Posted on: Hancock Co. Il Obituaries Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Il/HancockObits?read=195 Surname: Clark, Grove, Langley, Neill, Scholl ------------------------- Hancock County Historical Society Carthage, Illinois Siegfried XVIII Page 58 Benjamin Grove Funeral services for Benjamin Grove of Basco were held yesterday (Wednesday, June 28) at 1:30 p.m. in the Kilgore Memorial Home and at 2 p.m. in Immanuel Lutheran church, the Rev. Jacob Hoffman officiating. Mrs. Ralph Logan was the organist and the vocalists were Pauline Tobias, Beverly Johnson, Maxine Folkerts, and Sandra Jones. Casket bearers were Henry Huls, George E. Fecht, John Tobias, Alvin Fink, Albert Loeschen, and Junius Ufkes. Burial was in South Basco cemetery. Mr. Grove died Monday, July 26, in Memorial hospital in Carthage, where he had been a patient for 28 days. Born in St. Mary township Jan. 27, 1905, he was a son of Elzia and Mary Ellen Langley Grove. On Feb. 27, 1932 he was married to Anna Marguerite Neill Scholl. They lived in Carthage until 1934 when they moved to Plymouth, and later in 1945 they moved to a farm in the Basco community. They moved into Basco in 1952 and have since made it their home. Mr. Grove was sexton and caretaker of both the South and West Basco cemeteries for a number of years, and he and Mrs. Grove have been the custodians of Immanuel Lutheran church for the past 15 years. He became a member of Immanuel church in May 1954. Surviving with the widow are a son, Forrest C. of Carthage; a daughter, Mrs. Gerald (Betty Ellen) Clark of rural Plymouth; four grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Blanche Mae Neill of Stillwell; and a brother, Lawrence S. Grove of Plymouth. His parents preceded him in death. Link: Bryant Genealogy URL: <http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=bryant>