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Stephenson County
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LARRY BACHMAN
, 40, of Long Beach, Calif., formerly of Freeport, died Monday, Feb. 22, 1993, after a brief illness. Born Sep 27, 1952, at Rockford, he was the son of Edwin E. and Irene I. Bachman. Surviving are his mother and stepfather, Harold and Irene Gibson of Minneapolis, Minn.; three sisters, Sherry (Dave) Gregor of Minneapolis, Rebecca (Terry) Barber of Rockford, and Laurie (Gary) Pickett of Long Beach; one niece, three nephews, four aunts and one uncle. Preceding him in death were his father and grandparents, Ralph Bricklen and Louise Martin. Services are pending in California. A memorial fund has been established.
AARON BALLINGER/BALLINGER
, died yesterday morning at 8 o'clock of lagrippe at the county poor farm, after a week's illness, aged 56 years. He lived in this state all his life. The funeral was held at Cedarville at 11 o'clock this morning and the burial took place there.
MARGARET (ENTORF) BALLUFF
, nee Entorf, wife of Dr. William H. Balluff, former resident of Freeport, passed away at her home in Chicago Sunday (17 Sep 1933) following a brief illness. She was born in Freeport and left here about thirty years ago. She is survived by her husband and two sisters, Mrs. Charles Terpening [Jeannette], of Shannon, and Mrs. C. B. Weeks [Gussie], of Santiago, Calif. Funeral services will be held in Chicago this evening and the body will be brought to Freeport. Burial will be...at the city cemetery at 1 o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
ALLEN HENRY BAYSINGER JR.
, 11, of 999 W. Walnut Road, died with his brother, Joshua John, on Saturday, Oct. 31, 1987. He was a fifth grade student at Carl Sandburg School...He was a member of First Church of the Nazarene, AWANA, Freeport Junior Bowling League, YWCA and Tae Kwon-Do...Surviving are his parents of Freeport; two step-sisters, Donna (Mrs. Steven) Elsen of Germany and Debbie (Mrs. Michael) Guentner of Lanark; and paternal grandparents, Clarence and Esther (Kohl) Baysinger of Freeport...He was preceded in death by his maternal grandparents. Joint services...Thursday at First Church of the Nazarene. The Rev. John Hollis, pastor, will officiate. Burial...Chapel Hill Cemetery...
JOSHUA JOHN BAYSINGER
, 10, of 999 W. Walnut Road, died with his brother, Allen Henry, on Saturday, Oct. 31, ...He was a fourth grade student at Empire Grade School...He was a member of First Church of the Nazarene, AWANA, Freeport Junior Bowling League, YWCA and Tae Kwon-Do...Surviving are his parents of Freeport; two step-sisters, Donna (Mrs. Steven) Elsen of Germany and Debbie (Mrs. Michael) Guentner of Lanark; and paternal grandparents, Clarence and Esther (Kohl) Baysinger of Freeport...He was preceded in death by his maternal grandparents. Joint services...Thursday at First Church of the Nazarene. The Rev. John Hollis, pastor, will officiate. Burial...Chapel Hill Cemetery...
ALOYSIUS J. BEAR
, of Freeport, passed away there at the St, Francis hospital, Saturday morning, from spinal meningitis, for which he had been treated in the hospital for three weeks.
Surviving Mr. Bear who was thirty years of age, are his widow, who was formerly Miss Olive Sauer of Rockford, and two children, Francis and Marie.
Funeral services will be held in Freeport Tuesday morning at 9 o'clok at St. Joseph's Catholic church, and burial will be in Freeport.
FRANK BELDT
- Funeral service for Frank Beldt, 1542 W. Hurd Street, who died Monday, August 3, 1964 in a convalescent home in Freeport where he had resided five weeks, will be Thursday afternoon at 1:30 in Burke-Tubbs Funeral Home. Rev. Ralph Cordes, pastor of Community Reformed Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery. Friends may call in the funeral home after 1 p.m. Wednesday.
Mr. Beldt, a Stephenson County farmer who retired 14 years ago and moved to Freeport, was born in Shannon January 20, 1888, son of Frank and Fredrica (Klages) Beldt. He married the former Jessie Fawver in Freeport December 18, 1912. She died November 7, 1949. He married Mrs. Esther Schissler December 11, 1950 in Freeport. (Alice Horner’s note: Her maiden name was Esther Eder.) She survives, as do two sons, Francis J. of Pecatonica, and Raymond E. of Freeport; two step-daughters, Mrs. Orin (Ellen) Busker and Mrs. Francis (Mildred) Black, both of Baileyville; a step-son, Melvin Schissler of Freeport Route 3; 11 grandchildren, and 8 great-grandchildren.
EVA MAY BENNETHUM
- In Cedarville, Dec. 25th, 1878, Eva May Bennethum, aged 2 years, 8 months, and 9 days.
MELVIN R. BERE
, 82, of 4520 W. Caron St., Glendale, Arizona, died Saturday at Glendale Samaritan Hospital in Glendale, Arizona. A memorial has been established in his memory. Mr. Bere was born July 13, 1900 in Hagerstown, Maryland, the son of Tobias and Anne Bere. He moved to Freeport at an early age and served for a time as deputy sheriff in Freeport. He retired from Modern Plating Company in Freeport, and moved to Arizon in 1970. He was a member of the VFW Post 9400 of Phoenix. He is survived by his wife, Adabelle; two daughters, Abbie M. Taylor of Huntington Beach, California, and Clarice Perry of Stockton; two step-daughters, Haroldine Hubble of Phoenix, Arizona, and Betty Gerdes of Glendale, Arizona, and one step-son of Rock Falls
CARRIE (VOSBERG) BERGMANN
, a resident of the Van Buren Nursing Home, died today at the age of 99, following a short illness. She was born December 31, 1967 in Adeline, daughter of Meinert and Mary (Sunbom) Vosberg. On January 28, 1891, she was married to George Bergman in Freeport. (Alice Horner’ note: This date is wrong; the Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900 shows January 28, 1892 in Stephenson County, Illinois.) Until moving to the Van Buren Nursing Home in 1963, she resided at 24 ½ W. Main Street.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Lambert (Virginia) Pettit and Mrs. Walter (Helen) Moss, both of Freeport; two sons, Fred of Fort Wayne, Indiana and Earl of San Jose, California; 17 grandchildren, 57 great-grandchildren, and 18 great-great-grandchildren. Her husband, three sons, seven brothers, and two sisters preceded her in death.
Funeral service will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in Walker Mortuary. The Rev. Karl E. Irwin of First Lutheran Church, of which she was a member, will officiate. Burial will be in City Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Tuesday.
JAMES H. BLACKSTONE
, Palm Springs—A memorial service will be at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Community Church of Palm Springs for Dr. James H. Blackstone Jr., its pastor from 1946 to 1976. Blackstone, 82, led the congregation during most of its 11-year battle with Presbyterian officials over ownership of church real estate.
The Palm Desert resident died Wednesday at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage after two heart attacks. A son, Richard Blackstone of Vista, said he had been in declining health since 1990. Blackstone was named pastor emeritus of the church in 1990. In 1976, the United Presbyterian Church of the USA adopted a doctrine that Blackstone felt was "theologically in opposition to basic biblical principles," his son said. The congregation voted to withdraw from the Presbyterian denomination. A year later, the Riverside Presbytery claimed title to church property at 284 S. Cahuilla Road. Litigation ended in 1979 when the U. S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of rulings that the congregation, formed in 1917 before its Presbyterian affiliation, was entitled to the property. Born Jan. 11, 1909, in Nanking to missionary parents, Blackstone spent his first 14 years in China. After study at the University of California, Los Angeles and Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, he was ordained in 1933. In 1946, he became assistant pastor at the Palm Springs church. Six months later he was named senior pastor. Other survivors include his wife, Jean [Steffen] Blackstone of Palm Desert; another son, James H. Blackstone III of San Jose; three sisters, Beth and Virginia Blackstone, both of Palm Desert, and Barbara Martin of Pasadena; a sister-in-law, Betty Blackstone of Pasadena; a brother-in-law, the Rev. Kenneth W. Wilson of Fallbrook; seven grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
LOUIS BLATTAU
- A young man by the name of Louis Blattau, living in the town of Lancaster, this county, while working in the harvest field on Wednesday last, was prostrated by the extreme heat, and died before assistance could be rendered. Feeling unwell, he was advised by his father to go to the house, but before reaching his destination fell to the ground and instantly expired. He was about nineteen years of age.
CHESTER BOOP
- Funeral services for the late Chester Boop, who passed away Thursday evening in a Freeport hospital, were held Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock in the Pearl City Lutheran Church. Rev. Tressler Bolton, pastor of the church, officiate. (Alice Horner’s note: The Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947 shows his date of death as March 13, 1941.)Pallbeareres were the following neighbors: George Neebel, Rollin Olthoff, Frank Olthoff, Dick Kempel, Albert Neebel, and Warren Woker. Burial weas made in the Highland Cemetery.
Chester Boop was born June 12, 1884, the son of the late John and Sarah (Baldauf) Boop. He was united in marriage to Kate Keltner on July 24, 1902. She survives as do four daughters, Mrs. Grace Finkenbinder of Pearl City, Mrs. Martha Gage of Chicago, Mrs. Marie Hannah of Santa Barbara, Calif., Mrs. Mildred Hayenga of Shannon, and one son, Raymond of Shannon; one brother, Frank of Pearl City; and two sisters, Mary and Laura, both of Freeport. Mr. Boop had been a member of the Pearl City Lutheran Church since 1921.
RALPH W. BRICKLEN
, 79, of 1602 S. Grant, Janesville, died Tuesday at Caravilla. Born Sept. 10, 1905, in Jordan Twp., Green Co., he married Gladys Phillips on June 25, 1966, in Rockford, Ill. He was a former National Guardsman and worked as a carpenter. Prior to retirement, he was employed as a millwright at Sundstrand Corp., Rockford. He had been a Janesville resident since 1970, previously residing in Pecatonica, Ill., and Beloit. Surviving are his wife; a son, Lloyd of Farmerville, LA.; four daughters, Jeanette Lane of Farmerville, Irene Hurd of Freeport, Ill., Nancy Buss and Ginger Binger, both of Pecatonica; a stepson, Elmer Phillips of Janesville; 18 grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren. Services...Friday in Overton Funeral Home, with burial in Shopiere Cemetery...Memorials...American Cancer Society.
NORA MAE (WIKLIN) BROWN
, died at midnight last night after an illness of a little over a week. She became ill while working at the Senate hotel. Her condition (from the first was relized to be serious and the early part of the week , was taken to the hospital in hopes of saving her life. For the last three days, however, no hope have been entertained for her recovery, and her death was expected at any minute. She died from peritonitis and other complications.
Mrs Brown who was the daughter of Mr and Mrs J.K. Wiklin, residing just South of the city limits, was born on December 26, 1884, at Grayville, Edwards county, Illinois. She spent the early part of her life there but later moved to Mt carmel, where she was married several years ago to C>W> Brown. In April 1915, Mrs Brown came to Freeport and has since been making her home with her parents.Shortly after she came here she accepted a position in the dinning room of the Brawester hotel, Where she remained until recently when the dinning room service was discontinued. For the last couple of weeks she has been employed by the Senate.
In the short time Mrs Brown has made Freeport her home, she has gathered around her many friends to whom her death has brought a deep and lasting sorrow. Surviving her are two sons, Bert, and Stewart, also her parents, and three brothers, Ora, John, and Harry. all of whom live in Freeport.
The funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the Wiklin home on South Street. Rev William C. Milliken will conduct the services and interment will be in the city cemetery in Freeport.
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