Person:Odel Tascher (1)

[The following newspaper clipping (with penciled date of 1953) was discovered in May 1997 in my late Aunt Ollie (Wessels) Rudowske's scrapbook:] --RRW

Tascher Service Are Held Monday

Funeral services for Odel H. Tascher, 60, of Watseka, a brother to Mrs. Pearl Stauter of Gilman, were held Monday afternoon at the First Methodist church in Watseka. The Rev Earnest H. Duling officiated and burial was in Body Cemetery.

Mr. Tascher died Friday, after a several years' illness.

He was born Dec 14, 1892 near Crescent City, the son of Charles and Mary Leverenz Tascher. He was married to Emma J. Lubben on Nov. 3, 1919 at Schwer. He attended school at Crescent City and Onarga Seminary. He was employed as agent of the T. P. & W railroad at the Watseka depot until his retirement in 1950 because of ill health. He served in World War I, and a member of the Watseka American Legion, the B.P.O.E. Lodge at Watseka and the American Veterans.

He is survived by his wife; a sister, Mrs Pearl Stauter; two nieces and one nephew; Mrs Carl A. Anderson of Danforth, Mrs. Thomas Howard of Freport, and Charles Tascher of Gilman.