Hello Gabi; I'm sending this directly to you, as Wolf requested, as well as to the list. The following are some records which may be relevant as well as several which definitely are relevant. Cheers, Masugu Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900 (www.cyberdriveillinois.com/GenealogyMWeb/marrsrch.html) Groom/Bride/Date/Vol./Page/License No./County MARSTON, WILLIAM OLIVER/*HOMILY*, ADELE/01-10-1900/002/0315/00006688/MACOUPIN Illinois Statewide Death Index, Pre-1916 (www.cyberdriveillinois.com/GenealogyMWeb/DeathSearchServlet) Name of Deceased/Date/City/Age/Sex/Vol./Page/Certificate No./County *HOMILL*, HENRY/02-29-1888/CHICAGO/48 YR/U/-/-/00003981/COOK Illinois Statewide Death Index, 1916-1950 (www.cyberdriveillinois.com/GenealogyMWeb/IDPHDeathSearchServlet) Last Name/First Name/Middle Name/Sex/Race/Age/Cert #/Death Date/County/City/Date Filed *HOMILELE*/CELESTINE/F/W/UNK/6010882/1926-04-04/COOK/CHICAGO/26-04-05 1918-12-29 Chicago Tribune (IL) MOMMSEN Edition: Chicago Tribune Caroline Mommsen, nee Dupont, 5932 W. Chicago-av., Dec. 28, aged 85 years, beloved mother of Mrs. Nelson, Mrs. Stark, *Mrs. Homilius*, Mrs. Hanson, Peter, Mrs. Cameron, Mrs. Paun, and Martin. Funeral Monday, Dec. 30, from chapel, 3315 Fullerton-av., at 2 p.m. Autos to Mount Olive. Copyright 1918, Chicago Tribune. For permission to reprint, contact Chicago Tribune. Record Number: 19181229dn041 Obituaries San Antonio Express-News (TX) May 21, 2006 20060521 The following families were served by Mission Park Funeral Chapels and Cemeteries and Alamo Funeral Home during the week of May 14th thru May 20th 2006. Thelma Bierschwale Wellborn Thelma Bierschwale Wellborn (Mrs. Robert M. Wellborn), age 96 of Boerne formally of Comfort and Uvalde, passed away on May 20, 2006 in Boerne. She was born Feb. 9, 1910 in Comfort to James Henry and Martha Brinkman Bierschwale. Thelma is preceded in death by her husband Robert M. Wellborn, her parents James H. and Martha B. Bierschwale, her sisters, Mary and (Arthur) Esser and Henrietta and (Kurt) Meyer, and her brother Henry Bierschwale. She is survived by her sister Katie Ellen Thomas, nieces and nephews Mary Jane and (Joe) Morrison, Jack Esser, Nancy Laskoskie, Thelmarie Holbrook, James and (Diana) Meyers and James and (Marty), Thomas. A special cousin *Louise Homilius*, numerous great & great-great nieces and nephews and their families, cousins and many friends. Visitation will be held from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM on Sunday, May 21 at the Ebensberger Funeral Home. Graveside funeral services will be held at 10:00 AM on Monday, May 22, 2006 in the Centerpoint Cemetery with Pastor Lynn Lockett officiating. A special thanks to the staff and friends at Boerne Heritage Place where Thelma resided for the past 5 years, The Senior Outreach Center and Vista Care Hospice. Arrangements with Ebensberger Funeral Home. None Kendall County Remembers Service honors four who died for public's safety San Antonio Express-News (Texas) October 3, 2000 Author: Zeke MacCormack; EXPRESS-NEWS STAFF WRITER Estimated printed pages: 3 Forgiveness long ago displaced Linda Lindner's anger about the 1971 slaying of her father, Kendall County Sheriff Douglas Kuebel, but the emotional wounds are still fresh for those close to Larry Kolb, the local deputy gunned down one year ago Monday. "We live with it day by day, and take one day at a time and one minute at a time," Kolb's widow, Leslie, said during memorial services Monday for Kuebel, Kolb and two volunteer firefighters,* Elmer Homilius* and Lee Earl Eckert, who also died in the service of Kendall County. Mayor Patrick Heath presided over the sobering ceremony at which a sidewalk plaque bearing the honorees' names was dedicated in front of the new Kendall County Courthouse. Speaking of the uncertain challenges that await emergency service personnel on every call, Heath said, "They don't know how it will turn out, but they must always be ready. "We owe them our support, we owe them our gratitude and we owe to them our very lives," Heath told the tearful crowd of about 120. Jeff Fincke, a Kendall County EMS administrator who knew all four honorees, said he's sure they would have responded to the praise by saying, "We were just doing our jobs." For Lt. Kolb, that meant taking a detour on his drive home Oct. 2, 1999, to answer a report of a man with a gun at a trailer park off Cascade Caverns Road. Minutes later, Kolb was shot without warning as he approached a trailer where witnesses said Jose Gil Ramos had spent the day drinking and shooting a rifle. Ramos, a 30-year-old native of Honduras, died in a subsequent shootout with police at the Shady Rest Trailer Park. Time has done little to ease the trauma for the family and friends of Kolb, 40, or those who took part in the pitched gunbattle with Ramos. "It's been an emotional struggle," said Kendall County Constable Don White, 40. "We've been dreading the one-year anniversary today." He and Sheriff's Department Deputy Chief Duke Key were honored last month by the Department of Public Safety, along with DPS Trooper Derome West, for their actions in subduing Ramos. Leslie Kolb said she has concentrated on restoring a semblance of normalcy to the lives of sons Jacob, 14, and Patrick, 6, in the year since their dad answered that fateful call. "He did love his job and if anything ever had to happen, that would be the way he wanted to go," said Leslie Kolb, 43. Similar sentiments were expressed by Lindner, 54, who is all too familiar with the sacrifices sometimes required of lawmen and their families. She was 25 on Sept. 28, 1971, when a domestic dispute call ended fatally for her father, Kuebel, an easygoing sheriff who didn't like to carry a gun. "A young man who was getting a divorce was just crazy, and he had decided to shoot into the house where his wife and in-laws were staying," Lindner recalled. "I don't think daddy was really prepared. He just thought he could talk to the young man. It startled the young man and he just turned on daddy and shot him." She never met the man incarcerated for killing her father, but Lindner said, "It was a sad awful thing, but he has our forgiveness and he has God's forgiveness." She has tried to console Leslie Kolb through cards and letters, explaining, "It's a difficult time, the first year especially." Deyl Reeh can vouch for that. Her father, *Elmer Homilius*, died of a heart attack while he was fighting a barn fire Oct. 15, 1984, in his 28th year of service to the volunteer department in Comfort. "I had a lot of sorry feelings for her because I remember how hard it was one year after my dad passed away," Reeh, 43, said of Leslie Kolb. Some said a countywide recognition of *Homilius*, Kuebel and Eckert was long overdue, but Reeh, 43, said, "I'm just happy that they were able to do it now." Eckert, a Boerne firefighter, was 60 when he died of a heart attack on Feb. 9, 1969. Interstate 10 had just opened when a head-on collision left some victims trapped in a burning car. Eckert pulled some to safety, burning himself in the process, but he wasn't finished, said Randy Bergmann, assistant fire chief in Boerne. "He had put some patients in the back of his station wagon and was going to take them to Kerrville to the hospital," he said. "He just took off and had a heart attack, and his car just rolled over to the ditch and stopped." The color guard, the plaque, the speeches and the playing of taps on Monday seemed to console the men's family members. "It's a very moving thing to know that people don't forget," Lindner said. zmaccormack@express-news.net Caption: Leslie Kolb (left), the widow of Sheriff's Deputy Larry Kolb, stands with Sheriff's Deputy Paul Petel and his wife, Felicia, at a memorial service Monday for law and fire officials who died in the service of Kendall County. The shadow of a memorial wreath falls on an engraved stone dedicated to those who died in the line of duty. Caption: PHOTOS BY JOHN DAVENPORT/STAFF Edition: Metro Section: Metro / South Texas Page: 1B Index Terms: News - Texas Dateline: BOERNE Copyright 2000 San Antonio Express-News Record Number: 511944