This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SHOEMAKER, SMITH, BRENNEMAN, PROUTY, GAAR, ST. ORES, MILLER, WITMER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Yg.2ADE/873 Message Board Post: Obituary - faded and marginally readable photocopy of obituary. Newspaper unknown: Date presumed to be shortly after 3 Mar 1934: "Aunt Vic" Shoemaker, beloved and liked by all who knew her, passed away Saturday, March 3rd, after a brief illness. She was a resident of this community for practically sixty years, a lady highly esteemed in the York community and a friend to all.................. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the Christian church with Rev. David E. Todd officiating, using the 90th Psalm. The male quartet, consisting of Joe Wilt, George St. Ores, Al St. Ores and E. O. Hemmer, with Harriet Smith as accompanist, sang..................... Casket attendants were: Harry Gaar, Lawrence Gaar, Herbert St. Ores, Fred Miller and Allen Witmer. Interment was in Lower York cemetery. Victorine Smith Shoemaker was born in Horicon township, Warren county, New York, on Aug 19, 1852 and died at her home in Thomson, Ill., March 3, 1934, aged 81 years, 6 months and 14 days. She was the last of a family of 10 children born to Cabel [sic] and Matilda (Prouty) Smith. She grew to womanhood in her native state, coming to this vicinity to visit relatives from time to time, and here, on Feb. 27, 1877, she was married to John I. Shoemaker. They began housekeeping on the Shoemaker homestead, where they lived for many years, retiring in 1912 and moving to their new modern home in Thomson, where in 1927 they celebrated their Golden wedding and where Mr. Shoemaker died Feb 23, 1932. to their marriage were born two daughters, Sadie May, who died Aug 3 1900, and Bertha (Mrs. Ray Brenneman) of Thomson. Also surviving are a grandson, Sidney Brenneman, a son-in-law, Ray Brenneman, and several nephews, nieces and other relatives ................................................ Attending the funeral services from out of town were Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hanson, Mrs. Frank Pluymley, Mrs. Tibbetts, Mrs. Belle Switzer [?] Dr and Mrs. W. H. Durkee and Mrs. Pearl Luckhart [?] of Fulton; Mr. and Mrs. William Laycock of Davenport; Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Pratt, Mrs. Elizabeth Merritt, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Ashby, Miss Rose Klitz, of Mt. Carroll; Martin Willis of Libertyville; Mrs. Helen Wentling of Dixon; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Olds, Mrs. Clarence Messinger, Mrs. Maude Ogden, Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Dernell, Clinton, Ia; Mrs. Carlson and son Stanley, Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. George Laughrin [?], Milledgeville; Mrs. Glenn Goble, Elmhurst; Clayton Atherton, Rochester, Wis; and Miss Elva Emerson, Marion, Iowa.