Mary Alice Kleckner, 14, died at 4:20 a.m. Wednesday, April 22, 1953, in Swedish-American hospital, where she had been a patient since undergoing kidney surgery on March 6. Born Sept. 27, 1939 in Rockford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Kleckner. Member of Trinity Lutheran church, where she was confirmed in 1951. Stricken with polio Oct. 23, 1951, and had been paralyzed from the neck down since. During the winter of 1951, she and her sister, Jean, 11, who also contracted polio, were transferred from Winnebago County hospital to St. Anthony's hospital. She returned home in March, 1952. Oct. 14, 1952, she was taken in her iron lung in a truck equipped with a generator to Columbus Memorial hospital, Chicago, for special respiratory treatment. Returned home Jan. 16, 1953. Attended Roosevelt junior high school. Survivors include: parents; sister, Jean, 11; brother, Robert, 6; paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kleckner; maternal grandmother, Mrs. Mary Reid; all of Rockford; and several aunts and uncles. Services at 1:30 p.m. Friday in LONG-KLONTZ FUNERAL HOME, 428 Park ave., with Dr. O. Garfield Beckstrand, pastor of Trinity Lutheran church, officiating. Burial in Guilford Union cemetery. Friends may call at funeral home after 4 p.m. Thursday.
Mary Alice Kleckner, 14, died at 4:20 a.m. Wednesday, April 22, 1953, in Swedish-American hospital, where she had been a patient since undergoing kidney surgery on March 6. Born Sept. 27, 1939 in Rockford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Kleckner. Member of Trinity Lutheran church, where she was confirmed in 1951. Stricken with polio Oct. 23, 1951, and had been paralyzed from the neck down since. During the winter of 1951, she and her sister, Jean, 11, who also contracted polio, were transferred from Winnebago County hospital to St. Anthony's hospital. She returned home in March, 1952. Oct. 14, 1952, she was taken in her iron lung in a truck equipped with a generator to Columbus Memorial hospital, Chicago, for special respiratory treatment. Returned home Jan. 16, 1953. Attended Roosevelt junior high school. Survivors include: parents; sister, Jean, 11; brother, Robert, 6; paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kleckner; maternal grandmother, Mrs. Mary Reid; all of Rockford; and several aunts and uncles. Services at 1:30 p.m. Friday in LONG-KLONTZ FUNERAL HOME, 428 Park ave., with Dr. O. Garfield Beckstrand, pastor of Trinity Lutheran church, officiating. Burial in Guilford Union cemetery. Friends may call at funeral home after 4 p.m. Thursday.
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