Submitted by Melva L Taylor
The Daily Gazette, Sterling-Rock Falls, Illinois
October 11, 1974 - Friday, pg. 2
BEULAH (Kempster) SCHOMERUS
Beulah Schomerus Dies Friday
Prophetstown: - Mrs. C. W. (Beulah) Schomerus, 78, died Friday morning at Colonial Acres in Rock Falls.
Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Sunday at Gardner Chapel in Prophetstown. Burial will be in
Sharon Cemetery. Friends may call at Gardner Chapel from 7 to 9 p.m Saturday. The Rev. Paul Olson will officiate.
Beulah Kempster was born Dec. 20, 1895 in Protland Township, the daughter of Wallace and Bertha Glatthaar Kempster. She was a member of Prophetstown United Methodist Church, a retired schoolteacher, teaching 37 years in the area, a past Worthy matron of the OES Erie Chapter. She married C. W. Schomerus of Hillsdale on Nov. 28, 1928.
Survivors include her husband; one sister, Mrs. Ford (Margaret) Wreath of Hillsdale; and two brothers, Leslie Kempster and Russell Kempster, both of London Mills. Ill.
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