This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HOCKINGS, FIRINA, PETERSON, OLSON, METTILLE & WEIDNER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wg.2ADE/1552 Message Board Post: OBITUARY MORRIS HERALD 9/ 4, /1969 FRANK F. HOCKINGS FRANK F HOCKINGS, 75, OF MORRIS, DIES UNEXPECTEDLY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON IN SANDWICH. BORN OCT. 2, 1893 IN BRACEVILLE , HE WAS A SON OF FRANK AND ANNA (MCCRAY) HOCKINGS. HE WAS EDUCATED IN BRACEVILE SCHOOLS . HE MARRIED MARGARET FIRINA OF COAL CITY IN 1929 IN JOLIET. FOR TWENTY YEARS HE WAS A EMPLOYE OF THE MORRIS PAPER MILL AND FOR TEN YEARS HE WAS CUSTODIAN AT THE MOOSE LODGE IN MORRIS ,WHICH HE WAS A MEMBER, SURVIVING ARE TWO SONS ; HERBERT OF MORRIS AND JAMES OF BURLINGTON, IOWA; TWO DAUGHTERS, MRS. ANSLEY (ANNA MAE) PETERSON OF MORRIS AND MRS LIOYD (MARGARET) OLSON OF SANDWICH; FOUR GRANDCHILDREN, TWO SISTERS , MRS JOSEPH ( IDA)METTILLE OF JOLIET AND MRS CHARLES (ELIZABETH)WEIDNER OF MORRIS, TWO BROTHERS, RAYMOND OF MOMENCE AND WILLIAM OF AURORA. PRECEDING HIM IN DEATH WERE HIS PARENTS, HIS WIFE,TWO SONS, PETER AND ROBERT , ONE BROTHER THOMAS AND ONE SISTER SADIE. FUNERAL SERVICES WIL BE AT 9:30AM SATURDAY AT THE DAVIS FUNERAL HOME WITH THE REV. JAMES KINZIG OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE IN MT. CARMEL CEMETERY.