Henry-Rock Island County IL Archives Obituaries..... Martens DeKezel, Stephanie Sophia November 27, 1971 ************************************************ 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: Sandra L. Elkins Juhl sljuhl1234@yahoo.com May 17, 2012, 1:26 pm The Daily Dispatch Newspaper, microfilm copy, Moline Public Library, Moline, Rock Island County, Illinois, Monday, November 29, 1971, Page 11 **OBITUARY: "MRS. STEPHANIE DEKAZEL The Daily Dispatch Newspaper, microfilm copy, Moline Public Library, Moline, Rock Island County, Illinois, Monday, November 29, 1971, Page 11; Obtained: 09 May 2012 Mrs. Stephanie DeKazel, 91, 2032 35th St., Rock Island, formerly of Kewanee, died Saturday morning in St. Anthony's Hospital. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Kewanee. Burial will be in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Kewanee. Friends may call at the Cavanagh and Schueneman Funeral Home, Kewanee, from 7 to 9 tonight. Rosary will be recited at the funeral home at 7:30 tonight. Stephanie Martens was born in Holland. She was married to Peter DeKazel April 10, 1902, in Holland. After their marriage they came to the United States settling in the Kewanee area. She lived in Kewanee until moving to her daughter's home in Rock Island about three years ago. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Mary Weeks, Kewanee; Mrs. Ray DePauw, Rock Island, with whom she made her home, and Mrs. Cyril VanDaele, Kewanee; two sons, August, Kewanee, and Francis, Rock Island; nine grandchildren; 13 great grandchildren, and one great, great granddaughter; two sisters and a brother in Holland. She was preceded in death by her husband in September in 1963." [Transcribed 09 May 2012, SLJuhl RNBSC, Compiler & Family Genealogist; sljuhl1234@yahoo.com] NOTE: The couple's marriage record from, IJzendijke, Oostburg, Zeeland, Netherlands, states that they, "Peter" Petrus Hendricus DeKezel & Stephanie Sophia Martens were married on 09 April 1902. Additional Comments: Known Children: Augustinus Bernardus de Kesel DeKezel DeKazel, Mary Natalie DeKezel Weeks, Emily Mary DeKazel DeKezel DePauw, Francis Theophiel DeKezel DeKazel, and Elsie E. DeKazel DeKezel VanDaele. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/henry/obits/m/martensd749gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ilfiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb