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Note: Dixon Telegraph 1-21-1942 p4 c5 Happy Birthday; Donald Wakenight, 2 Donald Wakenight Donald E. Wakenight, 53, of Prophetstown, died Dec. 16, at CGH Medical Center. Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the Gardner Funeral Home, Prophetstown, burial will follow in Riverside Cemetery, Prophetstown. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-6 p.m. Sunday. A memorial fund has been established. Wakenight was born Jan. 21, 1940, in Dixon, son of Raymond and Ethel (Johnson) Wakenight. He was a graduate of Rock Falls High School. On Jan. 19, 1940 (note wrong date), he married Rita Aldous in Sterling. He had been employed at Northwestern Steel and Wire Co., Sterling, where he worked in the conditioning yard of the 24" mill until retiring in January of this year. Wakenight was a avid gardener, and enjoyed many other things that kept him busy. He is survived by his wife; daughters, Sonya Alden of Rock Falls, Sheila Hendrix of Sterling, Donna Wakenight, Patty Ohnen, Jennifer Wakenight, and JoAnne Wakenight all of Prophetstown; sons, Donald J. and Raymond E. Wakenight, both of Prophetstown; a grandson; his mother, Ethel Quinn of Sterling; his father of Galt; and sisters, Linda Welker of Milledgeville. (note-Its cut of there)
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