19 Aug 1929
AUNT CHERRY TUCKER SUMMONED BY DEATH.
Aunt Cherry Potts
Tucker, 85, colored, fell dead at her home, 711 east
State street at 12:15 o’clock Sunday afternoon (18 Aug
1929). Death was caused
by heart trouble.
Funeral services
will be held at 2 o’clock Tuesday
afternoon at the Pfohl funeral home conducted by Rev.
Joseph Harrington. Burial will be in
Union cemetery.
A nephew, George
Wilson, resides at Chicago. She is survived by other nephews and many
friends. Two husbands preceded her in
death. Ben Potts and
Joseph Tucker.
Aunt Cherry was
born in Kentucky in slave
times. She came here about fifty years
ago.
She was a
hard-working, Christian woman, loved by her many friends.
Contributed by Don Hoke, 7 Jan 2012