Macomb Daily Journal dated 10/23/1988
Obituary for Donald Black :
Rushville - Graveside services for Donald E. Black, 74, of Rushville, are 1 p.m. Wednesday in White Oak Cemetery near Brooklyn, Ill.
The retired building engineer died at 9:25 a.m., Sunday, Oct 23, in his home.
The Revs. Dean West and Claude Malone will officiate.
Family visitation is 6-8 p.m. Tuesday at Worthington Funeral Home here. Military services will be conducted at 7 p.m. by Schuyler County Post 4 American Legion.
He was born June 12, 1914 in Brooklyn, Ill., a son of George H. and Nora (Dant) Black. He married Edna M. Yarborough Sept 14, 1941 in Palmyra, Mo.
Surviving are his wife ; a son, William T. Black of Camden ; four daughters, Helen D. Ham of Ripley, Harriet A. Wetherall of Beardstown and Karen J. Black and Kathyrn L. Black, both of Lincoln ; six grandsons ; and a sister, Vera Meinema of Tacoma, Wash.
He was preceded in death by five brothers and six sisters.
Mr. Black was a building engineer in Chicago, worked for the City of Rushville and was a maintenance man at Culbertson Memorial Hospital before retiring in 1976.
He was an Army veteran of World War II.
Info. below from Steven Ham (#48718167):
Donald Black was previously married to "Edna Bennett" who died in Chicago along with his sister Audrey Goodson who were all riding in a car when a bus driver fell asleep behind the wheel and hit them head on in July of 1937. Donald was in the hospital in casts for a year, in which he walked with a cane his whole life and even when he was drafted into the U.S. Army.
Obituary for Donald Black :
Rushville - Graveside services for Donald E. Black, 74, of Rushville, are 1 p.m. Wednesday in White Oak Cemetery near Brooklyn, Ill.
The retired building engineer died at 9:25 a.m., Sunday, Oct 23, in his home.
The Revs. Dean West and Claude Malone will officiate.
Family visitation is 6-8 p.m. Tuesday at Worthington Funeral Home here. Military services will be conducted at 7 p.m. by Schuyler County Post 4 American Legion.
He was born June 12, 1914 in Brooklyn, Ill., a son of George H. and Nora (Dant) Black. He married Edna M. Yarborough Sept 14, 1941 in Palmyra, Mo.
Surviving are his wife ; a son, William T. Black of Camden ; four daughters, Helen D. Ham of Ripley, Harriet A. Wetherall of Beardstown and Karen J. Black and Kathyrn L. Black, both of Lincoln ; six grandsons ; and a sister, Vera Meinema of Tacoma, Wash.
He was preceded in death by five brothers and six sisters.
Mr. Black was a building engineer in Chicago, worked for the City of Rushville and was a maintenance man at Culbertson Memorial Hospital before retiring in 1976.
He was an Army veteran of World War II.
Info. below from Steven Ham (#48718167):
Donald Black was previously married to "Edna Bennett" who died in Chicago along with his sister Audrey Goodson who were all riding in a car when a bus driver fell asleep behind the wheel and hit them head on in July of 1937. Donald was in the hospital in casts for a year, in which he walked with a cane his whole life and even when he was drafted into the U.S. Army.
Macomb Daily Journal dated 10/23/1988
Obituary for Donald Black :
Rushville - Graveside services for Donald E. Black, 74, of Rushville, are 1 p.m. Wednesday in White Oak Cemetery near Brooklyn, Ill.
The retired building engineer died at 9:25 a.m., Sunday, Oct 23, in his home.
The Revs. Dean West and Claude Malone will officiate.
Family visitation is 6-8 p.m. Tuesday at Worthington Funeral Home here. Military services will be conducted at 7 p.m. by Schuyler County Post 4 American Legion.
He was born June 12, 1914 in Brooklyn, Ill., a son of George H. and Nora (Dant) Black. He married Edna M. Yarborough Sept 14, 1941 in Palmyra, Mo.
Surviving are his wife ; a son, William T. Black of Camden ; four daughters, Helen D. Ham of Ripley, Harriet A. Wetherall of Beardstown and Karen J. Black and Kathyrn L. Black, both of Lincoln ; six grandsons ; and a sister, Vera Meinema of Tacoma, Wash.
He was preceded in death by five brothers and six sisters.
Mr. Black was a building engineer in Chicago, worked for the City of Rushville and was a maintenance man at Culbertson Memorial Hospital before retiring in 1976.
He was an Army veteran of World War II.
Info. below from Steven Ham (#48718167):
Donald Black was previously married to "Edna Bennett" who died in Chicago along with his sister Audrey Goodson who were all riding in a car when a bus driver fell asleep behind the wheel and hit them head on in July of 1937. Donald was in the hospital in casts for a year, in which he walked with a cane his whole life and even when he was drafted into the U.S. Army.
Obituary for Donald Black :
Rushville - Graveside services for Donald E. Black, 74, of Rushville, are 1 p.m. Wednesday in White Oak Cemetery near Brooklyn, Ill.
The retired building engineer died at 9:25 a.m., Sunday, Oct 23, in his home.
The Revs. Dean West and Claude Malone will officiate.
Family visitation is 6-8 p.m. Tuesday at Worthington Funeral Home here. Military services will be conducted at 7 p.m. by Schuyler County Post 4 American Legion.
He was born June 12, 1914 in Brooklyn, Ill., a son of George H. and Nora (Dant) Black. He married Edna M. Yarborough Sept 14, 1941 in Palmyra, Mo.
Surviving are his wife ; a son, William T. Black of Camden ; four daughters, Helen D. Ham of Ripley, Harriet A. Wetherall of Beardstown and Karen J. Black and Kathyrn L. Black, both of Lincoln ; six grandsons ; and a sister, Vera Meinema of Tacoma, Wash.
He was preceded in death by five brothers and six sisters.
Mr. Black was a building engineer in Chicago, worked for the City of Rushville and was a maintenance man at Culbertson Memorial Hospital before retiring in 1976.
He was an Army veteran of World War II.
Info. below from Steven Ham (#48718167):
Donald Black was previously married to "Edna Bennett" who died in Chicago along with his sister Audrey Goodson who were all riding in a car when a bus driver fell asleep behind the wheel and hit them head on in July of 1937. Donald was in the hospital in casts for a year, in which he walked with a cane his whole life and even when he was drafted into the U.S. Army.
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