In Memoriam March 11th

1673 William Goodwin in Farmington, CT age 82.  He was born ca. 1591 in England and married Elizabeth White in Shalford England 1616.  They had a daughter Elizabeth.

1976 Orley Richardson age 94 was born in Illinois in 1881 the son of Edward & Anna (Gentle) Richardson.  He married Ethel Austin in 1903 and they had six children: Leonard, Aubrey, Cyril, Vernon, Clyde and Parvin.

1986 Mildred (McCracken) Courtright in Cisne, IL ag e 73.  She was born in 1912 and married Guy Courtright in 1932.  She is buried in Bestow Cemetery in Wayne Co., IL.

2010 – Phyllis Bergeson, 56 of Mt. Vernon, Illinois passed away at 12:30 a.m. on Thursday, March 11, 2010 at St. Louis University Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri.  Surviving family members include her husband: Edward Bergeson of Mt. Vernon, Illinois; 2 sons: Tony Bergeson and wife Kathy of Mt. Vernon, Illinois and Marine Gunnery Sergeant Steven Bergeson and family of San Diego, California; 2 daughters: Teresa Johnson of Richland Center, Wisconsin and Stacy Sherrell and husband David of Mt. Vernon, Illinois; brother: William Phillips and wife Janet of Mt. Vernon, Illinois; 2 sisters: Florence Logue of Mt. Vernon, Illinois and Laura Walker of Mt. Vernon, Illinois; 13 grandchildren; several nieces and nephews also survive.

Her parents, three brothers: John Wayne Philips, Thomas Phillips and James Phillips and one great granddaughter: Hope preceded her in death.

She was born on Friday, August 28, 1953 in Mt. Vernon, Illinois the daughter of the late John Abner and Juanita (Gossage) Phillips.  She married Edward Bergeson on December 29, 1971.