Cornelius H. Kettle, 66, of Mallwood Drive, Rte. 3, Edgerton, World War I veteran, died at 5:35 p.m. Tuesday in Edgerton Community Hospital after six weeks illness.
He was a weaver at the Rock River Woolen Mills in Janesville for 43 years and a member of St. John's Lutheran Church.
Born in Janesville Feb. 5, 1897. he was the son of Cornelius and Julia Schumacher Kettle. He married Nellie Tobin April 25, 1919 in Janesville. She died in 1920 and on Nov. 8, 1921, he married her sister, Gladys M. Tobin, in Rockford.
Surviving are his wife; a son, Walter C. Kettle, Rte. 3, Edgerton; four brothers, George and Walter, both of Janesville, Donald of Charley Bluff and Ralph, of Whitewater; and two sisters, Mrs. Godfrey Aegerter and Mrs. Fred Vobian, both of Janesville.
A brother, Alex Kettle, predeceased him as well as a sister, Mrs. Silas Keller, who died in February.
Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday in the Overton Funeral Home, Vicar Paul Parlow, St. John's Church, officiating. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home Thursday evening from 7 to 9.
Cornelius H. Kettle, 66, of Mallwood Drive, Rte. 3, Edgerton, World War I veteran, died at 5:35 p.m. Tuesday in Edgerton Community Hospital after six weeks illness.
He was a weaver at the Rock River Woolen Mills in Janesville for 43 years and a member of St. John's Lutheran Church.
Born in Janesville Feb. 5, 1897. he was the son of Cornelius and Julia Schumacher Kettle. He married Nellie Tobin April 25, 1919 in Janesville. She died in 1920 and on Nov. 8, 1921, he married her sister, Gladys M. Tobin, in Rockford.
Surviving are his wife; a son, Walter C. Kettle, Rte. 3, Edgerton; four brothers, George and Walter, both of Janesville, Donald of Charley Bluff and Ralph, of Whitewater; and two sisters, Mrs. Godfrey Aegerter and Mrs. Fred Vobian, both of Janesville.
A brother, Alex Kettle, predeceased him as well as a sister, Mrs. Silas Keller, who died in February.
Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday in the Overton Funeral Home, Vicar Paul Parlow, St. John's Church, officiating. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home Thursday evening from 7 to 9.
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