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SGT Leon Lucin Church

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SGT Leon Lucin Church

Birth
Centralia, Marion County, Illinois, USA
Death
14 Sep 1956 (aged 59)
Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA
Burial
De Soto, Jackson County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
Plot
Row 8
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Leon Lucin Church, 59, Golconda, died Friday in Waukegan where he had been employed.

Church, a World War I veteran and a member of the Masonic and Shriner Lodges, lived in Zeigler until 1925. He was employed at Kohlsdorff Clothing Store, Zeigler, while living in Zeigler.

His wife, the former Lula Crews, Murphysboro, died nine years ago.

He leaves his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Church of Zeigler, brothers James and Clarence of Zeigler and William of Cambria, sisters Mrs. Fern Riner of Chicago, Mrs. Gladys Buchanan of Chicago and Mrs. Dorothy Taylor of Tucson, AZ.

He will be returned to the Buchanan Funeral Home, Golconda, where friends may call Saturday there are 2 p.m. Sunday. Funeral services in Zeigler will be at the First Baptist Church Monday at 1:30 p.m. Friends may call at the Vantrease Funeral Home, Zeigler, after 6 p.m. Sunday. The Rev. Albert Moore will officiate at the services. Burial will be in the Central Church Cemetery, west of De Soto.

Source: Obituary, Southern Illinoisan, Sunday, September 16, 1956
Leon Lucin Church, 59, Golconda, died Friday in Waukegan where he had been employed.

Church, a World War I veteran and a member of the Masonic and Shriner Lodges, lived in Zeigler until 1925. He was employed at Kohlsdorff Clothing Store, Zeigler, while living in Zeigler.

His wife, the former Lula Crews, Murphysboro, died nine years ago.

He leaves his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Church of Zeigler, brothers James and Clarence of Zeigler and William of Cambria, sisters Mrs. Fern Riner of Chicago, Mrs. Gladys Buchanan of Chicago and Mrs. Dorothy Taylor of Tucson, AZ.

He will be returned to the Buchanan Funeral Home, Golconda, where friends may call Saturday there are 2 p.m. Sunday. Funeral services in Zeigler will be at the First Baptist Church Monday at 1:30 p.m. Friends may call at the Vantrease Funeral Home, Zeigler, after 6 p.m. Sunday. The Rev. Albert Moore will officiate at the services. Burial will be in the Central Church Cemetery, west of De Soto.

Source: Obituary, Southern Illinoisan, Sunday, September 16, 1956


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