Logan County Illinois  Biographies for Kermit Dale Laun and Ruth Josephine Osborn

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Biographies of Kermit Dale Laun and Ruth Josephine Osborn
History of Logan County Illinois 1982
- Ruth Josephine Osborn

     Transcription by William L.  Stephenson,  Jr.,  -  Historian,  Bock  Family
     Association

     A lifetime Logan County resident, Kermit [Dale] Laun was born  in  Lincoln,
     August 14, 1920. He is the only son of Henry [Adolph] and Marie Groth Laun.
     His sister Audrey [Mae] Laun Tomlin resided in  Greenview  [Menard  County]
     Illinois in 1982. Kermit was educated in the New Holland schools, graduated
     from New Holland High School in 1938. He married Ruth Josephine Osborn  who
     is also a native of New Holland, a daughter of Walter  and  Mildred  Bracey
     Osborn. Her father, Walter, was raised in Mason County, one of four sons of
     Frank and Mary Jane Fletcher Osborn. Mildred is the daughter  of  John  and
     Lydia Huffman Bracey. Josephine (Jo) also has  a  sister,  Lydia  Lemme  in
     Lincoln Illinois.

     Kermit is a trustee and  secretary  of  the  New  Holland  Fire  Protection
     District and trustee of  Sheridan  Township.  He  is  active  in  the  Zion
     Lutheran Church, and held offices such as chairman, elder and secretary  of
     the congregation.

     Kermit and Jo have resided on a family farm  one-half  mile  north  of  New
     Holland since their marriage in 1942. The following children were raised in
     this home and educated in the New Holland  schools:  Gregory  (1947),  Jill
     Marie (1950), and Christie Jo (1952).

     Gregory graduated from Southern  Illinois  Univeristy,  with  a  degree  in
     Agriculture. He entered the Armed Forces in 1970 serving with the 37th Army
     Air Defence Command  Headquarters.  He  was  stationed  in  Kaiserslautern,
     Germany, and was discharged in  1972.  He  was  employed  in  1982  at  the
     Illinois Office of Tourism, Department of Business and Economic Development
     as a photographer and resided in Springfield, Illinois.

     Jill Marie married James Rimington of Elmwood,  Illinois.  They  were  both
     music majors at Bradley University. In 1982, Jim was teaching music in  the
     J.D. Darnall High School in Geneseo, Illinois where they resided. They have
     tow children: Angela Marie and James Ryan Rimington.

     Christie Jo married  Steve  Hinch  of  Bloomington,  Illinois.  She  is  an
     Interior Decorator  for  the  Sherwin  Williams  Paints  and  Interiors  in
     Lincoln. She graduated from Midstate College in Peoria. Steve  is  employed
     at M>I>I> Inc as a cabinetmaker. They lived in  a  country  home  one  mile
     north of New Holland which belonged to her grandmother, Mildren Osborn, and
     has been in the family since the land was settled by Brice  and  Mary  Jane
     Caldwell in 1855. They have one son, Bradley Robert Hinch.