Whiteside-Fulton County IL Archives Obituaries.....Dodd, Harold Burt September 10, 1969
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Ellen Crispens ecrispens@tampabay.rr.com February 18, 2006, 3:50 am

Local newspaper Sept 1969
Harold B. Dodd Sr. Succumbs, Rites Are Saturday Afternoon
Harold B. Dodd Sr., 68 Former Sterling resident, passed away Wednesday, 
Sept.10, in New Port Richey,Fl. For the past month he had been making his home 
with a daughter, Mrs. Allen Evelyn Giddings of New Port Richey.
Mr. Dodd was born June 7,1901 in Toulon, Ill., the son of William and Mary Fay 
Driscoll Dodd. He received his education in Glenwood school, Homewood. For a 
period of 40 years he was a painter in the Sterling-Rock Falls area.  He was a 
member of the Painters Union Local 194 at Chicago.  He was united in marriage 
to Clarabelle Cullins Jan 31, 1920 in Dixon. Mrs. Dodd preceded in 1957. 
Survivors include three sons, Harold B. Dodd Jr. of Sterling, Walter Dodd of 
Hennepin, and Fred E. Dodd of Rock Falls, six daughters, Mrs. Allen (Eveyln)
Giddings, Fla., Mrs. Dorothy Regan and Mrs. Beverly Know of Sterling, Mrs. 
Carol Oester of Rock Falls, Mrs. Joyce Mattix of San Francisco, Calif., and 
Miss Toni Dodd of Chicago,  one sister Mrs. Florance Ahlgreen of Chicago, 46 
grandchildren, and 36 great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his 
mother and father, two brothers, one sister and two daughters. 
Funeral services will be held be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in the Melvin 
Funeral Home, The Rev.Brace Johnson, pastor of First Christian Church of 
Sterling officiating. Burial will take place in the IOOF Cemetery, Rock 
Falls.  Friends may call at the Melvin Funeral home from 7 to 9 Friday evening 
and Saturday until funeral time at 1:30. 
A memeorial has been established to the Glenwood School for Boys at Homewood.

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small town newspapers. It has been what has lead me on my quest to search my 
family history. Thank You for having this available to share. Ellen

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