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Jack Herman Rites Saturday
Funeral rites for Jack Ancil William Herman, 22, fatally injured Wednesday afternoon in a mot orcycle accident in which a companion, Cecil Roberts, was killed, will be conducted Saturda y at 2 p.m. in Streeper funeral home. Burial will be in Oakwood cemetery. Friends may call a t the funeral home after 10 a.m. Friday.
Arrangements for the funeral were completed following the arrival of Hermans father, Ancil W . Herman, and an aunt, Mrs. G.L. Carr, from Quincy, Wednesday night.
Born in Alton, Oct. 23, 1926, Herman had been resided here all of his life with exception o f two years spent in the Marines during World War II. For the past two years he had been empl oyed at Standard Oil Co.
He was engaged to be married to Miss Audrey Milliff of Alton. They had selected July 17, as t he date of their marriage.
Jack Ancil was an only child of Herman and the late Mrs. Herman.
Also surviving are two aunts and an uncle.
Alton Evening Telegraph 1 Jul 1949
Relatives Here for Herman Rites
Relatives of Jack Ancil Herman, 22, who was fatally injured Wednesday in a motorcycle acciden t, were assembling in Alton today from distant places to attend funeral services.
Rites with full military honors will be conducted Saturday for the World War II Marine vetera n. Services will be held in Streeper funeral home at 2 p.m. Burial will be in Oakwood cemeter y.
Expected here today were an uncle, Paul Bailey of Richland, Wash., a former member of the Alt on police force; an aunt, Mrs. Betty Baldree, Mineral Springs, Tex., an aunt, Mrs. Dorothy Bu rnet, Springfield, and three uncles, Daniel Bailey, Springfield; Homer Bailey, Harvel, Ill. , and Wade Bailey, Litchfield, and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William Bailey, of Litchfie ld, by whom he was reared until the age of nine.
The out-of-town uncles and aunts and the grandparents will be at the home of Mrs. Edward Kitz miller, 322 Prospect, an aunt of the young man.
Alton Evening Telegraph 5 Jul 1949
Military Rites for Jack Ancil Herman
Funeral services for Jack Ancil William Herman, who was killed in a motorcycle accident Wedne sday, were conducted at Streeper funeral home at 2 p.m. Saturday by the Rev. Wayne Clark of W aukegan, billie J. Reed, accompanied by Mrs. Alonzo Rosenberger, sang two selections.
Pallbearers were Elmer Brown, Francis Bick, LeRoy Chappell, Fred Vahle, Russell Hale and Bo b Anderson. Burial was in Oakwood cemetery and military services were in charge of American L egion, and men from Scott Field made up the firing squad.
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