PEKIN DAILY TIMES, Monday October 24, 1949
Theodore Ubben, Prominent Pekin Businessman, Dies
Theodore Henry Ubben, 71, 1201 Park avenue, for many years a prominent figure in Pekin business circles, died at the Pekin hospital at 3:10 a.m. Sunday after an illness of six weeks.
Mr. Ubben was born on Sept. 8, 1878, in the residence which is now 631 Anna Eliza street and lived there until he was five years old when he moved to Park avenue where his father had purchased a tract of land, completely undeveloped, and which has since become one of the most beautiful sections of the city. He was a son of Ubbo A. and Eliza Ubben Ubben.
He started working at the age of 14 years in the office of the Acme Harvester Co. At the age of 17 he attended Brown's Business college for one year and secured a position in the office of Sears, Roebuck and Co., Chicago. After working there two years, he returned to Pekin and joined his father in the coal mining industry where he remained until the property was sold four years later. He was then connected with the Pekin Wagon Co. until Aug. 11, 1910. When his father acquired the property which is now the Ubben Coal Co., he re-entered the business as secretary-treasurer.
Mr. Ubben had served as a director of the Herget National bank and the Pekin Loan and Homestead association. He has been a member of the Calvary Baptist church since Feb. 4, 1894, and served as church clerk for many years. He also served a term as alderman.
On May 4, 1905, he was married to Ella Veerman at Pekin and she survives with four sons, Richard, Milwaukee, Wis.; Urvan, Delavan; Wilbert, Bloomington, and James, Dallas, Tex., and a daughter, Mrs. Sophia Brosmer, Gilman, Ill. Also surviving are a brother, Louis Ubben, Pekin, and seven grandchildren.A daughter Theola, and four sisters and a brother preceded him in death.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Calvary Baptist church with the pastor, the Rev. William H. Schweinfurth, officiating. Burial will be in Lakeside cemetery. The body was taken to the Noel funeral home, but has been removed to the residence where
friends may call yntil 11 a.m. Tuesday at which time it will be taken to the church to lie in state.
Theodore Ubben, Prominent Pekin Businessman, Dies
Theodore Henry Ubben, 71, 1201 Park avenue, for many years a prominent figure in Pekin business circles, died at the Pekin hospital at 3:10 a.m. Sunday after an illness of six weeks.
Mr. Ubben was born on Sept. 8, 1878, in the residence which is now 631 Anna Eliza street and lived there until he was five years old when he moved to Park avenue where his father had purchased a tract of land, completely undeveloped, and which has since become one of the most beautiful sections of the city. He was a son of Ubbo A. and Eliza Ubben Ubben.
He started working at the age of 14 years in the office of the Acme Harvester Co. At the age of 17 he attended Brown's Business college for one year and secured a position in the office of Sears, Roebuck and Co., Chicago. After working there two years, he returned to Pekin and joined his father in the coal mining industry where he remained until the property was sold four years later. He was then connected with the Pekin Wagon Co. until Aug. 11, 1910. When his father acquired the property which is now the Ubben Coal Co., he re-entered the business as secretary-treasurer.
Mr. Ubben had served as a director of the Herget National bank and the Pekin Loan and Homestead association. He has been a member of the Calvary Baptist church since Feb. 4, 1894, and served as church clerk for many years. He also served a term as alderman.
On May 4, 1905, he was married to Ella Veerman at Pekin and she survives with four sons, Richard, Milwaukee, Wis.; Urvan, Delavan; Wilbert, Bloomington, and James, Dallas, Tex., and a daughter, Mrs. Sophia Brosmer, Gilman, Ill. Also surviving are a brother, Louis Ubben, Pekin, and seven grandchildren.A daughter Theola, and four sisters and a brother preceded him in death.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Calvary Baptist church with the pastor, the Rev. William H. Schweinfurth, officiating. Burial will be in Lakeside cemetery. The body was taken to the Noel funeral home, but has been removed to the residence where
friends may call yntil 11 a.m. Tuesday at which time it will be taken to the church to lie in state.
PEKIN DAILY TIMES, Monday October 24, 1949
Theodore Ubben, Prominent Pekin Businessman, Dies
Theodore Henry Ubben, 71, 1201 Park avenue, for many years a prominent figure in Pekin business circles, died at the Pekin hospital at 3:10 a.m. Sunday after an illness of six weeks.
Mr. Ubben was born on Sept. 8, 1878, in the residence which is now 631 Anna Eliza street and lived there until he was five years old when he moved to Park avenue where his father had purchased a tract of land, completely undeveloped, and which has since become one of the most beautiful sections of the city. He was a son of Ubbo A. and Eliza Ubben Ubben.
He started working at the age of 14 years in the office of the Acme Harvester Co. At the age of 17 he attended Brown's Business college for one year and secured a position in the office of Sears, Roebuck and Co., Chicago. After working there two years, he returned to Pekin and joined his father in the coal mining industry where he remained until the property was sold four years later. He was then connected with the Pekin Wagon Co. until Aug. 11, 1910. When his father acquired the property which is now the Ubben Coal Co., he re-entered the business as secretary-treasurer.
Mr. Ubben had served as a director of the Herget National bank and the Pekin Loan and Homestead association. He has been a member of the Calvary Baptist church since Feb. 4, 1894, and served as church clerk for many years. He also served a term as alderman.
On May 4, 1905, he was married to Ella Veerman at Pekin and she survives with four sons, Richard, Milwaukee, Wis.; Urvan, Delavan; Wilbert, Bloomington, and James, Dallas, Tex., and a daughter, Mrs. Sophia Brosmer, Gilman, Ill. Also surviving are a brother, Louis Ubben, Pekin, and seven grandchildren.A daughter Theola, and four sisters and a brother preceded him in death.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Calvary Baptist church with the pastor, the Rev. William H. Schweinfurth, officiating. Burial will be in Lakeside cemetery. The body was taken to the Noel funeral home, but has been removed to the residence where
friends may call yntil 11 a.m. Tuesday at which time it will be taken to the church to lie in state.
Theodore Ubben, Prominent Pekin Businessman, Dies
Theodore Henry Ubben, 71, 1201 Park avenue, for many years a prominent figure in Pekin business circles, died at the Pekin hospital at 3:10 a.m. Sunday after an illness of six weeks.
Mr. Ubben was born on Sept. 8, 1878, in the residence which is now 631 Anna Eliza street and lived there until he was five years old when he moved to Park avenue where his father had purchased a tract of land, completely undeveloped, and which has since become one of the most beautiful sections of the city. He was a son of Ubbo A. and Eliza Ubben Ubben.
He started working at the age of 14 years in the office of the Acme Harvester Co. At the age of 17 he attended Brown's Business college for one year and secured a position in the office of Sears, Roebuck and Co., Chicago. After working there two years, he returned to Pekin and joined his father in the coal mining industry where he remained until the property was sold four years later. He was then connected with the Pekin Wagon Co. until Aug. 11, 1910. When his father acquired the property which is now the Ubben Coal Co., he re-entered the business as secretary-treasurer.
Mr. Ubben had served as a director of the Herget National bank and the Pekin Loan and Homestead association. He has been a member of the Calvary Baptist church since Feb. 4, 1894, and served as church clerk for many years. He also served a term as alderman.
On May 4, 1905, he was married to Ella Veerman at Pekin and she survives with four sons, Richard, Milwaukee, Wis.; Urvan, Delavan; Wilbert, Bloomington, and James, Dallas, Tex., and a daughter, Mrs. Sophia Brosmer, Gilman, Ill. Also surviving are a brother, Louis Ubben, Pekin, and seven grandchildren.A daughter Theola, and four sisters and a brother preceded him in death.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Calvary Baptist church with the pastor, the Rev. William H. Schweinfurth, officiating. Burial will be in Lakeside cemetery. The body was taken to the Noel funeral home, but has been removed to the residence where
friends may call yntil 11 a.m. Tuesday at which time it will be taken to the church to lie in state.
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