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

Obituary. . . Sidney, IL

Hilbert A. Block, 79, died at 5 a.m. Saturday (Jan. 22, 1972) at home. 
He had been in failing health for two years.

Services will be 1 p.m. Monday at Freese Funeral Home at Sidney with
Rev. Edward Lipscomb officiating.  Burial will be in Mt. Hope Cemetery,
Sidney.

Visitation will be 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at the funeral
home.  The family asks tangible expressions of sympathy be made to the
heart fund.

Mr. Block was born Oct. 16, 1892, in Sidney, the son of Henry A. Block
and Elizabeth Bamberger Block.  He married Ella Lehmkukler in
Humingburg, Ind.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, Everett of Sidney and Orville of
Homer; three sisters, Mrs. Ella Erb of Sidney, Mrs, Flora Schwartz of
Sidney, and Mrs. Elma Haas of Sidell; two brothers, Esper of Sidney, and
Kerna of Thousand Palms, Calif.,; Seven grandchildren and  eight
great-grandchildren.

Mr. Block was a member of the Sidney United Church of Christ, the Sidney
Senior Citizens Club and the Knights of Pythias.

He was a past member of the Sidney Community Board of Education which he
served for a number of years.  He was Past tax assessor in Sidney.

He graduated from Brown Business College of Champaign in 1913.  He was a
retired farmer and cabinet maker.


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