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- JOEL "JAKE" CANTRELL - Death Notice
OLNEY - Joel "Jake" Cantrell, 76, Olney, custodian, died Wednesday (June 25, 2003).
Services: 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Trinity Lutheran Church, Olney.
Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Stasi-Grove Funeral Home, Olney.
Burial: Haven Hill Cemetery, Olney.
Memorials: Olney Trinity Lutheran Church, Olney First United Methodist Church or Hospice of Southeastern Illinois.
Published in the Decatur (IL) Herald& Review, June 27, 2003.
Joel "Jake" Cantrell, 76, of Olney, departed for heaven at 2:45 a.m. Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at his residence.
Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Stasi-Grove Funeral Home in Olney. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Trinity Lutheran Church in Olney with Reverend Gary Ryden officiating. Burial will be in Haven Hill Cemetery in Olney.
Mr. Cantrell was born on April 2, 1927, in Hamilton County, Illinois, the son of Howard and Mantha (Trout) Cantrell.
He married Mary Rose Steury on December 20, 1951, in Richland County. She departed for heaven on October 12, 2001.
He drove a taxi; worked at Freeman's Stave Mill; and worked for the City of Olney in the street and cemetery departments. The job he most enjoyed was working as the custodian at First United Methodist Church in Olney. He was a loving son, husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. He was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church in Olney, Olney Eagles Lodge and Moose Lodge.
Mr. Cantrell is survived by four daughters, all of Olney, Melda Bellinger and her husband, Robert, Carolyn "Sue" Crum and her husband, Robert, Vicki Lobacz and her husband, Dave, and Rebecca "Becky" Cantrell and her close friend, Brian Scherer; eight grandchildren, Jeremy, Josh, Jennifer and Jonathan Bellinger, Andrew and Brigette Lobacz, Lisa (Crum) Holdren and her husband, Drew, and Crystal (Crum) Trout and her husband, Mike, all of Olney; and one great-granddaughter, Samantha Trout.
Mr. Cantrell's parents, Howard and Mantha Cantrell, his wife, Rose, a sister, Inez Atkinson, and five brothers, Inman "Whitey" Cantrell, Henry "Dobber" Cantrell, Gilbert "Spider" Cantrell, Ernest "Baldy" Cantrell and Eugene "Gene" Cantrell, were all waiting for his arrival in heaven.
Memorials may be made to Trinity Lutheran Church in Olney, First United Methodist Church in Olney or Hospice of Southeastern Illinois.
The Olney (IL) Daily Mail, June 2003
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