ESTHER SAMUELSON

HAMPSHIRE - Esther SAMUELSON, 91, died Saturday, Nov. 7, 1992, at St. 
Joseph's Hospital in Elgin.

 She was born Sept. 26, 1901 in Hampshire, the daughter of Charles and 
Lydia (AURAND) SAMUELSON.

 She graduated from Hampshire High School, received her bachelor of 
science degree from Northern Illinois University, her master's degree 
from Northwestern University and worked toward a degree in Library 
Science at the University of Denver.

 Her teaching career spanned 52 years in Dundee Unit School District 
300.  In 1952, she organized the Junior and Senior High Library and 
Resource Center.  The present resource center has been named in her 
honor - the Esther Samuelson Resource Center.

 She was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Hampshire, the 
senior Sunday School class, the United Methodist Women, the Gamma Xi 
chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma, the LLL Club, the Friends of the Ella 
Johnson Library and the Hampshire and Marengo Senior Citizens.

 Surviving are a brother, Clarence (Gertrude) SAMUELSON, and a sister, 
Pearl GILBERT, both of Marengo.

 Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by two brothers, Vernon 
and LeVoy SAMUELSON, and a sister, Mabel MARKS.

 Funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11, at the 
First United Methodist Church in Hampshire, with the Rev. Fred Berchtold 
officiating.  Burial will follow in the Hampshire Center Cemetery.  
Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, at the Fredrick 
Funeral Home in Hampshire and from 10 a.m. until the service Wednesday 
at the church.


This was transcribed from the Elgin Newspaper, 9 Nov 1992.

Contributed by: Gretchen Johnson - gretcher@earthlink.net - on 31 Jul 2000


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