Brown County IL Archives Obituaries.....Kunkle, Johanna April 13, 1925 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Eric Bopes ancestry@mchsi.com May 14, 2007, 9:32 pm The Democrat Message, Mount Sterling, Illinois, Wednesday, April 22, 1925 Mrs. Johanna Kunkle After an illness of less than three weeks Mrs. Johanna Kunkle died at the home of her son Anthony Kunkle in Missouri township Monday April 13. Funeral services were held at St. Joseph’s Catholic church of which Mrs. kunkle was a devout member, on the following Wednesday morning at ?? o’clock. Father O'Donoghue, saying the Mass. Interment was made in the Catholic Cemetery in this city. Johanna Schott was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1847, and was married to Anthony Kunkle in Ohio in 1866 and the greater part of their life together was spent on an Illinois farm in Missouri township. When the time to retire came they moved to Mt. Sterling and here Mr Kunkle died in 1907. Five years later the widow, preferring to no longer live alone, sold her home on West Union street and became a member of the Anthony Kunkle household. There she remained, thirteen years, until called into the Great beyond. Mrs. Kunkle is survived by seven children, two others having died in infancy. The sons are Michael Anthony, Frank and George; the daughters are Mrs. Louise Ashbaker, Mrs. Florence Mayfield, Mrs. Clara Henrick, all of whom together with twenty-four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren live in Brown county. Card of Thanks We desire to express our sincere appreciation for the many kind acts and deeds shown us by our friends and neighbors in the death of our Mother. Also for the beautiful floral offerings. The Children. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/brown/obits/k/kunkle44ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ilfiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb