Obituary - Mount Pulaski Times-News, 23 January 1958 MRS. ORAN SCROGGIN DIED SUNDAY AT LINCOLN HOSPITAL Mrs. Lillie Scroggin, wife of Oran O. Scroggin, West Jefferson Street, died at 9:35 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 19, 1958, in the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital in Lincoln, where she had been a patient for 15 days. She was aged 88 years, 3 months, and 8 days. Her health began failing several years ago. Lillie Steenbergen was born on Oct. 11, 1869 in a log cabin on a farm four miles southwest of Mount Pulaski, the land adjoining Steenbergen Cemetery. Her parents, William W. and Jane Bates Steenbergen, came from Ohio in 1845 and, as pioneer settlers, located on a farm southwest of Mount Pulaski. The old log cabin stood for a long time as a reminder of the early days of this community. Steenbergen Cemetery was named for her father. When Lillie Steenbergen was 12 years old, her father and mother died, and she went to Williamsville to live with relatives. In Williamsville, Ill., on Jan. 28, 1892, she married Oran O. Scroggin, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Scroggin, who lived south of Steenbergen Cemetery. The couple, during the first 14 years of their wedded life, resided on farms in Minnesota, Iowa, and Oklahoma, and then returned to Logan County to occupy the old farm of her parents. They remained on this farm until 1922, when they retired and moved to the present family home in Mt. Pulaski. Mrs. Scroggin had been a member of the Mount Pulaski Christian Church for a long period of time, also the Ladies' Aid Society of the church, the Never-Grow-Old Society, Rebekahs, and the Household Science Club. She took an active part in these organizations as long as her health would permit. Decedent is survived by her husband; one son, Wesley A., Mount Pulaski; two daughters, Mrs. Jennie Smallwood, Decatur, and Mrs. Russell Buckles, Mount Pulaski; six grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. The remains were removed to the Schahl Funeral Home in Mt. Pulaski, where funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 22, conducted by the Rev. Paul Burdick. Appropriate organ music was rendered by Mrs. Frank Turley. Burial was made in Mt. Pulaski cemetery. The pallbearers were Frank E. Turley, Wilford K. Scroggin Sr., Orville Heft, J. B. Heft, Everett Rothwell, and Milton Mellinger.