MARY (HUGHES) FAY
, widow of the late Alexander Fay and a resident of Freeport for the past fifty years passed away at her home, 709 South Benton Avenue yesterday after several weeks of illness. Funeral services will be conducted at the home at 8 o'clock Monday morning with a requiem mass at St. Mary's Catholic church at 8:30 o'clock. Rt. Rev. C. F. Conley will celebrate the mass and interment will be made in Calvary cemetery. The rosary will be recited at the home at 8:30 o'clock Sunday night. Mary Hughes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hughes, was born at Lena on July 4, 1856. She was united in marriage to Alexander Fay, who passed away in 1924. Four brothers and five sisters also preceded her in death. Surviving is a daughter Miss Mabel Fay, Freeport. Mrs. Fay was a charter member of St. Mary's court, W. C. O. F., and a member of St. Mary's church. Members of the W. C. O. F and of St. Mary's guild will meet Sunday evening at 8:30 at the Fay home to recite the rosary (Freeport Journal Standard, IL, Page 10, Column 3, March 16, 1940.). She was buried on 18 Mar 1940 at St. Mary's (Calvery) Cemetery, Freeport, Harlem Twp., Stephenson Co., Illinois
Contributed by Julie Rosales
ALICE (DEETS) FENTON
- Mrs. J. B. Fenton, 14 [this age is incorrect since they married 17 May 1883], sister of Mrs. M. S. Owens of Sterling, died at 2:15 o’clock Thursday [01/12/1933] afternoon at her home in Freeport, following an illness of but one week. Pleuro-pneumonia is given as the cause of her death.
The funeral will be held at 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon from the United Brethren church. Burial will be in Freeport.
Mrs. Fenton was widely known and much beloved by many people. Before her marriage she was Alice Deets, and was born on the old Deets farmstead, near Coleta, where she was reared and married. She and her husband began housekeeping and living on the Leo Frederick from, southwest of Milledgeville. They lived there for many years, then moved to Freeport, which had been their home since.
Mrs. Fenton is survived by her husband, by two daughters, Mesdames Earl Miller and Clyde Young and a son, Frank Fenton, all of Freeport. Surviving brothers are Frank and J. L. Deets of Milledgeville, Arthur Deets of Chadwick, and Harry Deets of Lanark. Sisters who are left are Mrs. Mathew S. Owens f Cterling [Sterling] and Mrs. Irene Tucker of California.
Contributed by Larry Reynolds from The Sterling Daily Gazette, January 13, 1933, page 12, column 2
LARRY FOSTER FERRIS
, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Ferris, former Chadwick residents, who now reside at 309 School St., Lena, died a 11 a.m. Friday in the Freeport Memorial Hospital. He had been ill for some time. The body was removed to the Leamon Funeral Home in Lena, where friends may call after 1 p.m. today. Funeral services will be conducted in the Amity Lutheran Church, the Rev. Armin Weng, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in the Chapel Hill Cemetery in Freeport. Larry was born in Sterling on May 22, 1946, the son of Lloyd and Violet Eickert Ferris. They lived in Chadwick until a few years ago when the family moved to Lena. He was a member of the Amity Lutheran Church and the Luther League of the church. He was a freshman in the Lena-Win High School and a member of Boy Scout troop 91. Survivors besides his parents are one brother Kerry, one sister, Peggy, both at home; and his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Minnis Ferris, Chadwick.
Contributed by Melva L. Taylor from the The Daily Gazette, Sterling-Rock Falls, Illinois February 11, 1961 - Saturday, pg 2 col 3
ISAAC J. FOLGATE
, 1428 South Chicago Avenue , a resident of this community for over three-quarters of a century, passed away this morning about 7 o’clock, death coming while he slept. Mr. Folgate was born in Buckeye township November 2, 1855. he was the son of James and Mary Folgate and his boyhood was spent on a farm. He was married January 9, 1881 to Elizabeth Maye, who passed away January 6, 1926.
He is survived by three children, Mrs. Hugo C. Lukerman, Clarence M. Folgate, who with his wife resided with his father, and Mrs. Louis F, Reinhold, all residents of Freeport ; one grandchild, Mrs. W. L. Kroeger, of Iowa City , Iowa , and a brother, William G. Folgate of Ridott.
For many years, Mr. Folgate was employed by the F. A. Read Co. He was a member of Trinity Evangelical Church . Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon, at 2 o’clock at the Walker Mortuary. Rev. J. G. Eller, of Sterling , officiating. Interment will be made at Oakland Cemetery .
Contributed by Alice Horner February 8, 1940 Freeport Journal Standard
LESLIE FARGHER, Freeport’s oldest historian at the age of 103, died Sunday night at Freeport Manor Nursing Home. (The Social Security Death Index gives the date of death as December 1979.) He resided at 655 W. Pleasant St. from 1908 until his recent admission to the nursing home. Born in one of the earliest of the pioneer buildings of Freeport, he lived his entire life in Freeport and attended Freeport grade schools. At the turn of the century, he was engaged in a jewelry business for a short time and then served as office manager for Freeport Water Co. for about 16 years. In 1920 became superintendent of Oakland Cemetery Association and secretary and treasurer of the Cemetery Associating until 1955. He was active in the American Cemetery Association and Illinois Cemetery Associations, serving as one of the organizers and president of the latter.
