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Wallace Monroe “Shorty” Corman

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Wallace Monroe “Shorty” Corman

Birth
Schuyler County, Illinois, USA
Death
25 Mar 1960 (aged 71)
Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
Plot
Good Shepherd
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From the Galesburg Register-Mail (Galesburg, IL) Sat, Mar 26, 1960, Pg. 11

MONROE CORMAN
Funeral services for Monroe (Shorty) Corman, 71, of 110 S. Farnham St., will be held Monday at 2 p.m. at Hinchliff and Pearson Funeral Chapel, where friends may call Sunday. Burial will be in Oak Lawn Memorial Gardens.

Mr. Corman was found hanged at his home yesterday by a relative, and a coroner's jury last night ruled that he had taken his own life.

Mr. Corman was born Sept. 7, 1888, in Schuyler County and farmed in the Avon vicinity until he retired in 1952. He had lived in Galesburg the last 11 years.

He was married at Rushville Feb. 23, 1916, to Goldie Marie Woodruff, who survives with three daughters, Mrs. Marvin Pigg of Colorado Springs, Colo.; Mrs. Jerry Wolford of Alexis and Mrs. Burdette Lutz of Good Hope; two brothers, James and Henry of Chicago; two sisters, Mrs. Shirley Ann Summers of New Westminster, Canada, and another sister Eunice in Chicago; 12 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
From the Galesburg Register-Mail (Galesburg, IL) Sat, Mar 26, 1960, Pg. 11

MONROE CORMAN
Funeral services for Monroe (Shorty) Corman, 71, of 110 S. Farnham St., will be held Monday at 2 p.m. at Hinchliff and Pearson Funeral Chapel, where friends may call Sunday. Burial will be in Oak Lawn Memorial Gardens.

Mr. Corman was found hanged at his home yesterday by a relative, and a coroner's jury last night ruled that he had taken his own life.

Mr. Corman was born Sept. 7, 1888, in Schuyler County and farmed in the Avon vicinity until he retired in 1952. He had lived in Galesburg the last 11 years.

He was married at Rushville Feb. 23, 1916, to Goldie Marie Woodruff, who survives with three daughters, Mrs. Marvin Pigg of Colorado Springs, Colo.; Mrs. Jerry Wolford of Alexis and Mrs. Burdette Lutz of Good Hope; two brothers, James and Henry of Chicago; two sisters, Mrs. Shirley Ann Summers of New Westminster, Canada, and another sister Eunice in Chicago; 12 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.


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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/208290405/wallace_monroe-corman: accessed ), memorial page for Wallace Monroe “Shorty” Corman (7 Sep 1888–25 Mar 1960), Find a Grave Memorial ID 208290405, citing Oak Lawn Memorial Gardens, Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois, USA; Maintained by TeriK (contributor 48995073).