Logan county Illinois Obituary of Marie Elizabeth Bock Raber


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Obituary of Marie Elizabeth Bock Raber

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

On file in the Lincoln Public Library

The Lincoln Courier, Lincoln, Illinois
Monday, January 22, 1913

Mrs. Mary Raber
     Mrs. Mary Raber, a well known resident of Logan County  and  member  of  an
     excellent family, died at 6:15 o'clock Monday evening, January 20, 1913  at
     the home of her son George Raber in Sheridan  township  aged  65  years  10
     months and 17 days. Death was due to heart failure and other complications.

     Mary Bock was born in Germany on March 3, 1847 and came to America in 1870.
     She located first in Ohio and remained there only 18 months when  she  came
     to Logan county and has remained here the remainder of her  life.  She  was
     married to Ernest Raber, who preceded her in death in the year 1907.

     She is survived by the  following  children:  Mrs.  Minnie  C.  Sparks,  of
     Chester township; George A. Raber, of Sheridan township; Mrs. Ida E. Martin
     of davenport, Neb.; Mrs. Nellie M. Harp of Burtonview; Miss Caroline Raber,
     Island Center, Ia. and Miss Mary Raber at home. She is also survived by the
     following brothers and sisters, Henry and Adam Bock of Lincoln; Fred  bock,
     New Holland; Mrs. George Appell, Mrs. J. H. Wilmert of Atlanta; Mrs. Minnie
     Laun of New Holland.

     The funeral services will be held on Thursday at  11  a.m.  at  the  M.  E.
     church in New Holland with burial in Richmond Grove cemetery.