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Note: Mr. John Ehlers (Unknown Newspaper) Outstanding Citizen of the Community Called In Seventy Sixth Year - Funeral Services On Last Wednesday The Altamont News of last week carried an announcement of the passing of Mr. John Ehlers, at the Mark Greer Hospital early on Tuesday morning of last week. In the going of this good man, Altamont loses a useful citizen, his neighbors a friend of exceptional worth, and the family of a devoted, loving husband and father. Funeral services were conducted on last Wednesday afternoon from the First M.E. Church by the pastor, Rev. J. W. Webster, with interment following at Union Cemetery. Mrs. Ehlers and two of the three daughters were unable to attend the last rites because of injuries suffered in the automobile accident. John William Ehlers, son of the late Johann Christian Ehlers, was born at Blue Island in Cook County on July 13, 1859. He reached the age of seventy five, one month and fifteen days. When Mrs. Ehlers was a lad of nine summers the family moved to this community and to the present Ehlers farm home, adjacent to the city on the northeast. A year later the father passed away, leaving Mrs. Ehlers with four children. Undaunted, courageous and kindly considerate, the mother kept the little flock together. The old home stands in all its beauty as a memorial to loving devoted motherhood. Mr. Ehlers from the date of his father's passing helped to carry the load. On December 22, 1881, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Leitzell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Leitzell. This congenial pair went at once to the home Ehlers had provided in the Blue Mound neighborhood. For almost fifty three years they lived in peace and happiness and contentment. The home life of Mr. and Mrs. Ehlers approached the ideal. They enjoyed life to its fullest, day by day. Seven children came into the home, four preceded the father- Martha in infancy; Edgar and Nettie at about four; and John, in the height of noble manhood, in 1914. The are three daughters who survive with the mother - Mrs. C. G. Schumacher, Mrs. Otto Heischmidt, Mrs. Charles Zimmerman. The are three grandchildren, and two brothers left to mourn - Mrs. Ernest Ballard, George Schumacher, Albert Zimmerman, Henry Ehlers, and Fred Ehlers, all of Altamont. The only sister, Mrs. Lizzie Schumacher, passed away on Monday evening. Rigidly, ruggedly honest and honorable, Mrs. Ehlers was a church man of great worth. He was a member of the German M. E. Church but came to the first M.E. when the former disbanded. He served as a trustee in both churches during the portion of his long and useful life. Mr. John Ehlers (Unknown Newspaper) Outstanding Citizen of the Community Called In Seventy Sixth Year - Funeral Services On Last Wednesday The Altamont News of last week carried an announcement of the passing of Mr. John Ehlers, at the Mark Greer Hospital early on Tuesday morning of last week. In the going of this good man, Altamont loses a useful citizen, his neighbors a friend of exceptional worth, and the family of a devoted, loving husband and father. Funeral services were conducted on last Wednesday afternoon from the First M.E. Church by the pastor, Rev. J. W. Webster, with interment following at Union Cemetery. Mrs. Ehlers and two of the three daughters were unable to attend the last rites because of injuries suffered in the automobile accident. John William Ehlers, son of the late Johann Christian Ehlers, was born at Blue Island in Cook County on July 13, 1859. He reached the age of seventy five, one month and fifteen days. When Mrs. Ehlers was a lad of nine summers the family moved to this community and to the present Ehlers farm home, adjacent to the city on the northeast. A year later the father passed away, leaving Mrs. Ehlers with four children. Undaunted, courageous and kindly considerate, the mother kept the little flock together. The old home stands in all its beauty as a memorial to loving devoted motherhood. Mr. Ehlers from the date of his father's passing helped to carry the load. On December 22, 1881, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Leitzell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Leitzell. This congenial pair went at once to the home Ehlers had provided in the Blue Mound neighborhood. For almost fifty three years they lived in peace and happiness and contentment. The home life of Mr. and Mrs. Ehlers approached the ideal. They enjoyed life to its fullest, day by day. Seven children came into the home, four preceded the father- Martha in infancy; Edgar and Nettie at about four; and John, in the height of noble manhood, in 1914. The are three daughters who survive with the mother - Mrs. C. G. Schumacher, Mrs. Otto Heischmidt, Mrs. Charles Zimmerman. The are three grandchildren, and two brothers left to mourn - Mrs. Ernest Ballard, George Schumacher, Albert Zimmerman, Henry Ehlers, and Fred Ehlers, all of Altamont. The only sister, Mrs. Lizzie Schumacher, passed away on Monday evening. Rigidly, ruggedly honest and honorable, Mrs. Ehlers was a church man of great worth. He was a member of the German M. E. Church but came to the first M.E. when the former disbanded. He served as a trustee in both churches during the portion of his long and useful life. Mr. John Ehlers (Unknown Newspaper) Outstanding Citizen of the Community Called In Seventy Sixth Year - Funeral Services On Last Wednesday The Altamont News of last week carried an announcement of the passing of Mr. John Ehlers, at the Mark Greer Hospital early on Tuesday morning of last week. In the going of this good man, Altamont loses a useful citizen, his neighbors a friend of exceptional worth, and the family of a devoted, loving husband and father. Funeral services were conducted on last Wednesday afternoon from the First M.E. Church by the pastor, Rev. J. W. Webster, with interment following at Union Cemetery. Mrs. Ehlers and two of the three daughters were unable to attend the last rites because of injuries suffered in the automobile accident. John William Ehlers, son of the late Johann Christian Ehlers, was born at Blue Island in Cook County on July 13, 1859. He reached the age of seventy five, one month and fifteen days. When Mrs. Ehlers was a lad of nine summers the family moved to this community and to the present Ehlers farm home, adjacent to the city on the northeast. A year later the father passed away, leaving Mrs. Ehlers with four children. Undaunted, courageous and kindly considerate, the mother kept the little flock together. The old home stands in all its beauty as a memorial to loving devoted motherhood. Mr. Ehlers from the date of his father's passing helped to carry the load. On December 22, 1881, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Leitzell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Leitzell. This congenial pair went at once to the home Ehlers had provided in the Blue Mound neighborhood. For almost fifty three years they lived in peace and happiness and contentment. The home life of Mr. and Mrs. Ehlers approached the ideal. They enjoyed life to its fullest, day by day. Seven children came into the home, four preceded the father- Martha in infancy; Edgar and Nettie at about four; and John, in the height of noble manhood, in 1914. The are three daughters who survive with the mother - Mrs. C. G. Schumacher, Mrs. Otto Heischmidt, Mrs. Charles Zimmerman. The are three grandchildren, and two brothers left to mourn - Mrs. Ernest Ballard, George Schumacher, Albert Zimmerman, Henry Ehlers, and Fred Ehlers, all of Altamont. The only sister, Mrs. Lizzie Schumacher, passed away on Monday evening. Rigidly, ruggedly honest and honorable, Mrs. Ehlers was a church man of great worth. He was a member of the German M. E. Church but came to the first M.E. when the former disbanded. He served as a trustee in both churches during the portion of his long and useful life.
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