Obituary of Allison Guy Guthrie
(A.G. Guthrie)

Source:
Nashville Journal
Nashville, Illinois
December 4, 1947

A.G. Guthrie Funeral services were held Sunday at two o'clock in the United Presbyterian church at Oakdale for A.G. Guthrie, well-known businessman of that community, who died suddenly at his home last Thursday at 4:30 a.m. Interment was in the Oakdale cemetery and Rev. Ralph M. Donaldson officiated with C. Russell Hileman in charge. Organ and piano music was played by Elmer McLean and Mrs. Dalton Rhode respectively and Mrs. Rhode accompanied the soloist, Rev. T.A. Davis. Pallbearers were Curtis Keene, Lee Armstrong and Emmerson Dunn of Pinckneyville and Albert Taft, Henry Soetebeer and Herman Frieman of Oakdale. Allison Guy Guthrie was born in Oakdale November 24, 1977, the son of Thomas J. and Sarah Guthrie. In early youth he was baptized in the Oakdale United Presbyterian church. In 1919 he married Mrs. Blanche Guthrie of Oakdale. The greater part of his life he practiced the carpenter's trade in Pinckneyville, however, in 1937, he and Mrs. Guthrie moved to Oakdale where they were engaged in the hatchery business until the time of his death. He was a friend of all and especially of children and will be sadly missed in the community. He is survived by his widow and two stepchildren, Mrs. Melba Todd and Thomas R. Guthrie; two grandchildren, Dickie and Jean Todd of Pinckneyville; two brothers, Ralph of Danville and Lester of Oakdale; two sisters-in-law, Mrs. Ralph Guthrie and Mrs. Lester Guthrie; two nieces, Mrs. Judith Ann Smith of Danville and Mrs. Julia Henley of Sparta; four nephews, Kemps Kirkpatrick of St. Louis, Merle Kirkpatrick of Muskogee, Okla., Richard Kirkpatrick of Waukegan and Everett Luney of Portland, Oregon. He also leaves other relatives and many friends who expressed their friendship by attending the services and calling at the home.

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