The Daily Gazette, Sterling-Rock Falls, Illinois

June 2, 1952 - Monday, pg 2 col. 2

 

 

Mrs. Carl Blum, a sister of Edward Girton, 206 Eleventh avenuie, Sterling, died suddenly Sunday morning at her home in Franklin Grove. She had been ill five years.

 

The funeral will be at 2:30 p.m. (DST) Tuesday at the Franklin Grove Methodist church. The body is at the Hicks funeral home there.

 

Surviving are her husband; a son, Lloyd, Franklin Grove;  two daughters, Mrs. LeRoy Fane, Franklin Grove, and Mrs. Eldon Willson, Rockford; another brother, Earl Girton, Amboy, and three sisters, Mrs. William Spencer, Amboy, Mrs. Hobart Macbeth, Franklin Grove, and Mrs. Charles Parker, Plainfield, and a number of nieces and nephews in the Sterling-Rock Falls area.