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- THE TIMES RECORD NEWSPAPER, ALEDO, MERCER COUNTY, ILLINOIS
WEDNESDAY, 21 DECEMBER 1955
OBITUARY OF EVALINA JUHL
"SERVICES HELD FOR MISS JUHL
Funeral serves were held at 2 p.m., Wednesday in the Olin FuneralHome, Joy, for Miss Evelyn Juhl, 57, Joy, a resident of the MercerCounty Nursing home since 1939. Rev. Samuel Parker, pastor of JoyMethodist church, officiated and burial was in New Boston cemetery.She died Sunday afternoon, Dec. 18, 1955 at Mercer County hospitalafter suffering a paralytic stroke. She had been a patient since Dec.9. Miss Juhl, a daughter of Peter and Lily Stoecken Juhl, had residedmost of her life in Mercer County. Surviving are the father, whoresides north of Joy; her step-mother; an aunt, Mrs. Anna Curry,Muscatine and several step-brothers and step-sisters." [Articleobtained:
15 April 2006, and transcribed 16 April 2006, SLJuhl, compiler.]
Note: (Issue #1.) It is unknown as to why at 41 years of age thatEvalina would require a nursing home for health reasons; Either shemay have had an earlier stroke other than the one that she succumbedto in 1955, or another possiblity is if her son Willie died early, andshe had a major break down possibly. George does not remember her atall, and had no idea that she was in the Mercer County Nursing Home inAledo nor does he remember her death even though he was in his senioryear of high school. Their father Peter and mother Florence musthave kept her services very private. From what the obituary relates,only one (Anna) of her father's immediate family members who wouldhave known Evalina were still living at the time near Mercer County,because it is known that some of the family were still in Minnesota.Also, the Mercer County Historical Society records of the cemetery didindicate that Evalina was buried next to her father and step-mother inthe New Boston Cemetery with a funeral home marker and no headstone.The news article does not mention her half brother George Peter Juhl.This is what indicates that the services must have been very privatefor Evalina since George was old enough to know if he had witnessedher services, but has not known about it until now. It may never beknown as to why all of it was kept so private.
(Issue #2). What happened to her son, Willie? A letter post marked04 November 1935 from Florence while she was staying in Rock Island,Rock Island County, Illinois with Pauline, her daughter, to helpPauline after a new baby, was addressed to Peter in Joy, MercerCounty, Illinois. A portion of that letter from Florence states,""How is Wayne and Willie getting along and how is Lena?"Apparently, Lena (Evalina) and Willie were living at home with Peterand Florence in 1935. And it was stated in her obituary that Evalinawas from Joy, Illinois, so she must have still been with Peter andFlorence or at least living near them when she went to the nursinghome. There is no mention of her son Willie in her obituary.
2006--Per the Historical Society Records in Aledo, Mercer County,Illinois at the Essley-Noble Museum on East 2nd Avenue, Evalina isburied with her father Peter H. Juhl & Florence Mae Hand Jacobs Juhlat the New Boston Cemetery. A funeral home marker had been placed atone time when the cemetery had been walked per the 1981 Card Index ofthe cemetery, but there is no marker present now in 2006.
NEW RESEARCH/SOURCE:http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/GenealogyMWeb/MercerCountyAlmshouseServlet
MERCER COUNTY ALMSHOUSE (Nursing Home) REGISTER INDEX, 1859-1949
JUHL, LENA, AGE 36
DATE OF ADMITTANCE: 1938
Public care of the poor in Illinois began in 1819. In that year, theGeneral Assembly passed a law mandating public care and maintenance ofthose unable to support themselves and without family support. [Lawsof Illinois 1819, p. 127]
NUMBERS RANGE FROM 1938.025 - 1955.004 (YEAR OF HER DEATH)
Copies of entries from the original Mercer County Almshouse Registermay be requested by mail or telephone. Inquiries should be madedirectly to the Illinois Regional Archives Depository (IRAD) atWestern Illinois University in Macomb. IRAD cannot accept requests bye-mail at this time. Write and call:
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Please check this: _MDCL: CONC Aledo, Mercer County, Illinois since 1939 (unknown health issues)
_MDCL: CONC until December 9th, before her death.
- (Medical):See Notes. She had been in the Old Mercer County Nursing Home in
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