Submitted by Melva Taylor
The Daily Gazette, Sterling-Rock Falls, Illinois
February 14, 1962 - pg 6, col. 3
GERTRUDE (Vaughn) JAQUET
Mrs. Gertrude Jaquet Of Rock Falls Dies
Mrs. Gertrude M. Jaquet of Haskell Ave., Rock Falls, died early Wednesday morning at Community General Hospital at the age of 64.
She was born June 24, 1897, in Tampico, the daughter of Thomas and Kathryn Vaughn. She was united in marriage to George L. Jaquet, Feb. 7, 1917, at Princeton, Ill. The couple farmed in the Tampico, Greenville, Rock Falls and Sterling area until Dec. 27, 1958, when they moved into Rock Falls.
She is survived by two sons, George of Manlius and Keith of Rock Falls; four daughters, Mrs. Lovell (Katherine) Jacques of DeWitt, Ia.; Mrs. Floyd (Ruth) Wellman of Rock Falls; Mrs. William (Margaret) Weimken of Rock Falls and Mrs. James (Marian) McBride of Sterling; 18 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren and one nephew.
She was preceded by her husband George, Sept. 23, 1959, one sister and one grandson.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the Wheelock-Allen Funeral Home with the Rev. Harry E. Shiffer, pastor-emeritus of the First Christian Church of Rock Falls, officiatng, with burial in Chapel Hill Cemetery at Dixon.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. Wednesday.
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