O B I T U A R I E S For Whiteside County Illinois
DARLENE (WEST) CANTLIN
- Funeral services for Mrs. Jacob (Darlene) Cantlin, 1008 LeRoy Avenue, Rock Falls, who died in her home Wednesday morning were held on Friday at 1:30 p.m. at the Rock Falls United Methodist Church. The Rev. Lowell D. Allen and the Rev. Ernest C. Carder officiated with burial in Tampico Memorial Cemetery.
Mrs. Ada K Lehman was at the organ during the services and Mrs. Raymond Stroup sang "Crossing the Bar" and "Going Home". The congregation sang "Be Still My Soul." Pallbearers were: Jacob Boesen, James Boesen, Kenneth A. Boesen, Larry Boesen, Roger Zimmerman, Stephen Pearson, Thomas Boesen and William E. Boesen, all grandsons. Flowers wer cared for by Lundstoms
JACOB CANTLIN
- A prominent Rock Falls attorney, Jacob Cantlin, died Sunday afternoon (17 Aug 1969) in his home, 1008 LeRoy Ave., at the age of 84. He had practiced law 62 years before retiring in May of this year. For 50 years Atty. Cantlin served as city attorney for the City of Rock Falls.
There will be visitation from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday (tonight) and from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday in the Wheelock-Allen Funeral Home, Rock Falls. The body will be taken to the Rock Falls United Methoidist Church at noon Wednesday to lie in state until the funeral. Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in the church with the Rev. Ivan Obenshain, a former pastor officiating, assisted by the Rev. Harvey E. Shiffer, pastor emeritus of the Rock Falls Chrisitan Church. Burial will be in
Tampico Memorial Cemetery.
Born Jan. 5, 1885, Jacob Cantlin was the son of James and Mary Aumiller Cantlin, at Williams, Iowa. He spent his early years in Earlville, Ill., and in to Tampcio. He graduated from Tampico High School and from the University of Illinois College of Law in 1906. He opened his first law office in Rock Falls on June 3, 1907. On May 10, 1911, Jacob Cantlin and Darlene West were married in Tampico by the late Rev. Potter. They had been married 58 years last May.
Surviving with Mrs. Cantlin are three daughters, Mrs. Kenneth (Helen) Boesen of Rock Falls, Mrs. Ethel Zimmerman of Moorehead, Minn., and Mrs. Kenneth (Marjorie) Pearson of Westwood, N.J.; 15 grandchildren; 12 great grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. George (Ida) Gresty of Osakis, Minn. A daughter, Marian, preceded in death.
Being a strong supporter of Rock Falls, Atty. Cantlin was active in the growth of the city and served in many capacities of community life. He was a member of the Rock Falls High School and Elementary School Boards of Education and of the Rock Falls United Methodist Church where he gave many years of service as Sunday School superintendent and as a member of the Board of Trustees.
Atty. Cantlin was active in the Rock Falls Rotary Club and the Odd Fellows Lodge. He gave many years of service to the Boy Scouts, being a member of the Executive Board and the Advisory Committeee. He was awarded the Silver Beaver Award for meritorious service.
A past Whiteside County Chairman of the Democratic Central Committee, Atty. Cantlin was a delegate to many national conventions of the Democratic Party. He was affiliated with the Illinois and the Whiteside County Bar Association during his long career in the practice of law.
FRED CARSTENSEN
- Funeral services for Fred Carstensen were held at the home of his son-in-law, Harold Fisk, west of Prophetstown, Thursday afternoon, conducted by Rev. I. C. Campbell, pastor of the Congregational Church. Selections were sung by Mrs. H. H. Waite and Mrs. V. R. Olmstead. Interment was in Riverside Cemetery at Prophetstown. The pallbearers were Axel Anderson, Roy Fisk, Bert Butzer, Clarence Goddard, John E. Anderson and Clarence Olinger.
Fred Carstensen was born in Erie in October, 1878. In 1901 he married Mrs. Mary Santee of Spring Hill and they resided on a farm near Erie. For the past 16 years they have lived on their farm in Portland Township, about two miles west of Prophetstown. He is survived by his widow and four children, Thomas of Portland, Oregon; Fred Jr., at home; Mrs. Harold Fisk of Prophetstown; Mrs. Jeannette Secord of Sterling, and two step-daughters, Mrs. C. R. Wildman of Prophetstown and Mrs. Edson Smith of Clinton, Iowa; also his father, Henry Carstensen, and one brother John, both of Erie. The funeral was largely attended by relatives and friends.
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JAMES VICTOR CERNICH
- 90, died Tuesday evening in Community General Hospital, Sterling, following an extended illness. Friends may call at the Schmitt Chapel after seven o'clock this evening and a rosary will be recited in the chapel at 8:15 p.m.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday in St. Mary's Catholic Church, Tampico, with the Rev. Eugene Parker officiating. The burial will be in
St. Mary's Cemetery, Tampico.
James Victor Cernich was born in Hungary, July 15, 1881, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cernich. He received his education in the Chicago schools and was united in marriage in Chicago with Margaret Brophy, July 25, 1925. He had resided in the Tampico vicinity for 25 years and was a member of St. Mary's Church and the Operating Engineers Union.
Surviving are his wife at home in Tampico, one daughter and two sons, Mrs. Jerry (Ollie) Harrington of Hollywood, Calif., Thomas at home and John of RFD Tampico. There are four grandchildren. Mr. Cernich was preceded in death by his brothers and sisters in Hungary.
PATSY CLENTANO
, 70, retired owner and operator of a local bus line some years ago, died Monday (20 June 1966) in Clearwater, Fla., according to messages received here.
Funeral services will be held there Wednesday, with a requiem mass in Light of Christ Catholic Church, of which she was a member. Burial will be in Sylvan Abbey Memorial Park in Clearwater.
Surviving are his wife, Erma J. Celentano; four sons, Tony and Nick of Freeport, Long Island, N.Y., Mario Celantano, in California, and Pat M. Celentano, Tucson, Ariz.; a daughter, Mrs. Mary Brooks, Pasadena, Calif.; and 12 grandchildren.
JEFFREY COLEMAN
- Funeral services were conducted at the Milledgeville Brethren Church Tuesday, for Sgt. Jeffrey Coleman, 22, who died in an accident at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany, April 16. The Rev. James Black officiated. Serving as pallbearers were Ron Watkins, Roger Bowers, Jeff Foster, Jerome Ray, Jerry Brown and Jim Baker. Burial was in Oak Knoll Memorial Park, near Sterling. Sgt. Colemand entered the service on Jan. 3, 1973. He underwent training at Lakeland AFB, Tex., left for Germany on Jan. 28, 1975, and was stationed at Ramsted AFB, at Ramstein, Germany. He was with the 86th security police with the miliary dog section.
MARGARET COLEMAN
, aged 75 years, of Clinton, Ia., passed away Saturday morning (13 Feb 1832) at the home of her daughter, Mrs. William Adams, where she had been ill for the past two months. Funeral services were held Monday at 9:30 o'clock in the St. Mary's Catholic Church, with Rev. Fr. T. O. Maguire officiating.
Requiem high mass was sung by Rev. Ft. T. O. Maguire, assisted by Eldon Adams and Richard Graham. The choir consisted of Mrs. Harry Keefe, organist, assisted by Mrs. William Dawson and Herman Linden. Mrs. Keefe sang two beautiful selections, one following the mass and one during the offertory. Friends acting as pallbearers were Frank Egan, Charles McManus, William Egan, Thomas Egan, John McGuire and John Welch.
The surviving children are: Joseph Coleman of Omaha, Nebr., Mary H. Coleman of San Francisco, Calif., Mrs. William Adams and Mrs. Leo Graham of Tampico, and Mrs. Delia DeHaven and Frank Coleman of Clinton, Ia. There are also 19 grandchildren and two great grandchildren who survive. One daughter, Mrs. John Schwamberger, preceded her in death.
Among those from out of town were: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Devine and Mrs. James Harris of Clinton, Ia., Mrs. Sadie McEnroe of Peoria, Mrs. John Petrie, Miss Nettie McManus, Charles and Ben McManus, Mr. and Mrs. Hellem and two children, Matt Hutton, Mrs. Vock, Mrs. Knoll, and Mrs. Fisher of Sterling, and Mrs. Henry Petrie and daughter Rose of Harmon.
MARY KATHRYN (DAVIS) COLEMAN
, of Santa Ana, Calif., formerly of the Erie area died Sunday morning in a hospital in Santa Ana after an extended illness. The body was brought to the Schilling Funeral home, Erie, where arrangements are pending.
The former Mary Kathryn Davis was born June 13, 1934 in Moline, the daughter of Glenn and Kathryn Wilkenson Davis.
She is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Davis, R.R. 1, Albany and one sister, Mrs. Wesley Call, East Moline. She was preceded in death by one brother.
(Services were Friday in the Erie Baptist Church, with burial in Erie Cemetery.)
GENEVIEVE (SEGNERI) CONCOTELLI
- (Beginning of obituary missed) ...... Burial will be in Cemetery, Sterling. Visitation will be from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Friday at the funeral home with a scripture service at 8 p.m. A memorial has been established. Mrs. Concotelli was born Jan. 4, 1912 in Ferentino, Italy, the daughter of Louis and Angeline (Fern) Segneri. She married Dominic Concotelli Sept. 26, 1930 in Sterling. She worked as a cook in Dixon high School cafeteria prior to her retirement in 1974. She was a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Dixon, and the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women.
Survivors include her husband; three sons, Richard (Rosemary) of Las Vegas, Nev., Eugene (Kathy) of Greendale, Wis., and James of Lexington, Ky.; four daughters, Mrs. James (Rosemary) Johnson of Dixon, Mrs. Paul (Mary Jane) Leffalio of Flower Mound, Texas, Mrs. Bill (Anna) Gordinier of Geneva and Gina Concotelli of La Jolla, Calif. She was preceded in death by two brothers.
MABLE LOUISE (GIFFORD) CORBIN CONROY
, 90, of Tampico passed away early Sunday (20 Jul1969) in the Prophets Riverview Nursing Center, Prophetstown, following a lengthy illness.
Funeral services will be held Thursday at 11 a.m. in the Schmitt Funeral Chapel, the Rev. Raymond Good of the Tampico First United Methodist Church officiating, with burial in Tampico Memorial Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Wednesday.
Mabel Conroy was born Aug. 10, 1878 in Tampico, the daughter of Charles F. and Mary Jane Gifford. She was educated in the Tampico schools. She married George E. Corbin in Los Angeles, Calif., and he preceded her. She married John M. Conroy at the Methodist parsonage in Tampico and he preceded her in 1945. She lived in the Tampico area all her life, having spent 40 years on a farm south of Tampico before moving into Tampico to live with a daughter. She was a member of the Tampico First United Methodist Church and lifelong member of the Harmony Club of the Church.
She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Geraldine Dawson of Indio, Calif.; Mrs. August (Margaret) Brandau of Tampico; Mrs. Austin (Helen) Ulrich of Peoria; one son, Robert E. Corbin of Mariposa, Calif., seven grandchildren, two great grandchildren.
She was preceded by her parents, two sisters, Mrs. Agnes L. Wahl and Mrs. Ella Jennings, four brothers, Harry L., Arthur L., Julius L., and Goron L. Gifford.
ROBERT CORNSTUBBLE
, 68, of 1402 Cornelius, Joliet, died Thursday at St. Joseph Hospital, Joliet. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Allen Funeral home in Sterling, with Rev. Dr. H. C. Hatton, pastor of the First Church of the Nazarene officiating. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery. Visitation is Friday (tonight) from 7-9 p.m. at the Allen Funeral home.
He was born Oct. 10, 1909 in Little Rock, Ark., the son of Henry and Mary Branson Cornstubble. He married Gladys Thompson on April 13, 1942 in Fairfield, Ill. The couple resided in Sterling for 14 years and he was employed as a construction worker prior to his retirement. He was a member of the Moose Lodge in Joliet.
Survivors include his widow; two daughters, Mrs. Walt (Sandra) Mullan of Sterling, and Mrs. Robert (Mary) Menz of Rock Falls; three sons, Robert Jr. and Lester, both of Joliet and Steven at home; two sisters, Mrs. Iva Clark of Colorado Springs, Colo., and Mrs. Lasca Wilson of Arizona; one brother, Marshall Cornstubble of Fairfield, Ill.; 15 grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents and several brothers and sisters.
AGNES (TAYLOR) COWAN
- Died - Mrs. David Cowan, at the home of her son, R. S. Cowan in Rockford, Illinois, Monday, April 6, 1903, at 6 o'clock a. m., aged 79 years, 11 months and 11 days.
Agnes Taylor was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, April 25, 1823, and came to America in the spring of 1857, leaving her parents in the native land. She was of that hardy heroic Scotch spirit that so well fitted her for pioneer life on the raw prairies of Illinois, where she born the trials and responsibilities as they came upon her in after years. The loneliness of the long busy days with scarcely a house in sight, was made cheerful by the repeating of para phrased psalms of which Mrs. Cowan knew a great number. They were a great solace to her, all her life. In the early fifties, two hardy young Scotchmen sailed for America and chose their location in Whiteside county, Illinois. They were John Boyd and David Cowan. By diligence and frugality they saved enough in three years to justify them in bringing to their assistance two bonnie lassies from Scotland. Mr. Boyd returned to Scotland and was married there, in the spring of 1857. When Mr. and Mrs. Boyd returned to America, Miss Agnes Taylor accompanied them, landing in Whiteside county early in April of that year, and on the 10th of that month, she was married to David Cowan at Unionville. Mr. Cowan had bought land in Ustick township, five miles northwest of Morrison, and built a small house on it. It was there that he and his happy bride made their home and reared their family. They continued to live on that place until 1896, when they removed to Fulton, Illinois, and made their home with their son, Robert. When Robert moved to Rockford in the spring of 1902, they went also, and it was there that Mrs. Cowan's long and useful life was terminated, by an attack of insidious and dangerous malady, the LaGrippe, from which she suffered much. Her husband and all the children except Mrs. Parker were at the bedside before the hour of unconsciousness came, and when her spirit took its flight. The deceased became a member of the Presbyterian church at Morrison soon after reaching America. When she moved to Fulton her membership was transferred to that church and remained there until her death. Mrs. COwan was a woman of deep inward principle, rather than of outward demonstration. No one ever heard her make a boast of her religion, and yet one could not be long in her presence without being well convinced that he was in the company of no ordinary christian. It was her very life, and she lived it spontaneously. Those who knew her best looking back on her life, cannot recall a single instance wherein she spoke or acted in a way that she would have cause to regret. She was very conscientious and felt the responsibility of training her children right. Although she lived more than five miles from church, the children were gotten ready regularly on SUnday morning and taken to church and Sunday School. On Saturday afternoon before her death, she called her husband, children and grandchildren to her bedside one by one and talked to them. The whole burden and spirit of her counsel was. "Children, be good." This was characteristic of her not only on this occasion, but all through her life, and her example was the best emphasis possible to her words. Mrs. COwan leaves to mourn her loss, her husband, two sons, Robert S., of Rockford; A. T. of Polo; two daughters, Mrs. Mary Parker of El Reno, Oklahoma; and Miss Elizabeth of Polo, all of whom were present at the funeral except Mrs. Parker. On daughter, Margaret, died May 12, 1872, at the age of 5 years. Mrs. COwan was one of a large family of brothers and sisters, only one of whom survives her, Archibald Taylor of Burlington, Vermont. The funeral was held at the home of Mrs. Robert Taylor in Morrison, Wednesday, April 8, at 1 o'clock, Rev. Cary F. Moore of Fulton, officiating. Burial at Grove Hill cemetery, Morrison, Illinois.
DAVID COWAN
- died Thursday, March 21, 1907, at the home of his son, Polo, Illinois, aged 84 years, 8 months and 25 days, after an illness of two weeks. The subject of this sketch was born near Glasgow, Scotland, June 26, 1822, and came to America in 1854 settling near Morrison, Illinois. On April 10, 1857, he was united in marriage with Agnes Taylor and to them were born five children, two of whom, Margaret and Robert S., preceded him in death. The children still living are Archibald T. and Elizabeth W. Cowan of Polo and Mrs. Mary A. Parker of El Reno, Oklahoma. After following the occupation of farming for forty-two years, in the fall of 1896 on account of failing health, he with his wife moved to Fulton, Illinois, to reside with their son, Robert S. In the spring of 1902 they accompanied his to Rockford to live, and it was at this place on April 6, 1903, that his wife passed to the Great Beyond. After the death of his son, R. S., which occurred September 1, 1903, he came to Polo in which place he continued to reside until the time of his death. The deceased was for many years a member of the Presbyterian church in Morrison and at the time of his death was a member of the Presbyterian church in Fulton having transferred his membership upon moving to that place. For four or five years prior to his death feeble health prevented his attending church services, but this fact only added to his love for studying the Bible. This book in his declining years was his greatest comfort. When on the farm he was an industrious hard working man; was an earnest supporter of the public schools and suffered privations that his children might have the advantages of an education. He was a strong advocate of temperance and was ever ready to take a firm stand on the side of right on all questions. He was a kind father and his place will be missed in the home from which he has gone. The funeral services were held from the house Saturday morning at nine o'clock. Rev. P. B. Holtgreve officiating. The body was taken to Morrison where brief services were conducted at Grove Hill cemetery at 1:30 o'clock. The pall bearers in Polo were Henry Coffman, H. L. Holly, M. L Bellows, W. T. Smith, W. L. Fearer, Aaron Perrine and S. Betebenner. Rev. Holtgreve accompanied the family to MOrrison and conducted the services at the grave.
BETTE (FLORENCE) CRANDALL
, 58, of Erie, died Saturday in her home. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Erie Christian Church with the Rev. Dale Erickson, officiating. Burial will be in the Erie Cemetery. Visitation is from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Monday at the Schilling-Reedy Funeral Home, Erie. Memorial may be made to the Erie Christian Church New Organ Fund.
The former Bette Florence was born Nov. 14, 1923in Erie, the daughter of Edgar and Jennie (Pyse) Florence. She was united in marriage to LeRoy Crandall on Nov. 25, 1945 in Erie She was an elementary music teacher for the Erie Community Unit 1 School District for 31 years, retiring this spring. She was a graduate of Erie High School, received her bachelor's degree from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb and her master's degree from LaVerne College in LaVerne, California. She was a member of the Erie Christian Church, music director and organist at the church for many years. She was a member of the Evangeline Chapter 52, Order of the Eastern Star, the Modern Homemakers and the Delta Kappa Gamma Sorority.
She is survived by her husband, LeRoy; one daughter, Mrs. Kay (Vicki) Spidahl, Monroe, Wisconsin; two sons, Terry, Glen Ellyn, and Donald, Cary; two grandchildren; her mother, Mrs. Jennie Florence, Erie,and two brothers, Edgar Jr., Morton Grove and Donald, Moline. She was preceded in death by her father.
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