Obituaries for Kankakee County, IL

Mary E. Anderson
Mrs Mary Anderson - Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Margaret (Hepburn) Meharg was born December 14, 1868 at Kankakee, Illinois. She died at her home, 316 East Eighth St, Russell, KS on November 9, 1957, Saturday evening at 8 pm. Her age was 88 years, 10 months and 26 days. In 1873 she came with her parents to Kansas. The family settled in Russell County and she has been a resident of Russell since that year. She attended school, grew to womanhood on the farm home of the Shannon Community. On November 27 1887 she was united in marriage to Christopher Anderson. There were eight children born to this marriage; one son, Nelson, preceded her in death. These are but facts or statistics in the life of Mrs Anderson. But to her children, grandchildren, sisters, neighbors and friends, her life does not have to be eulogized. Along with rearing a large family through those many years of tribulations with which so many of these pioneer mothers contended with, she was always ready to extend a helping hand to anyone that was hungry or in distress. As a practical nurse she cared for a lot of older people in her home before the time of Nursing Homes. So to treasure her memory are: her children, Mrs Tora Rock, Navarre Kan; Mrs Susie Luckenbough, Abilene Kan; Chris Anderson, Ponca City Okla; Arnie Anderson, Russell Kan; Tom Anderson, Bunker Hill, Kan; Fred Anderson, Russell, Kan; John Anderson, address not known at this time. There are 12 grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren, and 1 great-great-grandchild. Also two sisters, Mrs Josephine Dietrich, Hoisington, Kan; Mrs Robert Heckman, Temple, Penn; two brothers and three sisters preceded her in death. Many other relatives and a host of friends. Services - held Wednesday, November 13, 1957 from the Deines Brothers Funeral Home at 10:30 am, Rev Lawrence Life of the Evangelical United Brethern Church officiated. Quartet - LW Banker, OG Rouse, Don Kready, Rudy Parker. Casket Bearers - Marion Weeks, Leland Weeks, George Weeks, Ray Meharg, Earl Harzman, Mayo Anderson. Hymns - In the Garden and Going Down the Valley. Final Resting Place -Cross Plains Cemetery.

[Unknown newspaper, Submitted By: Kyle M. Condon]

Henry Bigelow
HENRY BIGELOW, CIVIL WAR VET, DIES WEDNESDAY
Henry Bigelow, veteran of the Civil war and Kankakee county pioneer , died Wednesday after several months illness at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Fannie Briggs of 1196 South Fifth avenue, in this city.
Henry Bigelow was born September 4, 1839 (looks like 9, poor copy), in Essex county N. Y. He lived there until he was 19 years old when he came to Kankakee county. When the Civil war broke out in 1860, he enlisted in the Union army and served throughout the war. At the Conclusion of the war he retunred home and was married to Miss Jennie Palmer. Mrs. Bigelow died November 18, 1905.
Twelve years aog Mr. Bigelow left the farm which had been his home for many years and came to Kankakee.
He is survived by two daughters - Mrs. Belle Stevens of Salisbury, Mo, and Mrs. Fannie Briggs of Kankakee, one brother, Titus Bigelow of New York, seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. One daughter, Mrs. Emma Pitcher died several years ago. Mr. Bigelow was a member of the G.A.R.(Grand Army of the Republic)
The funeral will be held from the hertz funeral parlor on Friday at 2 p.m. The Rev. J. A. Johnson officiating. Burial will be in the Hawkins cemetery.
[Kankakee Daily News, Oct 9, 1924 - Submitted By JBargeon]

Jerry D. Brumitt
Jerry D. Brumitt of Pendleton Indiana,fomerly of Kankakee, who had his roots in Johnson County passed away Thursday June 16,2011 at St. James Medical Center in Anderson Indiana after a sudden illness. He was born September 19, 1938 in Kankakee the son of William Brumitt and Milderd [Moore] Brumitt who preceded him in death.
He served in the United States Marine Corps from 1960 to 1964. He is survived by his wife of 43 years Jane Brumitt of Pendleton Indiana, two sons Michael Brumitt of Indianapolisand Gary Brumitt of Pendleton; one brother and two sisters Rodney Brumitt, Patsy Brumitt and Joyce Toronjo all from Kankakee; two brothers-in-law David Devening and Kenneth Devening both of Ohio and several nieces , nephews and great-nieces and grand-nephews. [The Daily Journal, 6/20/2011 - Submitted by a Friend of Free Genealogy]

Maude Brumitt
MAUDE BRUMITT OF KANKAKEE DIES; RITES THURSDAY
Mrs. Maude Ann Brumitt 85, of 1329 S. Sixth ave., who was born in Ozark, Johnson County and has lived in Kankakee for the past 67 years died Monday. She was born on Feb. 13, 1884 the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David H. Lawrence. She married David Brumitt in Kankakee April 10, 1911. He died in 1963. Surviving are daughters, Mrs. Thomas Billadeuu and Miss Orpha Brumitt, both of Kankakee, and one grandchild. Services were held at 1:30 p.m. at Yates Orrison funeral home with the Rev. Roy Goodell officiating. Burial will follow in Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be at the funeral home Wednesday afternoon and evening and until the time of the services on Thursday. [Kankakee Daily Journal, 1969 - Submitted by a Friend of Free Genealogy]

Mrs. David Greenawal
Mother of Ray Greenawalt Dies in Illinois; Was 93
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Greenawalt were grieved Saturday evening when they received a message telling of the death of the former's mother, Mrs. David Greenawalt which occurred that evening at her home southeast of Momence, Ill., following an illness of only about an hour. She was 93 years old. She is survived by six children, three having preceded her in death. Also twenty-one grandchildren and twenty great - grandchildren. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon at the Methodist church in Momence, of which she was a member and was attended by many sorrowing relatives and friends. Those attending from Monon were Mr. and Mrs. Ray Greenawalt and daughter, Margery, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Legan, Mr. and Mrs. Miles Lamport and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Gross. [The Monon News December 19, 2009 - Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]

Rev. John T. Smith
(Buried in Manteno - Kankakee County)
Funeral Rites Held For Rev. Smith Wednesday
Funeral services for The Rev. John T. Smith, administrator of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, who died suddenly, was conducted Wednesday, with a solemn mass in Sacred Heart Church, with The Most Rev. L. T. Lane, bishop of the Rockford diocese, the celebrant. The body had been taken to the church Monday afternoon from the Grennan and Son Funeral Home to lie in state until the hour of the services. Later the body was taken overland to Manteno, Ill., where burial services were conducted Thursday morning in St. Joseph's Cemetery.
Bishop Lane was assisted at the requiem mass by the Rev. Frank Bonnike, St. Mary Church, as deacon; Rev. Michael Shanahan, director of the diocesan Catholic Charities, subdeacon; Rev. Edward Coakley, St. Patrick's Church, McKenry, and Rev. Raymond Gordon, St. Bridget's Love's Park, deacons of honor; Rev. Donald Shuler, Rockford, master of ceremonies, assisted by Rev. John Moroney, St. Mary Church, Sterling; Rev. Walter Roberts Immaculate Conception Church, Fulton, preacher.
Others assisting were Rev. Daniel Geohagan, chaplain of St. Anthony's Hospital, Rockford; Rev. William Boland, St. Mary's, Morrison; Rev. Paul Kimkel, Byron; Rev. Lawrence London, assistant pastor of St. Andrew's, Rock Falls; Rev Thomas Green, St. Patrick's, Dixon. The mass was sung by the Priests' Choir of the Rockford Diocese. There were about 100 clergy in attendance, as well as a large number of nuns from St. Mary parish and from the surrounding community. The active pallbearers were Paul Loos, Jr., Carl Gartner, Donald Hutten, Chester Anning, John Barthelme, and Al Dieterle. Honorary pallbearers were Roland Devine, John McDonnell, B. E. Austin, William Doyle, Edward Mee and Dr. F. L. Rubright.
The Daily Gazette, Sterling, Illiinoi May 31, 1957 - Friday, pg 6 - Submitted by Melva L. Taylor

Hazel Susman
Hazel Susman, 94, died Monday at CGH Medical Center, Sterling. Local arrangements are being handled by Grennan Funeral Home, Sterling. Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Wednesday at Hertz-Thomas Funeral Home, Kankakee. Burial will be at Mount Grove Cemetery, Kankakee.
Mrs. Susman helped organize the Heart of Illinois Women's Club and was a member of the Sterling Woman's Club. She and her husband formerly operated the "SND" Discount Department Store in Sterling.
She is survived by her husband, Maurice; a daughter, Elvetta Pistach, Kokomo, Ind.; two sisters, Viola Posken, St. Louis, Mo.; Luella Mae Schultz, Bradley, Ill.; one brother, Everette Meyers, Manteno, Ill.; several grandchildren, great grandchildren, nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by a son and three brothers. [Sterling Gazette September 18, 1990 - Thursday, pg A2, Sub. by Melva L. Taylor]

Mary E. Porter
DIES IN ILLINOIS -- Ray Greenawalt, daughter Margery and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Legan went to Kankakee. Ill. Wednesday morning of last week and in the afternoon attended funeral services for Mrs. Greenawalt's mother, Mrs. Mary E. Porter, at the First Baptist church in Momence, Ill. Mrs. Porter passed away November 3rd at St. Mary's hospital in Kankakee at the age of 81 years. Mrs. Greenawalt, who had been at Kankakee two weeks, returned home with her family Wednesday evening. [Monon, Indiana - Friday, November 14, 1941 - Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]

Kankakee County Obituaries