Visitation and services will be in the Buchanan Funeral Home in Newton with John Hartig and Gary Brown officiating. Burial will be Mt. Zion Cemetery.
Mrs. Bloemker was born Feb. 2, 1922, in Effingham County, the daughter of Thomas and Corrie (Poe) Gephart. She married Emery Bloemker Feb. 10, 1926, in Newton.
Survivors include her husband, Emery; 3 sons, Kenneth Bloemker, Newton; Alin Bloemker, Sturgeon, Mo.; Bernard Bloemker, Sigel; 2 daughters, Doris Bloemker, Milwaukee, Wise.; Helen Gowins, Orrville, Ohio; a brother, Alfred Gephart, Mountian View, Ark.; a sister Rosie Bloemker, Dietrich; 14 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, a son, 3 brothers and 6 sisters.
Taken from the Olney Daily Mail, Olney, IL, Sep, 1986.
Visitation and services will be in the Buchanan Funeral Home in Newton with John Hartig and Gary Brown officiating. Burial will be Mt. Zion Cemetery.
Mrs. Bloemker was born Feb. 2, 1922, in Effingham County, the daughter of Thomas and Corrie (Poe) Gephart. She married Emery Bloemker Feb. 10, 1926, in Newton.
Survivors include her husband, Emery; 3 sons, Kenneth Bloemker, Newton; Alin Bloemker, Sturgeon, Mo.; Bernard Bloemker, Sigel; 2 daughters, Doris Bloemker, Milwaukee, Wise.; Helen Gowins, Orrville, Ohio; a brother, Alfred Gephart, Mountian View, Ark.; a sister Rosie Bloemker, Dietrich; 14 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, a son, 3 brothers and 6 sisters.
Taken from the Olney Daily Mail, Olney, IL, Sep, 1986.
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Bessie Ethel Gephart Evans
1886–1977
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Elsie Ola Gephart Brink
1888–1963
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Effie May Gephart Stroud
1890–1959
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Clarence Franklin Gephart
1893–1965
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Lucy Estelle Gephart Henderson
1895–1982
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Thomas Daniel Gephart
1899–1976
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Alfred Benton Gephart
1901–1992
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Rosa Euima Gephart Bloemker
1904–1987
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Lona Cora Gephart Robards
1908–1945
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