Clyde Kelley
East Peoria Courier 1971
Submitted by: Tammi
Services for Clyde Kelley, 65, of Whittier, Calif., brother of Mrs. Violet Emery of East Peoria, were held in Peoria Nov. 11 with burial in Swan Lake
Memory Gardens. Mr. Kelley, former of Peoria, died Nov. 6 in La Mirada Hospital in Whittier. He was employed as a butcher at Armour & Co. for 40 years, last working in October of 1966. He was a member of the Eagles Lodge and Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen.Also surviving are his widow, two sons, three daughters, two brothers, another sister, and nine grandchildren. He was preceded in death by one brother and two half-brothers.BACK Tazewell County, IL Genealogy Trails
Archie Raymond King
Submitted by: Wayne Busby jaywayne@earthlink.net
Obituary Metamora Hearld, 23 March 1978, page 17, column 3Archie Raymond King
Archie Raymond King, 79, of 540 E. Jefferson St. Morton, died Saturday, March 18, 1978 at his residence.
Services were held Tuesday at Perry Memorial Home. The Rev. John Arnold officated and burial was in Glen Dale Cemetary, Washington.
Mr. King was born at Buckley Dec. 22, 1898, a son of Henry and Ellen Geiselman King. He married Mabel Clark at Pekin in 1924. She died in 1944. He married Living at Washington Oct. 24, 1946. Surviving are his wife; two stepsons, Living of Ingalls, Kan., and Living of Oklahoma City, Okla; and one stepdaughter, Living of Lowpoint; and one step-grandchild. One brother and three sisters preceded him in death.
Mr. King retired as an ironworker after having been in construction 18 years. He had been a custodian at the Morton post office eight years. He was a member of Morton Christian Church. Memorials may be made to the church.BACK Tazewell County, IL Genealogy Trails
Journal Star (Peoria, IL), May 2, 1996 [ch-2008]
PEKIN -- Maj. Robert E. Keen, U.S. Air Force, retired, 64, of 1422 Jefferson St. died at 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 20, 1996, at Blessing Hospital in Quincy. Born Dec. 17, 1931, in Pekin to Earl and Bertha Wiker Keen, he married Bonnie L. O'Hara. He later married Grace Null.
Surviving are his mother of Pekin; one son, Steven, and one daughter, Tonya Keen, both of Pekin; one stepson, Keith Null, and one stepdaughter, Tina Taylor, both of Pekin; and four sisters, Betty Schrader, Annette Mahr and Doris Bolson, all of Pekin, and Mrs. George (Mary) Sipka of Groveland. He was preceded in death by his father.
A 20-year Air Force veteran, he served in the Korean War, Vietnam War and the Dominican Republic conflict.
He was a stockroom and maintenance supervisor at J.C. Penney Co. in Pekin and Peoria for many years, retiring in 1990.
He was a member of Pekin Moose Lodge 916. Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Woolsey Funeral Home in Pekin.
The Rev. James Kraemer will officiate. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. today at the chapel. Burial will be in Glendale Memorial Gardens.
Memorials may be made to the Illinois Veterans Home in Quincy.
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"Philip Koenig (King) a well known and highly respected old settler of this city, passed to his final reward last Sunday after several years of general debility from advancing age. Philip Koenig was born on the 14th day of August 1829 in Esslingen, by Landau, Rhine Pfals,Germany. He came to this country. in the year 1851 and settled for a time in Rochester, N. Y. In the year 1853 he came to Illinois and settled in Groveland township, where he resided for some time. He came to Washington about twenty-three years ago, where he lived to the day of his death. In 1856, while living in Groveland, he was converted and united with the Evangelical church of which he was a faithful member to the end.
In the year 1858 Mr. Koenig was married to Barbara Powel. To this union were born four sons and one daughter. The sons are Henry, Albert of Chaatsworth, Edward of Mervin, Mo. and Isaiah, and one daughter Anna, now Mrs. Schrock of Fairview, Mich. The children of this union all survive him, though his wife preceded him in death.
On the 3rd of March, 1876, he was again united in marriage. His second marriage was with Mrs. Mary Pelz, who, being a widow, brought two children into the family. Robert and Martha. The daughter Martha died in early youth. To this union were born two daughters, Emma, who departed this life very early, and Sadie, now Mrs. Grove. Thus gathers to his fathers Mr. Koenig. He departed this life after along pilgrimage, continuing through 85 years, 6 months and 14 days. He leaves to mourn his departure a deeply sorrowing wife, four sons, one step-son, two daughters, sixteen grandchildren, eighteen great grandchildren and four great great grandchildren.
Philip Koenig was a man of sterling character, respected by all who knew him. He was faithful to his family and to his church. For a number of years he was a great sufferer, but he bore his sufferings with christian patience. He often expressed his desire to be at rest. This desire was granted him on Sunday morning last, February 28th, when he peacefully fell asleep in Jesus. He rests from his labors and his works do follow him.
Funeral services were held on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Evangelical church, conducted by the pastor G. A. Manshardt. "
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