Published in the Journal Gazette (Mattoon, Illinois) on Monday, April 14, 1958:
Rites Tuesday For August Knoop, 81
ARCOLA, Ill. — Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Shrader funeral home for August Knoop, 81, of Arcola. Burial will be in the Arcola cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home today between 7 and 9 p.m.
Mr. Knoop died Saturday at 11 p.m. in the Martin nursing home, Tuscola, where he had been a patient for two years.
He was born Oct. 6, 1876, in Arcola, a son of Henry and Catherine Knoop. He was employed as a druggist and later as a painter.
He leaves one sister, Mrs. Oley Laughlin, Tuscola.
Mr. Knoop was a member of the former St. Paul Evangelical Church, Arcola.
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Published in the Journal Gazette (Mattoon, Illinois) on Monday, April 14, 1958:
Rites Tuesday For August Knoop, 81
ARCOLA, Ill. — Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Shrader funeral home for August Knoop, 81, of Arcola. Burial will be in the Arcola cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home today between 7 and 9 p.m.
Mr. Knoop died Saturday at 11 p.m. in the Martin nursing home, Tuscola, where he had been a patient for two years.
He was born Oct. 6, 1876, in Arcola, a son of Henry and Catherine Knoop. He was employed as a druggist and later as a painter.
He leaves one sister, Mrs. Oley Laughlin, Tuscola.
Mr. Knoop was a member of the former St. Paul Evangelical Church, Arcola.
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Headstone is no longer visible. (Information from FHL film #1302757 - Arcola Cemetery transcriptions done in 1971 as a project of the Stephen A. Douglas Chapter of the DAR.)
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