Thursday, May 22, 2014

In Memoriam May 22nd

1620 Richard Lake buried in Wickford, England.  The son of John & Margaret (Reade) Lake, he was baptized May 21, 1620 in Wickford. 

1695 Sarah (Steele) Judd  daughter of John & Rachel (Talcott) Steele born 1638.  She married Thomas Judd ca. 1658.

1867 Louisa (Draper) Lathrop age 41 in Lawrence Co., IL. The daughter of Thomas & Catherine (Harbert) Draper, she was born in Indiana in 1825.  Louisa married Levi Lathrop in 1842 and they had eleven children: Thomas, Ezra, Nancy, Catherine, Charlotte, Elizabeth, Marion, Emma, Joel, George and Grant.  She is buried in Lone Tree Cemetery in Lawrence Co., IL.

1919 Christina Dempsey age 1 in White Co., IL.  She was the daughter of Warner & Edna (Trapp) Dempsey.  Christina is buried in Maple Ridge Cemetery in Carmi, IL.

1983 Mrs. Viola Erkman, 78, of 607 W. Main St., widow of the late Russell Erkman, a former Sims resident, died at 10 p.m. Sunday May 22, 1983 at Fairfield Memorial Hospital.
Mrs. Erkman entered the hospital last Wednesday after suffering a broken hip at her apartment.  She also suffered from a heart condition.
Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Johnson Funeral Home with Rev. Oakley Miller officiating.  Burial will be in Maple Hill Cemetery. 
Visitation will be held from 6-9 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.
Mrs. Erkman was born at Mill Shoals July 7, 1904, the daughter of Gilbert and Amanda (Rodgers) Jackson.  She attended school at Mill Shoals.
She was married to Russell Erkman for over 50 years.  He preceded her in death in 1977.  Mr. Erkman was a construction worker for the railroad.
Mrs. Erkman was a housewife and homemaker and never was employed outside the home.  She moved to Fairfield in 1979 and stayed frequently with her niece, Mrs. Ruth Belangee, of Bonnie.  Mrs. Erkman was going to live with her niece after her release from the hospital.
She was a member of the Sims Baptist Church at Sims.
Survivors include one sister, Mrs. Bernell Golden, of Fairfield; several nieces and nephews.
Mrs. Erkman had no children.

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