Person:Reuben Hollenbeck (1)

Golden Wedding Anniversary

The Morris Daily Herald, Friday, March 31, 1922

Hollenbeck's Wed Half a Century Ago.

One hundred relatives and friends were entertained Wednesday evening at the large country home of Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Hollenbeck, of Vienna township, in honor of their fiftieth wedding anniversary.

The home was beautifully decorated with gold and white festoon, and white wedding bells, the color scheme of gold and white being further carried out with a profusion of jonquils, English marigolds, freesias and white roses in large bouquets, artistically arranged throughout the rooms.

The bride of 50 years was presented with bouquets of bride's roses.

The guests arrived at 5 o'clock and during the evening the following program was given:

• Musical number - Misses Katherine Maier and Alice Bright.
• Address - C. H. Root.
• Musical number - Misses Maier and Bright.
• Address - Clarence Finch.
• Musical numbers - Misses Maier and Bright.
• Recitation - Miss Frances Hollenbeck.
• Musical numbers - Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Waters, piano and saxaphone, and Mr. and Mrs. Burdette Barret, voice and violin.
• Recitation - Ben Sheehan.
• Song - Clarence Finch.
• Piano number - Miss Bright.
• Chorus singing by those present.

The program chairman was Mrs. L. F. Hollenbeck.

Refreshments of yellow and white ice cream and cake were served by the children, Mr. and Mrs. Loyd Hollenbeck, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Baker, Miss Frances Hollenbeck, Clarence Hollenbeck, and Ruby Baker, assisted by Miss XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Mrs. Fanny Hollenbeck.

The list of presents received follows: library table from the children, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Hollenbeck, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hollenbeck, Mr. and Mrs. James Hollenbeck, Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Hollenbeck, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. William Troxel, Mr. and Mrs. George Baker, and Miss Velma Hollenbeck. Cut glass dish, Mrs. George Hollenbeck, of Kankakee; hand-painted fruit set, Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Hollenbeck and Mr. and Mrs. George Hollenbeck of Hebron, Ill.; one dozen men's hankerchiefs, and one dozen ladies' hankerchiefs from Mr. and Mrs. Frank Erickson; gold salt and pepper shaker, Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Smith and Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Millet; candy bowl, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Curtis; cut-glass dish Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Finch; gold sugar and creamer, Edward Handley and Mr. and Mrs. Wallin Handly; records, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Baker; silver and gold sugar and creamer, Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Sheenan; Gold and hand-painted salt and pepper shaker, Mr. and Mrs. Clark Fellingham; gold and silver creamer, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Punke; five dollar gold peices from Mr. and Mrs. Frank Erickson, Mr. and Mrs Elwin Redfield of Kankakee, Mr. and Mrs. James Irwin of Seneca, Mrs. Isabelle Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kilmer, Mr. and Mrs. William Rothlisberger, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Colman, Mr. and Mrs. F. Malmquist, Mr. and Mrs.Harry McCormick and Mr. and Mrs. John Maier. Two dollar and one-half gold peices: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gaffis, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Grandby, and two dollars, Mr, and Mrs, W. G. Kilellea.

Flowers received were: Pink roses, Miss Julia Fitzgerald; jonquils, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hollenbeck; jonquils, roses, and English marigolds, Mrs. Eliza Glenn; English marigolds, Mr. and Mrs Ole Erickson; jonquils, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Baker; gold basket of jonquils, roses and freesias from Carey Bros. and Meyer of Morris; pink rosebuds, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Root, of Morris; deep pink roses, Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Walsh; white roses, Mrs. Della Bunch and family; pink roses, Ruby Baker; pink roses, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Hollenbeck.

Reuben Hollenbeck, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Hollenbeck and Miss Cornelia A. May Bunch, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henderson Bunch were united in marriage at the parsonage of the Methodist Church in Vienna township by Rev. S. P. Alfred, March 29th, 1827.

Three days after they were married they took up their residence on the farm, where for fifty years they have lived and reared their family of seven children as follows: Bert Hollenbeck, Mrs. George Baker, Frank, James, and Reuben Hollenbeck, Mrs. William Troxel and Miss Velma Hollenbeck. Allie, a son, passed away April 27, 1891, aged 11 years, making the only great sorrow which has marred their married life.

Mrs. Hollenbeck, an ideal wife and mother, is one of the great-hearted women of Vienna township, whose influence for good is strongly shown in the lives of her family and in the affection shown by her neighbors and friends.

Mr. Hollenbeck is a charter member of Paven Camp No. 604 Modern Woodmen, for fifteen years was a school director and for 15 years was road commissioner. He is a staunch republican and is a man whose word has always been as good as gold.

Mr. and Mrs. Hollenbeck are gracefully climbing the hills of later life and both as active and interested in the doings of the day.^[1]

Obituary

Morris Daily Herald, Friday, November 12, 1926

"Vienna Township Pioneer is Dead
Reuben Hollenbeck Died in Farm Home This Morning"

• Died 3:00 a.m. on farm in Vienna where born
• 76 y.o. "last September"
• Never in life been out of Illinois
• Charter member of Verona's M.W.A.
• Road Commissioner 18 years.
• School Director 18 years
• Wife Survives
• Surviving Children:
  • Bert, Mason City, IA
  • Frank, Vienna
  • Reuben, Vienna
  • Eva Troxel, Vienna
  • James, Norman
  • Mrs. George Baker, Mazon
• Last alive of 5 brothers
• Funeral Sunday 3:00 in home, Rev. A. Bohn of Morris officiating
• Ward Cemetery burial

1. ↑ Hollenbeck, Reuben and Cornelia (Bunch) Golden Wedding Anniversary, in Grundy, Illinois, United States. Morris Daily Herald. (Morris, Illinois)
   31 Mar 1922.

   transcript

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Hollenbeck, Reuben, obituary, in Grundy, Illinois, United States. Morris Daily Herald. (Morris, Illinois)
   12 Nov, 1926.
3. ↑ Reuben Hollenbeck, in Find A Grave.
4.   Hollenbeck, Reuben, in Grundy, Illinois, United States. Proof of Heirship
   vol. 2, page 375, 17 Jan 1927.

   excerpt:
   
   That said, Reuben Hollenbeck is now deceased; that he departed this life testate on or about the 12th day of November A. D. 1926, at his home in Grundy County, State of Illinois, that he left him surviving at the time of his death his widow, Cornelia Hollenbeck, and his sons, Delbert Hollenbeck, Frank Hollenbeck, James Hollenbeck, James Hollenbeck and Ruby A. Hollenbeck and his daughters Nora Baker and Eva Troxel as his heirs at law and sole and only heirs at law.
   
   The court further finds that other children were born to the said Reuben Hollenbeck but they are now dead; that they departed this life prior to the death of said Reuben Hollenbeck, leaving no child or children nor descendents thereof.