Minonk -
Funeral services for D. C. Alhers, who died in San Jose, Calif., last Friday, will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Wilcox funeral home here, with burial following in the Minonk cemetery. No particulars concerning his death are available. The body left California Monday afternoon and will arrive in Streator some time Thursday.
Diedrich Carl Ahlers was born on the Ahlers homestead near this city June 6, 1873, the son of Henry and Bertha Friedrich Ahlers. He grew to manhood on the farm and attended high school here two years before going to Dixon where he was graduated from college. Later he spent several years in Denver and was promoter for several Heald Business colleges in the west. After spending some years in California and Montana, he returned to San Jose, Calif., where he became owner of the San Joe Typewriter Co., of which he was also manager until two years ago when he made Gene Blanchard his manager. He never married. For a number of years he was an active member of the Masonic and Elk lodges.
His mother died in 1912 and his father in 1914. A sister, Martha, died in 1899 while a student at Dixon college; in 1931 a brother, Louis, died; and a sister, Mrs, Emma Hielscher, is also deceased. Surviving are Robert Ahlers, Mrs. Henry Oncken and Miss Anna Ahlers, all of Minonk, four nieces and four nephews.
Rev. Paul Buchmueller will conduct the funeral service and pallbearers will be members of the confirmation class of which the decedent was a member.
Mr. Ahlers was a man of keen judgment and high ideals and especially interested all his life in higher education for young people. He had been away from his childhood haunts for many years but made occasional trips back to visit local relatives.
Daily Times-Press, Streator, Illinois, Tuesday, May 12, 1942, page 6
Funeral services for D. C. Alhers, who died in San Jose, Calif., last Friday, will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Wilcox funeral home here, with burial following in the Minonk cemetery. No particulars concerning his death are available. The body left California Monday afternoon and will arrive in Streator some time Thursday.
Diedrich Carl Ahlers was born on the Ahlers homestead near this city June 6, 1873, the son of Henry and Bertha Friedrich Ahlers. He grew to manhood on the farm and attended high school here two years before going to Dixon where he was graduated from college. Later he spent several years in Denver and was promoter for several Heald Business colleges in the west. After spending some years in California and Montana, he returned to San Jose, Calif., where he became owner of the San Joe Typewriter Co., of which he was also manager until two years ago when he made Gene Blanchard his manager. He never married. For a number of years he was an active member of the Masonic and Elk lodges.
His mother died in 1912 and his father in 1914. A sister, Martha, died in 1899 while a student at Dixon college; in 1931 a brother, Louis, died; and a sister, Mrs, Emma Hielscher, is also deceased. Surviving are Robert Ahlers, Mrs. Henry Oncken and Miss Anna Ahlers, all of Minonk, four nieces and four nephews.
Rev. Paul Buchmueller will conduct the funeral service and pallbearers will be members of the confirmation class of which the decedent was a member.
Mr. Ahlers was a man of keen judgment and high ideals and especially interested all his life in higher education for young people. He had been away from his childhood haunts for many years but made occasional trips back to visit local relatives.
Daily Times-Press, Streator, Illinois, Tuesday, May 12, 1942, page 6
Minonk -
Funeral services for D. C. Alhers, who died in San Jose, Calif., last Friday, will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Wilcox funeral home here, with burial following in the Minonk cemetery. No particulars concerning his death are available. The body left California Monday afternoon and will arrive in Streator some time Thursday.
Diedrich Carl Ahlers was born on the Ahlers homestead near this city June 6, 1873, the son of Henry and Bertha Friedrich Ahlers. He grew to manhood on the farm and attended high school here two years before going to Dixon where he was graduated from college. Later he spent several years in Denver and was promoter for several Heald Business colleges in the west. After spending some years in California and Montana, he returned to San Jose, Calif., where he became owner of the San Joe Typewriter Co., of which he was also manager until two years ago when he made Gene Blanchard his manager. He never married. For a number of years he was an active member of the Masonic and Elk lodges.
His mother died in 1912 and his father in 1914. A sister, Martha, died in 1899 while a student at Dixon college; in 1931 a brother, Louis, died; and a sister, Mrs, Emma Hielscher, is also deceased. Surviving are Robert Ahlers, Mrs. Henry Oncken and Miss Anna Ahlers, all of Minonk, four nieces and four nephews.
Rev. Paul Buchmueller will conduct the funeral service and pallbearers will be members of the confirmation class of which the decedent was a member.
Mr. Ahlers was a man of keen judgment and high ideals and especially interested all his life in higher education for young people. He had been away from his childhood haunts for many years but made occasional trips back to visit local relatives.
Daily Times-Press, Streator, Illinois, Tuesday, May 12, 1942, page 6
Funeral services for D. C. Alhers, who died in San Jose, Calif., last Friday, will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Wilcox funeral home here, with burial following in the Minonk cemetery. No particulars concerning his death are available. The body left California Monday afternoon and will arrive in Streator some time Thursday.
Diedrich Carl Ahlers was born on the Ahlers homestead near this city June 6, 1873, the son of Henry and Bertha Friedrich Ahlers. He grew to manhood on the farm and attended high school here two years before going to Dixon where he was graduated from college. Later he spent several years in Denver and was promoter for several Heald Business colleges in the west. After spending some years in California and Montana, he returned to San Jose, Calif., where he became owner of the San Joe Typewriter Co., of which he was also manager until two years ago when he made Gene Blanchard his manager. He never married. For a number of years he was an active member of the Masonic and Elk lodges.
His mother died in 1912 and his father in 1914. A sister, Martha, died in 1899 while a student at Dixon college; in 1931 a brother, Louis, died; and a sister, Mrs, Emma Hielscher, is also deceased. Surviving are Robert Ahlers, Mrs. Henry Oncken and Miss Anna Ahlers, all of Minonk, four nieces and four nephews.
Rev. Paul Buchmueller will conduct the funeral service and pallbearers will be members of the confirmation class of which the decedent was a member.
Mr. Ahlers was a man of keen judgment and high ideals and especially interested all his life in higher education for young people. He had been away from his childhood haunts for many years but made occasional trips back to visit local relatives.
Daily Times-Press, Streator, Illinois, Tuesday, May 12, 1942, page 6
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