Champaign County IL Archives Obituaries.....Block, Cleopha 
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Everett C. Block d-nicho@uiuc.edu May 1998

Obituary. . . Ortonville, MN, Sidney, IL

Funeral services for Cleopha Block age 84, of Ortonville, MN, were held
2 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 11, at First English Lutheran Church with Pastor
Robert Dalh and Pastor John Vagts officiating.  Special music was
provided by Ruth Schneck, organist and Marlys Selvig, vocalist.  Those
in attendance joined together in the singing of hymns "Just As I Am" and
"Rock of Ages".  

Serving as casket bearers were Donald Buse, Christopher Torgerson, Tom
Weber, Phillip Kellen, Jeffery Redepenning and Scott Roelke.  Honorary
casket bearers were Alan, Dwight and Kyle Schweer, Bradley Kaus, Daniel,
Joel, John and David Schultz, Daniel and Dick Trebil.  Spring internment
will be in Mound Cemetery, Ortonville.  A public visitation and prayer
service was held Wednesday at the Larson Funeral Home, Ortonville.

Cleopha Magdaline Block was born in April 25, 1905 in Sidney, Illinois
to parents Francis and Mary (Bamberger) Block.  in 1910 she moved with
her family to Lakeshore Fruit Farm in Ortonville, MN.  Cleopha completed
her high school education at Ortonville Public High School and then
attended college at Champaign, IL.  She taught school several years in
Northern Minnesota and Nebraska.  Cleopha then returned to Ortonville
where she took care of her parents until 1965.  She then went to
Massachusetts where she worked for the Christian Science Monitor  until
1978 when poor eyesight forced her retirement.  After the death of her
sister she came back to Ortonville to be near relatives at her former
home.  Cleopha passed away Jan. 8, at Ortonville Municipal Hospital.,
Ortonville.

Survivors include sister-in-law Frieda Block of Ortonville; nieces and
nephews, Verna Schultz, Carol Schweer, Aleda Trebil, Elaine Cole, Evelyn
Fulps and Francis Lee Block.  Preceding her in death were her parents;
one sister and two brothers.


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