WORD WAS RECEIVED IN DECATUR SATURDAY MORNING ANNOUNCING THE DEATH OF J. O. CAROTHERS AT HIS HOME IN CHICAGO HEIGHTS AT 5:30 O'CLOCK THAT MORNING. HE WAS SEVENTY SIX YEARS OLD LAST JUNE. HIS DEATH WAS CAUSED BY HEART TROUBLE AFTER A SHORT ILLNESS.
MR. CAROTHERS WAS BORN IN INDIANA, JUNE 23, 1847. HE CAME TO ILLINOIS IN 1891 AND WAS ENGAGED IN FARMING UNTIL SEVEN YEARS AGO WHEN HE RETIRED AND MOVED TO DECATUR. HERE HE RESIDED UNTIL THREE MONTH AGO WHEN HE MOVED TO CHICAGO HEIGHTS TO MAKE HIS HOME.
HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN: R. I CAROTHERS OF CHICAGO, C. E. CAROTHERS OF SPRINGFIELD, MRS. BERTHA REED, E. B. CAROTHERS, FAYE CAROTHERS OF DECATUR, MRS. C.E. BETSER OF OREANA, HUBERT CAROTHERS OF FORSYTHE, RAY CAROTHERS OF PEORIA, MRS. E. RICHEY OF CHICAGO, VERNE CAROTHERS OF NETTER, IA, VICTOR CAROTHERS OF SPRINGFIELD AND MRS. RAY BATMAN OF SULLIVAN. HE ALSO LEAVES A SISTER, MRS. S. BAER OF WABASH IND AND A BROTHER OSCAR CAROTHERS, IN S. DAKOTA. THERE ARE SEVENTEEN GRANDCHILDREN AND FIVE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.
THE BODY WILL BE BROUGHT TO DECATUR AND TAKEN TO THE BRINTLINGER & SONS CHAPEL, WHERE THE FUNERAL WILL BE HELD AT A TIME NOT YET DECIDED ON. THE BURIAL WILL BE IN FAIRLAWN CEMETERY.
OBITUARY FURNISHED BY JANET DONNER
WORD WAS RECEIVED IN DECATUR SATURDAY MORNING ANNOUNCING THE DEATH OF J. O. CAROTHERS AT HIS HOME IN CHICAGO HEIGHTS AT 5:30 O'CLOCK THAT MORNING. HE WAS SEVENTY SIX YEARS OLD LAST JUNE. HIS DEATH WAS CAUSED BY HEART TROUBLE AFTER A SHORT ILLNESS.
MR. CAROTHERS WAS BORN IN INDIANA, JUNE 23, 1847. HE CAME TO ILLINOIS IN 1891 AND WAS ENGAGED IN FARMING UNTIL SEVEN YEARS AGO WHEN HE RETIRED AND MOVED TO DECATUR. HERE HE RESIDED UNTIL THREE MONTH AGO WHEN HE MOVED TO CHICAGO HEIGHTS TO MAKE HIS HOME.
HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN: R. I CAROTHERS OF CHICAGO, C. E. CAROTHERS OF SPRINGFIELD, MRS. BERTHA REED, E. B. CAROTHERS, FAYE CAROTHERS OF DECATUR, MRS. C.E. BETSER OF OREANA, HUBERT CAROTHERS OF FORSYTHE, RAY CAROTHERS OF PEORIA, MRS. E. RICHEY OF CHICAGO, VERNE CAROTHERS OF NETTER, IA, VICTOR CAROTHERS OF SPRINGFIELD AND MRS. RAY BATMAN OF SULLIVAN. HE ALSO LEAVES A SISTER, MRS. S. BAER OF WABASH IND AND A BROTHER OSCAR CAROTHERS, IN S. DAKOTA. THERE ARE SEVENTEEN GRANDCHILDREN AND FIVE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.
THE BODY WILL BE BROUGHT TO DECATUR AND TAKEN TO THE BRINTLINGER & SONS CHAPEL, WHERE THE FUNERAL WILL BE HELD AT A TIME NOT YET DECIDED ON. THE BURIAL WILL BE IN FAIRLAWN CEMETERY.
OBITUARY FURNISHED BY JANET DONNER
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Walter F. Carothers
1847–1912
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Edna Ann Carothers Carver
1850–1908
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Sarah Alice Carothers Carver
1853–1910
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Ida May Carothers Beck
1857–1920
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Catharine Rebecca "Kit" Carothers Cory
1858–1894
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Ernest H Carothers
1859–1919
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Oscar Allen Carothers
1861–1931
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Ulysses S Carothers
1863–1864
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Eddie Carothers
1865–1866
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Emma Josephine Carothers Baer
1869–1944
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