Champaign County IL Archives Obituaries.....Peters, John Virgil ************************************************ 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: Cindy McCachern mccachern@worldnet.att.net August 2001 Obituary of John Virgil PETERS, Champaign County, Illinois Thursday, 26 February 1959, Villa Grove News (IL) John V. Peters, 53, Succumbs Sunday John Virgil Peters, 53, Villa Grove, retired assembler at the C. S. Johnson Co., Champaign, died at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at Mercy hospital, Urbana, where he had been a patient for 11 days. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Keith Funeral home, Villa Grove, with the Rev. Richard Brownfield of the Methodist church, officiating. Burial was in Villa Grove cemetery. Graveside rites were in charge of Walter Jones post 2876 of the VFW at the cemetery. Mr. Peters was born October 10, 1905 at Villa Grove, son of Norman and Laura Charlton Peters. He was married june 8, 1926 to Mamie Cornwell. Survivors include his wife; his father, Jackson, Mich.; one sister, Agnes Peters, Lincoln; three brothers, Harry, Toledo, O.; and Alfred and Albert, both of Jackson, Mich. He was a member of the Villa Grove Methodist church and had been a resident here all of his life. Mr. Peters was a veteran of World War II, member of the Moose Lodge 985 at Villa Grove and the Villa Grove VFW Post 2876. He retired because of illness in 1951 from the Johnson firm. http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/champaign/obits/jvpeters.txt