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Two Local Men Die. Services Set in Dixon Amboy
Richard Ward Gromoll 32 of Dixon dies in Dix at KSB Hospital after a Dec 13 1989 collapse. Survived by mother Marlene Ward, daughter Kristen, grandmother Etta Ward and Mae Gromell. Funeral Friday Preston Schilling. visitation tonight. AMBOY William Kant 67 of Amboy dies after short illness at KSB Hospital on Dec 13. Born Jan 16 1922 in Peoria. survived by wife Lillie, daughters Nelda Straw and Martha Bartelt, son Walter, sisters Mary Becella and Elsie Hank. Funeral Friday Mihn Jones. burial Prairie Repose. memorials to church and Amboy Fire Dept Rescue Squad.
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Richard Ward Gromoll
Beech Drive
Ksb Hospital
Dixon
Clyde
Marlene Ann (Ward) Gromoll
Kristen
Etta Ward
Mae Gromell
Sterling
Preston-Schilling
Darrell Sample
First United Methodist Church
Chapel Hill Memorial Park
Amboy
William H. Kant
W. Main St
KSB
Peoria
Adolph and
Rosa (Schmelz) Kant
Lillie Riley
Rock Falls
East Grove Union Church
Lee County Board of Supervisors
Lee County Beef Association
Lee County Pork Producers
Amboy Lions Club
Walnut Grove
Lee County Farm Bureau
Walter
Lori
Mary Becella
East Peoria
Elsie Hank
Pekin
Mihn-Jones Funeral
Donald Lipps
Prairie Repose