Marjorie A. Huston and John Valentine Schnepf
MARJORIE A. HUSTON, daughter of VELTA ELLA BELLE MILLER and CHARLES ROBERT HUSTON, was born June 7, 1921 in Savanna, Carroll, Illinois,56, 8755 and died May 21, 2009 in Moline, Rock Island, Illinois.56, 8755 She is buried in Rock Island National Cemetery, Rock Island County, Illinois.456
She married JOHN VALENTINE SCHNEPF on June 11, 1939 in United Brethren Church, Muscatine, Muscatine, Iowa.1853, 8753 He was born September 12, 1913 in Alix, Alberta, Canada,7768, 8754 and died March 21, 1982.7768 He is buried in Rock Island National Cemetery, Rock Island County, Illinois.456
Personal Information
John V. Schnepf
Education
Marjorie A. Huston
- graduated from Sherrard High School, Illinois, 19398753
- graduated from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Tippecanoe, Indiana in 1955 in Home Economics2905
Marriage Announcements and News
Daily Dispatch, June 12, 19398753
Marjorie Huston, Sherrard, Takes Vows on Sunday
Recent Sherrard Graduate Is Married in Muscatine
Sherrard, June 12.—Miss Marjorie Huston, graduate last month of Sherrard high school, and John Schnepf were married yesterday afternoon at Muscatine in the parsonage of the United Brethren church.
Attendants were Miss Dorothy Thor and Robert Renner. The bride wore a rose colored suit, and carried red roses. Miss Thor wore blue with white accessories and carried an arm bouquet of red carnations.
The relatives and friends who attended the wedding were the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Huston, her sisters Vivian and Natalie and brother Kennard, her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Huston of Orion, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Tomlinson, O. A. Tomlinson of Annawan, Miss Nellie Johnston, Miss Lorraine Jinks, Virgil Spengler, and Ralph Groves.
The bridegroom is employed near Muscatine. The couple will live in Illinois City.
Obituaries
Daily Dispatch, March 22, 19828754
John V. Schnepf
John V. Schnepf, 68, of 1073 50th Ave., East Moline, died Sunday a Lutheran Hospital.
Services will be 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at VanHoe Funeral Home, East Moline, with the Rev. Thomas Bailey, of First Baptist Church, Moline, officiating. Burial will be in National Cemetery on Arsenal Island.
Visitation is 6 to 9 tonight at the funeral home.
Mr. Schnepf had been a policeman in Prophetstown and Orion, and a security officer at Diamond Head Housing Development, Hot Springs, Ark, retiring in 1975.
He was born in Alix, Alberta, Canada. He married Marjorie Huston in 1939 in Muscatine.
He was a veteran of World War II.
Survivors include his widow; daughters, Mrs. Sharon Peer, Colona, and Mrs. Ruth Summerford, Albany, Ga.; five grandchildren; three stepgrandchildren; a great-grandchild; a sister, Mrs. Viola Stewart, Alix; a half-sister, Mrs. Mary Burchnell, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, and a half-brother, Harry Lakeman, Ponoka, Alberta, Canada.
Quad-City Times, May 23, 20098755
Marjorie Schnepf
GENESEO, Ill. — Funeral services for Marjorie Schnepf, 87, of Hillcrest Home, Geneseo, Ill., will be 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Van Hoe Funeral Home Ltd., East Moline. Burial will be in National Cemetery, Rock Island. Visitation will be 1-4 p.m. Monday at the Van Hoe Funeral Home Ltd., East Moline. Mrs. Schnepf died Thursday, May 21, 2009, at Trinity Medical Center-West Campus, Rock Island. Memorials may be made to the First Baptist Church, Moline, American Diabetes Association, or Hillcrest Nursing Home Activities Fund.
Marjorie Huston was born June 7, 1921, in Savanna, Ill., the daughter of Charles R. and Velta (Miller) Huston. SHe married John V. Schnepf on June 11, 1939, in Muscatine, Iowa. He died March 21, 1982. She had worked as a cook over the years in various places in Illinois. She also had worked at Sables Jewelry Store, East Moline. She had always been helpful to her family. She enjoyed crocheting.
Survivors include daughters, Sharon Peer, of Geneseo, and Ruth Summerford, of Leesburg, Ga.; grandchildren, Patti Kowitz, Danny Peer, and Elizabeth Felts; step-grandchildren Buddy, Shane and Susan; several great-grandchildren; sisters, Natalie Bizarri, of Coal Valley, and Mary Liston, of Austin, Texas; sister-in-law, Donna Huston, of Moline; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, grandchildren, Ted Plunkett Jr and Robert "Bobby" Plunkett, sister Vivian Groves, brothers, Kennard Huston and William Huston, and sons-in-law, Donald Peer, Ted Plunkett Sr. and Emmett Summerford.
Census Records
| Date | Location | Enumerated Names |
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| April 18, 19308746 | Alpha, Henry, Illinois |
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