In Memoriam - December 10th

1645 Raedegon (Clapp) Capen age 29 in Dorchester, MA.  She was born in Sidbury, England in 1616.  Raedegon married John Capen in Dorchester, MA in 1637.

1712 Jemima (Whitcomb) Loomis  wife of Ebenezer Loomis. 

1918 Douglas Fitzgerald the 2 year old son of Howard & JoAnna (McDonald) Fitzgerald of influenza in Clay Co. IL. 

2003 Jason P. Anselmo, 18, of Somonauk, died Wednesday, December 10, 2003 in Valley West Community Hospital in Sandwich.

He was the grandson of Hazel and Dale Colclasure of Burnt Prairie.  Hazel is the Burnt Prairie correspondent for the Press.

He was born April 14, 1985 in Downers Grove, the son of Benjamin and Angela Colclasure Anselmo.  Even though Jason was wheelchair bound and afflicted with muscular dystrophy he graduated from Somonauk High School in the Class of 2003, and was attending Waubonsee Community College in Sugar Grove.

Jason participated in MDA Camps yearly for several years.  Memorials may be directed to the Shriners Hospital of Chicago.

Funeral services were held December 13 at the Turner Funeral home in Somonauk with Reverend Dennis Heaney officiating.   Burial was in Oak Mound Cemetery rural Somonauk.

Jason is survived by his parents Ben and Angie Anselmo of Somonauk; his grandparents Hazel and Dale Colclasure of Burnt Prairie, Ben Anselmo of Sun City, Arizona; several aunts, uncles and cousins.