CLAY COUNTY

OBITUARIES

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Thomas Addison

    Thomas Addison, son of John H. and Alice Neff was born six miles southeast of Flora, Ill. Sept. 29, 1887, died at his home April 2, 1926 after a lingering illness of several months.
    He was united in marriage to Miss Lula Padgett of Lee County, Iowa July 31, 1909, at Fairfield, Ill.  To this union five children were born, namely Walter, Howard, Marvin, Ruth and Charles, who with the mother, are left to mourn the loss of a kind and affectionate husband and father.  He leaves besides these a father, mother, two sisters, Mrs. Glen Hurd and Mrs. Icibinda Bloomfield, all of Canon City, Colo., and a devoted brother, Byron Neff, who has been a constant attendant at his bedside for the past four months, ministering to his every need and helping in every way possible to ease his suffering.
    He was converted and united with the Harmony U.B. church about twelve years ago, during the pastorate of Rev. Reece and lived a faithful Christian life until called to be with his Saviour in that Heavenly home where sorrows never come.
    He was a true and devoted husband, a loving father, and a good neighbor, always ready with a willing hand to assist those in need, and his death comes as a severe blow to the entire community, but is most keenly felt in his home by the wife and children who are left at an early age to assume the burdens and heavy responsibilities of life without a father’s care and advice.

Sunset and evening star
And one clear call for me
And may there be no moaning of the bar
When I put out to sea.
But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too still for sound and foam
When that which came from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.
Twilight and evening bell
And after that the dark,
And may there be no sadness of farewell,
When I embark.

 The funeral was conducted by Rev. J. C. Fowler from the family residence on Sunday afternoon, burial was made in the Neff cemetery.  (Source:  Flora Journal Record--Thursday April 8, 1926)

HAZEL AKES

Hazel E. Akes, 82, of Xenia, died at 6:40 p.m., Monday, Oct. 1, at St. John"s Hospital, Springfield. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 6 at the Frank and Bright Funeral Home, Flora. Pastor Bruce Horsley will officiate at the services. Burial will be at the Oddfellows Cemetery, Xenia. Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5, at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the Xenia Community Church or Clay County Cancer Fund. Mrs. Akes was born on July 22, 1919 in Clay County. The daughter of Charles E. and Viola Fern (Baker) Frye. She married Burl Akes on April 7, 1950 in Piggot Ar. He died Sept. 28, 1998. She was a member of the Xenia Community Church and Ladies Auxillary of the Church. Survivors include two sons, Keith Colclasure of Taylorville, John Akes and wife Tammy of Xenia; and one stepdaughter, Betty Jean of Amarillo TX; two brothers Bob Frye and wife Evelyn of Newark, DE; Gerald "Jud" Frye and wife Betty of Lady Lake, FL; and one sister, Maxine Wieldt of Flora. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, three sons, two brothers and one grandson. (Submitted by gbphil65@hotmail.com)

ITHA ALLEN  

Louisville - Itha ALLEN, 90, of Louisville, died at 9:10 a.m. Saturday in Clay County Hospital, Flora.Mrs. Allen was born on Sept. 1, 1889, in Clay County, the daughter of David and America Rinehart Fitzgerald. She was a member of the Wabash Baptist Church.She is survived by sons, Ianthus and Varlin of Louisville; Lloyd of Champaign; Leonard and Lindell of Xenia; Robert of Iola; daughters, Roberta of Louisville; Dantzell Foster, Cleora Dawkins and Delores Greenwood, all of Flora; and Clotilla Rodgers of Rinard; sister, Inez Cruse of Mansfield; 23 grandchildren; 35 great grandchildren; and two great great grandchildren.  Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Tuesday at the Neal Funeral Home, Louisville, with Bro. William Dickmann officiating. Visitation will be from 3 to 9 p.m. today. Burial will be in Christian Home Cemetery.