Benson High School Student Succumbs Saturday
Morning
Miss Laenia Yunge Passes Away at Her Home - Rites Held
Monday
submitted by Amy
Robinns-Tjaden
Miss Laenia Yunge, 17 years old, Benson Community high
school student, passed away at 3:20 o'clock Saturday morning at the home of her
parents three miles northwest of Benson.
She became ill January 30, and
was taken to St Francis hospital in Peoria, where he illness was diagnosed as
very serious. She returned to her home February 17, but her condition gradually
grew worse and despite the best of medical care, she was claimed by death last
Saturday morning at the age of 17 years, 10 months and 19 days.
Laenia
Elizabeth Yunge, only daughter and oldest child of Adolf and Bertha Woltzen
Yunge was born on April 4, 1922, in Panola township. The family moved 13 years
ago to their present home northwest of Benson, where she had since resided. She
attended the Lincoln school and became a student of Benson Community high
school, being in her senior year at the time of her death. She had looked
forward to her graduation from that school in May, being known as a good
student, and was industrious and dependable.
She was baptized in the
Lutheran faith and was reared in a Christian home. She was very regular and
faithful in Sunday school attendance at St Peter's Lutheran church, having
perfect attendance last year. The deceased received catechetical instructions in
the winter of 1935-36 and was confirmed by Rev J.J. Haberaecker on Palm Sunday,
April 5, 1936. The deceased was a faithful church member.
Survivors are
the grief stricken parents; two brothers, Harold and Herber, at home; the
maternal grandfather, Albert Woltzen of Walcott, Ind.; and other relatives and
friends.
Funeral services were conducted at 1:30 o'clock Monday afternoon
from the late residence, and at 2:00 o'clock from St Peter's Lutheran church
west of Benson. Rev J.J. Haberaecker, pastor of the church, officiated and
burial was in St Peter's cemetery.
Pallbearers were: Emmett and Milford
Meinhold, Glenwood Peters, Robert Harms, Leroy Wallace, and Harold Meinhold.
Flower bearers were: Mathilda Flohr, Emaline Fischer, Lorene Kolb, Patricia
Vogel, Betty Cordes, Maxine Tolan, Joyce Tallyn and Esther Campen.
Helen Youngman
EAST
PEORIA - Helen I. Youngman, 93, of 127 Cole St. died at 11:45 p.m. Sunday, June
27, 2004, at Fondulac Woods Health Care Center.
Born June 22, 1911, in Spring Bay to Samuel and Susan Fandel Winkler, she married Russell Youngman on Jan. 14, 1933, in East Peoria. He died Sept. 1, 1970, in East Peoria. She also was preceded in death by four brothers and three sisters. Surviving are several nieces and nephews. She was a homemaker.
Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Spring Bay Cemetery in Spring Bay. There will be no visitation. Remmert Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Memorials may be made to Friendship House in Peoria.
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