Fourth Generation
81. Meta E HILGENDORF
was born on 2 Jul 1894.225
She died on 19 Jan 1962.226,227 She was buried in St. John's
Lutheran Cemetery, Buckley, Illinois.19
Section B, Row 7, Plot 16B Meta E HILGENDORF had the following children:
Meta E HILGENDORF and Friedrich
C (Fred) RONNA were married on 28 Mar 1916.228
The church record reads: 28 March: Friedrich Ronna to Meta Hilgendorf. Witnesses:
Ed and Emma Steinmann." Our former records had a date of 30 March, but the
church record is quite clear. Friedrich C (Fred) RONNA
(son of Claus Detlef (David) RONNA and Katherine TIMM) was born on 28 Sep 1886
in Anchor, Illinois.10,229 He died on 17 Jul 1982 in Gilman, Illinois.227,229
Fred Ronna
Fred C. Ronna, 95, Loda, died at 4 p.m. Saturday, July 17, 1982 at the Gilman
Nursing Home.
He was born Sept. 28, 1886 at Anchor to Claus and Catharine Timm Ronna. He married
Meta L. Hilgendorf on March 30, 1916 at Buckley. She died Jan. 19, 1962.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Arthur (Irma) Ennen, Loda and Mrs. Lois
Grohler, Kankakee; five sons, Clarence of Milford, Delmar of Loda, Arnold of
Murray Ky., Lawrence of Chatsworth and Orville (Bud) of Paxton; 38 grandchildren;
37 great-grandchildren; two sisters, Anna Wagner, Kankakee and Emma Montgomery,
Morocco, Ind.; and one brother, Herman of the Gilman Nursing Home.
Three sons, one step-son, two grandchildren, two brothers and two sisters are
deceased. Mr. Ronna farmed in the Loda and Buckley area many years. For over
30 years, he was employed at Loda Poultry Company.
He was a charter member of Immanuel Lutheran Church, Loda, where funeral services
will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, the Rev. Edgar L. Peters will officiate, with
burial in St. John's Lutheran Cemetery, Buckley.
Visitation will be from 6 to 9 p.m. today at Ford-Baier Funeral Home, Paxton.
Memorials may be made to the charity of the donor's choice.
He was buried in St. John's Lutheran Cemetery, Buckley, Illinois.19 Section B, Row 7, Plot 16B Meta E HILGENDORF and Friedrich
C (Fred) RONNA had the following children:
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