In Memoriam May 19th

1923 Pierce Bohannon died in Pewee Valley, KY age 81.  He was born in Simpsonville, KY  in 1842 the son of Richard & Nancy (?) Bohannon.  He married Sarah Smith and they had at least one daughter Iva.  Pierce served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.  He is buried in Simpsonville, KY.

1983 Mrs. Hazel (Henry) Lathrop, 73, died May 19 at her home in Onarga, Ill.  She was a former Sumner resident.

Mrs. Lathrop was a member of United Methodist Church in Onarga where a memorial service was held May 21.  Interment followed in Sumner Cemetery at 3 p.m. with graveside rites by the Rev. Glenn Wittrup.  Funeral arrangements were made by Knapp Funeral Home staff of Onarga.

She was a daughter of E.C. and Rosa Shick Henry.  Her husband Malcolm H. Lathrop, and an infant daughter preceded her in death.

Surviving are one son, Harold Lathrop of Clarendon Hills, Ill.; two daughters, Sandra Frick [sic] of Onarga and Sharon Fink of Peotone; one brother Omer Henry of Silver Springs, Md.; one sister, Fern Henry of Sumner; two sisters-in-law Wanda Laughlin of Olney and Ruby Henry of Greenwood, Ind.; 16 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

The Lathrops were former residents of Sumner, where Malcolm Lathrop was postmaster from 1932 until 1936 and an employee in the First National Bank in that city for many years.  The family moved to Onarga in 1948 whre Mr. Lathrop was employed in the First National Bank until his death in 1954.