Mrs. M. W. Keigley passed
away at her home here Sunday after many weeks of illness.
C. E. Kitterman, 67, lifelong Tiskilwa resident, passed away at his home in Tiskilwa at 9 o'clock, on Monday evening, June 27th. Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at 5:30 from the home. In charge of the pastor of the Kewanee Episcopal Church. Burial was in Mt. Bloom Cemetery.
Mr. Kitterman had been
in failing health for several years. He was a patient at a Peoria hospital
until Thursday, June 21st. when he returned to his home at Tiskilwa, somewhat
improved. On Monday evening he went for a short automobile ride and upon
his return home was preparing to retire when he was suddenly stricken and
passed away. He had been a sufferer from High blood
pressure.
Mr. Kitterman was born
near Tiskilwa on November 111, 1867, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kitterman.
His grandfather Michael Kitterman came here from Indiana in 1828 settled
on a claim near Princeton and built a cabin there. Later he went back east
to get his family and when he returned, someone had jumped his claim. The
family then settled on the site where the George
Kitterman farm now is.
Over 100 years ago Michael Kitterman built the red brick house, which now
stands there.
C. E. Kitterman lived
all his life in this vicinity. He was graduated from the Tiskilwa high
school with the lass of 1886. Later he became a member of the C. N. Pettegrew
Hardware firm and was a partner with C. N. Pettegrew for twelve years.
Mr. Kitterman was an
extensive live stock feeder and continued with this until the last few
years. He served for a number of years as a capable member of the
Bureau County Board of Supervisors of Indiantown. He also served on two
important county
committee, the Finance
and the County Road groups; was a member of the Bureau county Board of
Review, as well as Mayor of Tiskilwa several years ago. For a number of
years Mr. Kitterman was an active member of the Bureau Valley Country Club
and received several trophies for excellent play.
He was united in marriage on march 7th, forty years ago, to Miss Minnie Fritchie, and to this union were born three daughters, Grace, now Mrs. J. H. Smith, of Princeton, Clem Helen and an infant daughter the latter two preceding their father in death. He also leaves his wife, Minnie F. Kitterman and a sister, Mrs. Ida K. Miller, to survive him.
MAN FOUND FROZEN TO DEATH; LIQUOR BLAMED.
The frozen body of Charles Kitterman, 52, of near Tiskilwa, was found last Thursday morning along the C. R. I .& P. railroad tracks, about 5 miles west of Tiskilwa, where he had apparently remained unnoticed by train crews and track inspectors for more than 24 hours.
Although members of the Kitterman family insisted that they believed Mr. Kitterman was a victim of foul play, a coroner's jury decided he "came to his death by freezing, following intoxication" some time on Wednesday, Feb. 26.
After hearing testimony at the inquest, the jury felt it unnecessary to order on autopsy at the state's expense, but the Kitterman family themselves financed a post mortem.
Frederick H. Lamb, of Davenport, Iowa, the pathologist who conducted the autopsy, reported as follows to the coroner's jury: " In the absence of any findings to the contrary at the autopsy, I believe your impression of death by freezing following intoxication is correct. The blood and urine findings are relatively high and indicate well-marked alcoholic intoxication. The inquest was launched Thursday afternoon by Coroner A. A. Meyer and continued to Saturday morning in order to include the pathologist's report in the investigation of the case.
Harlan Kitterman, a son of the victim, still was dissatisfied with the investigation after the verdict was signed by the juror's Saturday morning. He was told that the coroner's jury verdict did not prevent him from investigating the case further, and State's Attorney Joseph R. Peterson told him at the inquest that the evidence in the case incriminated the tavern where Mr. Kitterman bought his liquor on Tuesday night, the last time he was seen alive.
Up to yesterday, there had been no new developments, however, insofar as additional investigations by the family or authorities is concerned. Testimony at the inquest revealed that Mr. Kitterman had been drinking for several hours Tuesday night, and headed for home in his auto at about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday. His abandoned car was found Wednesday morning, about four or five miles from where the body was found the next day.
Dan Jenkins, proprietor of the Log Cabin tavern, south of Princeton, said Mr. Kitterman was in his place drinking when he came on duty at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 25. Mr. Kitterman remained in the tavern until closing time at 1 a.m., Jenkins said, and then could not get his car started, and then he decided to leave for the home of his sister, Mrs. Blanche Thompson, near Tiskilwa, with whom he had been residing. Before leaving.. the bottle of whiskey to take with him.
Jenkins said his son-in-law, Howard Heward, assisted in getting the car started when Jenkins pushed it with his own auto. Then Heward drove Mr. Kitterman to Princeton, where they hoped to find an overnight room for him.
When they failed to get a room, Mr. Kitterman started for home, driving his own car, and was last seen headed south on Main street, at about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday. At about 7 a.m., Wednesday, Mr. Kitterman's abandoned car was found in the center of a country road near the canal and the Rock Island railroad. Inside, there was evidence that Mr. Kitterman had been ill, and had left the car, leaving the door opened.
His family reported his
missing later that day, and the sheriff's office began a check-up of taverns
to locate him, according to Deputy Harry Reid. Early Thursday morning Joe
Yarrington, a lock tender on the canal, hitched a
ride on the caboose of
a slow-moving freight train from Lock No. 16 to 17, and he spotted Mr.
Kitterman's body along the right-of-way, about three or four feet from
the rails. He stepped off the train, went to a nearby farm house,
and notified the sheriff and coroner.
Mr. Kitterman's clothes were torn in places, and his body bore superficial bruises and abrasions, which could have been inflicted in a fall down the railway embankment, the jury conjectured. At the foot of the embankment, and about 30 feet from the body, was a bottle of whiskey, about three-fourths consumed, and of the same brand purchased by Mr. Kitterman at the Log Cabin tavern Tuesday night. A few feet away was part of Mr. Kitterman's garter, a partially burned cigarette of the brand he always smoked, and a match folder bearing the Log Cabin's advertisement.
Members of the jury expressed
the belief that he had fallen down the embankment while under the influence
of liquor, and apparently crawled back by the tracks, only to succumb and
freeze to death.
His son, Harlan, told
the coroner's jury that his father had been known as an excessive drinker.
Mr. Kitterman leaves a daughter, Mrs. Marjorie Spitz, Princeton; two sons, Harlan, Tiskilwa; Gene, a Tiskilwa school student; two sisters, Miss Watie Kitterman, Tiskilwa; Mrs. Blanche Thompson; and two brothers.
It is our painful duty
to announce the death of Mrs. C. Kitterman, nee Holman, on Monday a.m.
last, at 2 o'clock. The funeral was at the Episcopal Church on Tuesday
last. Rev. Chamberlain officiating. The exercises were very impressive
and funeral large. So young, so good, we wonder why she could not have
stayed yet a little longer.
Funeral services for Darwin O. Kitterman, 63, of Rt.. 5, Princeton, will be held on Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Norberg Memorial Home in Princeton. The Rev. C. Warren Long will officiate. Burial will be in Elm Lawn Memorial Park in Princeton. Friends may call at the Norberg Memorial Home Monday afternoon and evening. The family request that expressions of sympathy be directed to the heart fund.
Mr. Kitterman died Sunday at Perry Memorial Hospital, where he had been a patient for the past 24 days.
He was born in Tiskilwa on Jan. 3, 1897, son of Christopher and Mary Walker Kitterman. He was married Sept. 13, 1933, to Margaret Lou Farwell in Dixon. He was a farmer.
Survivors include his wife; one daughter, Nancy at home; two sons, Robert at home and Fred of Tiskilwa; three sisters, Ruth and Watie Kitterman of Tiskilwa and Mrs. Blanche Thompson, Wynet; one brother, George, of Tiskilwa; two grandchildren, several nieces, nephews and cousins. He was preceded in death by his parents, one brother, one half-brother and one half-sister.
Edith M. Kitterman was
born two and a half miles northwest of Tiskilwa, Illinois, on October 19,
1880.
She was educated in the
public school at Tiskilwa and graduated from there in 1901. She finished
her education by attending the N.I.S.N.S. and later graduated from Normal
school in Michigan and in summer of 1916 graduated
from the Applied Art
school of Chicago. She was a lover of the beautiful and painted many beautiful
pictures.
She lived a useful and
unselfish life, dispensing knowledge to the rising generation till God
called her home.
She taught school in DeKalb County, IL, North Dakota and most of the time in Michigan, around Lake Superior, which region she loved so dearly. From there she went to Oklahoma and taught in the Cleveland schools and in thefall of 1918 she accepted a position in Tulsa schools, teaching departmental art and penmanship.
During the influenza epidemic the schools were closed but she was not without a duty to perform, for she had a certain district to cover and report new cases, recovered cases, etc. She was determined not to contract the disease and after the schools reopened she resumed her duties. She possessed those qualities, which are found in one who never neglects duty or leaves a necessary task undone.
After being told that she had pneumonia and while waiting for the ambulance to arrive which was to convey her to the hospital, she sat up in bed and made out her school reports which came at the end of the month, for she refused to go until it was done.
On Saturday, Dec. 7, 1918, at noon, with her brother, Dr. Fred Kitterman, by her side, she passed away.
The services were held Tuesday afternoon, December 10, at 2 o'clock, at the home and the burial was in the family plot in Mt. Bloom cemetery.
She leaves to mourn her loss, Mr. and Mrs. Chris Kitterman, Dr. Fred Kitterman, Blanche, Ruth, Charles, Darwin and George Kitterman, and Mrs. Edgar Bacon.
"Leaves have their time
to fall and flowers to wither at the north wind's breath.
But thou hast no season
thou can all thine own, Oh Death!"
Relatives and quite a number of friends went to Geneseo Monday to attend the funeral services of Mrs. M. D. Kitterman, of Taylor Ridge, at the home of her brother-in-law, William H. Farber. She died in St. Anthony's hospital in Rock Island, Saturday, after being a great sufferer with rheumatism for several years.
She was a fine Christian
woman who will be remembered by many friends who have moved from the vicinity.
She was born in Geneseo, May 20, 1863 and died at the age of 63 years,
5 months and 10 days. Her brother Frank Small lives in Seymour.
Mrs. Flora Small Kitterman died Saturday afternoon
at the St. Anthony's Hospital, Rock Island, after being an invalid for
the past several years. Mrs. Kitterman was born in Geneseo, Illinois, May
20, 1863. Her younger days
were spent there where she also received her education.
On June 1, 1887, she united in marriage to M. D. Kitterman, who with her
brother survives her. Most of her married life was spent in Tiskilwa. She
also lived at Taylor Ridge for several years, just preceding her death.
The funeral was held Monday, November 1, in Genesso. Interment took place
in the Geneseo cemetery.
Died--On Sunday morning, Aug. 16, 1862, Frank Kitterman,
youngest child of Michael and Lydia Kitterman, aged 2 years and 18 days.
The deceased died from the effects of a scald received nearly four weeks
ago. He was a lovely child, and his death brings the
deepest affliction to his parents and family and numerous friends. The
funeral sermon was preached on Monday at the house by Elder O. A. Walker.
G. L. Kitterman Rites Tuesday
A lifetime resident and farmer of rural Tiskilwa, George L. Kitterman, 67, died Sunday, following 10 weeks treatment in People's hospital in Peru.
He was born in Tiskilwa,
May 30, 1900, a son of Christopher and Mary Alice Walker Kitterman.
Surviving are two sisters,
Watie Kitterman, Tiskilwa; Mrs. Lou (Blanche) Thompson, Wyanet; nieces
and nephews.
He was preceded in death
by his parents, three brothers and two sisters; Darwin, Charles, and Fred
Kitterman, Edith and Ruth Kitterman.
Funeral services were
at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Norberg Memorial home, the Rev. Everett E. Sterling
of the Wyanet Congregational church officiating. Burial was in Elm Lawn
Memorial Park.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. C. (Doc) Kitterman lost their baby last week aged only a few weeks. Are you superstitious, child born Friday the 13th.
Irving L. Kitterman was
born October 10, 1863, three miles northwest of Tiskilwa, Illinois. He
was the third child of Henry and Virginia Lockwood Kitterman.
He received his education
in the Kitterman School and in the Tiskilwa High School.
In 1890 he was married
to Bertha Ellen Prunk, of Tiskilwa. To this union one son was born Clyde
Irving Kitterman.
In 1906 he moved to Princeton.
On April 22, 1915 he
was married to Anna Mae English at Peoria and they have lived on his farm
three and one-half miles southwest of Princeton, until his death on Wednesday,
August 2, 1933. He was a very patient sufferer for the past year
with an incurable malady.
Except for a short
time spent in Nebraska and Colorado when a young man, he has lived his
entire life in this community.
He leaves to mourn his
loss his widow, one son and eight grandchildren, and two sisters, Mrs.
Belle Cunningham of Los Angeles, California, and Mrs. Edna Ioder of Princeton,
Illinois; also his step mother, Mrs. Henry Kitterman, of Tiskilwa. Three
brothers preceded him in death.
The funeral services were held at the residence at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon, August 4, with the Rev. A. O. Becker officiating. The sermon test was taken from Psalms 89 and 48th verse.
Miss Dorothy Trimmer and
Mrs. Lola Mae Husser sang "Rock of Ages: and : Abide With Me."
Burial was in Mt. Bloom
Cemetery.
Pallbearers were three cousins, H. L. Kitterman, Charles Kitterman, Darwin Kitterman and three neighbors, Clem Hock, Charles Brown and Aleck Bradley.
Those from a distance
attending the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Sweet, Mr. and Mrs. M D.
Fifield, Mr. Frank Fifield, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Mason of Buda; Mr. and
Mrs. Ed English of Bradford; Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Scott; Mr. and Mrs. Scott
Glaze of Neponset; Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Thompson; Mr. and Mrs. Will Golding
of Wyanet, and Mr. Dick Sadler, of Ottawa.
Mrs. Jenny, wife of Henry
Kitterman was buried at Mt. Bloom, last Friday, September 2nd. Mrs. K.
had been ailing for sometime with malaria fever. She was an estimable
lady; a good exemplary wife, a fond mother; about 44 years
of age, and leaves her
husband and several children, and many friends to mourn her loss.
Tiskilwa--Graveside services for Margaret L. Kitterman, 79, of 400 East First Street, who died Nov. 2, at her home, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Elm Lawn Memorial Park in Princeton. The Rev. Lloyd Daynes will officiate. Norberg Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. There will be no visitation. Memorials may be made to the Heart Fund.
Born Feb. 2, 1909, in Princeton, the daughter of Fred and Georgia Dexter Farwell, she married Darwin Kitterman Sept. 13, in Dixon. He died Nov. 6, 1960.
Surviving are one daughter,
Nancy Chadd of Henry; two sons, Fred of Ava, MO. and Robert of Hudson,
Fl.; nine grandchildren; six great-grandchildren and two sisters, Madge
Hale of Tiskilwa and Grace Farwell of Fredonia, KS.
Master Mark, little six
year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Kitterman died Sunday and was
buried Monday p.m.
Maude Christine Kitterman,
93, of Prairie View Home, died at 2:30 a.m. Tuesday March 12, 1991, at
the home. Private funeral and burial services will be held at Mount Bloom
Cemetery. There will be no visitation. Johnson Funeral Home is in charge
of
arrangements.
She was born Jan 5, 1894, in Bureau County. She worked for many years as a home-nursing assistant.
Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. LeRoy (Marjorie) Spitz of Peru; two sons, Harlan Kitterman of rural Princeton and Gene Kitterman of St. Petersburg, FL. Four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren
The funeral of Merton Winslow Kitterman, son of Henry and Virginia Kitterman, took place from the family residence at 1 o'clock Tuesday, Feb. 16, 1892. Rev. Kaufman officiating.
Mr. Kitterman's death resulted from an injury received Jan. 31,1892 in Denver, Colorado while coupling cars in a switch yard----which resulted in his death, Saturday Feb 14, 1882.
Mr. Kitterman was
in the prime of life, a young man who looked forward to -----his own behalf.
A man with a keen mind and genial temperament a favorite with all who best
knew him, may he rest in peace.
Tiskilwa--Private committal services was held Thursday at 4 p.m. in the Mt. Bloom Cemetery, Tiskilwa, for Miss Ruth Kitterman, 76, who died Wednesday morning at her home west of Tiskilwa. She had been an invalid many years.
The Rev. A. M. Gard, vicar of St. Judes Episcopal Church, officiated.
Surviving are a sister,
Watie Kitterman, and one brother, George, both of Tiskilwa, with whom she
made her home, and another sister, Mrs. Lou (Blanche) Thompson of Wyanet.
The Hughes Funeral Home
directed arrangements.
Mrs. Watie Kitterman,
88 of 115 N Walnut St, Wyanet, died Saturday in Perry Memorial Hospital,
Princeton.
Funeral services were
held in the Mount Bloom cemetery. Funeral arrangements were made by the
Jensen-Johnson Funeral Home.
Mrs. Kitterman was born in Tiskilwa on Sept. 4, 1891, to Christopher and Mary Walker Kitterman. She lived in Princeton before moving to Wyanet in 1968.
She is survived by a grandson,
Joseph Stanard of St. Petersburg, FL and nieces and nephews and cousins.
She was preceded in death
by eight brothers and a daughter Joyce Stanard.
William Kitterman a son of Michael Kitterman died of Brights disease at his home in Tiskilwa on Feb. 26.
He was born Feb. 9, 1839 and owned 620 acres 2 1/2 miles Northwest of Tiskilwa and raised stock. He also made considerable money through farming interest in IA but disposed of it in later years.
Jan. 16, 1872 he married
Elizabeth Stipp of Princeton. Mrs. Kitterman was born May 16, 1850.
Mr. Kitterman was a Democrat
and later an independent.