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rwmnnpi aw 'r vww wwmmw ww am Page 4 Section Belleville (III) News-Democrat Sunday November 13 1994 Torah will be restored Belleville died Friday Nov 11 1994 No visitation Private funeral' Monday Burial in Lake View Memorial Gardens Fairview Heights Kurrus Funeral Home Belleville St Louis Kassly Colonial Mortuary Fairview Heights SCHMITT Sister Pancratia 78 of Red Bud died Friday Nov 1 1 1994 Visitation after 3 pjn Sunday at the Adorers of the Blood of Christ Provincial House Chapel Ruma Funeral Mass on Monday at the chapel PARMLEY- Charles 31 of Granite City ditd Friday Nov 1 1 1994 Visitation Jto 8 pm Sunday at the funeral home Funeral 1 1 am Monday at the funeral home Burial in Valley View Cemetery Ed wards ville Irwin Maryville Road Chapel Granite City SCHWINN Anna nee Strackeljahn 103 of Belleville died Saturday Nov 12 1994 Arrangements pending at George Renner and Sons Funeral Home Belleville THOMAS Robert A 80 of Death notices that include name age community date of death and funeral home are published free Free obituaries are accepted by telephone at 234-5578 from noon to 8 pm Monday through Friday and from 2 to 8 pm Saturday and Sunday Further information may be published for a standard fee under Photos and funeral notices are $625 each Paid obituaries are accepted by telephone at 234-5578 or fox 235-6846 from noon to 5 pm Monday through Friday and from 2 to 5 pm Saturday and Sunday ALLEN Mary nee Spunier 73 of Belleville died Saturday Nov 12 1994 Visitation 4 to 8 pm Monday at the funeral home Funeral 1 pm Tuesday at the funeral Glenn Deckard Glenn Deckard 78 of Fair-view Heights bora March 17 1916 in Petersburg 111 died Thursday Nov 10 1994 at his residence Glenn Deckard He was a retired beer truck driver for Illinois Distributing Belleville member of Teamsters Local 50 building manager unit president of board at Belle-Clair Fairgrounds until 1991 American Legion Post 58 and St Albert the Great Catholic Church and a World War II Army veteran He was preceded in death by wife Opal nee Baquet his first Deckard who died in 1957 mother Edna Blanch nee Palmer Deckard father and stepmother Claud and Susan nee Schaller Deckard a brother John Deckard and a sister Marie POe-hler Surviving are his wife Elizabeth nee Franke Deckard a son Dennis Deckard of Belleville a daughter Barbara A (Robert) Urich of New Baden a Deckard of brother Claude (Alice) Penyville Mo four grandchildren Sherri-Anne (Eric) Stephens of Belleville Kristine (Ray) Nagel Timothy Goeddel and Ids fiance Bethany Wiegard and Susan Marie Goeddel all of Red Bud three great-grandchildren Danielle Heather and Rebeka Nagel also nieces nephews and cousins Funeral procession to leave at 10 am Monday Nov 14 1994 from Pete Gaerdner Funeral Home Belleville to St Albert the Great Catholic Church for a 10:30 am Mass with the Rev James Long and the Rev Thomas Flach officiating Burial will be in Walnut Hill Cemetery Belleville Friends may call after 4 pm Sunday Nov 13 1994 at the funeral home A prayer service will be held at 5 pm Sunday and an American Legion ritual will be held at 7 pm at the Pete Gaerdner Funeral Home For those wishing memorials may be made to Hospice of Southern Illinois or donor's choice Gertrude Kelcher Gertrude Kelcher nee Eva 83 of Freeburg III formerly of New Athens 111 bom April 2 1911 in Detroit Midi died Friday Nov 11 1994 at St Hospital in Belleville 111 She was a member of the St Agathas Catholic Church in New Athens 111 She was preceded in death by her husband Harold Kelcher whom die married on Sept 3 1926 in Detroit Mich and who died on May 1 1983 parents Richard and Catherine nee Clement Eva Surviving are six sons Norman Kelcher of Oakland Calif Lawrence kelcher of Dallas Texas David Kelcher of St Louis Mo Gordon Kelcher of Hazelwood Mo Paul Kelcher of Phoenix Aria and John Kelcher of Decatur 111 two daughters Mary A Hennemann of Visalia Calif and Terri Ber-gin of Mesquite Texas 14 grand-children and 17 great- grandchildren Funeral services will be held at 10 am Monday Nov 14 at St Agathas Catholic Church New Athens 111 with Fr Albert E-Kreher officiating Burial will be in St Agathas Cemetery New Athens Friends may call from 5 to 8 pm Sunday Nov 13 and from 9 to 9:30 am Monday Nov 14 at the Heil-Schuessler Funeral Home New Athens DL Memorials may be made to the Multiple Sclerosis Society home Burial in Valhalla Gardens of Memory Belleville Pete Gaerdner' Funeral Home Belleville BURNS Iru A 77 of Lebanon died Friday Nov 1 1 1994 No visitation Memorial service 1 pm Saturday at Greater Mount Olive Baptist Church Lebanon Meyer Funeral Home Lebanon GAINES Charles 74 of Belleville died Friday Nov 11 1994 Visitation 4 to 9 pm Monday and 8 to 11 am Tuesday at the funeral home Funeral 1 1 am Tuesday at the funeral home Burial in Lake View Memorial Gardens Fairview Heights Pete Gaerdner Funeral Home Belleville JULLEIS Shirley 68 of Belleville died Saturday Nov 12 1994 Visitation after 4 pm Tuesday at the funeral home Funeral 10 am Wednesday at the funeral Dena Julien Dena Julien nee Lohmann 101 of Columbia I1L formerly of Cahokia HL bom July 3 1893 in East St Louis 111 cued Thura- day Nov 10 1994 at Columbia Convalescent Center She was a member of St Paul Lutheran Church in Columbia and an honorary member of St Ladies League She was preceded in death by her husband Charles Julien who died February 14 1951 her parents Louis and Sophie Lohmann three brothers Louis William and Henry Lohmann and two sisters Rose Julien and Marie Horn Surviving are her son Melvin (Pauline) Julien of Columbia a granddaughter Donna (Phillip) Bohn of Columbia a great grandson Joseph Bohn of Columbia a sister Lucille Krieg-er of Belleville our dear sister-in-law aunt and friend Funeral service will be held at 1 pm Monday Nov 14 1994 at St Paul Lutheran Church 227 Goodhaven Columbia 111 with the Rev Edward Melchoir and the Rev Scott Tessin officiating Interment will be held in Valhalla Gardens of Memory in Belleville Friends may call from 2:30 to 9 pm Sunday at Braun Colonial Funeral Home in Cahokia 111 and from noon until time of service at the church Memorials may be made to St Paul Lutheran Church in Columbia I1L Sister Pancratia Schmitt ASC Sister Pancratia Schmitt ASC longtime German teacher 78 of Red Bud 111 and the Adorers of the Blood of Christ Provincial House Chapel Ruma 111 died unexpectedly on Friday Nov 11 1994 at her home Sister Pancratia Schmitt ASC A native of New Hamburg Mo the former Grace Marie Schmitt was a daughter of the late Leonard and Louise Mary nee Ziegler Schmitt She professed first vows as an Adorer of the Blood of Christ on July 2 1934 taking the name of Sister Pancratia In 1936 she began her career in education as a teacher at Catholic elementary schools throughout southern Illinois After teaching at the former St Teresa Academy East St Louis and doing some religious work she joined the staff of Althoff Catholic High School in 1967 where she taught German language and Ham-ing for 21 years Sister troupe performed both locally and nationally at festivals and conventions in Missouri Kentucky Arkansas Pennsylvania and Tennessee She also took her dancers on several tours of Europe She earned a BS and MA degree from and studied St Louis University German at Heidelburg University From 1989 to 1994 Sister served as a receptionist at the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows Belleville Her most recent assignment was to minister to the residents of the Maria Cue Nursing Home and the Skilled Nursing Facility at St Clement Hospital both in Red Bud I1L She was preceded in death by her parents Surviving are a Inether Jerome Schmitt of Cottage Hills 111 two sisters Sister Norbert Schmitt ASC Ruma 111 and Ethel Ian-nuzi of Woodbridge Conn and nephews and nieces Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at the Adorers of the Blood of Christ Provincial House Chapel Ruma 111 on Monday Nov 14 1994 Friends may call after body ra received at the Provincial House Chapel at 3 pm Sunday Nov 13 A Wake is scheduled for 7 pm home Burial in Lake View Memorial Gardens Fairview Heights Pete Gaerdner Funeral Home Belleville KELCHER Gertrude nee Eva 83 of Free burg formerly of New Athens died Friday Nov 11 1994 Visitation 5 to 8 pm Sunday and 9 to 9:30 am Monday at the funeral home Funeral 10 am Monday at St Agathas Catholic Church New Athens Burial in St Agathas Cemetery New Athens Heil-Schuessler Funeral Home New Athens MUTCHEK John IL HI 71 of Fairview Heights died Thursday Nov 10 1994 Visitation after 2 pm Sunday at the funeral home Funeral procession 9:30 am Monday from the funeral home for 10 am Mass at Our Lady of the Assumption Church Burial in Jef-ferson Barracks National Cemetery John Mutchek III John Mutchek III 71 of Fairview Heights DL born May 17 1923 in Orient 111 died Thursday Nov 10 1994 in Fair-view Heights 111 He was preceded in death by his parents John II and Margaret nee Polansek Mutchek three brothers Edward William and Sam Mutchek Surviving an his wife Mary nee Halterman 'Mutchek two sons John and wife Barbara Mutchek IV of Manchester Conn James and Doreen Mutchek of Troy four grandchildren John and Stacia Mutchek both of Manchester Conn Benjamin and Brendan Mutchek both of Troy three brothers Lee and wife Joyce Mutchek of West Frankfort Jack and wife Chris Mutchek of Freeman Spur 111 Tom and wifo Laura Mutchek of Benton two sisters Shirley and husband Jack Short of Rotonda West Fla Margaret Ann Armes of Benton brother-in-law of Joan and Mary Ann Mutchek our dear brother-in-law unde and cousin John will be sadly missed by those who love him Funeral procession to leave at 9:30 am Monday from the Kassly Mortuary Fairview Heights to Our Lady of the Assumption Church for a 10 am Mass of Christian burial with the Rev James Jansen officiating Burial will be in National Cemetery Jefferson Baracks Mo Friends may call after 2 pm Sunday at the funeral home Recitation of the Rosary will be held at 4 pm Sunday at the funeral home Donations may be made to the Hospice of Southern Illinois Mary Allen Mary Allen nee Spurrier 73 of Belleville 111 bom May 4 1921 in Alton 111 died Saturday Nov 12 1994 at Maryville Manor in Maryville 111 Mary Allen Mrs Allen was a retired housekeeper at Memorial Hospital Belleville She was preceded in death by her husband Robert Allen her parents David and Garlie nee Fulks Spurrier a grandchild a great-grandchild and a half-sister Chloe Gordon Surviving are four daughters and a son Betty (Michael) Mize of Collinsville 111 Glenn (Helen) McCarty of Mills tadt 111 Barbara Braun Esther Schroeder and Patricia Depping all of Belleville 111 two sisters Juanita (Chester) Clark and Winona (Tom) Ramshaw both of Alton 111 a brother Calvert Spurrier of Wenatchee Wash 16 grandchildren 11 great-grandchildren a half-brother RL Spurrier iff El Cerrito Calif a half-sister Feleda Fleishman of St Louis Mo and her very dear friend Eudell Blockyou of Belleville 111 Funeral services will be held at 1 pm Tuesday Nov 15 1994 at Pete Gaerdner Funeral Home Belleville III with the Rev Art Erb officiating Burial will be in the Valhalla Gardens of Memory Belleville 111 Friends may call from 4 to 8 pm Monday at the funeral home Memorials may be made to the Hospice of Southern Illinois or to the American Cancer Society AssocMedAess CHICAGO A fragment of a Torah scroll that was stolen by a Nazi collaborator and partially cut up to make slippers will be restored in its entirety says the rabbi of a North Side congregation The remnant of foe 200-year-old scroll was brought to Chicago two years ago by an immigrant from Belarus Vitaly Gurevich who died shortly after giving it to Rabbi Zev Cohen of Congregation Adas Yeshurun Cohen said Friday that Gurevich could not read Hebrew himself but realized the scroll was sacred and kept it hidden at his home in Minsk through decades of Soviet repression not letting even his fiunily know of its existence "I know about foe scroll until I got said his son Boris Gurevich 36 who added that his father had spent five yean in a prison camp and knew foe need for secrecy Cohen regards the appearance of foe scroll at his synagogue as nothing short of miraculous of a sudden this Jew walks in wifo a cylindrical package I had no idea what it foe rabbi said open it we read it we find out it begins wifo die very same sedra (passage) we were reading that morning It was more than a little part of foe Torah has more holiness than any other all are equally sacred but still when you consider what is on this parchment you have to Cohen said contains less than a twelfth of the Torah but the twelfth it contains is the Exodus from Egypt the Song of The Sea foe Hebrews sang after the destruction of foe Egyptian army and foe giving of foe Ten Commandments brought here by a man who has survived the Nazis and Soviets to make his own exodus What can you Cohen said Gurevich fled from Minsk when the German army arrived in 1941 and return until after the Germans were driven out three yean later During the liberation of Minsk Soviet troops executed a young gentile neighbor of his Constantine Mosalkov as a Nazi collaborator had also stolen a Torah from a shul (synagogue) and after his execution his brother Mikhail got Cohen said hied to sell it but there woe no Jews left in Minsk so he he cut up most of it to make soles for slippers and shoes When foe Jews returned after the war he gave what was left probably out of remorse to Mr Deaths elsewhere NoreenNoyd KASOTA Minn Radio reporter Nareen Noyd whose on-air name was Rene Tasman died in a car mash Saturday She was 24 Noyd who worked fin KTOE-AM and KDOG-FM in Mankato died after the pickup truck she was driving ran off a road southeast of Kasota and overturned shortly after 3 am Her fiance Glenn Miller was treated for minor injuries at a Mankato hospital Charles Tenney NEW YORK Charles Tenney a judge who presided over sew eral racial discrimination cases died of cancer Friday He was 83 As a senior judge in US District Court Tenney signed a 1991 settlement in which foe New York City Housing Authority agreed to temporarily accept only black or Hispanic applicants for vacancies in three housing projects Until then 68 percent of foe residents were Hasidic Jews In 1980 the judge issued an injunction barring a housing development from using quotas to favor Hasidic Jews over blacks and Puerto Ricans Police blotter ST CLAIR SHERIFF 71m lUttls 27 of 17 Kensington Heights near BeUevflle reported that sometime between Nov 4 and Friday someone tried to break into the trunk of his parked 1993 Chevrolet Corsica and ii i GwYMQM VW IOCK Tommy Latham 43 of 6790 Audubon near Washington Park reported that between 7:30 and 10 pm Friday someone broke into his mobile home and stole a $30 pellet rifle a $30 pellet pistol a $150 video cassette recorder a $50 Nintendo video game and fve Nintendo video game cartridges totaling $25 TIDWELL Naydene nee Young 78 of Collinsville died Saturday Nov 12 1994 Funeral arrangements pending at Herr Funeral Home Collinsville Burial in Lake View Memorial Gardens Fairview Heights VOEGELE Paul A 83 of Highland died Friday Nov 11 1994 Visitation 4 to 9 pm Sunday at the funeral home Funeral Mass 10 am Monday at St Church Highland Burial in St Joseph Cemetery Highland Meridith Funeral Home Highland Charles Gaines Charles Gaines 74 of Belleville I1L bom Feb 13 1920 in Vandalia 111 died Friday Nov 11 1994 at Memorial Hospital Belleville DL Mr Gaines was a retired maintenance man for Sterling Steel Castingin Sauget 111 a member of Masonic Lodge 504 in Fairview Heights 111 Auoad Temple East St Louis 111 Scottish Rite Bodies of Southern Illinois VFW Post 1739 and the Moose Lodge 1221 of Belleville He was preceded in death by his parents Ruben and Ethel nee Melvid Gaines two brothers Daniel and Ruben Gaines and a sister Helen Rodenberg Surviving are bis wife Rose Marie nee Mason Gaines a daughter Trudie (Herbert) Halw-achs of Fairview Heights 111 three brothers Robert (Camille) Gaines of Trenton HI Homer (Ellen) Gaines of St Louis Mo and James (Charlotte) Gaines of Troy 111 two sisters Betty (John) Sharpard and Margie Warren both of Troy 111 two grandchildren Melissa (Stewart) Drolet and Gabrielle Halwachs both of Fairview Heights III nieces and nephews be held at Funeral services will be 11 am Tuesday at Pete Gaerdner Funeral Home in Belleville with the Dr Eugene Leckrone officiating Burial will be in Lake View Memorial Gardens in Fairview Heights 111 Friends may call from 4 to 9 pm Monday and from 8 to 11 am Tuesday at the funeral home VFW Ritual will be held at 7 pm Monday at the funeral home For those wishing memorials may be made to shrines Hospital for Crippled Children Naydene Tidwell Naydene Evelyn Tidwell nee Young 78 of Collinsville RL bora July 25 1916 in Glasgow 111 died Saturday Nov-12 1994 at Anderson Hospital Maryville 111 Mrs Tidwell was a 1934 gradu-i School ate of East St Louie High- i and chairman of the reunion committee She waa preceded in death by her husband John Carl Tidwell whom she married on June 14 1937 her parents Jesse Morledge and Pearie Lee nee McLaughlin Young a brother and a sister Naydene Wicker of Collinsville 111 and Lana (Paul) Halwe of Fenton Mo three sons John Tidwell Jr of Worden 111 Edward Michael roll of Phoenix Ariz and Tidwell Robert Tidwell of Sumtner SC a sister Pearie (Eugene) Reames of Fairview Heights 111 11 grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren Funeral arrangements are pending at the Herr Funeral Home Collinsville HL Burial will be in the Lake View Memorial Gardens Fairview Heights 111 Memorials may be made to the First Baptist Church of Collinsville 111 Robert Thomas Robert A Thomas 80 of Belleville 111 died Friday Nov 11 1994 at Memorial Convalescent Center in Belleville 111 He was a retired painter and decorator and a member of the International Brotherhood of Painters Allied Trades Local 85 Belleville 111 He was preceded in death by his parents Grover and Mis-chel nee Hunt Thomas Surviving are throe brothers James (Ella) Thomas Roy (Mary) Thomas and Ray I (Charlene) Thomas all of Belleville 111 sister Roberta Tyson of Falls Church Va and nieces and nephews Private funeral services will be held Monday Nov 14 1994 with the Rev Jim Robinson officiating Burial will be in Lake View Memorial Gardens No visitation will be held Arrangements by Kurrus Funeral Home of Belleville HL Michael Stratton Michael Stratton 55 a 34-year resident of Cahokia III died Friday Nov: 11 1994 at Memorial Hospital Belleville 111 Mr Stratton retired as president from American Industrial Tire of Cahokia HI where be worked for 18 years He attended Maplewood Church of Christ in Cahokia 111 He was preceded in death by his father Paul Stratton Sr who died Oct 28 1994 a brother Gerry A Stratton who died May 1 1994 and his mother-in-law Clara Harris who died Jan 12 1994 Surviving are his wife Barbara Stratton a son Don and wife Donna Stratton of Cahokia 111 a daughter Diane Stratton of Omaha Texas grandfather of Tim Jessica and Nissa Stratton his mother Ruth nee Powell Stratton of Swansea 111 a brother Paul amd wife Veria Stratton Jr of Caseyville 111 two sisters-in-law Jean Chaffin of Ca- hokia 111 and Martha and husband Paul Fritts of Edwardsville 111 two brothers-in-law Dale and wife Colleen Harris of Dallas Texas and Larry and wife Jan Harris of St Peters Mo nephew of Joe and wife Bea Wells of Sunset Hills Mo and Wilma Clement of Hannibal Mo also by nu- merous nieces nephews and friends Funeral services will be held at 1:30 pm Monday Nov 14 1994 at Kassly Colonial Mortuary Fairview Heights HI with Pastor Ken Downs officiating Burial will be in Valhalla Gardens of Memory Belleville 111 Friends may call after 5 pm Sunday at the funeral home Donations may be made to the American Lung Association or to the Memorial Auxiliary Education Assistance Fund in gratitude of the ICU nurses Michael will be lovingly remembered and very sadly missed Shirley Julleis Shirley Julleis 68 of Belleville 111 bora Sept 12 1926 in Mascoutah 111 died Saturday Nov 12 1994 at St Hospital in Belleville DL She was preceded in death by hw parents George and Frances nee Schubert Titze two sisters Loretta Titze and Doris Sackett Surviving are her husband Aloys Julleis Jr son Aloys "leville Julleis III of Bellevil HI daughter Jana Julleis of Belleville 111 two sisters Alberta Battoe of Mascoutah 111 and Bonnie (Darwin) Schmitt of St Jacob 111 Funeral services will be held at 10 am Wednesday Nov 16 1994 at Pete Gaerdner Funeral Home Belleville 111 with the Rev Dick Maim officiating Entombment will be in the Lake View Memorial Gardens Fairview Heights 111 Friends may call after 4 pm Tuesday at the funeral home Memorials may be made to Hospice of Southern Illinois Billie Bischoff Billie Bischoff nee Lay of Belleville 111 died Thursday Nov 10 1994 at Rosewood Care center in Swansea 111 She was a former school teacher and member of Chapter KC of PEO She -vaa preceded in death by her patents William and Allis nee Cannon Lay and a sister and brother-in-law Madrono and Jones Surviving are her husband of 57 years Roy Bischoff Sr a son Rqy Bischoff Jr of Fair- view Heights 111 and a grandly Bischoff III a broth- Roy Bischoff III er-in-law and sister-in-law Ray and Rose Bischoff and dear friends Cynthia Harkness and Robert and Lois Elder Funeral services will be held at 10:30 am Monday Nov 14 1994 at Kurrus Funeral Home 657 North 57th Street Belleville 111 with Dr Harold Paul officiating Burial will be in Valhalla Gardens of Memory Belleville 111 may call from 3 pm Friends may until 9 pm Sunday Nov 13 1994 and from 9 am until the time of service at the funeral home i -i i i is am tsaas sasas mail mm A At ysaaau asw a aa a aaiaa.