LYDIA BECKLEY
1879 - 1914
MRS. JOHN BECKLEY
MRS. JOHN BECKLEY PASSED AWAY AT HER HOME IN THIS CITY MONDAY NOON, AFTER A LINGERING ILLNESS WITH A COMPLICATION OF DISEASES.
THE DECEASED WAS BORN NEAR ROANOKE, WOODFORD COUNTY, ILLINOIS, HER MAIDEN NAME BEING LYDIA STOLLER, AND AT THE TIME OF HER DEATH WAS AGED 43 YEARS. 6 MONTHS AND 15 DAYS. SHE MOVED WITH HER PARENTS TO GRIDLEY, AND ABOUT TWENTY-TWO YEARS AGO THEY MOVED TO THIS VICINITY. LYDIA STOLLER WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO JOHN BECKLEY JULY 9, 1904. TO THIS UNION WERE BORN THREE CHILDREN. THEY ARE: DAVID, AGED 9, LOIS, AGED 7, AND EUNICE, AGED 5. MR. AND MRS. BUCKLEY MADE THEIR HOME AT WOLCOTT, IND., FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS AND FIVE YEARS AGO CAME TO FAIRBURY, WHERE THEY HAVE RESIDED SINCE THAT TIME.
BESIDES HER HUSBAND AND CHILDREN, MRS. BECKLEY IS MOURNED BY HER PARENTS, MR. AND MRS. SAMUEL STOLLER OF THIS CITY, AND FOUR SISTERS, MRS. B. S. STEIDINGER OF FAIRBURY, MRS. JOHN SUTTER OF FORREST, MRS. E. WITZIG OF GRIDLEY, AND EMMA AT HOME.
MRS. BECKLEY WAS MEMBER OF THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF THIS CITY AND WAS A GOOD CHRISTIAN WOMAN. SHE WAS A KIND AND LOVING WIFE AND MOTHER AND AS GOOD NEIGHBOR.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD FROM THE CHURCH OF WHICH SHE WAS A MEMBER AT 12 O’CLOCK WEDNESDAY AND WAS ATTENDED BY A LARGE CONCOURSE OF SORROWING RELATIVES AND FRIENDS, A LARGE NUMBER BEING PRESENT FROM OUT OF TOWN. THE BUSINESS HOUSES WERE CLOSED FROM 12 TO 2 O’CLOCK.
(Obit furnished by contributor Lois and Daughters)
LYDIA BECKLEY
1879 - 1914
MRS. JOHN BECKLEY
MRS. JOHN BECKLEY PASSED AWAY AT HER HOME IN THIS CITY MONDAY NOON, AFTER A LINGERING ILLNESS WITH A COMPLICATION OF DISEASES.
THE DECEASED WAS BORN NEAR ROANOKE, WOODFORD COUNTY, ILLINOIS, HER MAIDEN NAME BEING LYDIA STOLLER, AND AT THE TIME OF HER DEATH WAS AGED 43 YEARS. 6 MONTHS AND 15 DAYS. SHE MOVED WITH HER PARENTS TO GRIDLEY, AND ABOUT TWENTY-TWO YEARS AGO THEY MOVED TO THIS VICINITY. LYDIA STOLLER WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO JOHN BECKLEY JULY 9, 1904. TO THIS UNION WERE BORN THREE CHILDREN. THEY ARE: DAVID, AGED 9, LOIS, AGED 7, AND EUNICE, AGED 5. MR. AND MRS. BUCKLEY MADE THEIR HOME AT WOLCOTT, IND., FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS AND FIVE YEARS AGO CAME TO FAIRBURY, WHERE THEY HAVE RESIDED SINCE THAT TIME.
BESIDES HER HUSBAND AND CHILDREN, MRS. BECKLEY IS MOURNED BY HER PARENTS, MR. AND MRS. SAMUEL STOLLER OF THIS CITY, AND FOUR SISTERS, MRS. B. S. STEIDINGER OF FAIRBURY, MRS. JOHN SUTTER OF FORREST, MRS. E. WITZIG OF GRIDLEY, AND EMMA AT HOME.
MRS. BECKLEY WAS MEMBER OF THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF THIS CITY AND WAS A GOOD CHRISTIAN WOMAN. SHE WAS A KIND AND LOVING WIFE AND MOTHER AND AS GOOD NEIGHBOR.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD FROM THE CHURCH OF WHICH SHE WAS A MEMBER AT 12 O’CLOCK WEDNESDAY AND WAS ATTENDED BY A LARGE CONCOURSE OF SORROWING RELATIVES AND FRIENDS, A LARGE NUMBER BEING PRESENT FROM OUT OF TOWN. THE BUSINESS HOUSES WERE CLOSED FROM 12 TO 2 O’CLOCK.
(Obit furnished by contributor Lois and Daughters)
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