio; Robert, Lockport. He was a member of the Lutheran Church. jn the waKe oi aaiuraay tornaaic farnl- and Rosma Pitcher Mosley.

He married Mrs. Emelyn Kinsinger July 5, 1904, at Paris, 111. tered across the road and into a He had been employed bv Com field on the other side Official Inspects Jackson Facilities monwealth Edison Co. for 31 years. Church and was past recorder of The Phil Schaefer farm was also 8,0 Sandage was lying on a Damage was particularly heavy C((Uth Jn (hp house when the in the Saybrook, Arrowsmith.

C.ib-,storm She was showered by son City areas. Clean up crews f)vj gass and spvera, stitches the IOOF Lodge in LaFollette, Mrs. Anna Parsons PEKIN (PNS) Mrs. Anna hard hit. Windows were blown out, Surviving are his wife; a daughter, Miss Mary Marguerite, at home; two sons, Meredith, Marvin, Palm Springs, L.

O. Brown, distinct manager of Tenn. the barn damaged and his com Edgar Mackowski WASHINGTON, ILL. (PNS)- Import Motors of Chicago in Parsons, 78, of Pekin, died at 1:30 were reau red to close a cut on dump ruined. Robert Joe Jones spected the facilities of the a.

m. Sunday at her home. She had a sister, Mrs. Kathryn Gray, San No serious injuries were reported, her leg. She was" also treated for but the storm brought death to WASHINGTON, -A been ill, a year.

Her funeral will be at 10:30 a. Gibson City was also hard hit. Roofs were, blown from buildings, houses damaged, garages blown away, trees uprooted and a large The funeral of Edgar L. Mackowski, 38, who died at 6 p. m.

Sunday at his home here, wiH be at 10 a. m. Wednesday at St. Patrick's Church with the Rev. Henrv Bloomington Volkswagen dealer, Bert Jackson Motors 410 W.

Front, last week. The sales official's visit was in Jose, and four grandchildren. He was a member of the Methodist Church and the Washington son, Robert Joe, was stillborn at Methodist Hospital in Peoria at Tuesday at Abts Mortuary, and at livestock on a numlwr of farms. The howling, twisting winds first Struck southwest of Arrowsmith and then moved easterly into shock. MISSES TOWN The storm missed the south edge of Arrowsmith by about an eighth of a mile and then struck the farm tenanted by Mr.

and Mrs. Ivan 6 p. m. Saturday to Wendell and sign registering the time and tern 11 a. m.

at St. 'Josephs Catholic Church. Burial will be in Lakeside Municipal Band for nearly 40 years. Judith Roehm Jones. connection with the Jackson agen perature was blown off the newly built Gibson City Federal and Cemetery.

Schubert officiating. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery at Cherokee, Iowa. He was brought to the Haebeek He was a contracting brick mason. Tlie Rosary will be recited at A cattle shed was wrecked on er Funeral Home. Arrangements cy's first anniversary as a dealer in tiie German-made compact automobile, the Roy Brent farm, four miles, WTeckfd a machine 8:15 p.

m. Monday at the mortu are incomplete. Visitation will be from 7 to 9 Loan building. LINEMEN HAVE JOB Power company and telephone Mrs. Naomi Sommers NEW HOLLAND (PNS)- Fu southwest of Arrowsm.tr..

ine; Surviving beside the parents are p. m. Tuesday with recitation of Mr. Brown said the local dealer ary. She was born Oct.

17. 1882. in ill ill iiitr tuillLilu, nai uau storm moved northeast to the Char the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. neral services for Mrs.

Naomi has established an outstanding wrecked the barn, and blew win the Rosary at 8 p. m. at the Ha-becker Funeral Home here. Robert Roehm and Mr. and Mrs.

Sand Prairie Township, daughter Sommers, formerly of New Hol linemen worked throughout Saturday night to restore damage to the stricken area. Arrowsmith sales record during the first year He was born Feb. 17. 1923. In land, were held at 2 p.

m. Friday as Volkswagen dealer. of Frank and Anna Meier Birk-meier. She was married to Charles dows out of the house. Farther east at the Frank Smith farm the storm wrecked a $7,500 lie Builta farm, where it took the roof from a hog house and tore a cattle shed off the east side of the barn.

Some hogs were killed. Bantry, N. A son of Frank at the Church of Christ in Havana. Raymond Jones of Washington. August O.

Quenon PEKIN (PNS) August Omer Parsons Jan. 1. 1913, in Peoria. He and Ann Mackowski. Her burial was in Richmond Grove Tipsy Driving Count Jails Cornell Motorist Cemetery at New Holland.

was without electric power until 11 a. m. Sunday and telephone service restored earlier Sunday to the community, but linemen were still working south of Arrowsmith died Aug. 8, 1932. Surviving are a daughter.

Mrs. The storm struck another farmja numbor hop. Furnish; owned by Builta about a -ho fnr Mr. Smith, and northeast of the first farm, and Quenon, 57, of Port Angelas. Airs.

Sommers died Wednesday former Pekm resident, died Thurs morning at Havana. Thyrza Godby, Pekin: a sister, Sister M. Odelia, Peoria: two wrecked a machine shed and PONTIAC (PNS) Thomas Surviving are hi wife; parants, three sons, James NeaL Alan Lee, David Lynn, all at home; four sisters. Mrs. Edward Miller, Sioux CHy, Iowa; Mrs.

Fred Grauer and Mrs. John Lawncazak. Cherokee, Iowa; Mrs. Cart Hahn. Fresno day at Olympic Hospital in Port She was born at Cambridge City.

Sunday afternoon, Saybrook was without phone rtmnnn cvbrook was without Dhone grandchildren. atred a combine owned by Welbv i nnrl Millis. 40. of Cornell was arrested Feb. 8.

1884, a daughter of Samuel Angelas. He will be brought to She was a member of St. Joseph's Mosier. whose son and faawly hadinot hurt I service nearly all day Sunday. bv citv Plicp 1 m- Sunday the Noel Funeral Home in Pekin.

and isarah Heinbacn. bne was married to Herman Sommers and Pu.h nd the and Rosary Funeral arrangements are in- recently moved irom me iarm. mr; hrlMnp on 1hp Rppd Electric power was restored at llana cnargea mn anving mnue in roof was torn from the barn and damaeed or a. m. Sundav.

Grocers drove complete. he died April 19, 1943. three brothers, Julius, Cleg-horn, Iowa; Louis, Los Aneele ice for I He appeared before Justice of the He as born Sept. 16. 1903, in Harry.

Surviving are six sons. aotieiy. Mark Churchill CHENOA (PNSt The funer Detroit. Mich. The tl-e roiwrsh damaged.

-vrvp7u deMrod Planks were blown nioomington to get dry' windows were blown out of the l.pM;,!r; part 0( Jn. their frozen food case, house h-iie. At Gibson City the Peace Joe Green who placed bond Coal City, the son of Louis and Lincoln: Cecil, New Holland; $1,000 and continued the Jaumotte Quenon. He do re. Kenny; John, Auburn: Fred.

family moved here 11 years arn married Minnie Allen. until Maich 13. al of Mark Churchill, 70. will be She pre-'West Chester: Otto. California: a He was a tool analyst at Cater- ceded him in death.

He later sister. Mrs. Edith Britton. Spring I at 2 p. Wednesday at the Pils pillar.

He served three years in HOMIV. CHIIJ 1T The Vawta farrHy was not at danger was from downed electric Vrs. Archie Hunt, who lives in home when the storm s'rjck, but wires but power company work-h. h'Hj. saw the vorm teamed of the damage upon re- men worked feverishly to Cutllhe e.

tcr chJdrcn and a brothcr-in- ranung hom to Lr.d tie roid in wires and restore service. 1 He failed to post bond and Is being held at Livingston County Jad. married Opal Baker. inera, ana several i a i Home, Tn Dr. line Air rotce am was member i 1 ri(iir, ur.

inr jur our am was a I Moses Crouse officiating. Burial SL Patrick's Church. Surviving are bis wife, four.

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