Charles Edward Perkins
(12 Jul 1874 -- 05 Sep 1954)
CHATSWORTH -- (PNS) -- Charles E. Perkins, 80, died at Fairbury Hospital in Fairbury [Ill.] at 11 a.m. Sunday (Sept. 5, 1954) of injuries received in an automobile accident near Fairbury Friday. Mrs. [Mary] Perkins, driver of the car, remained in serious condition at the hospital Sunday. The mishap occurred when the car left Route 24 and hit a bridge about three miles east of Fairbury.
His funeral will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Hanson-Mowry Funeral Home and at 2:30 p.m. at the Methodist Church. The Rev. J.R. Kesterson will officiate, and burial will be in Chatsworth Cemetery.
Mr. Perkins was born July 12, 1874, at Marble Hill, Mo., a son of James O. and Mary Baker Perkins. He married Mary Wenger Jan. 6, 1898, near Chatsworth. They have lived here since.
Surviving are his wife; three daughters, Mrs. Hazel McCollum of Frankfort, Ind.; Mrs. Marietta Albee of Fairbury and Mrs. Myrtle Hamilton of Park Ridge; two sons, Russell of Lexington and Roy of Chatsworth; a sister, Mrs. Della Berlet of Walton, Ind.; a brother, Gilbert of Worthington, Minn.; 18 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. Three children preceded him in death.
He was a member of the Chatsworth Methodist Church.
News story: Bloomington (Ill.) Pantagraph, 06 Sep 54, p. D-11.
(Editor's note: The bridge mentioned in this news article was located at the first waterway east of the "S" curve between Fairbury and Forrest, Ill., on U.S. Route 24. Mary Perkins was driving west on Route 24. She went off the road on the north side of the highway, striking the bridge abutment. Road and bridge work was completed in 1994 and this bridge was reconstructed and the abutments are gone. Charles Edward farmed 98 acres with horses about three miles west of Chatsworth. In 1936 he purchased his first tractor, an Allis Chalmer WC. He sold his farming operation in 1941 to his son, Roy Arthur, and retired in Chatsworth, Ill., in 1942 with his wife Mary.)
(12 Jul 1874 -- 05 Sep 1954)
CHATSWORTH -- (PNS) -- Charles E. Perkins, 80, died at Fairbury Hospital in Fairbury [Ill.] at 11 a.m. Sunday (Sept. 5, 1954) of injuries received in an automobile accident near Fairbury Friday. Mrs. [Mary] Perkins, driver of the car, remained in serious condition at the hospital Sunday. The mishap occurred when the car left Route 24 and hit a bridge about three miles east of Fairbury.
His funeral will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Hanson-Mowry Funeral Home and at 2:30 p.m. at the Methodist Church. The Rev. J.R. Kesterson will officiate, and burial will be in Chatsworth Cemetery.
Mr. Perkins was born July 12, 1874, at Marble Hill, Mo., a son of James O. and Mary Baker Perkins. He married Mary Wenger Jan. 6, 1898, near Chatsworth. They have lived here since.
Surviving are his wife; three daughters, Mrs. Hazel McCollum of Frankfort, Ind.; Mrs. Marietta Albee of Fairbury and Mrs. Myrtle Hamilton of Park Ridge; two sons, Russell of Lexington and Roy of Chatsworth; a sister, Mrs. Della Berlet of Walton, Ind.; a brother, Gilbert of Worthington, Minn.; 18 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. Three children preceded him in death.
He was a member of the Chatsworth Methodist Church.
News story: Bloomington (Ill.) Pantagraph, 06 Sep 54, p. D-11.
(Editor's note: The bridge mentioned in this news article was located at the first waterway east of the "S" curve between Fairbury and Forrest, Ill., on U.S. Route 24. Mary Perkins was driving west on Route 24. She went off the road on the north side of the highway, striking the bridge abutment. Road and bridge work was completed in 1994 and this bridge was reconstructed and the abutments are gone. Charles Edward farmed 98 acres with horses about three miles west of Chatsworth. In 1936 he purchased his first tractor, an Allis Chalmer WC. He sold his farming operation in 1941 to his son, Roy Arthur, and retired in Chatsworth, Ill., in 1942 with his wife Mary.)
Charles Edward Perkins
(12 Jul 1874 -- 05 Sep 1954)
CHATSWORTH -- (PNS) -- Charles E. Perkins, 80, died at Fairbury Hospital in Fairbury [Ill.] at 11 a.m. Sunday (Sept. 5, 1954) of injuries received in an automobile accident near Fairbury Friday. Mrs. [Mary] Perkins, driver of the car, remained in serious condition at the hospital Sunday. The mishap occurred when the car left Route 24 and hit a bridge about three miles east of Fairbury.
His funeral will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Hanson-Mowry Funeral Home and at 2:30 p.m. at the Methodist Church. The Rev. J.R. Kesterson will officiate, and burial will be in Chatsworth Cemetery.
Mr. Perkins was born July 12, 1874, at Marble Hill, Mo., a son of James O. and Mary Baker Perkins. He married Mary Wenger Jan. 6, 1898, near Chatsworth. They have lived here since.
Surviving are his wife; three daughters, Mrs. Hazel McCollum of Frankfort, Ind.; Mrs. Marietta Albee of Fairbury and Mrs. Myrtle Hamilton of Park Ridge; two sons, Russell of Lexington and Roy of Chatsworth; a sister, Mrs. Della Berlet of Walton, Ind.; a brother, Gilbert of Worthington, Minn.; 18 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. Three children preceded him in death.
He was a member of the Chatsworth Methodist Church.
News story: Bloomington (Ill.) Pantagraph, 06 Sep 54, p. D-11.
(Editor's note: The bridge mentioned in this news article was located at the first waterway east of the "S" curve between Fairbury and Forrest, Ill., on U.S. Route 24. Mary Perkins was driving west on Route 24. She went off the road on the north side of the highway, striking the bridge abutment. Road and bridge work was completed in 1994 and this bridge was reconstructed and the abutments are gone. Charles Edward farmed 98 acres with horses about three miles west of Chatsworth. In 1936 he purchased his first tractor, an Allis Chalmer WC. He sold his farming operation in 1941 to his son, Roy Arthur, and retired in Chatsworth, Ill., in 1942 with his wife Mary.)
(12 Jul 1874 -- 05 Sep 1954)
CHATSWORTH -- (PNS) -- Charles E. Perkins, 80, died at Fairbury Hospital in Fairbury [Ill.] at 11 a.m. Sunday (Sept. 5, 1954) of injuries received in an automobile accident near Fairbury Friday. Mrs. [Mary] Perkins, driver of the car, remained in serious condition at the hospital Sunday. The mishap occurred when the car left Route 24 and hit a bridge about three miles east of Fairbury.
His funeral will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Hanson-Mowry Funeral Home and at 2:30 p.m. at the Methodist Church. The Rev. J.R. Kesterson will officiate, and burial will be in Chatsworth Cemetery.
Mr. Perkins was born July 12, 1874, at Marble Hill, Mo., a son of James O. and Mary Baker Perkins. He married Mary Wenger Jan. 6, 1898, near Chatsworth. They have lived here since.
Surviving are his wife; three daughters, Mrs. Hazel McCollum of Frankfort, Ind.; Mrs. Marietta Albee of Fairbury and Mrs. Myrtle Hamilton of Park Ridge; two sons, Russell of Lexington and Roy of Chatsworth; a sister, Mrs. Della Berlet of Walton, Ind.; a brother, Gilbert of Worthington, Minn.; 18 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. Three children preceded him in death.
He was a member of the Chatsworth Methodist Church.
News story: Bloomington (Ill.) Pantagraph, 06 Sep 54, p. D-11.
(Editor's note: The bridge mentioned in this news article was located at the first waterway east of the "S" curve between Fairbury and Forrest, Ill., on U.S. Route 24. Mary Perkins was driving west on Route 24. She went off the road on the north side of the highway, striking the bridge abutment. Road and bridge work was completed in 1994 and this bridge was reconstructed and the abutments are gone. Charles Edward farmed 98 acres with horses about three miles west of Chatsworth. In 1936 he purchased his first tractor, an Allis Chalmer WC. He sold his farming operation in 1941 to his son, Roy Arthur, and retired in Chatsworth, Ill., in 1942 with his wife Mary.)
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