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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1961
Page
17
John Pelker dies. funeral service scheduled for Tuesday at Home West Fieniktot. Community figures plan tributes and remember his years of service.
Roger Edwards of Mine Workers dies age 68 born in South Wales son of John and Margaret Edwards. He married Ladie Avri spas in Marion in 1952 and is survived by his wife sister Lizzie Luckey of Herrin step-daughter Florene Hamilton of Oak Park and step sons Avripas of Detroit. Funeral services at 1 30 p m today at Johnson's Funeral Home Herrin conducted by Rev Dennis F Lyerla. Burial in Herrin City Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.
A Franklin County woman, Kathleen Chamness, was fined 35.30 dollars including costs and placed on 60 days probation in Jackson County Court for a bad check charge. She was also ordered to make a 25 dollar check good to Pick's Food Market in Carbondale.
Nicholas Montsarrat aged 52, author of The Cruel Sea and other best sellers, married Friday to Ann Griffiths aged 24, a British office worker. Montsarrat, now living in Ottawa, is in his third marriage while the bride is her first.
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