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- ↑ Vesta Wilson Dies Sunday, in Sycamore, DeKalb, Illinois, United States. True Republican. (Sycamore, DeKalb County, Ill.)
Page 12 Family 62, 3 Feb 1953.
Sycamore True Republican Tuesday, February 03, 1953 Page: 1
Vesta Mrs. Vesta I. Wilson, 88, former well known and highly esteemed resident of this community passed away at 1:30 a.m. Sunday morning at the Bethany Methodist Home to Chicago.
Vesta I. Renwick was born December 15, 1864, in Mayfield Township, the daughter of George and Mary Renwick. She was the last survivor of a family of ten children. On October 17, 1882, she was married to Frank L. Wilson at Sycamore. They farmed for a number of years in rural Sycamore, moving to Sumner, Iowa in 1903. Following her husband's death in 1919, Mrs. Wilson returned to Sycamore and made her home here, until entering the Bethany Methodist Home in 1948.
She was a member of the local Methodist church, having transferred her membership here from the Grace Methodist church it Sumner, Iowa, and was active in its work until her health failed her.
Surviving her demise are six children: Mrs. Maude Mae Stark of Kingston, Mrs. Vesta Jackson of Bethesda, Md., George R. Wilson of Sumner, Iowa, Mrs. Agnes J. McDonald of Hamilton, Mont., A. Leslie Wilson of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Miss Marjorie Wilson of Minneapolis, Minn. There are also 16 grandchildren, 17 great - grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
The body is being brought to Sycamore this Wednesday morning and the final services are being accorded from the load Methodist church at 10 o'clock with the Rev. Wayne Leighty officiating. Interment will take place in the Mayfield cemetery.
The grandsons of the deceased are to serve as pallbearers,
- ↑ Rites are Today For Mrs. Mae Stark, 73, of Kingston, in Sycamore, DeKalb, Illinois, United States. True Republican. (Sycamore, DeKalb County, Ill.)
Page 4, 9 Apr 1958.
Sycamore True Republican Tuesday, April 08, 1958 Page: 4
Mrs.Mae W. Stark, 73, of Kiogston, died at 6 p.m. Saturday, April 5, at the Sycamore Hospital, where she had been a patient for one week.
Mae Wilson, daughter of Frank and Vesta Renwick Wilson, was born in Iowa, July 21, 188, and moved to Illinois with her parents at the age of six. She was a resident of the Kingston community since 1890. She was married to Henry Stark of Kingston, December 30, 1903, in Sycamore, and they farmed in this vicinity until 1941 when they moved to the village of Kingston.
She was a member and past matron of the Kisbwaukee Chapler ol the Order of the Eastern Star.
Survivors are her husband; three sons, Edgar of Sycamore, Henry, Jr., of Rockford and Harman of rural Kingston; five daughters. Mrs. Jeff (Aileen) Webber of rural Kngston, Mrs, Stanley (Carolyn) Young, San Fer- nanda, Calif., Mrs. Evar (Betty) Arneson of Kingston, Mrs. Gus (Eleanor) Christ of Lowell, Mass., Mrs. Arthur (Margaret) Metz of Richmond; two brothers, George Wilson of Sumner, Iowa, and Leslie Wilson of Seattte, Wash.; three sisters, Mrs. Besta Johnson of Bethesda, Maryland, Mrs. Agnes McDonaId of Hamilton, Mont., and Dr. Majone Wilson of Minneapolis, Minn.; !4 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Stark was preceded in death by her parents, one son in infancy, another son, Bert, in 1940 and one brother.
The funeral is 2 p.m. today, at the Cooper funeral home in Genoa with Rev. Tolbert Dill of the Kingston Methodist Church officiating. Interment will be at the Kingston Cemetery.
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