Bureau County, IL Obituaries and Death Notices

William Zierlein

Taken From the Henry Republican
October 20, 1881

Died In Wheatland, Bureau county, Oc.t 14, of consumption, William Zierlein, 18.

EMMA (ZIMMERLEIN) FISCHER

Donated by Pat Esterday

Mrs. Fischer of Van Orin Dies at 92

Mrs. Edward (Emma) Fischer, 92, of Van Orin, died early Friday morning in Mendota Lutheran Home where she had been a resident for seven years. She was born Feb. 21, 1882, in Lee County, a daughter of Nicholas and Louise Fetzer Zimmerlein. She was married Jan. 22, 1902, to Edward Fischer in Bureau County, and was a member of St. Paul Church of Christ and its Ladies Aid society. Surviving are a son, Howard of New Bedford; two daughters, Mrs. Gilbert (Florence) Brucker, Mendota, Mrs. Louis (Louise) Fahs, Van Orin; four grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Rebecca Rose, LaMoille. Preceding her in death was her husband in 1963; five sisters, and four brothers. Services were at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Lundquist Funeral home, LaMoille, the Rev. Roland Hostow officiating, and burial was in St. Paul Church of Christ cemetery.

Taken from: The Mendota Reporter  March, 197

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