Alice Lucinda Runyon, 75, 115 North Woodlawn St. died yesterday afternoon in Burgin Nursing Manor.
Services will be Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Summers Funeral Home with visitation from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Saturday. The Rev. Vernon Gibb will officiate; burial will be in the Moravian Cemetery.
A native of Edwards County, Mrs. Runyon was born near West Salem to Charles Henry and Minnie Evelyn Scherer Knakmuhs (sic). She married Oscar L. Runyon April 19, 1929. She was a member of the Moravian Church at West Salem, then transferred to the Congregational Chrisian Church of Olney.
Surviving are her husband; children, Evelyn Ahlfield, Leo E. and Donald R. Runyon, Olney, Charles E. Runyon, the Phillipines, Carrie Rosalie Laughlin, Lawrenceville, and Richard W. Runyon, Mattoon; 18 grandchildren; sisters, Anna Cleaver, West Liberty, and Rosie Williams, Kissimmie, Fla.; and a brother, Paul Knakmhs, Walnut Grove, Minn.
Preceding her in death were her parents; three sisters, Harriet Ahfield, Carrie Williams, and an infant; and three brothers, Grover, Lester, and Gideon Knakmuhs.
Published in the Olney (IL) Daily Mail Friday April 7, 1978.
Alice Lucinda Runyon, 75, 115 North Woodlawn St. died yesterday afternoon in Burgin Nursing Manor.
Services will be Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Summers Funeral Home with visitation from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Saturday. The Rev. Vernon Gibb will officiate; burial will be in the Moravian Cemetery.
A native of Edwards County, Mrs. Runyon was born near West Salem to Charles Henry and Minnie Evelyn Scherer Knakmuhs (sic). She married Oscar L. Runyon April 19, 1929. She was a member of the Moravian Church at West Salem, then transferred to the Congregational Chrisian Church of Olney.
Surviving are her husband; children, Evelyn Ahlfield, Leo E. and Donald R. Runyon, Olney, Charles E. Runyon, the Phillipines, Carrie Rosalie Laughlin, Lawrenceville, and Richard W. Runyon, Mattoon; 18 grandchildren; sisters, Anna Cleaver, West Liberty, and Rosie Williams, Kissimmie, Fla.; and a brother, Paul Knakmhs, Walnut Grove, Minn.
Preceding her in death were her parents; three sisters, Harriet Ahfield, Carrie Williams, and an infant; and three brothers, Grover, Lester, and Gideon Knakmuhs.
Published in the Olney (IL) Daily Mail Friday April 7, 1978.
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Harriet Dorothy Knakmuhs Ahlfield
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Grover Robert Knakmuhs
1893–1975
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Lester Peter Knakmuhs
1895–1977
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Bertha Ruth Knakmuhs
1897–1898
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Gideon Leonard Knakmuhs
1899–1968
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Paul Edward Knakmuhs
1901–1987
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Carrie M. Williams
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Anna O. Knakmuhs Cleaver
1907–1999
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Rosa Mary Knackmuhs Jones
1910–2000
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