Mercer County IL Archives Obituaries.....Hand Jacobs Juhl, Florence Mae September 10, 1975 ************************************************ 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 Juhl gsjuhl@peoplepc.com June 7, 2007, 1:15 am THE TIMES RECORD NEWSPAPER, Aledo, Mercer County, Illinois Newspaper OBITUARY FOR FLORENCE MAE HAND JACOBS JUHL 10 SEPTEMBER 1975 "MRS. FLORENCE JUHL, ALEDO -- Mrs. Florence Juhl, 81, of 101 Northwest 5th St., Aledo, died this morning at Mercer County Hospital. Funeral Services will be held at 2 Saturday afternoon at Olin Funeral Home, New Boston, with the Rev. Dale Brehmer, pastor, of the First United Presbyterian Church, Aledo, officiating. Burial will be in the New Boston Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home in New Boston after 1 tomorrow afternoon. Memorials may be made to the First United Presbyterian Church of Aledo. The former Florance Hand was born May 2, 1894 in New Boston, the daugher of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hand. She was educated in New Boston and in 1914 was married to Lewis Jacobs, who died in 1918. In 1919 she married Andrew Jacobs, who died several years ago. On Oct. 28, 1935, she married Peter Juhl. He died in 1970. She moved to Aledo following his death. Survivors include five sons, Wilbur Jacobs, of Davenport, Samuel Jacobs, of Rock Island, Dwaine Jacobs of Portland, Ore., Franklin Jacobs of Andalusia, and George Juhl, of Rock Island; two daughters, Pauline Graber, of Bloomdale, Ohio and Mrs. Nellie Lacaci of Chicago; 16 grandchildren; 27 great- grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild. She was preceded in death by two sons, six stepchildren, two brothers, and one sister." [Transcribed 17 April 2006, SLJuhl, compiler] FUNERAL HOME NOTE: "In Memory of Florence May Juhl, Date of Birth May 2, 1894, Date of Death September 10, 1975, Time and Place of Services, Saturday, September 13, 2:00 P.M., Olin Funeral Home, New Boston, Illinois, Clergyman Rev. Dale Brehmer, Organist Mrs. Shirley Dunn, Place of Interment New Boston Cemetery, Pallbearers Fred Jacobs, Art Jacobs, Jack Jacobs, Burto Harris, Earl Brown Sr., Earl Brown Jr." Additional Comments: She had two brothers and one sister as per her obituary in 1975, but only one of the brothers-Clyde-is known at present (Update, Charles is another brother). Florence was married briefly to Lewis Jacobs, m. 1914 d. 1918, and became a widow within just a few years with her first marriage. She then subsequently married her first husband's brother Andrew Jacobs, m. 1919, divorced bef. 1934. Florence had nine children listed according to her son George Juhl's birth certificate, six were still living in 1975; Wilbur (w. Betty, Davenport, IA), Franklin (w. Virginia, Andalusia, IL.), Samuel (w. Marie, Rock Island, IL-Marie is deceased.), Charles Dwayne (Portland, Oregon & Santa Barbara, CA., deceased), Nellie (Chicago, IL.), Pauline (h. Cook, Graber, of Bloomdale, Ohio). Florence's third marriage was to Peter H. Juhl on the 28th October 1935 in Aledo, Mercer County, Indiana. The Marriage Certificate states: "THIS CERTIFIES THAT Mr. Peter Juhl, of Joy, State of Illinois AND Mrs. Florence Jacobs, of Joy, State of Illinois WERE UNITED IN Holy Matrimony At Aledo, Illinois, According to the Ordinance of God and the Laws of the State of Illinois on the 28th day of October, in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred Thirty - five. Witnesses: Emil A. Anderson and Vern H. Moberg. County Judge of Mercer County, Illinois." "MATHEW, MATHEW, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife and they twain shall be one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder." File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/mercer/obits/h/handjaco55ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ilfiles/ File size: 4.0 Kb