Obituary from the Kankakee Daily Journal, April 15th, 1958

Raymond Hummel, 65, Of Cabery Dies, Rites Set

CABERY (JNS)-Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Stewart Funeral Home, Cullom, for Raymond E. Hummel, 65, who died Saturday night in Dwight Veterans Hospital.
     Mr. Hummel was a retired Cabery service station operator.  Surviving are brothers, Leslie and Frank of Cabery, LeRoy of Kankakee and Virgil of Pontiac, and a sister Mrs. Mabel Sargent of Cabery.
     Friends may call at the funeral home today and until the hour of the service.

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Biography of Raymond's wife taken from HISTORY OF FORD COUNTY ILLINOIS, Ó1984 by The Ford County Historical Society

Laura Dorothea Johnson was married 6-30-1918 to Ray Hummel of Cabery.  She had returned to teach there when he entered the army.  She became suddenly ill and died there 10-1-1918.  He was also so ill at the time at Camp Grant, Rockford, that he was unable to return home.  A newspaper account at the time named her illness as pneumonia, but her father, Carl Edward Johnson also died suddenly six months later and they were recognized as victims of an influenza epidemic.

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As a side note: Laura was with child at the time of her death.  Laura was born in 4 June 1895 in Paxton, IL at home, died 1 Oct. 1918.  Laura is buried in the Glen Cemetery, Paxton, IL.  Parents Carl Edward Johnson b:12 Dec. 1860, Attica Indiana, d:30 April 1919 in Paxton.  Carl married Anna Christina Carlson on 18 Dec. 1884. Anna b: 14 Aug. 1866 in Odeshog, Ostergotland, Sweden, d: 30 July 1938.  Both parents are in the Glen Cemetery, Paxton, IL.
 

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