Did you see this post???? ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "JoAnn McGhee" <jmcghee6@bellsouth.net> To: "FCI List" <ILFRANKL-L@rootsweb.com> Subject: [ILFRANKL] LAUNIUS, Ernest Carl 1915 - 2006 Obit Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 08:20:00 -0400 Register-News, Mt Vernon IL, Tues 5 Sep 2006 issue ERNEST CARL LAUNIUS (includes photo) Ernest Carl LAUNIUS, 91, Walpole, died 5:15 p.m. Friday, Sept. 1, 2006, at Hamilton Memorial Hospital, McLeansboro. Mr. LAUNIUS was a farmer. He was a welder at the car shops in Mt. Vernon and an insurance agent for Farmers Mutual of Enfield for 45 years. He was born May 21, 1915, in Dahlgren, a son of William Riley and Cora Belle (HESS) LAUNIUS. On Oct. 29, 1939, in Colombia, Mo., he married Helen Gray DOUGLASS, who survives. The funeral was Monday at Harre Funeral Home, McLeansboro, with the Rev. Billy ROCKETT officiating. Burial was at Hebron Cemetery, west of Walpole. In addition to his wife, survivors include two sons, Gerald Ray LAUNIUS and wife Donna Jean of McLeansboro and Larry F. LAUNIUS and wife Elsie of Broughton; five grandchildren, Christine BECH of Austin, Texas, Ladonna LASATER and husband Barry of McLeansboro, Lucas LAUNIUS and wife Chantima of Japan, Ginger VICKERS and husband Quentin of Broughton and Derek LAUNIUS of Broughton; three great-grandchildren, Jacqueline BECH of Austin, Texas, and Slade and Daxton LASATER of McLeansboro; one sister, Lois Fern UPCHURCH of Ames, Iowa; one brother-in-law, George W. "Jack" DOUGLASS of Broughton; and several nieces and nephews. Mr. LAUNIUS was affiliated with the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was a director at Hamilton Memorial Hospital when the hospital was built, and a former director of the Hamilton County Soil and Water Conservation office (active 55 years). He was preceded in death by his parents; one brother, Kermit F. LAUNIUS; and four sisters, Lena EZELLE, Faye TUCKER, Ruth PARKHILL and Opal B. RHINE. Memorials will be accepted at Harre Funeral Home for the Hamilton Memorial Hospital Foundation. === Legacy of Kin (FELTY) Vol II pg 1307, 1989-174, Times-Leader , 26 Oct 1989 (Sr. Cits., not obit) LAUNIUS, Carl & LAUNIUS, Helen DOUGLASS: married 29 Oct 1939 in Columbia, MO. Children: Jerry, wife Donna LAUNIUS of McLeansboro, & children Christine & Ladonna, Larry, wife Elsie LAUNIUS, & children Lucas, Ginger & Derek LAUNIUS. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ILFRANKL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message