Thanks.

I was doing some searching for Zora and came across this obit (on Whiteside Trails www.genealogytrails.com/whiteside) - you will note that Elizabeth (nee Schultz) sister is listed as Mrs. Zora Phillips. Is this Bernadine's sister or step sister?:

ELIZABETH (SCHULTZ) VOGEL , 67, 903 2nd St., Sterling, died Monday at her home. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday at the Grennan Funeral Home with the Rev. Dalmus Meeks, officiating. Visitation will be from 6 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday. Elizabeth Vogel was born on Dec. 11, 1915 in Sterling, the daughter of Ouran and Berdenia Riley Schultz. She was a member of the Rock Falls Eagles. Surviving are one son, Meldon, Rock Island; one daughter, Mrs. Charles (Melody) Ford, Minier, four grandchildren, and four sisters, Mrs. Leslie Card, Coleta; Mrs. Sue Allen, Sterling; and Mrs. Ruth Ruby and Mrs. Zora Phillips, both of Rock Falls.
Contributed by Melva L. Taylor - The Daily Gazette, Sterling-Rock Falls, Illinois January 11, 1983 - Tuesday, pg A4

Les

Last Edited on May 7, 2009 2:58 PM

Your information could be correct. I visited with Uncle Zorie and his wife Bernice in the early 1990s, and I believe their address was Rock Falls rather than Sterling. I didn't know much about his wife, except that she was a very nice lady and that the two of them were devoted to each other. She wrote to me about three weeks after my uncle passed away. I've talked to his son Emery, but Emery couldn't give me a date his dad died or where he's buried.

Thanks.

If this Zora PHILLIPS is Bernice, then who are the parents of Elizabeth, Mrs Card, Sue Allen and Ruth Ruby? They must be step-sisters of Bernice, correct?

Les

Sharol