Benjamin F. Board, 88, Seaton, died Thursday at Mercer County Hospital, Aledo.
Services are 2 p.m. Sunday at Reiser-Trimble Funeral Home, Aledo.
Burial is in Aledo Cemetery.
Visitation is 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday. Memorials may be made to Belmont United Methodist Church where he was a member, or the Mercer County Senior Citizens Center.
Mr. Board was born Oct. 3, 1901, in Franklin County, Virginia.
He married Clara Alice Ranney Kettering Jan. 3, 1955, in Aledo.
He had been employed as a farmer, factory worker and carpenter prior to his retirement.
The couple lived near Belmont, Ill. before moving to Aledo in 1967.
He was a former member of National Farmer's Organization and had served as an elder at Center Presbyterian Church in Seaton.
He was avid fisherman.
Survivors include the widow; daughters, Ruth A. Randall, Moline, and Evelyn E. Anderson, Kewanee; a stepdaughter, Cheryl Davis, Richmond, Calif.; seven grandchildren; a stepgrandson; three great-grandsons; two step great-grandchildren; sisters, Lula Garland, Hardy, Va., and Geneva Simmons and Susie Martin, both of Wirtz, Va.; and brothers, Joel Board, Los Angelos, Calif., Clarence Board, Roanoke, Va., and Willis "Buster" Board, Seaton.
(Rock Island Argus - February 9, 1990)
Services are 2 p.m. Sunday at Reiser-Trimble Funeral Home, Aledo.
Burial is in Aledo Cemetery.
Visitation is 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday. Memorials may be made to Belmont United Methodist Church where he was a member, or the Mercer County Senior Citizens Center.
Mr. Board was born Oct. 3, 1901, in Franklin County, Virginia.
He married Clara Alice Ranney Kettering Jan. 3, 1955, in Aledo.
He had been employed as a farmer, factory worker and carpenter prior to his retirement.
The couple lived near Belmont, Ill. before moving to Aledo in 1967.
He was a former member of National Farmer's Organization and had served as an elder at Center Presbyterian Church in Seaton.
He was avid fisherman.
Survivors include the widow; daughters, Ruth A. Randall, Moline, and Evelyn E. Anderson, Kewanee; a stepdaughter, Cheryl Davis, Richmond, Calif.; seven grandchildren; a stepgrandson; three great-grandsons; two step great-grandchildren; sisters, Lula Garland, Hardy, Va., and Geneva Simmons and Susie Martin, both of Wirtz, Va.; and brothers, Joel Board, Los Angelos, Calif., Clarence Board, Roanoke, Va., and Willis "Buster" Board, Seaton.
(Rock Island Argus - February 9, 1990)
Benjamin F. Board, 88, Seaton, died Thursday at Mercer County Hospital, Aledo.
Services are 2 p.m. Sunday at Reiser-Trimble Funeral Home, Aledo.
Burial is in Aledo Cemetery.
Visitation is 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday. Memorials may be made to Belmont United Methodist Church where he was a member, or the Mercer County Senior Citizens Center.
Mr. Board was born Oct. 3, 1901, in Franklin County, Virginia.
He married Clara Alice Ranney Kettering Jan. 3, 1955, in Aledo.
He had been employed as a farmer, factory worker and carpenter prior to his retirement.
The couple lived near Belmont, Ill. before moving to Aledo in 1967.
He was a former member of National Farmer's Organization and had served as an elder at Center Presbyterian Church in Seaton.
He was avid fisherman.
Survivors include the widow; daughters, Ruth A. Randall, Moline, and Evelyn E. Anderson, Kewanee; a stepdaughter, Cheryl Davis, Richmond, Calif.; seven grandchildren; a stepgrandson; three great-grandsons; two step great-grandchildren; sisters, Lula Garland, Hardy, Va., and Geneva Simmons and Susie Martin, both of Wirtz, Va.; and brothers, Joel Board, Los Angelos, Calif., Clarence Board, Roanoke, Va., and Willis "Buster" Board, Seaton.
(Rock Island Argus - February 9, 1990)
Services are 2 p.m. Sunday at Reiser-Trimble Funeral Home, Aledo.
Burial is in Aledo Cemetery.
Visitation is 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday. Memorials may be made to Belmont United Methodist Church where he was a member, or the Mercer County Senior Citizens Center.
Mr. Board was born Oct. 3, 1901, in Franklin County, Virginia.
He married Clara Alice Ranney Kettering Jan. 3, 1955, in Aledo.
He had been employed as a farmer, factory worker and carpenter prior to his retirement.
The couple lived near Belmont, Ill. before moving to Aledo in 1967.
He was a former member of National Farmer's Organization and had served as an elder at Center Presbyterian Church in Seaton.
He was avid fisherman.
Survivors include the widow; daughters, Ruth A. Randall, Moline, and Evelyn E. Anderson, Kewanee; a stepdaughter, Cheryl Davis, Richmond, Calif.; seven grandchildren; a stepgrandson; three great-grandsons; two step great-grandchildren; sisters, Lula Garland, Hardy, Va., and Geneva Simmons and Susie Martin, both of Wirtz, Va.; and brothers, Joel Board, Los Angelos, Calif., Clarence Board, Roanoke, Va., and Willis "Buster" Board, Seaton.
(Rock Island Argus - February 9, 1990)
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