Boatman, Bernice R.

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• Reference Number: BOAT.B002
• Funeral: 19 Mar 2010, Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Mattoon, Coles County, Illinois

Notes:

Mrs. Schlepp was a member of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church of Mattoon and Catholic Daughters of the Americas. She was also a member of the Mattoon Eagles Aerie. She enjoyed golfing, spending time at the Senior Center, playing bingo, and traveling.

Family/Spouse: Brassie, Joseph Jr.. Joseph (son of Brassie, Joseph Sr. and Chapin, Florence) was born on 24 Jan 1917; died on 2 May 1979. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Brassie, Joseph III died before 15 Mar 2010.

Family/Spouse: Schlepp, Arthur. Arthur died in 1995. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: BOAT.M002

Milton + Sager, Lucy Etta. Lucy (daughter of Sager, Reuben and Smith, Catherine) was born on 22 Jul 1883 in Richland County, Illinois; died on 27 Oct 1925 in Richland County, Illinois; was buried in Goss Cemetery, Richland County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: SAGE.L002
• _FGRAVE: 35850579

Notes:

Lucy Etta Boatman, nee Sager, daughter of Reuben and Catherine Sager, was born July 22, 1883, and departed this life October 27, 1925, at the age of 42 years, 3 months and 5 days. In infancy she was presented to the Lord in Holy Baptism.

On October 27, 1907, she was united in marriage to Milton L. Boatman. To this union nine children were born, Elsie, Neva, Harry, Mary, Daisy, Bernice, Ralph and little Opal Maxine. One son, Claude, died in infancy.

She leaves to mourn her departure her aged parents, Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Sager, of Olney; two brothers, John, of Neeleyville, Mo., and Robert, of Olney; also two sisters, Mrs. Phoebe Gerber and Mrs. Clara Roth, of German township, besides a large number of relatives and friends.

Her sickness lasted about two weeks. She bore her sufferings patiently, but all that loving hands could do was of no avail and on Tuesday morning, October 27, the soul of the exhausted sufferer took its flight and she closed her eyes to earthly scenes and entered into her eternal home.

You bade no one a last farewell,
And good-bye to no one.
Your loving heart had ceased to beat,
Before we knew that you were gone.

We never thought that on that day
Our dear mother would be called away;
For all of us you did your best
Until the angels took you home to rest.

In silence you suffered,
With patience you bore,
'Till God called you home
To suffer no more.

Funeral services were held in St. James Lutheran church, near Claremont. Burial in Goss cemetery. Rev. Wm. Boatman, of Murphysboro, 111., conducted the services.

Taken from the Olney Times, Olney, IL, Oct, 19925.