Richard John Alsip
1904 - 1973 (68 years)-
Name Richard John Alsip Born 18 Apr 1904 Loda, Iroquois County, Illinois [1, 2, 3] Gender Male Died 12 Feb 1973 Loda, Iroquois County, Illinois [2, 3, 4] Buried Pine Ridge Cemetery, Loda, Iroquois County, Illinois [2, 3] Person ID I1131 Hedges Last Modified 22 Apr 2023
Father James Ephraim "Eph" Alsip, b. 24 May 1875, Maroa, Macon County, Illinois , d. 13 Mar 1956, Norwich, Chenango County, New York (Age 80 years) Mother Ida Venon Cogswell, b. 25 Nov 1875, Rowan County, Kentucky , d. 12 Mar 1954 (Age 78 years) Married 23 Nov 1892 Urbana, Champaign County, Illinois [1] Family ID F644 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Mary "Rosebud" Overstreet, b. 16 Sep 1915, Goreville, Johnson County, Illinois , d. 14 Aug 2000, Gibson City, Ford County, Illinois (Age 84 years) Married 9 Jul 1942 Kankakee County, Illinois [3] - Kankakee County, Illinois marriage index, 1889-1962
Children 1. Retha Mae Alsip, b. 1 Sep 1943, Goreville, Johnson County, Illinois , d. 6 Feb 1988, Champaign County, Illinois (Age 44 years) Last Modified 22 Apr 2023 Family ID F649 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Richard J. Alsip
Loda – The funeral of Richard J. Alsip, 68, who died Monday will be at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at the Ford-Baier Funeral Home in Paxton. The Rev. Frank I. Phifer will officiate and burial will be in Pine Ridge Cemetery at Loda.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m. today. Masonic rites will be accorded at 8 p.m.
He was born April 18, 1904, at Loda, a son of James and Ida Cogswell Alsip. He was custodian at Loda schools for many years. He married Rosebud Overstreet July 9, 1942, in Kankakee.
Surviving are his wife; two daughters, Mrs. Evelyn Kissee, Lacon; Mrs. Retha Tracy, Moline; two sons, John and Jim, both at home; four grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. John Clem, in California; Mrs. Celia Wellman, South New Berlin, N.Y.; three brothers, Eugene, Lake Odessa, Mich.; Orville, south New Berlin, N.Y.; Ralph, Wildwood, Fla.
A sister and a brother preceded him in death.
He was a member of Paxton Masonic Lodge.
The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Illinois. Wednesday, 14 February 1973.
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