William A. Knapp, Ill for Week, Dies
William A. Knapp, 50, of 203 Faber avenue, Peoria Heights, lifelong Peoria resident and welder at the Caterpillar Tractor Co., died at Methodist hospital at 4 a.m. Monday after an illness of a week.
A son of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Knapp, he was born in Peoria Jan 1. 1895. He married Marie Isonhart here Feb. 22, 1913. Mr. Knapp was a member of the Caterpillar Rod club.
Surviving are his wife; one daughter, Mrs. Marie Simms of Vine Grove, Ky.; one son William J. Knapp, now en route home from Burma where he had been serving with the U.S. Army; one brother, Fred Knapp; three sisters, Mrs. Minnie Roloff, Mrs. Louise Schlatter and Mrs. Mayme Beam, all of Peoria, and two grandchildren. Two brothers preceded him in death.
Funeral arrangements are to be announced by the Gauss mortuary.
William A. Knapp, Ill for Week, Dies
William A. Knapp, 50, of 203 Faber avenue, Peoria Heights, lifelong Peoria resident and welder at the Caterpillar Tractor Co., died at Methodist hospital at 4 a.m. Monday after an illness of a week.
A son of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Knapp, he was born in Peoria Jan 1. 1895. He married Marie Isonhart here Feb. 22, 1913. Mr. Knapp was a member of the Caterpillar Rod club.
Surviving are his wife; one daughter, Mrs. Marie Simms of Vine Grove, Ky.; one son William J. Knapp, now en route home from Burma where he had been serving with the U.S. Army; one brother, Fred Knapp; three sisters, Mrs. Minnie Roloff, Mrs. Louise Schlatter and Mrs. Mayme Beam, all of Peoria, and two grandchildren. Two brothers preceded him in death.
Funeral arrangements are to be announced by the Gauss mortuary.
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