Funeral services for Urban J, Raef, 60 year old Mattoon civic leader, were held at 9:30 a. m. to day at Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church with Rt. Rev. Msgr. Daniel Daly officiating Burial was in Calvary cemetery with the Schilling funeral home In charge.
Pallbearers were Robert. Gilliland, Paul Lawson, James Ohm, Ralph Ohm, Louis Raef and Anthony Raef. Members of the Fourth t Degree Assembly of the Knights of Columbus provided an honor guard at the funeral home Thursday night. They were Bernard Littleton, Vernon Fleshner, Edward Hyke, D. F. Qulett, Carl Robertson Thomas F. Ryan, William Anderson, Raymond Crean and Dr. W. L. Podesta. Four Degree members also pro vided an honor guard for the services this morning.
Mr. Raef died at 10:20 a: m Thursday in Memorial Hospital after suffering a heart attack earlier in the morning.
Clipped from Journal Gazette, 29 Aug 1959, Sat, Page 1
Funeral services for Urban J, Raef, 60 year old Mattoon civic leader, were held at 9:30 a. m. to day at Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church with Rt. Rev. Msgr. Daniel Daly officiating Burial was in Calvary cemetery with the Schilling funeral home In charge.
Pallbearers were Robert. Gilliland, Paul Lawson, James Ohm, Ralph Ohm, Louis Raef and Anthony Raef. Members of the Fourth t Degree Assembly of the Knights of Columbus provided an honor guard at the funeral home Thursday night. They were Bernard Littleton, Vernon Fleshner, Edward Hyke, D. F. Qulett, Carl Robertson Thomas F. Ryan, William Anderson, Raymond Crean and Dr. W. L. Podesta. Four Degree members also pro vided an honor guard for the services this morning.
Mr. Raef died at 10:20 a: m Thursday in Memorial Hospital after suffering a heart attack earlier in the morning.
Clipped from Journal Gazette, 29 Aug 1959, Sat, Page 1
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