MRS. CHARLES SAMUELSON

     Mrs. Charles (Lydia Ann) SAMUELSON. 80, of 42 Prairie Street, 
Hampshire, died Sunday at Sherman Hospital following two months illness.

      She was born August 4, 1881 in Hampshire, the daughter of the late 
Abraham and Sarah BAKER AURAND, and resided in Hampshire all of her 
life.  She was a member of the Hampshire Evangelical United Brethren 
Church and the Helping Hands Society of the church.

     Surviving are one son, Clarence; three daughters, Mrs. Donald 
(Pearl) GILBERT, Mrs. L.G. (Mabel) MARKS, both of Marengo, and Miss 
Esther SAMUELSON of Hampshire; six grandchildren and three great-
grandchildren.  She was preceded in death by her husband Charles in 
1925; two sons, LeVoy and Vernon, two brothers and three sisters.

     Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2 P.M. at the Hampshire 
Evangelical United Brethren Church, the Rev. L.L. Huff officiating and 
burial in Hampshire Center Cemetery.

     Friends may call at the Fredrick Funeral Home in Hampshire after 2 
p.m. Tuesday.

     A memorial has been set up for the music fund of the EUB Church.


This was transcribed from the Elgin Courier News dated 15 Apr 1962.

Contributed by: Gretchen Johnson - gretcher@earthlink.net - on 26 Jul 2000


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