Malcolm Powell DOD 7-8-1954 Alton, Madison Co., IL ****************************************************************** ****************************************************************** File Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Linda Garrett USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. Unauthorized use for commercial ventures expressly prohibited. All information submitted to this project remains - to the extent the law allows - the property of the submitter who, by submitting it, agrees that it may be freely copied but NEVER sold or used in a commercial venture without the knowledge & permission of its rightful owner. The USGenWeb Project makes no claims or estimates of the validity of the information submitted and reminds you that each new piece of information must be researched and proved or disproved by weight of evidence. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ****************************************************************** ****************************************************************** Malcolm G. Powell, 85, of Rt. 2, Alton, a member of an old Alton family, and a son of the late Professor George W. Powell, who was superintendent of schools in Alton prior to 1900, died at 3:45 p.m. Thursday in Alton Memorial Hospital. He had been in failing health for two years and confined to a wheel chair. His fatal illness began a month ago when he suffered a paralytic stroke. He had been hospitalized since the stroke. A native of Pleasant Mounds, he was born Aug. 3, 1868. He moved with his parents to Alton when he was a youth and attended Shurtleff College. Later he taught in the East Alton schools and in Nebraska. Then for 14 years he was head timekeeper at Illinois Glass Co., predecessor of Owens-Illinois Glass Co., and from 1912 to 1933 was employed as a foreman at Standard Oil Co. After retiring from work at the oil refinery in 1933, he moved to a place on Fosterburg Rd., near Cloverleaf Golf Club, where he had resided for the past 21 years. He was married Oct. 13, 1893 to Miss Amelia Herb, and they were parents of eight children.His first wife died in 1922 and in July in 1927, he was married to Julia Rudershausen of Alton. Surviving in addition to his widow are five sons, Herb, Joseph, and Fred, all of Wood River; Kenneth of East Alton, and Harold of Roselle Park, N.J., three daughters, Mrs. L.D. Palmer, Mrs. Helen Gnerich, and Miss Malinda Powell, all of Wood River; a brother, Harold G. Powell of Clayton, Mo., five sisters, Mrs. Grace Messenger, Cairo; Mrs. Charles Smith, Mrs. Mabel Butler, Mrs. Nell Wade, and Mrs. Harry Sawyer, Alton; nine grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. A sister, Mrs. Bernice Chalk, preceded him in death in 1944. Mr. Powell was a member of Wood River Presbyterian Church, and the Rev. E.E, DeLong of Roxana, a former pastor of first Presbyterian at Wood River, will conduct funeral services Saturday at 2 p.m. in Streeper Funeral Home, Wood River. Burial well be in Woodland Hill Cemetery, Wood River. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today.