Jackie Houseal was the son of Raymond K & Mae L Steele Houseal, born May 24, 1940 in Davenport, Iowa. His parents were divorced and Mae Houseal married Byron F Slane on Nov 30, 1945 in Chicago, Illinois. Jackie & his brother Kennie Houseal lived with Mae & Byron Slane, first in Davenport, Iowa and later in Peoria County, Illinois in the Princeville area. Jackie Houseal was killed in a hunting accident on May 13, 1953 in rural Princeville, Peoria County, Illinois and was buried near Byron Slane's parents Ben & Myrtle Slane at Princeville Township Cemetery. Byron & Mae Slane, and Kennie Houseal, moved to Florida not long after Jackie's death.
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Funeral Services For Jack Houseal Are Held Saturday
Jack Howard Houseal came to death in his home about three or four miles south of Princeville at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 13, from a gunshot wound of the heart, accidently inflicted by a rifle in the hands of Kenneth Houseal, who said he had picked up the rifle from the table with the intention of putting it away. Jack was 8-10 feet from the gun when the accident occurred.
The accidental verdict was returned by the jury headed by Raymond Oertley, Harry Heinz, J. C. Bullock, Sam Williams, Earl Burns and Fred Hammer also were jurymen at the inquest in the Bouton Memorial home last Thursday afternoon.
Coroner Chancey Wood was told by Kenneth that he and his brother has been out in the pasture after dogs that had been molesting livestock. "after returning to the house" he stated, "he thought he had removed all the bullets from the chamber of the gun." He was unable to account for the weapon discharging and he could not remember touching the trigger.
Jack was born in Davenport, Iowa, May 24, 1940, the son of Raymond Houseal and Mae Steel Slane. He attended the first and second grades of school in Davenport. The family then moved to Princeville and he was a pupil in the seventh grade at the time of his death.
He was an active member of the Princeville Boy Scout troop and had passed several merit tests. He also was a member of the school Safety Patrol and had charge of the school bus. He liked the out-of-doors and had an inseparable pal in his dog "Pee-Wee".
He is survived by his father and mother; his step-father and step-mother; brother, Kenneth; four half brother, and one half sister; his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Houseal and Mr. and Mrs. Leo Gramenz; several aunts and uncles and a host of other relatives and friends.
Funeral services were held from the Bouton Memorial home last Saturday afternoon with Rev. E. L. Fernandes officiating. William Burlingame of Davenport, Ia., sang "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere".
He was laid to rest in the Princeville cemetery, Pallbearers were Harold, Claus and Clyde Houseal, Wilbur, Ronald and Robert Slane. Honorary pallbearers were his classmates; Gerry Metcalf, Wesley Sloan, Jack Murnan, Tom Pierce, Larry Stoecker and Joe Rickey.
He loved life, this boy of mine,
With his mongrel dog, and rolled fish line
And going ‘round without his hat.
He got into mischief ten times a day; ‘twas only in fun, be used to say; He tried my patience, but now I know ‘Twas just for this that I loved him so!
And now he's in heaven, but he'll always be
The same dear boy through eternity. "Dear Father, keep him close to Thee And help me know he's still close to me".
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Funeral Services For Jack Houseal Are Held Saturday
Jack Howard Houseal came to death in his home about three or four miles south of Princeville at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 13, from a gunshot wound of the heart, accidently inflicted by a rifle in the hands of Kenneth Houseal, who said he had picked up the rifle from the table with the intention of putting it away. Jack was 8-10 feet from the gun when the accident occurred.
The accidental verdict was returned by the jury headed by Raymond Oertley, Harry Heinz, J. C. Bullock, Sam Williams, Earl Burns and Fred Hammer also were jurymen at the inquest in the Bouton Memorial home last Thursday afternoon.
Coroner Chancey Wood was told by Kenneth that he and his brother has been out in the pasture after dogs that had been molesting livestock. "after returning to the house" he stated, "he thought he had removed all the bullets from the chamber of the gun." He was unable to account for the weapon discharging and he could not remember touching the trigger.
Jack was born in Davenport, Iowa, May 24, 1940, the son of Raymond Houseal and Mae Steel Slane. He attended the first and second grades of school in Davenport. The family then moved to Princeville and he was a pupil in the seventh grade at the time of his death.
He was an active member of the Princeville Boy Scout troop and had passed several merit tests. He also was a member of the school Safety Patrol and had charge of the school bus. He liked the out-of-doors and had an inseparable pal in his dog "Pee-Wee".
He is survived by his father and mother; his step-father and step-mother; brother, Kenneth; four half brother, and one half sister; his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Houseal and Mr. and Mrs. Leo Gramenz; several aunts and uncles and a host of other relatives and friends.
Funeral services were held from the Bouton Memorial home last Saturday afternoon with Rev. E. L. Fernandes officiating. William Burlingame of Davenport, Ia., sang "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere".
He was laid to rest in the Princeville cemetery, Pallbearers were Harold, Claus and Clyde Houseal, Wilbur, Ronald and Robert Slane. Honorary pallbearers were his classmates; Gerry Metcalf, Wesley Sloan, Jack Murnan, Tom Pierce, Larry Stoecker and Joe Rickey.
He loved life, this boy of mine,
With his mongrel dog, and rolled fish line
And going ‘round without his hat.
He got into mischief ten times a day; ‘twas only in fun, be used to say; He tried my patience, but now I know ‘Twas just for this that I loved him so!
And now he's in heaven, but he'll always be
The same dear boy through eternity. "Dear Father, keep him close to Thee And help me know he's still close to me".
Jackie Houseal was the son of Raymond K & Mae L Steele Houseal, born May 24, 1940 in Davenport, Iowa. His parents were divorced and Mae Houseal married Byron F Slane on Nov 30, 1945 in Chicago, Illinois. Jackie & his brother Kennie Houseal lived with Mae & Byron Slane, first in Davenport, Iowa and later in Peoria County, Illinois in the Princeville area. Jackie Houseal was killed in a hunting accident on May 13, 1953 in rural Princeville, Peoria County, Illinois and was buried near Byron Slane's parents Ben & Myrtle Slane at Princeville Township Cemetery. Byron & Mae Slane, and Kennie Houseal, moved to Florida not long after Jackie's death.
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Funeral Services For Jack Houseal Are Held Saturday
Jack Howard Houseal came to death in his home about three or four miles south of Princeville at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 13, from a gunshot wound of the heart, accidently inflicted by a rifle in the hands of Kenneth Houseal, who said he had picked up the rifle from the table with the intention of putting it away. Jack was 8-10 feet from the gun when the accident occurred.
The accidental verdict was returned by the jury headed by Raymond Oertley, Harry Heinz, J. C. Bullock, Sam Williams, Earl Burns and Fred Hammer also were jurymen at the inquest in the Bouton Memorial home last Thursday afternoon.
Coroner Chancey Wood was told by Kenneth that he and his brother has been out in the pasture after dogs that had been molesting livestock. "after returning to the house" he stated, "he thought he had removed all the bullets from the chamber of the gun." He was unable to account for the weapon discharging and he could not remember touching the trigger.
Jack was born in Davenport, Iowa, May 24, 1940, the son of Raymond Houseal and Mae Steel Slane. He attended the first and second grades of school in Davenport. The family then moved to Princeville and he was a pupil in the seventh grade at the time of his death.
He was an active member of the Princeville Boy Scout troop and had passed several merit tests. He also was a member of the school Safety Patrol and had charge of the school bus. He liked the out-of-doors and had an inseparable pal in his dog "Pee-Wee".
He is survived by his father and mother; his step-father and step-mother; brother, Kenneth; four half brother, and one half sister; his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Houseal and Mr. and Mrs. Leo Gramenz; several aunts and uncles and a host of other relatives and friends.
Funeral services were held from the Bouton Memorial home last Saturday afternoon with Rev. E. L. Fernandes officiating. William Burlingame of Davenport, Ia., sang "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere".
He was laid to rest in the Princeville cemetery, Pallbearers were Harold, Claus and Clyde Houseal, Wilbur, Ronald and Robert Slane. Honorary pallbearers were his classmates; Gerry Metcalf, Wesley Sloan, Jack Murnan, Tom Pierce, Larry Stoecker and Joe Rickey.
He loved life, this boy of mine,
With his mongrel dog, and rolled fish line
And going ‘round without his hat.
He got into mischief ten times a day; ‘twas only in fun, be used to say; He tried my patience, but now I know ‘Twas just for this that I loved him so!
And now he's in heaven, but he'll always be
The same dear boy through eternity. "Dear Father, keep him close to Thee And help me know he's still close to me".
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Funeral Services For Jack Houseal Are Held Saturday
Jack Howard Houseal came to death in his home about three or four miles south of Princeville at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 13, from a gunshot wound of the heart, accidently inflicted by a rifle in the hands of Kenneth Houseal, who said he had picked up the rifle from the table with the intention of putting it away. Jack was 8-10 feet from the gun when the accident occurred.
The accidental verdict was returned by the jury headed by Raymond Oertley, Harry Heinz, J. C. Bullock, Sam Williams, Earl Burns and Fred Hammer also were jurymen at the inquest in the Bouton Memorial home last Thursday afternoon.
Coroner Chancey Wood was told by Kenneth that he and his brother has been out in the pasture after dogs that had been molesting livestock. "after returning to the house" he stated, "he thought he had removed all the bullets from the chamber of the gun." He was unable to account for the weapon discharging and he could not remember touching the trigger.
Jack was born in Davenport, Iowa, May 24, 1940, the son of Raymond Houseal and Mae Steel Slane. He attended the first and second grades of school in Davenport. The family then moved to Princeville and he was a pupil in the seventh grade at the time of his death.
He was an active member of the Princeville Boy Scout troop and had passed several merit tests. He also was a member of the school Safety Patrol and had charge of the school bus. He liked the out-of-doors and had an inseparable pal in his dog "Pee-Wee".
He is survived by his father and mother; his step-father and step-mother; brother, Kenneth; four half brother, and one half sister; his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Houseal and Mr. and Mrs. Leo Gramenz; several aunts and uncles and a host of other relatives and friends.
Funeral services were held from the Bouton Memorial home last Saturday afternoon with Rev. E. L. Fernandes officiating. William Burlingame of Davenport, Ia., sang "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere".
He was laid to rest in the Princeville cemetery, Pallbearers were Harold, Claus and Clyde Houseal, Wilbur, Ronald and Robert Slane. Honorary pallbearers were his classmates; Gerry Metcalf, Wesley Sloan, Jack Murnan, Tom Pierce, Larry Stoecker and Joe Rickey.
He loved life, this boy of mine,
With his mongrel dog, and rolled fish line
And going ‘round without his hat.
He got into mischief ten times a day; ‘twas only in fun, be used to say; He tried my patience, but now I know ‘Twas just for this that I loved him so!
And now he's in heaven, but he'll always be
The same dear boy through eternity. "Dear Father, keep him close to Thee And help me know he's still close to me".
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