Obituaries - Mo
PAULINE MARIE MODLIN, 86, DIED AT 3:20 PM
MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1988 AT JERSEY COMM. HOSPITAL IN JERSEYVILLE.
SHE WAS BORN IN JERSEYVILLE, THE DAUGHTER OF THE LATE REMIG AND
FRANCESCA (SCHMID) HUND. SHE MARRIED HARRY MODLIN JULY 12, 1920
IN JERSEYVILLE AND HE SURVIVES. ALSO SURVIVING ARE TWO
DAUGHTERS, RAMONE NOLAN OF KANE AND ESTHER SARENY OF EL PASO,
TEXAS; NINE GRANDCHILDREN ; 12 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN AND FIVE
GREAT-GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY A
DAUGHTER, PATRICIA CARDENAS; AND TWO BROTHERS, JOHN HURD AND RAY
FARMER. VISITATION WILL BE 4-9 PM WEDNESDAY AT JACOBY BROS
FUNERAL HOME IN JERSEYVILLE WHERE SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED 2PM
THURSDAY BY THE REV. CHARLES EPPERLY. BURIAL WILL BE IN OAK
GROVE CEMETERY IN JERSEYVILLE. MEMORIALS MAY BE GIVEN TO THE
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF JERSEYVILLE, WHERE MRS. MODLIN HAD BEEN
A MEMBER.
JER. REP. DATED MAR. 18, 1926: MRS. FRED MOHR
OF BETHEL AREA DIED AT HER HOME. 60 YEARS. FUNERAL FROM BETHEL
BAP. CHURCH. ELDERT.J. ROADY OF KANE. BURIAL IN OAK GROVE
CEMETERY. LEAVES HUSBAND, 2 DAUGHTERS, ONE SON. THEY ARE MRS. J.
FRANK OF CHESTERFIELD, MRS. CELIA BAKER OF BETHEL AND WESLEY
MOHR OF MEDORA.
REV. GERTRUDE MOHR, 84, DIED AT 1:05 MONDAY,
NOV. 17, 1986 AT HER RESIDENCE. SHE HAD BEEN AN ASSEMBLIES OF
GOD MINISTER FOR 42 YEARS, HAVING BEEN THE PASTOR AT THE
ASSEMBLEY OF GOD IN FIDELITY AND PART-TIME MINISTER AT THE
JERSEYVILLE, ELDRED, AND CARROLLTON ASSEMBLIES OF GOD. SHE WAS
BORN IN CARLINVILLE, DAUGHTER OF THE LATE MR. AND MRS. ALVIN
LOVELESS, AND HAD MARRIED JOHN MOHR IN 1922 IN CARLINVILLE. HE
DIED JAN. 26, 1959. SURVIVING ARE A SON, WILLIAM DALE MOHR, OF
JERSEYVILLE; AN ADOPTED SON, MICHAEL BRYSON OF WOODBURN; A
DAUGHTER, BERDA RUSSELL OF FIDELITY; NINE GRANDCHILDREN; 10
GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN; AND A SISTER, BERDA WALTON OF CARLINVILLE.
VISITATION WILL BE FROM 4 TO 9 PM WED. AT JACOBY BROS FUNERAL
HOME IN JERSEYVILLE. SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED AT 2 PM THURS AT
THE ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH IN FIDELITY WITH REV. CRAIG MOHR
OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE AT OAK GROVE CEMETERY IN
JERSEYVILLE. MEMORIAL MAY BE GIVEN TO THE ASSEMBLY OF GOD IN
FIDELITY.
DATED 11-10-1982: NORMAN DALE MOHR, 55, OF
320 HIGHLAND, DIED AT 8:15 PM SATURDAY AT MEMORIAL MEDICAL
CENTER IN SPRINGFIELD. BORN IN JERSEY COUNTY, SON OF BEULAH
(BOLIN)MOHR OF GREENFIELD AND THE LATED LLOYD MOHR, HE WAS
EMPLOYED AS A POLICE OFFICER WITH THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR 12
YEARS. HE RETIRED IN SEPTEMBER, 1982. THE WORLD WAR II VETERN
MARRIED THE FORMER MAXINE TUEY ON APR. 18, 1948 IN ALTON. IN
ADDITION TO HIS WIFE AND MOTHER, SURVIVING ARE TWO DAUGHTERS,
MARLENE WATERS OF ELDRED AND DEBRA GOODALL OF VANDALIA; TWO
GRANDCHILDREN; TWO SISTERS, ELLA MAE BORDERS OF UNION CITY, TENN
AND FLORENCE CHOPPS OF CROWN POINT, IND; AND TWO BROTHERS, JOHN
OF WRIGHTS AND JIM OF WOOD RIVER. VISITATION WILL BE FROM 4 TO 9
PM TODAY AT AIRSMAN-HIRES FUNERAL HOME WHERE SERIVES WILL BE
CONDUCTED AT 2 PM TUES WITH THE REV. CLYDE MYERS OFFICIATING.
BURIAL WILL BE IN CARROLLTON CITY CEMETERY AND MEMORIALS MAY BE
MADE TO BELIVERS BAPTIST CHURCH IN CARROLLTON, OF WHICH HE WAS A
MEMBER, OR TO THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY.
DATED 11-APR.1974: FUNERAL MASS WAS CELEBRATED AT ST. FRANCIS
XAVIER CHURCH SATURDAY MORNING, APR. 6, FOR MRS.
CATHERINE O. MOLOHON, 76, OF 610 FOREST ST.,
JERSEYVILLE. FATHER R. T. SHEA WAS CELEBRANT. INTERMENT WAS IN
ST. FRANCIS XAVIER CEMETERY. HER DEATH OCCURRED APR. 4 AT JERSEY
COMM. HOSPITAL. BORN JUN 26, 1897 IN ST. LAWRENCE, KY, SHE WAS A
DAUGHTER OF MRS. AND MRS. FRANK WALTHEN. HER SURVIVORS ARE HER
HUSBAND, WILLIAM MOLOHON; TWO DAUGHERS, MRS. JOHN H. ALBRECHT OF
CARROLLTON AND SISTER MARY CALLISTA OF ALGONQUIN; EIGHT
GRANDCHILDREN; FIVE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN; AND ONE BROTHER, R.T.
WALTHEN OF LOUISVILLE, KY. VISITATION WAS HELD AT JACOBY BROS
FUNERAL HOME WHERE THE ROSARY WAS RECITED FRIDAY EVENING.
JER. REP. DATED AUG. 19, 1909: JAMES M. MOORE
BORN IN KNOX CO., TENN. DEC. 11, 1825. DIED AT HOME IN FIDELITY
AUG. 12. 83 YEARS. WHEN 3 YEARS, CAME WITH PARENTS TO ILL.,
SETTLED NEAR JERSEYVILLE. LIVED IN COUNTY 80 YEARS. MARRIED JANE
DAVIS MAR. 30, 1854. TEN CHILDREN, SEVEN BOYS AND THREE GIRLS.
FIVE OF WHOM ARE STILL LIVING. DOUGLAS MOORE OF SPRINGFIELD,
IL., ROBERT AND CHARLES OF FIDELITY, MRS. DELLA PARSELL, EVA
PARSELL BOTH OF JERSEYVILLE. MOTHER OF FAMILY DIED MAR 7, 1890.
ONE SURVIVING SISTER, MRS. MARTHA HEFFRON WHO LIVES NEAR KANE.
SHE IS NOW 85 YEARS OLD. MR. MOORE REMARRIED APR. 22, 1896 TO
MRS. MARGARET HENSINGER WHO SURVIVES. UNCLE JIMMY WAS ONE OF THE
EARLY PIONEER SETTLERS OF JERSEY CO. AND AT ONE TIME WAS
PROBABLY THE LARGEST LAND OWNER IN THE COUNTY. HE CAME TO ALL OF
HIS POSSESSIONS THROUGH THAT RUGGED TOIL WHICH CHARACTERIZED THE
EARLY SETTLER OF THAT DAY. ME. CHURCH AT FIDELITY. LEAVES WIFE,
THREE SONS, TWO DAUS., ONE SISTER. FUNERAL FROM METHODIST
CHURCH. REV. V.B. SULLINS. FAMILY CEMETERY SW OF FIDELITY.
DATED NOV., 1985: LAWRENCE EDWARD MOORE, 85,
OF JERSEYVILLE, DIED NOV. 14 IN JERSEYVILLE. HE WAS BORN AUG.
11, 1900 IN JERSEYVILLE TO EDWARD AND GERTRUDE (HOUSE) MOORE. HE
SERVED IN THE NAVY DURING WORLD WAR II AND WAS A RETIRED
BUILDING CONTRACTOR. HE MARRIED GOLDIE LONG ON DEC. 29, 1952, IN
CARROLLTON. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE JERSEYVILLE MOOSE LODGE AND
THE AMERICAN LEGION. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS WIFE, GOLDIE, OF
JERSEYVILLE, AND SISTER NADENE WARNER OF JERSEYVILLE. VISITATION
WAS NOV. 15 AT GUBSER FUNERAL HOME IN JERSEYVILLE WITH THE REV.
V. CLAY NOAH OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN OAK GROVE CEMETERY WITH
GRAVESIDE MILITARY RITES BY THE JERSEYVILLE VFW POST NO. 4528
AND AMERICAN LEGION POST NO. 492. A MEMORAIL HAS BEEN
ESTABLISHED TO THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF JERSEYVILLE.
UNDATED NEWSPAPER CLIPPING: JAMES MORAIN,
80, WHO HAD OPERATED A FISHMARKET AT COLUMBIANA FOR FIFTY YEARS,
DIED TUES. IN A PEORIA HOSPITAL, WHERE HE WAS TAKEN TWO WEEKS OR
MORE AGO. THE BODY WAS TAKEN TO KAMPSVILLE WHERE FUNERAL
SERVICES WERE HELD YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. BURIAL WAS IN THE DAYTON
CEMTERY. MR. MORAIN IS SURVIVED BY TWO DAUGHTERS AND TWO SONS;
MRS. ELSIE PRYOR OF ELDRED, MRS. ELVIRA BARTHOLOMEW AND IRA
MORAIN OF PEORIA, AND HARRY MORAIN OF KAMPSVILLE. HE WAS A
COLORFUL FIGURE AT HIS FISHBOAT IN COLUMBIANA, AND WAS WELL
KNOWN IN THIS PART OF THE STATE.
DATED 11-27-75: THE FUNERAL OF MRS. PEARL E. MORRIS,
87, OF 208 S. LAFAYETTE ST., JERSEYVILLE WAS HELD ON NOV. 22 AT
THE GUBSER FUNERAL HOME WITH THE REV. LARRY F. PALMER OF THE
CHURCH OF CHRIST, DUNMOR, KY. OFFICIATING. INTERMENT WAS IN THE
KANE CEMETERY. HER DEATH OCCURRED AT 10:45 PM ON NOV. 19 AT
JERSEY COUNTY CONVALESCENT CARE CENTER. SHE WAS BORN ON DEC. 27,
1887 IN GREENE COUNTY, A DAUGHTER OF THE LATE CHARLES AND
MATILDA SCOGGINS HARDWICK. HER HUSBAND, PLEASANT H. MORRIS, DIED
IN JAN., 1962. HER SURVIVORS ARE ONE SON, HARMON W. MORRIS OF
JERSEYVILLE; AND DAUGHTERS, MRS. FRED (GOLDIE) ATCHISON AND MRS.
FREELAND (HELEN) BLASA, JERSEYVILLE, MRS. PAUL (MABLE) GRIZZLE
OF CARROLLTON AND MRS. LLOYD (DIMPLE) ANDERSON OF KANE; 12
GRANDCHILDREN; NINE GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN. HER PARENTS, THREE
SONS, TWO DAUGHTERS, THREE BROTHERS AND A SISTER PRECEDED HER IN
DEATH. THE FAMILY DESIGNATED THE JERSEY COUNTY HEART FUND AS A
MEMORIAL.
DATED 11/29/76: SERVICES FOR SYLVESTER ANDRES
MORRISON, 76, OF 717 HARRISON ST., JERSEYVILLE WILL BE
CONDUCTED FROM GUBSER FUNERAL HOME AT 1:30 PM ON DEC. 1 WITH
JAMES PEPPER OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE IN THE GUNTERMAN
CEMETERY IN THE FIELDON VICINITY. HIS DEATH OCCUREED AT 12:20
AM. ON NOV. 29 AT JERSEY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL. HE WAS BORN NOV.
23, 1900 IN JERSEY COUNTY, A SON OF GEORGE H. AND TILLIE ANDRES
MORRISON, AND WAS A RETIRED PAINTER. SURVIVING ARE THREE
CHILDREN, MRS. CHARLENE MORGAN, JERSEYVILLE, MRS ROLAND (ESTHER)
TURNER,JACKSONVILLE AND ROGER LESLIE MORRISON, ROODHOUSE; TWO
BROTHERS AND A SISTER, LAWRENCE F. MORRISON AND MRS. LIDA
MEDFORD OF FIELDON AND BERTRAM MORRISON OF MISSOURI; SIX
GRANDCHILDREN. VISITATION WILL BE HELD FROM 2 TO 5 PM AND FROM 7
TO 9 PM TUES., NOV. 30 AT GUBSER FUNERAL HOME. THE FAMILY HAS
DESIGNATED THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY AS A MEMORIAL.
DATED 5-3-1983: EARL MOTSINGER, 69, OF 305
MCGILL, JERSEYVILLE DIED AT 1 AM APR. 23 AT JEWISH HOSPITAL IN
ST. LOUIS. THE RETIRED FARM LABORER WAS BORN JUL 24, 1913 IN
MOARK, ARK., A SON OF WILLIAM L. AND MARTHA A. EDWARDS
MOTSINGER. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, SYLVIA BRIDGES SMITH
MOTSINGER WHOM HE MARRIED JAN. 11, 1969; A DAUGHTER, DOROTHY
HENDERSON OF STRONGSVILLE, OHIO; TWO STEP DAUGHTERS, DEBBIE
CHAROW AND SHARI SMITH, JERSEYVILLE; A STEP SON, JAMES SMITH OF
GODFREY; ONE FOSTER SON, COTE OF WARREN, MICH.; FIVE
GRANDCHILDREN; ONE BROTHER, ERNEST, SARASOTA, FLA. HE WAS
PRECEDED IN DEATH BY THREE SISTERS AND TWO BROTHERS. SERVICES
WERE HELD AT GUBSER FUNERAL HOME WITH THE REV. V.C. NOAH JR.
OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN JALAPPA CEMETERY IN THE KANE
VICINITY.
DOW--BETTY JUNE MOTT, 54, DIED AT 9:48 AM
FRIDAY, AT WOOD RIVER TOWNSHIP HOSPITAL. BORN IN KANE, A
DAUGHTER OF VIRGIE COATS OF EAST ALTON AND THE LATE EARL COX,
SHE MARRIED JOHN L. MOTT ON JUN 14, 1956 IN JERSEYVILLE, AND HE
SURVIVES. IN ADDITION TO HER HUSBAND AND MOTHER, SURVIVING ARE
THREE DAUGHTERS, WANDA BURGESS OF EAST ALTON, DIANE PHILLIPS OF
BRIGHTON AND SANDRA AGNEY OF COTTAGE HILLS; SIX SONS, WESLEY OF
EAST ALTON, RICKY, DENNIS, AND RANDY, ALL OF DOW; AND KEVIN AND
TERRY, BOTH OF COTTAGE HILLS; 14 GRANDCHILDREN; A
GREAT-GRANDCHILD; THREE SISTERS, SHIRLEY KIRSCHNER OF ST. LOUIS,
VIRGINIA MCCOLLUM OF ADVANCE, MO. AND CONNIE DORSEY OF EAST
ALTON; AND EIGHT BROTHERS, DON COX OF ADVANCE, MO, BILL AND
JACKIE COX, BOTH OF GODFREY, JERRY AND DENNIS COX, BOTH OF
ALTON, ROBERT AND DARREL COX, BOTH OF EAST ALTON, AND RICHARD
COX OF ELSAH. VISITATION WILL BE AFTER 6 PM SUNDAY AT MARKS
MORTUARY IN WOOD RIVER, WHERE SERVICES WILL BE A 1 PM MONDAY,
WITH THE REV. MARK MCCAIN OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE IN WOOD
LAND HILLS CEMETERY. (PICTURE OF DECEASED WITH OBIT)
DATED 6/19/69: (PICTURE IN OBIT) CHARLES W. MOURNING,
JERSEYVILLE BUSINESSMAN FOR MANY YEARS, DIED SUNDAY, JUN 15 AT
11:45 AM AT THE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL IN ALTON WHERE HE HAD BEEN A
PATIENT FOR ALMOST TWO WEEKS. HIS HOME WAS AT 106 N. CLAY ST.
FINAL RITES WERE HELD WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AT TWO O'CLOCK AT THE
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH IN JERSEYVILLE OF WHICH HE WAS A MEMBER.
THE PASTOR, REV. CARLTON G. CHRISTENSON, OFFICIATED AND BURIAL
WAS IN OAK GROVE CEMETERY. VISITATION HOURS WERE HLED AT THE
GUBSER FUNERAL HOME WHERE MASONIC SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED
TUESDAY EVENING AT EIGHT O/CLOCK BY KING SOLOMON LODGE,
A.F.&A.M. NO. 197 OF KANE. MR. MOURNING HAD BEEN ENGAGED IN THE
REAL ESTATE BUSINESS IN JERSEYVILLE FOR THE PAST TWENTY FIVE
YEARS. HIS EARLIER BUSINESSES HERE WERE A MOVIE THEATRE AND FARM
IMPLEMENT FIRM, AND HE HAD ALSO ENGAGED IN FARMING. IN ADDITION
TO HIS CHURCH AND LODGE AFFILIATIONS, MR. MOURNING WAS A CHARTER
MEMBER OF THE JERSEY COUNTY FARM BUREAU AND A MEMBER OF
JERSEYVILLE CHAPTER NO. 656, ORDER OF EASTERN STAR. HE WAS ON OF
NINETEEN CHILDREN BORN TO THE LATE THOMAS D. AND MARY JANE KEELY
MOURNING. HE WAS BORN IN JERSEY COUNTY JAN. 30, 1889 AND HIS AGE
AT DEATH WAS 80 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AND 15 DAYS. SURVIVING HIM ARE
HIS WIFE, MRS. HATTIE MACKELDEN MOURNING, TWO SONS, HUBERT OF
KANE AND C. DELBERT OF JERSEYVILLE; THREE DAUGHTERS, MRS. ELDON
(JUANITA) STONE OF CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO., MRS. LOUIS (VERA) CRIST
OF SHIPMAN AND MRS. VIRGIL (ADA) MYERS OF JERSEYVILLE; THREE
BROTHERS, LESTER MOURNING OF JERSEYVILLE, MELVIN MOURNING OF
BETHALTO, AND HOWARD MOURNING OF WOOD RIVER; EIGHT SISTERS, MRS.
WILLIAM FRITZ, MRS. FLORENCE WATERS, MRS. IMOGENE HOUSEMAN, MRS.
HAZEL EGELHOFF AND MISS RUTH MOURNING OF JERSEYVILLE, MRS.
NETTIE BRANNAN OF CHEYENNE, WYO., MRS. VIOLA GIER OF SANTA
BARBARA, CALIF., AND MRS. MAYARD SPARLIN OF GREENVILLE. HE ALSO
LEAVES FOURTEEN GRANDCHILDREN AND ELEVEN GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.
ONE DAUGHTER, MISS DENISE A. MEYERS, PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH ON
MAY 25, 1968.
DATED 3-21-85: EDITH MOURNING, 102, WHO
LIVED AT ST. ANTHONY'S HOSPITAL HOME HEALTH CARE IN ALTON, DIED
THERE AT 6:32 P.M. MARCH 5. SHE WAS BORN JAN. 23, 1883 IN KANE,
TO THE LATE JAMES AND RUSHA WILLIS WILSON AND WAS MARRIED TO
HARVEY MOURNING. SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST
CHURCH. ONLY COUSINS SURVIVE. SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED FRIDAY AT
THE FIRST SOUTHER BAPTIST CHURCH IN ALTON BY THE REV. HOWARD
TODD TAYLOR. BURIAL WAS IN OAK GROVE CEMETERY.
DATED 11/1/86: HATTIE MOURNING, 92, DIED AT
5:30 AM FRIDAY, OCT. 31, 1986 AT GREENWOOD MANOR IN JERSEYVILLE.
SHE WAS BORN IN JERSEY COUNTY AND WAS EMPLOYED WITH MOURNING
REALTY CO. IN JERSEYVILLE FOR 25 YEARS, RETIRING IN 1965. THE
DAUTHER OF THE LATE WILLIAM AND MALINDA (COPE) MACKELDEN. SHE
MARRIED CHARLES W. MOURNING IN SPRINGFIELD. HE DIED JUN 15,
1969. SURVIVING ARE TWO SONS, HUBERT E. MOURNING OF KANE AND
C.DELBERT MOURNING OF JERSEYVILLE; TWO DAUGHTERS, JUANITE STONE
OF HUDSON, FLA., AND ADA MYERS OF JERSEYVILLE; 14 GRANDCHILDREN;
29 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN; AND ONE GREAT-GREAT GRANDCHILD.
VISITATION WILL BE FROM 4 TO 9 PM SUNDAY AT GUBSER FUNERAL HOME
IN JERSEYVILLE. ORDER OF EASTERN STARY SERVIES WILL BE CONDUCTED
AT 6:30 PM BY JERSEYVILLE LODGE NO. 656. SERVICES WILL BE AT THE
FUNERAL HOME AT 11 AM MONDAY WITH REV. V. NOAH CLAY OFFICIATING.
BURIAL WILL BE AT OAK GROVE CEMETERY IN JERSEYVILLE. MEMORIALS
MAY BE GIVEN TO THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF JERSEYVILLE WHERE
SHE WAS A MEMBER.
DATED 1954: NINE-TWO DESCENDENTS SURVIVE MRS. MARY
JANE (JENNIE) MOURNING WHOSE DEATH OCCURRED MONDAY
MORNING, FEB. 15, AT ELEVEN-THIRTY O'CLOCK AT HER HOME IN
ENGLISH TOWNSHIP FOLLOWING A FEW WEEKS ILLNESS. THE AGED WOMAN
WAS A DAUGHTER OF THE LATE DANIEL AND ELIZABETH SEAGO KEELEY AND
WAS BORN IN GREENE COUNTY ON NOV. 1, 1867. HER AGE AT TIME OF
DEATH WAS EIGHTY-SIX YEARS, THREE MONTHS AND FOURTEEN DAYS. MRS.
MOURNING HAD RESIDED IN THE BETHANY VICINITY FOR ABOUT EIGHTY
YEARS. THE DECEDENT WAS THE WIDOW OF THOMAS MOURNING. NINETEEN
CHILDREN WERE BORN TO THE COUPLE. MRS. MOURNING WAS PRECEDED IN
DEATH BY HER HUSBAND AND FIVE CHILDREN. MRS. MOURNING IS
SURVIVED BY FIVE SONS AND NINE DAUGHTERS. THEY ARE CHARLES AND
LESTER MOURNING OF JERSEYVILLE, RUSSELL MOURNING OF ATLANTA,
GA., HOWARD AND MELVIN MOURNING OF WOOD RIVER, MRS. WILLIAM
FRITZ OF KANE, MRS. VIOLA GIER OF SANTA BARBARA, CALIF., MRS.
WILLIAM WATERS, MRS. IMOGENE HOUSEMAN AND MRS. AUGUST EGELHOFF
OF JERSEYVILLE, MRS. LINCOLN BRANNAN OF CHEYENNE, WYO. MRS.
MAYNARD SPARLIN OF GREENVILLE, MRS. ED NOLAN AND MISS RUTH
MOURNING OF KANE. SHE ALSO LEAVES TWENTY-NINE GRANDCHILDREN;
FORTY NINE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN ONE BROTHER, CHARLES KEELEY, ONE
SISTER, MRS. NETTIE CARRICO OF JERSEYVILLE AND ONE HALF-BROTHER,
EDWARD MOURNING OF ALTON. FRIENDS CALLED AT THE GUBSER FUNERAL
HOME IN JERSEYVILLE. FUNERAL SERVICES ARE BEING HELD THIS
AFTERNOON, THURS., FEB. 18, AT TWO O'CLOCK AT THE BETHANY
BAPTIST CHURCH NORTHWEST OF JERSEYVILLE WITH REV. CLARENCE CLARK
OF HETTICK AND REV. FRANK SCHWAB OF ROODHOUSE OFFICIATING.
INTERMENT WILL BE IN THE LAX CEMETERY.
DATED 11/29/73: FUNERAL RITES FOR MRS. NELLIE
MOURNING ,82, OF JERSEYVILLE WILL BE HELD AT 1:30
TOMORROW AFTERNOON, NOV. 30, AT JACOBY BROS FUNERAL HOME. REV.
L.E. HUTCHINSON OF JERSEYVILLE WILL OFFICIATE AND BURIAL WILL BE
IN OAK GROVE CEMETERY. HER DEATH OCCURRED AT 3:15 AM ON NOV. 27
AT HER HOME ON 409 N. GIDDINGS. VISITATION WILL BE HELD AFTER 4
PM TODAY, NOV. 29 AT JACOBY FUNERAL HOME. SHE WAS BORN JUN 19,
1891 IN GREENE CO., A DAU. OF THOMAS AND SARAH HARDWICK HYDE.
MRS. MOURNING WAS A MEMBER OF THE STATE STREET BAPTIST CHURCH
AND MT. GILEAD COMMUNITY CLUB. HER SURVIVORS ARE HER HUSBAND,
LESTER D. MOURNING; TWO DAUGHTERS, MRS. CHARLES (MARY) SEAL OF
RUSHVILLE AND MRS. CHARLES (LURA) VANAUSDOLL OF JERSEYVILLE; SIX
GRANDCHILDREN; ONE GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER; THREE BROS., FRED AND
HAROLD HYDE OF ELDRED AND ALFRED HYDE OF JERSEYVILLE; THREE
SISTERS, MRS. C.C. GRIZZLE OF JERSEYVILLE, MRS. BERT BRANNAN OF
CARROLLTON AND MRS. EDITH TILLERY OF ROODHOUSE. SHE WAS PRECEDED
IN DEATH BY HER PARENTS, TWO BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS.
DATED JAN. 1985: JERSEYVILLE--MYRTLE MAE MOUSER,
58, DIED AT 4:05AM TODAY AT HER RESIDENCE FOLLOWING AN EXTENDED
ILLNESS. SHE WAS BORN IN GREEN COUNTY, DAUGHTER OF THE LATE
CECIL AND HAZEL (HOBBS) TALKINGTON. SHE MARRIED JESSE C. MOUSER
AUG. 17, 1942 IN ST. CHARLES, MO. AND HE SURVIVES. ALSO
SURVIVING ARE FOUR DAUGHTERS: SHARON STOECKEL, CARLA COX, AND
CAROL MOUSER, ALL OF ALTON AND DEBRA WATERS OF JERSEYVILLE; SIX
SONS, GLEN AND MICHAEL, BOTH OF ALTON, DONALD AND LARRY, BOTH OF
JERSEYVILLE, EARL AND TERRY, BOTH AT HOME, 21 GRANDCHILDREN; ONE
GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER; A BROTHER, GLEN TALKINGTON OF BRIGHTON; AND
FOUR SISTERS, HELEN BOOTH OF PITTSFIELD, LOUISE JOHNSON AND RUBY
MCCOTTER, BOTH OF PEARL AND DORIS KAPPEL OF BRIGHTON.
VISISTATION WILL BE FROM 4 TO 9 PM TUES. AT SMITH FUNERAL HOME
IN ALTON WHERE THE FUNERAL WILL BE CONDUCTED AT 11 AM WEDNESDAY
WITH THE REV. JOHN ARROWWOOD OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE IN
VALHALL MEMORIAL PARK. ( PICTURE OF DECEASED APPEARS WITH OBIT.)
DEMO NEWS JAN. 10, 1985: MYRTLE MAE MOUSER, 58, R.1, JERSEYVILLE
DIED JAN. 7 AT HER HOME. BORN JAN 17, 1926 IN GREENE CO., TO
CECIL AND HAZEL HOBBS TALKINGTON. MAR. JESSE C. MOUSER AUG. 17,
1942 IN ST. CHARLES, MO. HE SURVIVES. FOUR DAUGHTERS: SHARON
STOECKEL, CARLA COX, CAROL MOUSER OF ALTON; DEBRA WATERS OF
JERSEYVILLE, SIX SONS: GLEN AND MICHAEL OF ALTON, DONALD AND
LARRY OF JERSEYVILLE, EARL AND TERRY AT HOME. 21 GRANDCHILDREN.
ONE GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER. ONE BROTHER, GLEN TALKINGTON OF
BRIGHTON. FOUR SISTERS, HELEN BOOTH OF PITTSFIELD, LOUISE
JOHNSON AND RUBY MCGOTTER OF PEARL, AND DORIS KAPPEL OF
BRIGHTON.
DATED 4/12/56: MRS. ANNA MARIE MOWEN OF
ROUTE 2, JERSEYVILLE, WIFE OF PRESTON MOWEN, DIED AT TWELVE
FIFTEEN O'CLOCK MONDAY MORNING APR. 9, AT BARNES HOSPITAL IN ST.
LOUIS WHERE SHE HAD BEEN A PATIENT FOR THREE DAYS. PRIOR TO
BEING MOVED TO ST. LOUIS, MRS. MOWEN HAD BEEN A PATIENT AT THE
JERSEY COMM. HOSPITAL AND A MEMORIAL HOSP. IN ALTON. MRS. MOWEN
WAS BORN IN GREEN COUNTY, MAY 16, 1905 AND HER AGE AT THE TIME
OF DEATH WAS FIFTY YEARS, TEN MONTHS AND TWENTY-THREE DAYS. IN
ADDITION TO HER HUSBAND, THE DECEDENT IS SURVIVED BY ONE SON,
ROBERT. P. MOWEN OF JERSEYVILLE; HER MOTHER, MRS. HATTIE BEAN OF
ALTON; TWO SISTERS, MRS. PEARL BREITWEISER OF DELHI, AND MRS.
ROBERTA GUILANDER OF KANE; AND ONE BROTHER, HUBERT BEAN OF
JERSEYVILLE. ONE DAU., LOIS, DIED IN INFANCY. MRS. MOWEN WAS A
MEMBER OF THE BETHANY BAPTIST CHURCH AND THE DEMOLAY MOTHERS
CIRCLE. THE BODY WAS MOVED FROM JACOBY BROS TO THE MOWEN HOME
WHERE FRIENDS CALLED UNTIL THE TIME OF THE FUNERAL. SERVICES
WERE HELD AT THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH IN THIS CITY AT TWO
O'CLOCK WED. AFTERNOON, APR. 11. THE REV. CARL A MOMAN OF
JERSEYVILLE AND REV. WILLIAM SEALOCK OF WINCHESTER OFFICIATED
AND INTERMENT WAS IN THE GRIMES CEMETERY.
DATED 7/2/1953: FRED P. MOWEN, WELL-KNOWN
RETIRED JERSEY COUNTY FARMER, WAS FOUND DEAD AT THE WHEEL OF HIS
CAR IN ENGLISH TOWNSHIP ABOUT 5 O'CLOCK THURS. AFTERNOON, JUNE
25, BY HIS GREAT NEPHEW, ROBERT MOWEN, SON OF MR. AND MRS.
PRESTON MOWEN. YOUNG MOWEN WAS ENROUTE TO THE HOME OF HIS
PARENTS FROM ANOTHER FARM WHEN HE SAW THE AUTOMOBILE IN THE
CLARENCE WEIGHARD BEAN FIELD NORTHWEST OF JERSEYVILLE.
RECOGNIZING THE CAR AS THAT OF HIS GREAT UNCLE HE INVESTIGATED
AND FOUND MR. MOWEN SLUMPED AT THE WHEEL. YOUNG MOWEN WENT TO
THE HOME OF HIS PARENTS AND THE JACOBY AMBULANCE WAS SUMMONED.
THE ELDER MR. MOWEN WAS BROUGHT TO THE OFFICE OF A JERSEYVILLE
PHYSICIAN WHERE HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD. MR. MOWEN HAD BEEN IN
JERSEYVILLE DURING THE AFTERNOON AND WAS ENROUTE HOME WHEN HE
WAS FATALLY STRICKEN. DEATH IS BELIEVED TO HAVE RESULTED FROM A
HEART ATTACK. MR. MOWEN HAD CONSULTED A PHYSICIAN SEVERAL DAYS
AGO AND AT THAT TIME COMPLAINED OF A SEVERE CHEST PAIN. THE
DECEASED WAS A SON OF THE LATE PETER AND SARAH HILLMAN MOWEN AND
WAS BORN IN JERSEY COUNTY, SEP. 14, 1878. HIS AGE AT THE TIME OF
DEATH WAS SEVENTY-FOUR YEARS, NINE MONTHS AND ELEVEN DAYS. HE
WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS WIFE, MRS. SOPHIA MOWEN.
FRATERNALLY MR. MOWEN WAS A MEMBER OF THE LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
NO. 695 OF JERSEYVILLE. HE IS SURVIVED BY THREE NEPHEWS, ROBERT
MOWEN, CENTRALIA, PRESTON MOWEN, JERSEYVILLE, FRED NEWBERRY,
GODFREY; AND EIGHT NIECES, MRS. MAYNARD DUNHAM AND MRS. RAYMOND
LOFTON, ROSEAU, MINN., MRS. CHARLES BRAY AND MRS. MELVIN GADDY,
ALTON, MRS. JOHN J. MCGUIRE, MRS. LEE MASSEY AND MRS. EDWARD
ROADY, JERSEYVILLE AND MRS. TOBY TYLER OF CENTRALIA. FRIENDS
CALLED AT THE HOME OF MR. MOWEN'S NEPHEW AND NIECE, MR. AND MRS.
JOHN J. MCGUIRE, UNTIL SUNDAY MORNING WHEN THE BODY WAS REMOVED
TO THE JACOBY BROS FUNERAL HOME. FINAL RITES WERE HELD AT THE
FUNERAL HOME SUNDAY AFTERNOON, JUN 28, AT 2 O'CLOCK. REV.
WILLIAM SEALOCK, PASTOR OF THE BAPTIST CHURCH IN KANE,
OFFICIATED AT THE SERVICES AND INTERMENT WAS IN GRIMES CEMETERY.
DATED JUL 1984: FUNERAL SERVICES FOR PRESTON MOWEN,
82, OF 27 OAKWOOD, JERSEYVILLE WERE HELD AT 1 PM SAT. JUL 28, AT
GUBSER'S FUNERAL HOME, REV. R.E. GEORGE OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS
IN THE GRIMES-NEELY CEMETERY WEST OF JERSEYVILLE. MOWEN WAS BORN
IN JERSEY COUNTY, AUG. 3, 1901, THE SON OF WALTER AND AGNES
BROOKS MOWEN. HE DIED AT 5:33 AM. JUL 26 AT GARNET'S CHATEAU. HE
WAS A RETIRED FARMER. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE KANE MASONIC LODGE
AND AINAD SHRINE TEMPLE OF EAST ST. LOUIS. HE WAS MARRIED TO
ANNA WILLIAMS AND SHE DIED IN 1956. HE MARRIED EUNICE KIRCHNER,
IN WATERLOO, IN 1960. SURVIVING ARE HIS WIFE, EUNICE, A SON,
ROBERT MOWEN, JERSEYVILLE, A STEP-DAU. JUANETTA POWERS,
JERSEYVILLE, THREE GRANDCHILDREN, ONE GREAT GRANDCHILD; TWO
SISTERS, NELLIE MCGUIRE, JERSEYVILLE AND EVA BRAY, ALTON. A
DAUGHTER, TWO SISTERS AND HIS PARENTS PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.
SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN AND THE FIRST BAPTIST
CHURCH IN JERSEYVILLE, OF WHICH HE WAS A MEMBER HAVE BEEN NAMED
AS MEMORIALS.
HARDA T. MOWREY, 91, DIED AT 7:10 AM WED.
APRIL 4, 1990 AT JERSEYVILLE CARE CENTER. BORN IN CHRISTENSUND,
NORWAY, SHE WAS THE DAU. OF THE LATE DICK AND NICHALENIA
(STOKKE) THORENSON. ON FEB. 1, 1921, IN FARGO, ND, SHE MARRIED
FRED MOWREY. HE DIED ON AUG. 21, 1979. SURVIVING ARE TWO DAUS.,
DOROTHY CUMMINGS OF CHAMPAIGN AND ELNA CRAWFORD OF KANE, A SON,
MARLIN G. MOWREY OF DUTZOW, MO.; 16 GRANDCHILDREN; 40 GREAT
GRANDCHILDREN AND 28 GREAT-GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. PRECEDING HER IN
DEATH WERE A SON, LYDLE MOWREY; A SISTER, KAREN THORENSON; AND A
BROTHER, THORVEL THORENSON. SHE WAS A LONGTIME MEMBER OF THE
ROYAL NEIGHBORS OF AMERICA. VISITATION IS FROM 4 TO 8 PM FRI AT
AIRSMAN-HIRES FUNERAL HOME IN CARROLLTON. THE ELIZABETH CHAPTER
OF THE ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR WILL CONDUCT RITES AT 7 PM.
SERVICES ARE AT 10:30 AM SAT. AT KANE BAPTIST CHURCH. THE REV.
GAROLD COOPER WILL OFFICIATE. BURIAL IS IN KANE CEMETERY.
MEMORAILS MAY BE GIVEN TO THE EASTERN STAR CHAPTER OF THE
CHURCH, BOTH OF WHICH SHE WAS A MEMBER MORE THAN 60 YEARS.
